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Suffering and Perspective (Part 3)

From the previous chapter, we realised ambition never dies but takes a new form and is ongoing, and now we know that unrelenting suffering can be how you achieve your ambition. But you are not simply suffering for the sake of it. No, your suffering is a necessary component for where you want to get to. This is when 'your life' is suffering, because it has to be. That place is an inner peace inside of you that you are alive because your ambition never dies. Your ambition is your life force, the very thing that wakes you up in the morning and eager to sleep so you are energised for the next day, it is the blood that pounds within your beating heart, keeping you alive. In a way, when your ambition dies, so do you.

Final Thoughts

A sensible man wishes his problems away but a wise man sees it as a complement that life counts him worthy to place a small portion of its overbearing weight on his shoulders.

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Suffering and Perspective (Part 2)

Do not let other people convince you that suffering is this magical beast that you need to slay. It is not true, suffering is only good when it is necessary to achieve your goal. Your aim is not to suffer, your aim is to achieve what you want and if suffering is the only way to achieve it then suffer you must. Do not under any circumstance allow people to poke you in the eyes and convince you that it is the only way to have better vision. If it is the only way and you want to achieve a better vision, and you are content with getting your eyes poked then by all means go ahead. Suffering unnecessarily is like working harder when you only need to work smarter. If you need to work harder and smarter then do what you must but if you only need to engage in the latter; then that is all you need to do. Your aim is not to suffer otherwise you will suffer aimlessly. Your aim is to achieve your goal, that is what you should have in your sight, not suffering; suffering is often times the only path to get to that goal and that is why you must endure suffering until the very end; if you want to get to where you want to be. 

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Suffering and Perspective (Part 1)

When you face challenges, know that they were inevitable as long as you are alive; especially if you are attempting to achieve great success. Do not pray for your challenges to be easier or to be transferred to another person. I can assure you that God will not answer such prayers. In the race of life that you are running, when you can see the journey is long and tiring, do not wish the journey was less pleasant or it didn't exist. Build yourself up so you can endure the scorching heat. Make your legs strong, your brain sharp and your lungs durable for the journey ahead. 

As your ambition grows so does your perspective. Ambition is like water in a balloon, when you add more water, the balloon expands; this is your perspective changing. Your perspective has to change to accommodate the goals you have otherwise you will not be able to achieve them. For example, the way you trained to run 100metres in 11 seconds will have to change if you want to run it at a time of 10 seconds. As your ambition evolves so does your approach in order to achieve your next level, your next vision.

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Evolution of Ambition

So you are at a crossroads, where do you go? Left or right? Congratulations you are a shining example for those around you to work hard, to dive deep into their own ambitions and to be successful. But now you are faced with a question, should i continue moving forward or relax. You sense you're missing something but you don't know what it is but it knows you. It is your next evolution quietly, patiently waiting for you. Your next evolution is waiting for you to begin. That is the next chapter in the book of your life. 

Growth

Your ambition must grow and you must do everything in your power to make it bear fruit. Just like the apple tree grows in stages before it becomes the delicious fruit it is, so too must your ambition grow but most importantly, it must be sweet for you. It has to be what you want to do, not to please other people but for yourself. 

Evolution

Understand that complacency is the killer of great ambitions. When you have achieved what you want, yes that means you have succeeded. But true ambition is like the earth we walk on, it never leaves us. Even when we die we are covered in it as if in the warm embrace of a loving parent. Real ambition is never dead. That is like saying you no longer need your knees when you have grown up simply because you are no longer a toddler crawling on your knees. Real ambition doesn't die, sure what you set out to do is successful but your ambition evolves to succeed in other areas that are the next important things to you. 

Final Thoughts

Ambition must be an important piece of who you are. It keeps you alive and constantly evolving. Go to hell and tell the devil you want his flame and see what happens. Fire is an important component of hell, just as ambition should be to you.

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I AM The Captain Now

I want you to imagine you are on one of many ships sailing through the river of life. Your confidence is the sail at which the many storms of life beat against, so it must therefore be steady and strong. You need to make sure your sail is firm for the journey you are about to go on. Be ready to be blown away and possibly drown. You must plug any hole that exposes the integrity of your ship.

Like a sail, during life's turbulent trials you must capture with all your might, the violent wind to propel you forward. Harness the storm of life and the opportunities it gifts you. When you emerge victorious beyond its dark clouds, you can shock the world with thunder and lightning; this is a requirement. It builds character, it builds confidence. Including appreciation in yourself that after all you have been through, YOU are truly powerful. After everything, YOU are still here. Your defiant existence despite your beat down from life cannot be ignored, it has to be so bright, blinding.

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Having true confidence is like being wealthy, you are admired and envied for it at the same time.

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STOP! wOrRyinG NOW

Old Worrying Habits

It is pointless to stress over a feeling of weakness in a past situation. However it is more productive to expend your mental energy into enjoying your life in the present. With a promise to yourself that next time, you must behave as you should have or as you truly desire deep down.

This practice allows you to free your mind of what has already passed and is now beyond your control. Additionally, this prevents you from wasting mental energy therefore saving that energy to allow the desired behaviour in a similar situation in the future. 

Preparing for Change

Training the mind in this way empowers you. Additionally it nurtures your mind which was once so fixated on regret and I should have done this, I should have said that and a whole lot of what ifs. You start to give birth to a mindset of preparedness. Prepared for the future. You're not expecting or waiting for the opportunity but prepared. Neither are you looking forward to such a situation to occur again. Simply prepared to the extent that it's as if you are the future and the situation that previously tripped you up has now come to you, in order for you to do better than the last time you were in that situation. 

