As Henry Ford said,

When everything seems to be going against you,

remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

The reason this is so important to understand is that inevitably,

there are going to be times in your life where it literally seems like the world is coming after you.

And in those moments, if rather than panic,

if rather than letting your mind run away from you,

rather than getting bitter or angry or frustrated,

if you remember in those times that forcing yourself to push through it,

forcing yourself to find the opportunity,

forcing yourself to find the lesson in that,

is going to be the very thing that gives you lift.

It's actually constraints, it's having restrictions,

it's having difficult times.

Those are the things that allow people to really find and tap into the thing that's going to allow them

to achieve what they want to achieve because it's going to push you.

And I know that's never fun.

That's not what anybody wants to hear, but the reality is,

if you want to achieve something great in your life,

you've got to be going into the hard places,

you've got to be facing down the difficult things,

you've got to be going down that road that is intrinsically difficult,

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