The Day Arrives When the Going Gets Tough
When the going gets tough, usual advice may not work.
Whichever decision, goal, purpose, promise, plan you set in your life, the day will come when the going gets tough.
When I was young, a song from Billy Ocean was popular.
“When the going gets tough / The tough get going”
“I’m gonna put this dream in motion / Never let anything stand in my way”
The song is about love, but you can probably hear the imaginary life coach in your head hammering those words when your enthusiastic sprint turns into a devastating marathon.
Those words may motivate you for the next hour (thirty seconds, in my case) but won’t be of great help when you start suffering, feeling lost, overwhelmed, weak, impotent, desperate.
The moment the real struggle begins, those words don’t help.
You need more than that. Someone can help, but it’s on your shoulders. No way around.
