It
is a Challenge to Succeed
by Jim Rohn It
is a challenge to succeed. If it were not, I’m sure more
people would be successful, but for every person who is enjoying
the fruit from the tree of success, many more are examining
the roots.
They are trying to figure it all out. They are mystified and
perplexed by what seems to be some strange, complex and elusive
secret that must be found if ever success is to be enjoyed.
While most people spend most of their lives struggling to
earn a living, a much smaller number seem to have everything
going their way.
Instead of just earning a living, the smaller group is busily
engaged in designing and enjoying a fortune. Everything just
seems to work out for them. While the much larger group sits
in awe at how life can be so unfair, complicated and unjust.
“I
am a nice person,” the man says to himself. “How
come this other guy is happy and prosperous, and I’m
always struggling?” He asks himself, “I am a good
husband, a good father and a good worker. How come nothing
seems to work out for me? Life just isn’t fair.
I’m even smarter and willing to work harder than some
of these other people who just seem to have everything going
their way,” he says as he slumps into the sofa to watch
another evening of television. But you see you’ve got
to be more than a good person and a good worker. You’ve
got to become a good planner, and a good dreamer.
You’ve got to see the future finished in advance. You’ve
got to put in the long hours and put up with the setbacks
and the disappointments. You’ve got to learn to enjoy
the process of disciplines and of putting yourself through
the paces of doing the uncomfortable until it becomes comfortable.
You’ve got to be prepared and willing to attack the challenges
if you want the success because challenges are part of success.
Now that may sound like a full menu of activities, but let
me assure you that the process of going from average to fortune
isn’t really all that difficult. Thinking about it is
the difficult part. Anticipating all the effort and the changes
and the disciplines is far worse in the mind than in reality.
I can promise you that the challenges you’ll meet on
the road to success are far less difficult to deal with than
the struggles and the disappointments that come from being
average. Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating
experience.
It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes
you more than you were before. It strengthens the mental muscles
and enables you to become better prepared for the next challenge.
I've
often said that to have more, we must first become more, and
to become more, we must begin the process of working harder
on ourselves than we do on anything else. But in addition
to gathering new knowledge, new skills and new experiences;
it is also important to discover new emotions.
It is how we feel about what we know that makes the biggest
difference in how our lives turn out. How we feel about the
chances we have and the choices we have determines the intensity
of our effort. Whether we try or don’t try. Join or don’t
join. Believe or don’t believe.
I’d
like for you to discover some strong feelings about your life
and about what you want to do with that life. You probably
have much of the knowledge and a lot of the experience and
perhaps most of the skills that it takes to become successful.
What you may be lacking in are the strong feelings about what
you want and what you want to do. You may be one of those
who have become so involved in the process of earning a living
that you’ve forgotten about the choices and the chances
you have for designing your own life.
Let
these strong feelings help you take a second look at your
life and where you’re headed. After all, you’ve
only got one life, at least on this planet. So why not make
it an adventure in achievement? Why not discover what all
you can do and what all you can have? Why not discover how
many others you can help and in the process how that can help
you?
Why
not now take the Challenge to Succeed!
To
Your Success,
Jim Rohn
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