What Kind of Pain: Hard & Holy

You’re meant to do hard & holy things because they are the next thing -- to get to the best thing.

It’s true, it’s hard, but there’s a brave hope in it:  Life is Pain -- and you get to choose: either the Pain of Discipline or the Pain of Disappointment.

Nothing happens without discipline. No music gets played without discipline. No games get won. No finish lines get crossed. No freedom gets tasted. And we want that.

It’s like my Dad always said:

• Brilliant doesn’t matter, if you can’t get out of bed.
• Talent doesn’t mean a thing, if you let Fear be some terrorist that takes you hostage.
• Potential doesn’t add up to anything, if you get addicted to perfectionism because perfectionism is slow death by self.

Yeah, there’s a brave, beautiful thing:  'Fire your Perfectionism; your Procrastination will quit too.’

-- Ann Voskamp

We just know, somewhere inside, that we are too easy on ourselves...just because we can be. When comfort is an option, we just choose (defer to) it.