Life Sucks Sometimes, But You Don't Have To

While I have been blessed with a great life, this was not always so. Like so many people today, I got out of college during one of the worst and most stressful economic times. I couldn't find a job doing anything close to what I had gone into so much debt to get a degree in. Sound familiar? 

I took a job that I was unsure of and that people warned me against. I got into drugs heavily and was on the brink of self-destruction and erasing myself from the opportunity to share this life with so many loved ones. 

The only reason I am where I am today is because I decided that wasn't how I wanted to live. I made a decision that I wanted to start taking responsibility for my life and doing something great with it. I got off drugs, cleaned up my act, and committed to achieving at astronomical 10X levels.

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Whatever stress and challenges you have gone through or are currently going through, I encourage you to make a decision to take personal responsibility for them and decide, right now, that you want a better life and are willing to do everything you can to turn it around.

It's not easy. Never before have the challenges and risks in life loomed so large, but never before have the potential payoffs been so huge. That's why they're called challenges. But that hard work, perseverance, and commitment will lead to great things once you're on the other side of them. One thing I realized is that if you weren't up for the challenge, you wouldn't have encountered it. Each challenge you have come across is uniquely yours and because of that, you can get past it. 

Maybe your challenge is alcoholism, drug use, fear of commitment, financial trouble or lack of income. Hey, I've experienced all of those. Regardless of what issue you are facing right now, the first step toward overcoming it is to begin really looking at how you can take action on it and win in spite of it.

Here are 3 Steps you can take in order to beat the stress and challenges you are facing: 

1. Stop resisting! Actually step back, put your defenses down for a moment and welcome a challenge that comes your way. Look at it as an opportunity to improve your position. Find a way to take those things that block and threaten you and use them to your advantage like a Master at Aikido. Because you actually get what you resist, this is step one in dealing with challenges. Each time you advance toward a challenge with confidence you will feel your stress lift from you becoming motivation and courage.
2. Stay positive. Surround yourself with positive people and enhancement. Get yourself trained in your field of interest. Get up to date in your industry. Learn constantly. This will give you the ammunition you need to handle anything that comes your way. Think of yourself as a Navy Seal. Those guys train and drill like they are in real combat scenarios so that when they actually are in a battle, they handle it like a second nature.
   
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3. Don't slow down. When you are hit with a challenge or bad news you tend to stop in your tracks and give all your attention to the problem. When you do this, the problem has already beat you. Keep your calendar full of things that are productive and above all, never ever quit. In order to win, refuse to slow down and instead, when your back is up against the wall, turn around and bust the wall down!

Go out and overcome these challenges and conquer those things that are stressing you out and causing you to lose production and time.

If you have any questions, I’ll do my best to answer them below.

Be great,

Grant Cardone

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