You were not built for comfort and convenience, you're built to overcome. - Cory Booker

Often in our life, it's easy possibly enjoy a little too much the conveniences, all around us especially in our Western culture. I don't think anybody enjoys a convenience more than I do. And so that's what sometimes makes it a little bit hard to do what I really need to do.

For example, our bed. We, I have to have, probably the most comfortable bed on the planet. We had a really nice mattress topper on top of that. It was really nice and comfortable, but apparently we needed a new one. So we got a new one and that made it just unbelievably comfortable and some new sheets and things. And man, the bed is so comfortable now when it comes to winter and I need to go out and exercise.

I love lying in my bed. I love enjoying that thing. But getting up in the morning makes it a little bit more difficult each time. Do I want to not have the convenience? No, I want that. I love my bed. It's so comfortable. It's unbelievable now. But at the same time, it makes it a little bit difficult to get up in the morning to go out and exercise, especially in winter.

So what do we do? We've got to put ourselves in a place where we can overcome the inconvenience of convenience. When we get into our cars, you go to your car, you don't need a key anymore. You go to your car, you press the door, it opens. You press another button, the car, the chair moves to where it needs to move, so it's just set up for you, the mirrors go into the right place.

It's all convenience, it's easy, it's warm or it's cold, whatever we want that thing to be like. And sometimes these things can be a inconvenience, even though they are convenient. We see it happen every day with our friends who, they're, I want to do this, I want to achieve this, I want to go there, but it's out of their comfort zone and they don't want to put in the effort so much to actually get to the point they need to get to, to actually make that happen for themselves.

Because it is, it's inconvenient to make these things happen and everybody who has actually done anything worthwhile has done that. You ask anybody who has climbed Mount Everest for example, was it convenient? Absolutely not. Was it a passion? Yes. Were they happy to deal with the inconvenience? Absolutely they were, and they pushed through and made it happen.

There are many forms of inconvenience. The inconvenience of getting up half an hour or an hour earlier so you can go out and exercise. The inconvenience of choosing the right food and taking the extra time rather than choosing the junk food to put in our mouth when we need to. The inconvenience of reading 5 pages or 10 pages of a book instead of watching tiktok or TV or whatever else at night before bed.

The inconvenience of having a cold shower instead of a warm one when it's cold and it's winter. All of these things, in and of themselves, they don't mean a lot. But the inconveniences when piled on top of each other actually take our life to a whole new level altogether. In Napoleon Hill's book, Think and Grow Rich, there's 13 principles that he bases his entire message on.

And the first of those principles is desire. Now what often happens is when we get to convenience, It can take away some of that desire for us because it's convenient. It's relaxing. Life is happy right where we are. But without that desire, we don't actually push forward. We don't move forward.

Now is your opportunity to take what is inconvenient and use this to create the life you want.