17 Dec 2011, Posted by yohami in inner game, 5 Comments.

Hard work, suffering, crisis, loss, sacrifice, hard choices, pain – are unavoidable in the pursue of the goal.

Hard work, suffering, crisis, loss, sacrifice, hard choices, pain – are unavoidable in the pursue of the goal.

But it doesnt mean you have to be looking up for those things. Hard work is needed, but it doesnt mean hard work, on its own, has any value. Crisis make you change, pain can wake you up and drive you, but you´re better off without crisis or pain.

So accept all that stuff, because its there. If you´re going from A to B, pain and hard work and crap are somewhere in the middle. You´re going to suffer, you´re going to go through hard stuff.

But it doesnt matter.

Dont fight pain, dont fight crisis, instead, fight the source, solve the problem. Dont look up for pain, dont chase crisis, dont value hard work, dont get stuck in the middle. Instead, keep your eyes on the prize, and keep the pain present, but push it behind. Move towards pleasure, even if you have to go through pain.

What matters is how you handle stuff, what you get done, how smart are you at maximizing your returns, how clever are you at avoiding pain and solving problems so the crisis doesnt repeat again, how good are you at finding the path of least resistance, how much you grow over the problems instead of getting overcumbered by them. How you turn crap into skills. How you make easy what was once difficult. How you turn coals into diamonds, and lemons into profitable lemonade stands across the country. How you flip the page. How you collect.

So, pain will be there, hard work will be there. Embrace them. Then move forward.