Pain to gain – the struggle

Pain to gain – the struggle

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self-inflicted Pain

The agony is that the pain disguise it self as pleasure to hide all its sufferings in the name of hope. When one takes the pain to put required effort, it leads to the desired Goal.

Have you ever wondered why are there so many books focused on pleasures and comforts of life. Only few address the wonders a self inflicted pain to put effort can bring in. Life is full of difficulties. Each of these point towards a forward movement that is much ahead of present point in life. The time when one pauses to take a jump in comforts of life, the movement stagnates. Out of comfort zone implies not to stick to comforts of life.

The goals have been broken in small chunks leading to some ultimate Objective by adding qualities and character in every step.

Goal achievement through a step by step process

When a pain is chosen. the motivation to traverse the path becomes significant. A clear idea of WHY, will give a purpose to take on the pain, in other words, Putting effort requires an effort, An Activation Energy to start the process.

Once the vision of reason is clear, consider the impact of outcome on self. How the outcome will change the mindset towards success. To what level, it can raise the intensity of the Pain one can take. The outcome will decide the next goal.

Alignment is another essential area. The complete thought process to remain focused on attaining the objective can be achieved by aligning towards the things which contribute in obtaining the purpose. If you want to learn about universe, watch things on cosmos, galaxies, and interesting facts on stars. Learn more about astronomical achievements and the present research and endeavors of that field.

Eliminate distractions

Eliminate distractions. You don’t need to vegetate in another domain which merely will intercept the channelization of your thought process. Th moment a hundred-meter runner turns his head to check other’s position, he slows down. Same happens with our mind. Once the mind turns itself towards another direction, the focus starts evaporating.

Monitoring is a critical factor to maintain the consistency. It allows the flexibility of modification in work process. At the same time it makes one vigilant enough to keep working towards the goal. One way of monitoring is to journal the activities along with next days objectives. This way one can track the movement.

The uncertainties in life has the tendency to strike on mindsets. A winning attitude at times gets overpowered by failures and frustrations. Affirmations play a very important role in keeping such negative emotions aside. While it appears very easy at one stage to give up, surrender and quit, here affirmations helps to maintain the determination. The pain when gets affected by these negatives, it transitions into stress and panic. Same pain along with vision and positive emotions brings passion and enthusiasm in to play.

Pain in life.

Success is constituted with many ups and downs. Every twist and turn on the road to success has a lesson to teach. Each of these lessons prepares one to become more strong, More understanding comes with every new lesson learned and experience earned.

Easy life, a life filled with comfort and luxury, can stagnate life and can only give pseudo happiness. When the pain is taken, to achieve, the success brings joy and happiness with which one becomes eager to strive more and achieve more.