There Is No Easy Path

Hard things are hard.

Winning is hard.

Being fit is hard.

Being your best self is hard.

So are the alternatives.

The "easy" things will ultimately reveal themselves to be hard too...

It just takes about 20 years.

Regardless...

When it comes to achievement...

It's weird to me how many people feel entitled to an "above average" existence and expect it to be easy.

The higher the target you set for yourself...

The harder the path is going to be.

So if you have big goals and big dreams...

You would do yourself a favor by understanding this concept right now.

Know that it's going to be hard.

Know that it's going to be progressively harder the higher and further you want to go.

...and instead of being surprised when the extremely hard path actually gets extremely hard...

Be ready.

Expect it.

Prepare yourself.

Build yourself into someone who is equipped to keep moving forward.

That's a far better strategy than expecting it to be easy and having a fucking life crisis every time shit gets hard.