Many of us are well are truly past the stage of childhood. You may be a teenager, adult or senior and many us would like to think that we are mature. However, are we really working hard and taking life seriously or is life just a playground for us? You may treat your life like a slide that you can slide down everyday and get back up and do it all over again. Life may be simple to you. Or it may be hard. But many of us don’t realise that life can be a whole lot harder and easier depending on our goals.
If only more of us could take life seriously. If only more of us could be more productive. If only more of us could just wake up from that god damn dream of cruising through life with a stable job, getting married, having kids and living the best retired life possible. If only though. You, yourself may think that you are more than the average person and are working hard everyday. Yet, until you are working harder than everyone around you and achieving greatness in the areas that no one can see as possible, you are just like everybody else. In order to achieve the goals that you have set, whether they seem impossible, or very realistic, you need to be UNCOMFORTABLE.
SET CHALLENGING GOALS
You may think that the best way to stick to your goals and actually try to achieve them is to make them realistic enough to achieve. But no, you’re wrong. If they are realistic, then they are TOO easy. Those are not goals, those are things on your To-Do list that you can check off everyday. I’m talking about challenging goals, as in goals you may never achieve. Goals that you see as only the great achieving. And its okay. Put them on your goals list. And see yourself fail. Only then will you actually realise that you are not as great as you think. Only then will you be exposed to the real world of competition and failure. Only then will you be UNCOMFORTABLE.
BE COMPETITIVE
Are you competitive with your family and friends? Do you always want to win game? Well, this is called internal competition where you strive to beat everyone around you in a particular field. By everyone around you, I mean everyone in your school, college, university, workplace or online. But what you haven't done is been competitive externally. There are 8 billion people in the world. You are just one of them, like everyone else. You may think that if you come first in your field in your school or workplace, you have achieve the most that you can. That is where most people would strive to achieve. But you need to get into the mind set of beating those that you don't know, those that you don't know are studying 5 more hours into the night, waking up at 4am to work out for 3 hours before heading to work whereas you’re there lounging around watching TV or sleeping until 7am. Those people may be a nobody right now and you might not even care. But trust me, you will KNOW them. They will be known by everyone, even if they don't know you, you will know them because their competitive and hard working mindset has lead them to carve their names into the minds of many.
These 2, (I wouldn't say easy) steps will not make you good, but great. I may have butchered your self confidence and self esteem. And I will admit that this may not be the best way for motivation, but I hope you realise that your life isn't hard right now, it could be harder. Please feel free to leave a comment as I would like to hear your thoughts and discussion points on this topic. Remember: Be uncomfortable. Be legendary.