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
http://www.getmotivation.com/jimrohn/jrchallenge2suceed.html
