The Challenge

It is my hope, that what you’re about to read here will make you uncomfortable. It is my wholehearted intention that I will stir up something within you that will bring about change.

The best advice I have ever received was from my Father when I was a teenager. I was unhappy, working a dead-end job and my life had no direction. He then asked me “Do you really want to know the truth?” and I replied “Of course I do”. What he said next, made me curse at him and storm out of the house. I got half way down the street and realized, that he was right.

His words still echo in my head to this very day, “You are not doing enough for yourself“.

I had to swallow the hard truth that my pride was fighting. The realization that nobody in this world was going to hand me the things in life that I wanted to achieve. I was going to have to decide that I was going to do whatever was necessary to ensure that my life was going to become what I wanted it to be.

There has to come a point where you make the commitment to yourself that this (whatever that is), is no longer good enough. Whatever is lacking in your life or lacking within yourself will not change until you affect change. You must commit to whatever you wish to accomplish every single day. Many people view the achievements of others and believe it happened out of thin air. What they do not see, are the small, incremental steps take along the way to get to that point. What people see in public, is the result of months and years of effort in private.

Your own conscious must drive you forward. You must become comfortable with setbacks and things not going your way. You will need to push through those times if you want to achieve your goals. The more you become comfortable with adversity, the greater your success will be. Master adversity and nothing in life will ever stand in your way.

You must possess some form of self-imposed pressure to make that first step. Tomorrow is not promised, nor guaranteed. One day, tomorrow may not be there to offer you the opportunity to make your move.

Then it will be too late. Are you willing to gamble that tomorrow will be the day, or the day after that?

Now the only thing you need to hear at this point is simple.

“Are you doing enough for yourself?“