One Thing You Need To Succeed
There are plenty of skills and strengths that people need if they want to make a great life. The usual stuff like goals, plans, luck and strategies. Whilst all of this is crucial it must be underpinned by one thing.
If your purpose is to have a life of expansion and development — whatever that means to you — you are going to need that one thing underneath everything else. The rock bottom foundation that all else rests on.
That thing is the capacity to endure.
Life is hard, cruel and unfair but for those who have their hand on the tiller and are heading in their own direction, it is par for the course.
The storms, the dead zones and the glassy calm waters must all be navigated with the capacity to endure.
Often life's biggest gifts are given to those with the capacity to endure because expansion will always meet resistance. Always. The inner resistance and the outer kind. The way to continue expanding in the face of ridicule, guilt and cultural gravity is to diligently develop your endurance capacity.
How does one do this? Self-awareness and exposure and sticking at things for longer than is comfortable. Reframing situations and developing an intolerance for quitting. Changing your vocabulary and fiercely stating that I can handle it.
I will write about some specific tactics another time. The message today is to think about where your desire for comfort is letting you down.
Write down as many instances as you can. It will open your eyes and you may never look at tasks the same way again. The whole becomes a way to expand your capacities.
