6 AM and your hand can’t make it to the alarm clock before the voices in your head start telling you that it’s too early, too dark and too cold to get out of bed. Aching muscles lie still in rebellion, pretending not to hear your brain commanding them to move.
A legion of voices are shouting their unanimous permission for you to hit the snooze button and go back to dreamland, but you didn’t ask their opinion. The voice you've chosen to listen to is one of defiance. The voice that said there was a reason you set that alarm in the first place, so sit up, put your feet on the floor and don’t look back because we've got work to do.
Welcome to the Grind.
For what is each day but a series of conflicts between the right way and the easy way. Ten thousand screams fan out like a river delta before you, each one promising the path of least resistance.
Thing is, you are headed upstream. And when you make that choice, when you decide to turn your back on what’s comfortable, what’s safe and what someone call common sense. Well, that’s day one.
From there it only gets tougher. So just make sure this is something you want because the easy way out will always be there, ready to wash you away. All you have to do is pick up your feet.
But you aren't going to? Are you?
With each step comes the decision to take another
You are on your way now but this is no time to do dwell on how far you’ve come
You are in a fight against an opponent you can’t see but all you can feel among your heels can’t you?
Feel him breathing down your neck
You know what that is?
That’s you.
Your fears, your doubts and insecurity all ends up like a firing squad ready to shoot you out of the sky; but don’t lose heart.
Although they are not easily defeated; they are far from invincible.
Remember, this is the Grind, the battle royal between you and your mind, your body and the devil on your shoulder telling you this is just a game, this is just a waste of time, your opponents are stronger than you.
Drown out the voice of uncertainty with the sound of your own heartbeat.
Burn away your self-doubt with the fire lit is beneath you
Remember what you are fighting for and never forget that momentum is a cruel mistress.
She could turn up a dime with the smallest mistake. She is ever searching for the weak place in your armor.
That one tiny thing you forgot to prepare for.
So as long as the devil is hiding the details, the question remains – Is that all you got? Are you sure?
When the answer is yes
When you’ve done all you can to prepare yourself for battle. Then it’s time to go forward and boldly face your enemy.
The Enemy within.
Only now you must take that fight into the open, into hostile territory
You’re a lion in a field of lions. All hunting the same elusive prey with a desperate starvation that says victory is the only thing that can keep you alive.
So believe that voice that says you can run a little faster and you can throw a little harder and that for you the laws of physics are merely a suggestion.
Luck is the last dying wish of those who want to believe winning can happen by accident
Sweat on the other hand is for those who know it’s a choice.
So decide now because destiny waits for no man
And when your time comes and a thousand different voices are trying to tell you, you are not ready for it.
Listen instead to that lone voice of the decent.
The one that says that you’re ready, you’re prepared.
It’s all up to you now.
So, Rise and Shine
With Hard Work comes Great Success
From the Moon
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