The average person would be flabbergasted at the amount of time and effort that a professional performer invests on their way to the top. Amateurs use words like lucky and opportunistic to describe the world class but they couldn’t be further from the truth. The great ones pay a tremendous price for their success.
While the masses spend an inordinate amount of time planning and scheming ways to avoid doing the work necessary to win, the champions are out on the playing field paying the price. The middle-class consciousness is convinced there is a shortcut to success and they are bound and determined to find it. There never has been a shortcut to success nor is there a glamorous method of paying the price. There is only the blood, sweat and tears of delayed gratification. There is no escaping it and the winners know it. You either pay the price for success or pay the price in regret.*
Only champions know the price of success is a much lighter burden to bear than the ongoing torture of regret. To quote speaker Jim Rohn says, “Paying the price weighs ounces . . . but regret weighs tons.†Success is a toll road . . . pay now or pay later. You already know what the great ones do….
Mindy Mar D.C.
San Diego Center for Health
www.sdcenterforhealth.com
“The Doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will educate his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease”
-Thomas A. Edison
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