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In today’s article, How to get comfortable being uncomfortable by utilising pain for success. It will help you understand better how becoming successful at anything will require having to get the uncomfortable socks out and go through the pain barrier. To come out the other side winning. Hopefully, by the end of this article, you can better understand how to use pain to your advantage.
Understanding What Pain Is
We all know pain. The pain of a broken heart, the pain of a stumped toe or pain from our failures. Pain is normally thought of when bad things happen.
Pain is also the deciding factor of whether we are progressing or not. It’s very much a beacon of where to head and if we stay it’s cause we find a pot of treasure at the end of the journey. That’s either, muscle growth, weight loss, finding your first client, asking someone out on a date or becoming a champion athlete.
Ultramarathoners is one sport where the pain is the name of the game. Even when they train to the peak of their powers. At some point in the race, their mind starts feeling fatigued and pain somewhere in the body will start to ache. Their minds will tell them to stop, but another part of their mind will tell them to keep going.
The voice you listen to and give control to will of cause win.
When I was building my first business. It was a painful experience. I had the pain of not knowing what to do, making many mistakes, people leaving, not hitting my targets and even the pain of the business going into the red.
But when you go through the pain barrier and solve all the problems by creating a system that allows the business to succeed. You understand on the other side of pain you find success.
This was a valuable lesson that was learned. So many times I wanted to quit, give up because the pain was too much. What I understand now is that I was learning, growing and it’s the inevitable force of progress into the unknown.
How To Control Your Mind With Pain
Everyone has their own pain threshold they can deal with. What people don’t always understand is that they can develop their pain threshold. As pain is just a transmitter letting the brain know you’re in pain. This means that you can control your mind when you feel pain by practising.
Monks are an example of how a human can control one’s mind. They have learned that building your pain threshold is a great way to start taking control of how your mind deals with pain. Having techniques to conquer pain within any given moment can help you get through any pain situation. Also having activities in your life that help you develop your pain muscle will help you to understand what that feeling feels like. You can then become mentally stronger in dealing with pain.
Below is some example of how you can achieve this.
- One more to go technique
- Yoga
- Exercising (running, cycling)
- Know it won’t last (Pain is temporary)
- Change the way you think about pain
- Positive thoughts = higher pain tolerance
- Treat it like a game
How To Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable For Success
When in pursuit of success in our life. Pain will be ever-present along the way. Knowing that this is inevitable, should bring comfort to you that you’re taking the right actions. When pain comes along when your exercising, trying to quieten the body and mind in meditation, building a business or learning a new skill. You need to let yourself know in your mind that I’m doing the right actions and success is on its way.
The Secret Sause For Success Is To Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable
Pain is undoubtedly the secret sauce to success. It’s a guide to knowing you’re on the right path and it helps develop muscles of the body and mind to overcome obstacles to make us stronger. By living in the uncomfortable and creating discomfort in your life. You can go from a student to a doctor, from an intern to a manager or from a start-up to a successful business.
When starting out at anything the future can look daunting, the task can seem impossible. But when we decide in our mind where we want to go and we can accept the pain the challenge will entail. That’s when will become successful at what we want to achieve.
So the secret sauce to your success is pain. So make sure you get comfortable being uncomfortable. You can’t ignore it or hide from it. It’s part and parcel of any form of success that’s meaningful. Get on board and enjoy the ride.
A Final Word From The Future Mindset
I hope you enjoyed today’s article, How to get comfortable being uncomfortable by utilising pain for success.
If you’re struggling with dealing with pain. Don’t worry you’re not alone. Millions of people go through the same experience every day. I hope the article has helped in some way. But if you need extra help or any questions answered you can contact me at adam@thefuturemindset.com
