Hey guys, I just finished a gym session, it's about quarter past seven
7:14 a.m.
To be honest with you I actually don't enjoy these...
going to the gym, getting up early in the morning, having broken sleep,
getting up feeding my baby son two or three times a night...
It's not fun, I'll be frank with you. It's something
that I actually don't enjoy.
I was in a group call last Thursday and part of that call,
see it's a video call with a group of guys and what would
happen during that call is we would pick a topic and then we would share.
We would go around the group one by one and each person would share their
insights and it allows everyone to reflect upon everyone's sharing.
And the topic from last Thursday was:
What do you actually want to achieve by the end of 2018?
It's a great question, awesome question because it allows us to
look at our progress today and also maybe it might spark some new goals
towards the end of the year as well.
There was something that hit me though,
something I realised and it's one of the things that I shared.
It's probably the common theme or principle for me this year.
It's my guiding principle, it's probably my biggest lesson in life
in helping me achieve what I've achieved so far,
is that it's so easy to to ask ourselves
what it is that we want.
Most people by the end of
or by the start of the new year, we ask ourselves what we want,
what we want to achieve.
We set ourselves New Year's resolution.
But I think the one thing that most people don't ask...
Hey Curt, how you going buddy?
...The thing that people don't ask is once you've actually set the goal,
are you willing to endure the struggles that's going to come along with it?
The inevitable uncertainties and the risks that you have to take and the
sacrifices that you're gonna make in order for you to achieve that goal.
Not many people ask themselves that question.
Hey Curt, thanks buddy.
Before I working on my business full-time,
not many people know this but I was actually working on my business 9-5,
sorry 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to Friday
and then after that I would actually work in my corporate job from 5:00 p.m.
all the way to 1:00 a.m. So I'll be doing 8 hours on my business
and then another 8 hours working for another company.
I was doing 16-hour days and that was pretty hectic and there came a time
when I actually ended up losing that job but then I was given the option to
do a different role and then so I was at a crossroads of whether I wanted
to take on that role and do what I've been doing where I've been working on
my business from 8 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday to Friday and then go to work for
another company from 5:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. I could do that or I can choose to
just take the plunge and work on my business full-time and I had this
burning desire, this burning passion to just work on my business full-time
because it's something that I'm really passionate about but I knew that there
was going to be risks involved.
My wife became pregnant at that time
and I remember when I made that decision, that life-changing decision.
It was during one of my morning runs, I was up a hill and I had to make
a choice whether, "Okay, I'm gonna take the plunge and grow my business
full-time" or go for that new role and I would be doing the same thing that
I'll be doing then. And I knew within me that I had to
take the plunge, I had to go full-time in order for me
to take it to the next level, in order for me to grow, I had to do that.
But I knew that there's gonna be risks that's gonna be involved.
And I remember that first...probably the first two months I was
well below my targets and then probably the third month I probably equalled that.
Fourth month, fifth month I was above my target and then I kept going higher
where I started to double it and almost triple it so there was
a lot of work involved in that and coming into that
I remember my wife saying at the beginning, "What if it doesn't work out?"
And my wife is the most supportive person and I don't question her doubts at
the start because it's a big risk to take on.
I remember telling her that, "Look, I have to do this,
I'm burning my boats. If this doesn't work out..."
I actually didn't say "if this doesn't work out" I said "this has to work out".
There's no other way, I'm not gonna go back
I have to make this work.
So it was a huge risk but
I knew what I wanted to do and I burned my boats there was no going back.
So here I am.
I guess the lesson that I want to share with you guys is
whatever goals that you have...
I can't believe I'm getting emotional about this...
You've got to be willing to go through the pain.
Ask yourself, "Okay this is my goal, this is what I want to achieve
but am I open and willing to go through the struggles
that's gonna come along with it?"
And I tell you what,
when you do that, when you just go for it,
you're gonna reap the rewards.
The people who are deemed successful out there in life
are the ones that are always willing to go through the pain.
I don't ask for the pain, I don't ask for the struggle
I just know it's gonna come, it's inevitable
and when it comes I'm just gonna fucking go for it...
I'm not getting emotional because of the pain, it's not that.
It's because I'm so fucking grateful for where I am right now.
And that's it.
So that's all I want to share with you guys and I hope that helps.
If there's a lot of goals and vision that you want to achieve this year,
ask yourself what you want to achieve then also ask yourself,
"What is the pain that I'm willing to endure to make it happen?"
And just go for it.
That's it, cya!
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