Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

THEODORE ISAAC RUBIN

Which was the last difficult task that you opted to undertake that gave you immense satisfaction at the completion of the work?

When we are challenged to perform at our very top capacity and deliver an outcome worthy of such an expenditure of time, we are continuously balancing a high wire act that is the fine line between supreme success and failure.

The double-edged sword of such an endeavor hones our skills, sharpens our perspectives, gives us cause to improve and thereby level up in our overall life status. Conversely, knowing that a failure on this front will come with consequences, not necessarily of our choosing, gives additional motivation to persevere, regardless of circumstances.

So we are engaged in a series of actions that are, for all intent and purposes, a do or die scenario. Not that we will actually become deceased, should we not succeed, but rather, to abandon or fail to perform at such a task will come with significant consequences.

With those criteria established at the outset, we are then ready to give it all that we’ve got. To go far beyond the reasonable expectations that someone other that we might hold for ourselves and, in doing so, rise up to the level of brilliance we had hoped to achieve.

Then, and only then, are we fully confident of our base skills and our capacity to expect more of ourselves than we might have previously projected and thereby rise up to the new level of accomplishment that we have now established.

In that afterglow, we are replenished on a deeper, more spiritual level. We are readily convinced that we are an improved work in progress, inching that much closer to becoming all that we have hoped and prayed that we may become.

As you create these moments, remember to savor them. These are the true signposts in your life that continuously reinforce your inner beliefs that are the rocket fuel to delver you to your most outrageously conceived destinations.

Happy Sunday!

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