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The Challenge to Succeed: (excerpted from The Challenge to Succeed)

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It is a challenge to succeed. If it were not, I’m sure more people would be successful, but for every person who is enjoying fruit from the tree of success, many more are examining the roots. They are trying to figure it all out. They are mystified and perplexed by what seems to be some strange, complex, elusive secret they must find if they are ever to enjoy success.

While many people struggle to earn a living, a much smaller number seem to have everything going their way. Instead of just earning a living, the smaller group is busily engaged in designing and enjoying a fortune. Everything seems to just work out for them. Meanwhile, the much larger group sits in awe at how life can be so unfair, complicated, and unjust.

“I am a nice person,” the man says to himself. “How come this other guy is happy and prosperous, and I’m always struggling?” He asks himself, “I am a good husband, a good father, and a good worker. How come nothing seems to work out for me? Life just isn’t fair. I’m even smarter and willing to work harder than some of these other people who just seem to have everything going their way.” He says all of this as he slumps into the sofa to watch another evening of television.

To be numbered among those select few who do so well, a person has to be more than a good person and a good worker. You’ve got to become a good planner and a good dreamer. You’ve got to see the future finished in advance. You’ve got to put in the long hours and put up with the setbacks and the disappointments. You’ve got to learn to enjoy the process of putting yourself through the paces of doing the uncomfortable until it becomes comfortable. You’ve got to be prepared and willing to attack the challenges if you want the success, because challenges are part of success. All of this may sound like a full menu of activities, but let me assure you that the process of going from average to fortune-making isn’t really all that difficult.

Thinking about it is the difficult part. Anticipating all the effort and changes and discipline is far worse in the mind than in reality. The challenges you will meet on the road to success are far less difficult to deal with than the struggles and disappointments that come from being average. Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than you were before. It strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become better prepared for the next challenge.

To have more, we must first become more, and to become more, we must begin the process of working harder on ourselves than we do on anything else. But in addition to gathering new knowledge, skills, and experience, it is also important to discover new emotions. How we feel about what we know that makes the biggest difference in how our lives turn out. How we feel about the chances and the choices we have determines the intensity of our effort—whether we try or don’t try. Join or don’t join. Believe or don’t believe.

I’d like for you to discover some strong feelings about your life and what you want to do with that life. You probably have much of the knowledge, a lot of the experience, and perhaps most of the skills that it takes to become successful. What you may be lacking are the strong feelings about what you want and what you want to do. You may have become so involved in the process of earning a living that you’ve forgotten about the choices and the chances you have for designing your own life.

Let these strong feelings help you take a second look at your life and where you’re headed. After all, you’ve only got one life, at least on this planet. So why not make it an adventure in achievement? Why not discover what you can do and what you can have? Why not discover how many others you can help and, in the process, how that can help you?

Why not now take the Challenge to Succeed!

To Your Success,
Jim Rohn


This article was submitted by Jim Rohn, America’s Foremost Business Philosopher. To subscribe to the Free Jim Rohn Weekly E-zine go to www.jimrohn.com or send a blank email to subscribe@jimrohn.com Copyright © 2007 Jim Rohn International. All rights reserved worldwide.

 

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