Ready for Change

Easier said than done. To drop old worrying patterns and developing a new you. As widely known, the freedom it provides you is worth it. You can breathe better and focus on the things that require your immediate attention. As seen, the situation you didn't do well in has passed, it's time to prepare for the future. Your internal system will thank you for this. You you are giving your mind permission to be at peace. Not with the situation you felt powerless in. Rather to be at peace with knowing that you now have a plan to conduct yourself better in the future. Allowing you to consciously direct all your energy. Towards preparing for the outcome you desire. You become a powerhouse of righteous thought. Simply waiting for the opportunity to take appropriate action next time.

Final thoughts

Finally, this is an example of the general understanding that success is when opportunity meets those who are prepared for it. What others who do not have your mindset will call 'luck'. 

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Master of Fear - Limitless

We would have come to believe that the worst thing for us to do is to hide ourselves and not go for the things we want so we do not get triggered into feeling the anxiety and fear that comes with the territory of trying to be successful right? Wrong. We must push forward and keep pushing, persevering, pressing on, with patience that we will overcome our current predicament of doubt and overwhelming feeling of fear that accompanies our dreams. We must understand that our dreams and these feelings are like a beautiful rose rich in blood red, surrounded by thorns. We must navigate the opportunities of acquiring the flower while avoiding the thorns as much as we can. However, we must also understand that sacrifices have to be made. In some situations, it could be that the blood we bleed when the thorns prick us is also what makes the rose so beautiful and rich in colour. Let us also take comfort in knowing that sometimes what is in us like our blood; must be unpleasantly drawn out to make our black and white lives rich in colour. So we are essentially our own author in life and all we need is within us. We just have to be willing to sacrifice, sometimes that can be our blood or time or even both. The more sacrifices we are willing to make, the more beautiful the rose, our lives becomes. There is no limit. We determine how far, how high, we go and fly. We are limitless.

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Master of Fear - Master

We further come to the conclusion that the need to survive in us has been destroyed, incinerated and its dust has gone with the wind of the past, lost to history. It had been used and abused, strained and stretched constantly, numbed without any feeling left in it, this is not healthy. Like a muscle, that survival need in us will need to be tested for that is how we grow and become strong, stronger even; but also like a muscle if you overwork it before it is ready, you damage it and it becomes non-functional and therefore useless. This is what happens to your developing fragile need to survive, a need that was still growing within us like a young cub. If however, you place a cub around a pride of bad intentioned lions and lionesses; at a stage when it is not able to defend and protect itself, the result is a human being who is completely broken. Our experiences of hiding from facing our fears for so long has made our once innocent courageous spirit an expert on running away, on hiding, on giving up, on being a master of fear. Not one who has mastered fear but one who is a master in being fearful. 

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Master Of Fear – F*E*A*R

From this revelation of previous articles, it would have become clear to us that our brain and senses which have been polluted with fear do not care that we have been honing our craft in our fields for years whatever they may be or have survived so much and still surviving. It can be so intense that it feels like you’ve come this far only to come this far. You could have been learning to speak publicly for years only for it to seem like all your hard work and sacrifice amounted to nothing; you delivered short of your expectations. This explains perfectly what a wise man once said, that FEAR is *F*alse *E*vidence *A*ppearing *R*eal. Despite all the years of training and grinding and relentless pursuit of your goals the fear is as real as a cold breath on the first morning of winter. Just as an artist strips away their soul and stamps it on a blank canvas, it stamps its mark on us. Fear strips away the inherent survival need in us to protect ourselves and fight for what is ours, this survival need is fundamental to the extent that it protects us so that we do not cease to exist. 

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Master Of Fear - Broken Piece

It may have seemed unclear before and its origin elusive for so long however, the fearful feeling, that dread is something that comes up just moments before and it lingers after life beats us down like a dog. Life had broken us, not completely but it broke a piece of us, an important part of who we were, a part of us that was inbuilt in us to enable us to survive and live in the world. We may have sought help and searched for meaning as to understand why this is happening to us and how we may overcome it only to find it constantly rearing its ugly head. It shows itself in altercations, physical and verbal; and certainly in our hobbies and lifestyle including our goals. It is like a virus that spreads throughout our entire life; as if it was the night covering us like a dark blanket and unlike the night, it never goes away and allow for the sun to brighten our day. Perhaps even, this blanket of constant darkness that is stopping us from feeling the sun’s forgiving and gentle light is actually trying to protect us, to stop us from getting hurt. The fearless courage we once had as children was gradually destroyed just like the waves of the sea slowly, silently break down rocks on the seaside. 

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Master Of Fear - Anxiety

Danger creates the fear we often feel in a fight, flight or freeze situation, it serves a purpose, to motivate us to survive; to protect us from getting hurt. It originates from physical, psychological and emotional trauma.

As infants we were without worry or fear of danger and possessed an inner need for adventure, and the more dangerous it was; the brighter we smiled. Think about it. How ridiculously courageous were you as a child?. We a reasonable level of fear and it was usually after the danger had been tested, not before. As children we lived wild, young and unapologetically free.

Our potential was infinite, our spirit pure and our minds boundless. Nature itself lived through u blessed us to run swiftly through the grass, its gift of strength made us an embodiment of the strength belonging to the toughest of beasts, its gift of confidence drew allies and enemies to us. The allies to build us up and the enemies to tear us down but the latter were managed while the former we welcomed with open arms. 

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