If you want it bad enough

Chapter 205

“Willpower is defined as the ability to resist short-term temptations in order to meet long-term goals. It’s the self-control to manage our thoughts, emotions and behavior in ways that set us up for success. It’s like mental toughness  it boils down to who’s calling the shots. If you want something bad enough, you’ll find the willpower to make things happen.” - LaRae Quy

Quy is very insightful here. That last sentence is the killer one, if you want it bad enough, you will find a way to make it happen. And the converse is true obviously, if you aren’t making it happen, you don’t want it badly enough. You can make excuses all day, week and year, but the bottom line is that if you live in the Western World and are not a trafficked slave, you can do it if you want it enough. “It” being whatever that thing is that you just have got to accomplish, have or experience.

I think that most people who consistently do and experience what others don’t, would agree with me. These are the people who have vividly experienced “the self-control to manage our thoughts, emotions and behaviors” that the author is referring to above. No one finishes their doctorate without a degree of mental toughness, no one learns a foreign language without it, no one grows their business without it, nor changes the world without it.

But like I said, the barriers are few if you live in the West. The greatest (maybe only) barrier to you getting all that you want, is you. Barriers I said. That is not the same as difficulties. Difficulties are where the real challenges lie. This is not easy. It is very very challenging. It would not require such gigantic levels of willpower - mental toughness - were it easy.

Lots of difficulties.

Few barriers.

No excuses.