When you start to improve yourself, loneliness is a price you will pay.

How many different ways do you work to improve yourself physically, emotionally, creatively and mentally?

The very best methods we can leverage to concentrate and to therefore be all the more focused on the tasks we have set for ourselves could not be more important to our overall future.

Regardless of which form of improvement we may have focused our attentions on, there is almost always a necessity to apply our focus internally so as to give complete and total attention to the methodologies of improvement that we have chosen in order that we might ultimately expand our capabilities and therefore achieve marked improvements in the areas we have deemed most necessary.

The journey takes us entirely within in order that we might ultimately leverage our greater skills to their full advantage, and to give us ample opportunity to focus on the categories of most importance.

When we are on such a path, even if we are myopically focused on the components that drove us and continue to drive our motivations, there is inevitably a certain degree of loneliness that comes with the solitude of staying so myopically focused on something of complexity and magnitude that requires our complete attention and dedication.

When we are making such a choice, we are unquestionably sacrificing some of the qualities in our lives that provide us great joy. As a direct result, the sacrifice that we are making should not be lost on us as we continually evaluate our ongoing desire to stay focused and achieve all that we might potentially achieve.

As a consolation prize for our having allowed segments of our lives to be compartmentalized into the solitude of our own choosing, we must always feel the continuous drive, determination and tenacity to carry us beyond the pangs of loneliness, in order that we might ultimately arrive at our destination with a core determination that is finally being realized for all of the hard work and effort that we have invested in such an outcome.

If you are contemplating such a journey, it would be most wise to recognize that the internal focus that develops from keeping one’s own company during highly structured segments of life, builds additional strengths upon which we may draw at any necessary later date.

Happy Friday!