Willingly Struggle or Be Forced To

In an ideal world, life would be filled primarily with happiness. However, we don’t live in an ideal world.

Most of our life is filled with struggle and hard things.

For example, we get diseases and sicknesses that can’t be fixed, we lose people we love, and there’s always something we want that we can’t get.

Now, it’s easy to say that those examples I mentioned above are a small part of your overall life and wouldn’t prove the point that “most of our life is filled with struggle”. And if you said that, you’d be right.

But what about eating better? Is exercising easy for you? Do you look forward to going to work every day?

If you’re like most people, those are a struggle to do forever.

So, would you like to be fat and unhealthy? How about not being able to provide for yourself financially?

Once again, if you’re like most people – that would be a struggle as well. So what should you do?

Choose your preferred method of struggle.

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By choosing to willingly struggle through eating healthy and exercising, you can avoid being forced to struggle through being fat and unhealthy; By choosing to struggle through going to work (even when you don’t want to), you can avoid being forced to struggle through not being able to provide for yourself.

As I mentioned at the beginning of this post, life is filled with struggle. The more struggle you try to avoid, the more struggle you’ll be forced to accept later in life. It’s like developing a “struggle debt” that has to be paid. And the more struggle debt you owe, the more difficult your struggle will be.

But, on the “bright side”, there’s a benefit of choosing to willingly struggle – your tolerance for struggle becomes stronger.

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The stronger your tolerance for struggle, the easier it is for you to willingly struggle and avoid building a “struggle debt” that’s unbearable to pay back. You begin looking at certain types of struggling as “not a big deal”.

Eat less junk and healthier food? Easy.

Exercise 3+ times per week? No big deal.

Work 40+ hours per week? Got to do what I go to do.

This increase in mental strength makes life easier because, even though life is filled with struggle, if that struggle is easy for you – does it really matter that life is filled with struggle?

So choose to willingly struggle instead of being forced to struggle.

You’ll be able to develop a tolerance for struggling, become mentally strong, and take control of your life.

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