From Difficult To Effortless
I’m approaching my 5th year in business (aka “without a job”) & looking back I can’t help but think about all the things I’m able to do today that come to effortless to me that I struggled with for at least 2 years…
Most people never even make a dollar online, give up too soon, sign cheap ‘pain-in-the-a* clients, never have any time except to work on their business…
Glorified, Underpaid (SELF)-Employees.
Not me. But, it wasn’t always this way…
And, even as I get older… I continue to face my own share of disappointment and challenges. THAT never stops in life. I simply become more well-equipped to handle it. Problems get bigger.
Life always seems to have a way of nudging you, really…
Dragging you out of bed and beating the sh*t out of you until you get it.
I think I was always built for that, to take on stress & challenges and overcome them. In fact, if I step away for a moment and simply look at how far I’ve come, I already KNOW that I will win.
I don’t know HOW, but I know I will… because life isn’t as dangerous as it once for our ancestors.
Truthfully, there are very few things/choices that permanently kill you. There is no such thing as a “permanent setback” for 99% of you reading this. So what are you afraid of?
For me: disappointing MYSELF. At some point I realized that the gifts and “luck” and all the little things that have had to happen that I had no control of made me who I am…
And that means I’m not meant to graze on my achievements like sheep.
After one successful hunt, it’s right down to the next one. Resting too long is definitely one of my weaknesses these days…
Because looking back, one of the few reasons I’m ‘successful’ is because I’m stubborn. 5 years of inconsistent effort has brought me to a place where signing clients online for 5-figures, writing ads that practically print money, or growing my own passion profits and finding a way to get paid… has become easy.
So imagine what you can do with CONSISTENT effort? Day-in-day-out.
That’s really all there is for ANYTHING you want to achieve in life. Simple but harder to do because of distractions, discouragement, excuses, and self-defeating thoughts/habits.
Gone are the days where I would be excited and think “WOW, it actually worked.”…
To me, it’s just a normal part of life and who I am. It’s easy for me to the point where I don’t even recognize or react to it the way I would had I done all this 5 years ago for the first time…
As I go to my next chapter in life, with it’s own set of levels, bosses to kill, and side quests…
A part of me is NEVER worried anymore because I’ve already done this before.
The level might be harder, the challenges more challenging… but I can’t help but think I already made it this far. I already surmounted impossible odds to be who I am today, what’s one more challenge…and, in some ways I get unlimited tries. BRUTE-FORCING it!
The possibility of ‘death’ is almost completely removed in modern society. But most people see that and STILL don’t go all out for what they want.
Truthfully, I’m a rare exception and even if the ‘challenges of life’ included a certain possibility of death, I’d probably still go harder…
All this to say: what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
And in 2024, almost NOTHING can kill you. Nothing that you are delaying or dreading to do can…
The human mind is an incredible machine, and it’s the very challenges that practically FORCE us into action where all our best and most innovative ideas come to mind.
Necessity is the father of innovation.
Take more risks.