It is a Challenge to Succeed
by Jim Rohn


It is a challenge to succeed. If it were not, I’m sure more people would be
successful, but for every person who is enjoying the fruit from the tree of
success, many more are examining the roots. They are trying to figure it all
out. They are mystified and perplexed by what seems to be some strange,
complex and elusive secret that must be found if ever success is to be
enjoyed.
While most people spend most of their lives struggling to earn a living, a much smaller number
seem to have everything going their way. Instead of just earning a living, the smaller group is
busily engaged in designing and enjoying a fortune. Everything just seems to work out for them.
While the much larger group sits in awe at how life can be so unfair, complicated and unjust.

“I am a nice person,” the man says to himself. “How come this other guy is happy and prosperous,
and I’m always struggling?” He asks himself, “I am a good husband, a good father and a good
worker. How come nothing seems to work out for me? Life just isn’t fair. I’m even smarter and
willing to work harder than some of these other people who just seem to have everything going
their way,” he says as he slumps into the sofa to watch another evening of television. But you see
you’ve got to be more than a good person and a good worker. You’ve got to become a good
planner, and a good dreamer. You’ve got to see the future finished in advance. You’ve got to put in
the long hours and put up with the setbacks and the disappointments. You’ve got to learn to enjoy
the process of disciplines and of putting yourself through the paces of doing the uncomfortable
until it becomes comfortable. You’ve got to be prepared and willing to attack the challenges if you
want the success because challenges are part of success. Now that may sound like a full menu of
activities, but let me assure you that the process of going from average to fortune isn’t really all
that difficult. Thinking about it is the difficult part. Anticipating all the effort and the changes and
the disciplines is far worse in the mind than in reality. I can promise you that the challenges you’ll
meet on the road to success are far less difficult to deal with than the struggles and the
disappointments that come from being average. Confronting and overcoming challenges is an
exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than
you were before. It strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become better prepared
for the next challenge.

I've often said that to have more, we must first become more, and to become more, we must begin
the process of working harder on ourselves than we do on anything else. But in addition to
gathering new knowledge, new skills and new experiences; it is also important to discover new
emotions. It is how we feel about what we know that makes the biggest difference in how our
lives turn out. How we feel about the chances we have and the choices we have determines the
intensity of our effort. Whether we try or don’t try. Join or don’t join. Believe or don’t believe.

I’d like for you to discover some strong feelings about your life and about what you want to do
with that life. You probably have much of the knowledge and a lot of the experience and perhaps
most of the skills that it takes to become successful. What you may be lacking in are the strong
feelings about what you want and what you want to do. You may be one of those who have
become so involved in the process of earning a living that you’ve forgotten about the choices and
the chances you have for designing your own life.

Let these strong feelings help you take a second look at your life and where you’re headed. After
all, you’ve only got one life, at least on this planet. So why not make it an adventure in
achievement? Why not discover what all you can do and what all you can have? Why not discover
how many others you can help and in the process how that can help you?

Why not now take the Challenge to Succeed!

To Your Success,
Jim Rohn  
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