“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.” -Theodore Roosevelt

You don’t want this journey to be easy. If it were easy everyone would do it. Encourage the moments of difficulty and struggle. The more pain you endure = the closer you are to achieving your goals. Think about that in every step you take, every time you fail, everyone who has told you you can’t do it or you’re not good enough. Those people won’t embrace difficulty. They won’t put the time in that you do everyday. They stray away from the hard things. They’re afraid to fail. Afraid to be made fun of for chasing their dreams. Afraid they’ll be ridiculed by their friends and family. You’re not one of those people. You CAN do this. You don’t care what people think or how others will look at you. You don’t care. You’re good enough right now. You have all the resources necessary to begin. It won’t be easy and you love that. Why not give it a try? Why not today? The worst thing that happens is you fall flat on your face, peel yourself off the sidewalk and start over again tomorrow. Take the first step now. It doesn’t have to be huge. Start that business. Start running today. Start that new novel.

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”-Martin Luther King, Jr.