Do you really want to achieve your goals? Do I really want to achieve my goals? If so, we must embrace the pain. Pain is where growth happens. When we muster every last ounce of everything we have to push that last rep of a push up, it hurts, it sucks, but is so worth it.
Every time I run, it hurts. Especially the first 1/2 mile. It’s painful. My knees are on fire, my ankles hurt, my lungs are feeling it. When that pain hits, push through it. Take a lesson from David Goggin’s, when most people feel that pain, they quit. That is why they will not achieve their goals.
Pain is not just exercise. It’s painful to get out of your comfort zone at work. I have learned to embrace the uncomfortable. I am scared to death to talk in front of people, always have been. I have been worried about people judging me, being critical of me, not accepting me. I have learned to jump in and embrace this pain. I understand that people will be critical. It has pushed me to another level. I have been scared to write a blog. People might not read it or like it, I would say to myself. So what.
It is painful to do anything in life that is outside of your comfort one. But there is no growth in the comfort zone. Muscles build when you reach and go past the pain. Your mind gets smarter and stronger when you push past what you know into some things you are learning for the first time. It is painful to absorb and really try to understand something new. But getting through the pain is absolutely worth it. When you hit the gym, go after the pain. When you try and learn something new, go after the pain and push yourself to absorb everything. When it’s hard, think to yourself that it must be good. Go after that pain every day!