Suffering is unavoidable in life. But the struggle and pain is based on your choices and decisions you make at each stage of your life and even in each situation you face daily.
We become passionate about something only when we are ready to struggle for the cause. Read Passion – It is the Willingness to Suffer .
Choose your struggle well and become comfortable in the struggle. This does not means you will avoid suffering completely in future but you will definitely be able to handle the inevitable situations well and manage yourself efficiently.
- Struggle for delayed gratification to have a long lasting happiness and fulfilment.
- Struggle for meaningful intensions now to suffer less due unexpected and inevitable events in future.
- Struggle to putting yourself through self-induced pain (like exercise) to become stronger and improved version of yourselves.
- Struggle to give due value to your relationships in testing times.
- Struggle doing the right thing despite opposition and even facing discouragement, negativity.
- Struggle to face your fears and confront them head on.
- Struggle to lead by example and be accountable for the decisions you make.
- Struggle to be a person of integrity and be responsible for everything that happens in life.
- Struggle to improve yourself to become a better version of yourself even if it is negligible growth.
- Struggle to do small daily rituals consistently and develop right habits.
- Struggle to keep your promise you made to yourself no matter what.
- Struggle to respect your word and stand by your decision.
- Struggle to take full responsibility for your decisions and struggle to face any consequence after you take a decision.
- Struggle to tolerate the pain caused for being upright and having good habits.
- Struggle to wake up early to do meaningful things that matter to you and that would make you a better person , suffer less later as you know what it takes to do things that matter.
- Struggle to be physically fit and exercise daily to age gracefully. You cannot avoid natural aging process but suffer less later in life due to illness, physical and mental disorders.
- Struggle for the right values to have a stronger identity. You cannot avoid pain due to uncontrollable circumstances but suffer less later in life as you might not have to make huge compromises.
- Struggle to feed your body with nutritious foods. At the end of the day you are what you eat. You may not able to prevent pain due to infections and diseases but you would suffer less later in life as you have a stronger, healthy mind and fit body.
- Struggle to use your mobile, laptop or TV to access content that is in your best interests and that improves your knowledge that takes closer to your passion. Suffer less later in life due to unnecessary diversions that takes your attention off of the main purpose.
- Struggle to let go of your ego, say sorry, take a step back, adjust a bit, let go of trivial things that bother you, be patient with your loved ones and your family. You may have to bare the pain of tolerating the other’s behaviors but suffer less later in life as you will be respected, understood and loved.
- Struggle to do the things that you are fearful of but that are absolutely necessary for your growth. You may have to go through the pain of failure, embarrassment, learning, growing and gaining confidence but suffer less later in life as you reduce the pain of regret later in life.
- Struggle to have self-control over a lot of consumables and luxuries of today’s world. Most of them are good to have but not absolute necessities. It might be painful to resist the temptation of not having the latest and greatest stuff but suffer less later in life as you have saved money and have a better security to spend on more meaningful purposes.
- Struggle to network and get along with positive people and reduce the time spent with negative people. It might be painful to spend less time with close yet negative people but suffer less as you have lesser negativity, lesser discouragement and lesser demotivation . Suffer less later as you save energy to dedicate for better things in life.
- Struggle to be patient with your kids and spend time with family in spite of your busy schedule. For this you might have to spend an extra hour to do your work and sleep less at night but suffer less later in life as you have built a strong relationship of love, right values and affection with you family.
- Struggle to push yourself to do things that matter to you when you are sick or having a bad mood. It could be painful to overcome your mental or physical trauma but suffer less later in life as you are building confidence in this process which lets you be courageous in difficult unforeseen circumstances in life.
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