The 365 Commitment

Day 41 of 84 – Does it have to Suck?

Yes.

If you want to progress further – it has to suck.
If you want to progress faster – it has to suck.

This is a reality that we do not want to accept. I want to get better by finding some easier method. I want to improve naturally and quickly without strain, without resistance, without opposition. I want to progress and also be comfortable. I want to do things the way they have always been done. I do not want to be disrupted. I want to keep my routine. I want it to be easy.

Well, too bleeping bad. It just really needs to suck if you want to improve. I am having the same reaction that you are to this statement. I do not want to believe. I want to pretend that I can move forward by some easier way. I want to pretend that I can have it both ways. I can be lazy and also find success. Nope. Sorry. Does not work like that.

It is whatever you have decided to do to improve yourself. It has to suck. You can find temporary enjoyment, a brief moment of relief, but basically it has to be to something that you really do not want to be doing. The more you do it, the more you push yourself to do something that sucks that faster and further you will progress.

See this is the moment when you find success. The moment when you just accept that it is going to suck and you are just going to embrace it and get after it, regardless of how much you really do not want to. You slide backwards, stall, get setbacks, hit plateaus because you are trying to get by without it sucking. Well, guess what? You now know why you are on the plateau and cannot get off. You now know why you cannot seem to get better, to improve, to see the numbers go up or go down. It is because it does not suck enough.

You want to improve? Make it harder. Make it tougher. Make what you are doing suck more. When it sucks so bad that you are going to absolutely fail, then make it just a slight amount easier and do the best you can and as it hurts, as it is really tough to resist, or it feels like you are going to break under the pressure – then look yourself in the mirror and say – this really sucks – but I love it!

Only when you learn to embrace the suck, and learn to love the resistance, the opposition, the pain will you truly find rapid success. Only then will you achieve the results that you never thought possible.

This is where I am at right now. I have made some good progress. I have done some good things, but it is time for me to stop trying to coast my way through my commitments. I need to really just accept the agony of what I have to do to really improve. Time to embrace the suck.

Guy Reams

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