Pain for pleasure, or pleasure for pain?

CHOOSE YOUR PAIN.

It is easy for one to desire greatness and success, it is easy to want to receive something that one wants, but it is difficult to want to go through what it takes to achieve and get those things. Many of us knows what is required of us to achieve what we want, some do not know but they do not want to discover, because they are not willing to stretch themselves beyond where they are to get what they want.

There is no way we would escape pain as we grow through life, but you can decide when the pain comes. You either let life have it's due course (default mode) of bringing you pleasure before pain, or you take your time to go through the pain of putting yourself through discipline, so you can enjoy the pleasure that comes after the pain of discipline.

Subjecting ourselves to pain has to do with a lot of things about our lives. We leave our comfort zones in the quest and search for knowledge; we put ourselves through stress with the intention of getting a skill that will enhance our growth; we give up some irrelevant and unprofitable attitudes to build positive character that will catalyse our efforts.

Jim Rohn once said, "We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment." One of these pains is early, and the other comes later, you have to choose which pain you want to suffer; the early pain, or the later. The pain of regret comes later in life when it might be too late to reverse, but the pain of discipline is one that builds you up in preparation for pleasure. Choose your pain wisely.

Kamikun John, Author 366 days of wisdom.