Success in One Fell Swoop: The Drugery of Going Deep
Sure, it's great fun signing up for all kinds of on-line groups, chatting, gaming, wii-ing, xboxing, socializing, keeping up on all the details of your favorite team. It's fun reading outside your niche-market, reading for leisure, reading for intellectual stimulation, on and on.
But what of responsibility to self? Family? Country? Building a future? If we waste too much time doing things that are simply easy, fun, and frivolous we will encounter some serious death-bed regret. What of lying there with gasping breaths stating simply "Less Xbox, gaming, sports, frivolousiteeeeeeeeeee. . . " thud!!!
Discipline, focus, commitment, organization, dedication, supplication to purpose and drive, drive, sacrifice, drive, drive, drive are the only elements or self-coaching statements that will gain one a happy, joyful, fulfilled life, for all of us want more, but way too many of us want it now without the effort, dedication, and sacrifice needed.
No one ever gained more by doing less. It is a universal principle that sacrifice, dedication, effort with a little bit of disappointment (maybe a lot) thrown in for friction and adversity makes one a happy person. And it’s interesting to note that the majority of the successful had to either wait a long time for success or saw success come and go before they learned how to hold onto it for dear life, mostly out of experience that rubbed reality in their face causing greater commitment, focus, dedication, vigilance, and sacrifice.
It’s amazing the amount of leisure we have to give up to get going in the extreme. If you want big happiness, big success, big freedom, big reward you’ve got to be willing to make big sacrifices, sacrifice of body, mind, time, emotion, the physical, emotional, and material, all combined.
So next time you sit about to delve too deeply into leisure (we all need downtime but four hours a day in front of the tube?) think about all that it costs.
But what of responsibility to self? Family? Country? Building a future? If we waste too much time doing things that are simply easy, fun, and frivolous we will encounter some serious death-bed regret. What of lying there with gasping breaths stating simply "Less Xbox, gaming, sports, frivolousiteeeeeeeeeee. . . " thud!!!
Discipline, focus, commitment, organization, dedication, supplication to purpose and drive, drive, sacrifice, drive, drive, drive are the only elements or self-coaching statements that will gain one a happy, joyful, fulfilled life, for all of us want more, but way too many of us want it now without the effort, dedication, and sacrifice needed.
No one ever gained more by doing less. It is a universal principle that sacrifice, dedication, effort with a little bit of disappointment (maybe a lot) thrown in for friction and adversity makes one a happy person. And it’s interesting to note that the majority of the successful had to either wait a long time for success or saw success come and go before they learned how to hold onto it for dear life, mostly out of experience that rubbed reality in their face causing greater commitment, focus, dedication, vigilance, and sacrifice.
It’s amazing the amount of leisure we have to give up to get going in the extreme. If you want big happiness, big success, big freedom, big reward you’ve got to be willing to make big sacrifices, sacrifice of body, mind, time, emotion, the physical, emotional, and material, all combined.
So next time you sit about to delve too deeply into leisure (we all need downtime but four hours a day in front of the tube?) think about all that it costs.
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