The Journey - The Struggle is Real!

"The Struggle Is Real".   That's the phrase the hip young folks are using these days.  I'm hip, maybe I can join in...   I am struggling with my golf game.   I am struggling to lose these last 10 lbs.   I am struggling with the last few pages of a new training guide....   Struggle.   I have watered the definition of struggle down to the point if I have to fight to keep from eating a $4 cupcake, I call it a struggle.   I needed a new perspective...so I went to Webster (not Emanuel Lewis, but the academic Webster - the dictionary guy).  Here's what he said;   1.  to contend with an adversary or opposing force. 2.  to contend resolutely with a task, problem. 3. to advance with violent effort.   Now I get it...real struggle has to mean something is at stake.    Struggle is supposed to deliver you to a higher level...it is supposed to help you change...   To Get Better.   I figured out that to be really ready for the change that struggle brings, you have to have three things;  #1 - Passion A young LeRoy sees a beautiful Pamela and passion strikes.  Not the kind of passion that is a passing fancy but one that strikes a man as a "destiny moment".  He knows he as to move quickly and resolutely.     He is ready to contend with any adversary...   or opposing force... #2 - Commitment   Meet the opposing force...   Pamela is young, beautiful and smart enough to know that passion might demonstrate the desire, but is not sustainable without commitment.    In his moment of passion LeRoy made a commitment, "Be with me and you will never want for anything".   Pamela answers softly but firmly, "To have anything of great value takes more than idle chatter...You better put a ring on it!" #3 - A Reason to Fight Passion and commitment always produce results....for LeRoy and Pamela, 8 of them in fact! (That is my passion on the far right!) LeRoy was an Airport Radio Operator with a fixed income.  While it was a good job, and a childhood dream, it was obvious it was not going to help him keep his commitment...his promise. As with many young married couples, they were happy, but struggling.   The need for change drove him to do something that at the time seemed unthinkable and friends and some family thought him mad... He quit that "secure" job to get into sales. Thus the beginning of a new struggle... What about you?    The first question I ask sales people is "Do you love sales?"   Do you have a passion for service and interacting with people to solve problems or meet a desire?   Are you committed to the profession?    Are you ready to do the "hard stuff" that it takes to get to the "fun stuff"?  The client you laugh with today over tea would never have meet you otherwise...right?   Face it, passion and commitment aren't always enough...   Do you have something worth fighting for?     Do you have something on the line that will make you "Get Your Webster On" and contend with an adversary...get resolute...and advance come hell or high water?    What ever it is...I am encouraging you today, like LeRoy to fight... Don't be afraid to move out of your comfort zone into the struggle zone...that is what it will take to advance, because....   The Struggle Is Real.   Until tomorrow, I wish you Money, Power, Success. Next Time: The Journey - The 4 Stages of Struggle!

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