Success is doing the things we don’t want to do. Discuss.
If this is true, how can success and happiness co-exist?
Is there a difference between doing something we don’t want to do because it makes us feel anxious or it’s boring or it requires energy and effort, to doing something that doesn’t resonate with our core essence/truth/soul?
How do we know the difference?
This has been an interesting conversation in my head lately.
Particularly as I watch myself procrastinate the shit out of completing my studies.
It’s as though I have to drag myself kicking and screaming through the last remaining modules of this course.
A course I have been doing for twelve months.
A course where most of the work has already been done.
A course I could have finished months ago.
A course I wished I had finished months ago.
So what’s my problem?
Albert Gray wrote a speech about his search for the common denominator of successful people. His discovery?
“Successful people formed the habit of doing things that failures don’t like to do”.
