Quote: The Gift Of Hard Times

One of our 6 human needs is CERTAINTY.

We need to know that:

• We haver a roof over our heads
• Can pay our bills
• Get what we want in life etc..

However, when we don't have CERTAINTY about our future, we often will compromise our values & goals and settle for something that is less than ideal in order to gain some sense of CERTAINTY and COMFORT.

Comfort is a cage.

Sometimes in life, you have to do things you hate for a period of time until you create the conditions that enable you to be able to do what you love.

Just like a minimum wage entry level job should only be a stepping stone in a long career, instead of a permanent destination.

You should never stop working on that business idea or side hustle that keeps you up at night when you are temporarily forced to do something you hate until you can do what you love.

Otherwise settling for mediocrity (like most people) will become a way of life and permanent condition instead of a temporary stop on your long life journey.

Success is a PROCESS, and if you're unhappy in your career or you started a business on the side, it's going to take TIME to get from where you are right now to where you want to be. 

It's going to cost way more than money and way more time than you initially thought it would take. That's the reality.

Not trying to project onto anyone but anytime I've put a time frame to achieve something I wanted to accomplish - Especially when I didn’t even HOW I was going to do it (which is typical when you start something) 9/10 times I never end up hitting the deadline I set for myself. 

However, I EVENTUALLY achieve that goal or target, but it always takes way longer and way more money out of me than I initially thought it would take.

The important thing is, no matter what's going on in your life - whether you're working for yourself or you're working for somebody else and your employment of business situation is less than ideal, you will have to spend the time.

You have to put in the time trying to grow your business

You have to put in the time trying to grow your side hustle 

This is why it's really important to know what YOU want, and WHY you want it. And then always be looking at your life and measuring the results you're getting, because if you're not getting the results you want, you need to be taking some sort of corrective actions.

Mediocre people will recognise their life sucks but all they will ever do is to complain about it, they usually never do anything about it.

Same thing with the relationship that they're in that sucks and is mediocre-they complain about it, but they don't do anything.

They come up with excuses:

" I'll do it next week"

" I'll do it next month"

" I'm going to wait and start on January 1st"

Or whatever excuse it happens to be.

If you want to become self reliant and want to reach your full potential in every area of life that's important for you, when you recognise a part of your life that is unsatisfactory, you've got to figure out WHAT is unsatisfactory about it.

You've got to figure out what you want instead, and then you've got to implement a massive plan of ACTIONS to start moving from where you are to where you want to be. 

That's what high achievers do. 

Mediocre people tend to ponder, space out and avoid things they know they need to do which is why they never reach their full potential and never accomplish anything close to what a high achieving person does. 

- Till next time.