Day 28: You Can't Have A Strong character And An Easy Life.
Happy Tuesday, friend.
“You cannot wish for both strong character and an easy life.
The price of each is the other."
Man, that hits. I also think it's comforting if you're living a hard life. If you can reframe the challenges as the pathway to a strong character, it completely changes the game.
No one wants to go through something hard just to go through it.
But if you can accept that through going through hard things and a hard life, you will build an extremely strong character it puts purpose to the pain.
And is living an easy life all that fun anyway?
I love the saying:
We all suffer one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
Yeah, eating chocolate cake all day might be fun, but you'll pay for it.
Yeah, working out hard for an hour in the morning might be hard, but you'll reap the rewards of it.
Reframe the hard you're going through today.
Ad Astra Per Aspera,
Dom
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