Life doesn’t suddenly decide one day to stop being challenging.
Not when you’re rich. Not when you’re retired. Not when you’re on a beach.
Challenge will always be present. And with challenge comes pain.
Run from the pain? And you’ll only multiply it for later (because you’ll have to deal with the pain that comes with later PLUS the pain that you ignored).
Confront the pain—and you’ll free your future self of some of that compounding pain.
The goal is to face today’s pains today so that you can confronting new, inevitable, better pains tomorrow.
…Better pains?
Yeah, the kind of pains you’d prefer to face—that you *get* to face—because of the work you did yesterday. You know, like exercise pain versus cardiac arrest pain. Or like a hard conversation pain versus lost relationship pain.
Delay confronting pain long enough and it will eventually become unbearably painful and/or absolutely unavoidable.
Your choice.