The boring work is the price nobody can skip. The problem is most people aren't willing to repeat what feels painfully ordinary.

1000% facts man

Growth usually starts with doing the hard thing.

Fighting is the best way to learn this. Hours of hard training, but the feeling of winning is unmatched.

the 100 is the part people skip. not because it sucks, because it's long. what got me from 235 to 195 wasn't embracing anything. it was making the individual rep boring enough that i'd still do number 61 on a night i didn't want to.

I can't imagine you feel like working out sucks if you can persist through 100 of them I'd wager sometime between 10 and 20 you actually start to enjoy it.

There's nothing on the other side of 100 bland meals

To my mind everyone is doing this Still people are unhappy, miserable and frustrated Find out one thing that you want to give (not receive) this world. This is the thing you want yourself to be remembered for and you only could do it. That’s the purpose of this life.

You just said it all. All you said have been helping me out including grace of God.

100 monthly budgets That’s 8 years of budgeting

In Sterquiliniis Invenitur

"He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much." - James Allen

You posted this exact same thing a few months ago. I remember cuz I wrote it down. Why do you repost?

Door knocking is my version of that. A lot of no's are the cost of entry for the yeses.

Even the finest espresso needs a bitter press to wake up the palate. Same rule applies to the grind.

Workouts, food, relationships, and getting paid don't suck.

“Tonight I'll be on that hill 'cause I can't stop I'll be on that hill with everything I got Lives on the line where dreams are found and lost I'll be there on time and I'll pay the cost For wanting things that can only be found In the darkness on the edge of town” @springsteen

This is a rephrasing of an old quote but I get you

yeah ive paid that cost a few times, worth it every time tbh

Uncomfortable․com On the other side of Uncomfortable is where you find your best self

Stop negotiating with the work. Do the thing.

I understand the point about effort and discomfort, but I wouldn’t call every necessary step something that sucks. That framing drains my motivation before I even begin. Some things are difficult, repetitive, or uncomfortable, yes, but they can still feel meaningful when they’re connected to something I truly want.

you gotta do the shit you don’t feel like doing

100 bland meals to unlock one seasoning packet

"Pay the cost of entry with pride." Love that. 🙌

The road to riches is not always paved with hardships. It’s the romantic way on how success has been presented in film. And it’s easy to digest that presentation because it makes us think that hardship leads to success. Something everyone can do. A formula of sorts. Some of the most successful people I look up have had a smooth ride once they found their path. Now, finding the path or the path finding you, that’s fucking hard, though some do stumble on it as well. Easy does it! Just like how snow finds its way to the sea from the mountain top by relying on gravity and finding the path of least resistance.

it’s usually painful but that’s the sacrifice we have to pay.

Agreed, with one addition: the cost of entry isn't a one-time payment. It's rent. The people who stay at the top are the ones who kept paying after everyone else assumed they'd arrived.

Doing the sucky thing actually wires you to somewhat "like" the sucky thing. Just this year they showed that dopamine spikes harder for the same reward when effort was involved in attaining it. When you couple that with psychological studies that also recently show there is meaning in the struggle/effort, it is a no-brainer: do the sucky thing and it will become something you don't think is sucky.

You already know what to do. But the answer requires repetition, boredom, rejection, disappointment, or doing something without an immediate reward.

A practical test...look at what you’ve put off three times. That’s probably the thing you need to do next.

The hard part usually isn’t knowing what to do. It’s deciding the discomfort is worth it today.

Someone told me: "Success is on the other side of fear." We've got to learn to embrace discomfort to achieve success.

You can never escape the suck. It's all a part of it.

Everything that you're trying to do needs work, focus and attention. There's no success that's going to happen by wishful thinking.

What people think they can endure is vastly different from what they can actually endure