The Morning Ascent

There will never be a time in your life when it’s the right time to do a great thing.

If you are waiting for that perfect moment, it’s not going to happen. You have to create the perfect time and the perfect opportunity.

A lot of people become comfortable. They stop growing. They stop wanting anything. They become satisfied. When you are not pursuing your goal you are literally committing spiritual suicide. When you have a goal that you are stretching for, that takes you out of your comfort zone, you will find out some talents and abilities you have that you didn’t know you had. Unless you attempt to do something beyond that which you have already mastered, you will never grow. What is it that you looked at in some point in time and you decided that you couldn’t do it. That you talked yourself out of it.

When the messenger of misery visits you, what are you going to do? What will keep you in the game?

What reason can you remember, that you can call on. That can make you get back up. Find that reason. If you are not happy with where you are. If you are not where you want to be. If you don’t have what you want to have. If you are not where you think you should be at this particular place, it has nothing to do with the system but it has everything to do with the fact that you are not making the sacrifice.

What drives you? Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day after day.

You will never be successful until you turn your pain into greatness. Until you allow your pain to push you from where you are to where you want to be. Stop running from your pain and embrace your pain. Your pain is going to be a part of your prize, a part of your product. Push yourself. It’s easy to be on the bottom. It doesn’t take any effort to be a loser. It doesn’t take any motivation, any drive, in order to stay down there, at a low level. But it calls on everything in you, you have to harness your will to say, “I’m going to challenge myself.” What you did last week doesn’t count. Today is the only important day. There are 86,400 seconds in a day and how you use those are critical. You have 86,400 today and what you do today is going to cement who you are. Nobody is going to talk about what you did last week.

The biggest enemy that you have to deal with is yourself. There is an African proverb that says, “If there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do us no harm.”

If you want anything bad enough to go out and fight for it, to work day and night for it, to give up your time, your peace and your sleep for it, if all that you dream and scheme is about it, and life seems useless and worthless without it…It’s time now, if you want to make this your decade you have to start saying, “YES” to your life. You have to start saying, “YES” to your dreams. “Yes” to your unfolding future. “Yes” to your potential. As opposed to saying, “No”.

When you die, die on “E”. Leave no dream left behind. Leave no opportunity left behind. When you leave this earth accomplish every single thing that you can accomplish.

You have to want to succeed as bad as you want to breath.

~ Les Brown

Make today your day to shine!