▬ Do you think a medical resident wants to work 24 hours straight?
▬ Do you think an aspiring Olympian wants to fall and fail over and over again?
▬ Do you think the average child can’t wait to go home and do homework?
▬ Do you think an author enjoys being rejected dozens, if not hundreds, of times?
If you wish to succeed at anything, the formula for achievement is fairly simple: do those things you don’t want to do until you’ve mastered them. In other words, do what’s uncomfortable until it’s comfortable.
The easy way out
Easy is a seductive but treacherous path to take in life. Easy requires no skill, no discipline, no commitment, no constructive thought or action.
It’s easy not to
It’s easy not to learn how to read but beware of ignorance and illiteracy. It’s easy not to give 100% to your job but beware of downsizing. It’s easy not to learn new skills and techniques but beware of becoming obsolete. It’s easy not to put 50 hours into a strategic and fine-tuned job campaign but beware of long-term unemployment.
The pursuit of mastery
When you commit to mastery in pursuit of a worthy objective, you’ll do what you don’t want to do – and enjoy doing it! This may not make very much sense at first but when you pursue worthy goals, and know the freedom, joy, and self-respect you’ll attain by achieving them, doing what you don’t want to do will become a habit you’ll master and take pleasure in.
5 ideas on how to do what you don’t want to do
1) Think of the consequences of not doing what you don’t want to do. How will your future look?
2) Begin doing what you don’t want to do in “small manageable steps.” Work your way into it.
3) When the going gets tough, don’t cave in. Associate joy to discipline and angst to neglect.
4) Don’t make excuses as they lead to underachievement. Resolve leads to success.
5) Do what you don’t want to do first. Get it done and don’t procrastinate. Procrastination is a primary enemy to all success achievement.
