WHAT?
Life is hard. Making a living is hard. The harder you work, the more the world fights back, but that’s how it’s supposed to be:
“And to the man He said, “Since you listened to your wife and ate from the tree…….the ground is cursed because of you. All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it.” Genesis 3
Life is supposed to be hard, and it always will be.
But too many men exert copious amounts of energy looking for the easy button. There are tons of courses and internet influencers touting they have the “easy way,” the shortcut to life. They know a life hack that will remove all of the problems and struggles from a man’s life. So guys keep spending money looking for the easy way out.
SO WHAT?
But it never works. All it does is piss men off, and they eventually give up.
I’m not sure who said this, but it perfectly describes how some men move through life.
“Men used to expect life to be difficult and acted accordingly. Today we expect life to be easy, and when that’s proven wrong, we crumble.”
NOW WHAT?
Every man needs to understand that strength in any area of his life is developed through struggle. You don’t get stronger lifting the same amount of weight for years. You don’t build up your immune system by living in a bubble. A great analogy is sailors aren’t created in the harbor but in the middle of a storm.
Writer Michael Hopf put it this way “Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men and weak men create hard times.”
We shouldn’t desire the easy, instead we should desire to get stronger so that we can endure because that’s how we develop into the best version of ourselves.