No pain, no gain

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When someone has a dream he visualises himself at the top of the success ladder without the hard work and persistence that this fantasy requires to get there. We want the result without the costs of the in between.

Somehow people ended up thinking that life owes them. That from one day to the other they will have everything, without pain and effort. All those cliches about “think positive and success will come” and “imagine what you want and the universe will bring it to you” made us chasing a pain-free life that will never, ever reward us. 'Cause life doesn’t work that way.

I know many people-including myself-that dream of their life being like this and that and guess what? The universe just doesn’t give a shit of what we want if we just lay in our bed dreaming. Success will not knock your door all of a sudden if you don’t act. It’s not the universe that ignores you, it’s you that you don’t actually care.

You cannot want the benefits without the costs.

Life is not rainbows and unicorns. In order to reach what you want you will have to confront a bunch of difficulties and failures and you may need to start again from the beginning, to alter your plans, your ideas, to be persistent and MAYBE you will get where you want. If you want something so much, you will also want the costs of it. You will “enjoy” the struggles of it.

That’s why so many dreams have been thrown in the trash. Because we were in love with the outcome and not the process. And always remember that; “no pain, no gain”.