There is no “easy button”

There is no easy button.  There is no get-rich-quick.  There is no avoiding problems.

Work hard and smart, or have the problems from not working hard and smart.

Face reality or get smacked by it.

Be nice or get treated poorly.

Be strong or feel like you’re not.

You’re going to pay for something.

It may as well be fare to get somewhere, instead of nowhere.

Chicken or egg?

Did the fact cause the belief,  or the belief cause the fact?

If you don’t believe something is possible for you, it simply isn’t.  You won’t try.  If you do try, you won’t give it your all.  You will quit easily.

“See, I was right” you’ll say.

But if you believe strongly you can and you WILL do a thing, there’s a high probability it will come true. 

You’ll give it everything you’ve got for as long as it takes.

“See, I was right, you’ll say.”

Indeed.

Embrace reality

If you run from it or deny it, it is yours.

But if you can embrace reality, you can do something about it.

Take responsibility.

Then you can make it better.

What do you need to accept now?

Develop your capabilities

How can you become more valuable?  Improve your capabilities.  Learn more.  

When you can solve more problems, help more people, have more skills, become more useful, and make yourself harder to replace, you will earn more money.

Read.  Practice.  Learn from other experts.

What other capacities can you develop now?

No energy? Get moving!

I went to start a motorcycle that had been sitting there for a long time, and the battery was dead.  If I had run it more often, the battery would be fine.

The same is often true of us.  If you are feeling lazy and have no energy, you need to get up and move.  The body PRODUCES usable energy when it is challenged.  A brisk walk, workout, stretch, or diving into a project that requires you to move your body can energize you.

You can’t be lazy, and wait for energy to come.

Use energy to get it.