Yo today's Q-O-D is easy is not an option. Here we go. Oh, Welcome back to the Quarter of the Day Show. I'm your host Sean Croxton and Sean Croxton.

We got Les Brown on the show leading off our week. And today Les is going to essentially encourage us to connect to reality and to have the proper

expectations for life and the reality of life is that if you're trying to be in a relationship

or if you're trying to develop a new skill or you're trying to get healthier, it's going to be hard.

And if you don't have the expectation that things are going to get hard, then you're probably not going to follow through on what you're trying to do.

There are going to be hurdles, there are going to be obstacles,

they are going to be perceived roadblocks every time. And if you're not committed to going through them and also understanding that every

roadblock, every setback, like there's a lesson in that.

Every single time you go through something there is a lesson to be learned and you come out the other

side better than you were before.

And if we go into different situations with that kind of mentality,

we'll be able to become so much more and achieve so much more because we have accepted life

in the reality that it is.

Les Brown's coming up.

Next step is, not only is it possible and necessary,

and it's you to live your dream to make this this greatness that you have within you become a reality

But what I've come to appreciate when you're working on changing your life, changing some bad habit, getting out of

addictive situations or relationships or working to build a dream or making a difference

in our society or learning something that's very challenging.

Here's what I realize, ladies and gentlemen, and develop a great deal of respect for.

It's hard. Easy is not an option. It's hard living. Life is hard. See it's hard when you are 49 years old been working on a job for

17 years and they come in and tell you you're finished and give you one week severance pay.

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