There are a handful of recorded lectures online by Jim Rohn, who has definitely become one of my favorite thinkers over the years.

And I found this little nugget the other day that I wanted to share.

He says, there are four emotions that will change your life. Disgust, decision, desire, and resolve.

And I want to talk about the first one because I found the story to be incredibly powerful and also relatable, right, in various aspects of life over the years.

So he frames it by talking about a Girl Scout walking up to his front door to try and sell

him some Girl Scout cookies when he's 25 years old.

And he's broke, doesn't have any money at the time,

and tells her what I assume to be a white lie

as to why he can't buy the cookies at that particular time.

Right, so he tells her that he can't, she walks away.

He says after he closes the door and goes back inside,

he felt something that completely changed his life.

Disgust.

An overwhelming feeling that he simply didn't want to live like that anymore.

He didn't want to lie.

He didn't want to be broke. And I'm quoting him. He says,

the day you can say I've had it may not be the day it ends, but the day it begins.

And that feeling, which of course on the surface seems like a terrible thing, right? No one wants to feel disgust with their circumstance.

But it's ultimately one of the most powerful indicators life can present to us.

There has always been, and I assume will continue to be, point in many different facets of my life where I say enough is enough.

I just never thought to categorize it and label it like he did, but that's what it is.

You know, getting to a point where you look around and realize you've conceded too much.

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