Ahmed Shaami
People are sometimes amazing at avoiding things which makes their mind less of thinking machines and more of avoiding machines. And the incredible thing is that you are mostly aware when you are avoiding thinking about something. Such things come up every day and you don’t even notice because your mind switches to thinking about something else.
This makes you chose the easiest paths to travel and are eager to find the life hack that helps you to bypass all the others. These cheat codes may help you to feel better at home, but the professional life is never going to get any better. In the present moment, you might feel a temporary belief but it relegates you to a life of running. You do keep yourself busy but never learn to move forward, become aware of what’s inside you, and what is in front of you.
For attaining long-term success, you need to convince yourself to avoid simple tasks. You need to become a person who is willing to do things the hard way. Following are the reasons why you should work the hard way:
It helps to build your character:
By just going through the flow of life, it is easy to live your life. You just do the easy things, do not confront any challenges, and thus live a life that is not worth living. But when you push harder for setting goals for yourself and make an effort to achieve them, you build a character. The more you test your character, the stronger you become. The more it gives you the confidence e to face obstacles in life and still move forward.
Learn to overcome problems of the modern world:
You increase the weights at the gym when you want to become stronger. Same applies to your life, the more you’ll face challenges, and the more you will become good at handling complicated things.
Have a story to tell:
People who live simple lives never have an interesting story to tell about their journey. It is because they have avoided all hardships and have taken the easiest road to live their life. Whereas when you live a life facing challenges, you have a story to tell to others about how you passed your entire journey. It will induce the disaster and difficulties and will become the stuff of legend in your family.
Not settling for the less:
Avoiding difficulties is just an excuse to easily settle for less. This makes you give up on your targets and failing in your attempt to achieve greatness. There are so many soldiers who fight in a war but only those are given the Medal of Honor who performs the impossible things. Nobody remembers people who live an ordinary life. But when you do something hard, you establish a legacy.
