Use the fuel of pain to power your future
This guy is red with rage, if only he could control and form it into action to improve his life!
Aging is a powerful process, it molds and sculpts you but with that, comes the inevitable bumps and bruises you get from great struggles that you have (hopefully) overcome.
Initiative and ambition
Without ambition or initiative in your life, things get rather dull, hence why most people at least dip their toes into the devil’s water. Nothing bad with getting a buzz from life and the circumstances they bring-on but sometimes, the devil’s water comes with consequences which may cause you to take a step back. Be these relationships, business opportunities gone wrong or even remote destinations reached that didn’t work-out as they should have. With enough initiative and ambition, the spicier side of life reveals itself and sometimes, there isn’t enough coconut milk to cool things down.
Using pain as fuel
Alright, you got or realize you are being burned… you decide to jump out of the fire. Sometimes, this works, sometimes it doesn’t as you may end-up in an even hotter place but this pain, if you may have noticed, really gets your mind going a hundred miles an hour. The adrenalin kicks in, your pulse goes up and you perceive as things only being able to get “better” than they are now. This feeling is the fuel that you need to learn how to harness. Put another way, you got to figure out how to not only capture this feeling but control it so you can go into overdrive when the time is needed… especially when you have NO ambition or initiative. From my experience, nothing is as powerful as the feeling of pain. Pain is an extreme emotion like love, but far easier to find and capture. Fear on the other hand has two answers, fight or flight which may not lead to the best decision making processes.
YOUR FUTURE… and how to get there!
Getting up every morning and facing the world that seems to relish the demise of success can be a tough act to keep performing on a daily basis, especially when your fuel levels are low. You have a goal, a burning desire but the ho-hum of life seems to just sap this energy out of you leading to a mediocre day. Well, simply try to visualize how BAD you will feel if you do not accomplish your goal! Imagine the disappointment not only within yourself but the “I told you so” comments you are bound to hear from those who have done next to nothing with their own “safe” lives. This blog isn’t about depressing people and I am not about to start now but just realize that you have nothing to lose by pursuing your goals and even better, the success you WILL have is going to be able to help those you wish most to give a leg-up on. Use the fuel of the pain of failure, pain of past experiences (relationships etc.. ) and the absolute pain of personal regret for not achieving what you had so high-hopes in turning into reality into your ambition and initiative to make something of yourself. Use the collective pain of all your life’s experiences as a fuel to power your future when your energy stores are low… and you WILL succeed.
Success isn’t easy
Achieving success in life isn’t easy unless your goal is to grow fat watching television, but for most of us, it will act like Bugs Bunny evading Elmer Fud, always, almost, just in reach. This is why it’s so important to, on a daily basis, keep not only your dream alive but make it incrementally, no matter how small the movement, that much closer at the end of the day than it was at the beginning of it.
The Bottom Line
Pain isn’t always a bad thing, it’s a great teacher and mentor but it must be controlled and managed.
