Hey Moguls, Preston Ely here…
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
~ Henry Ford
Interesting quote, huh? How fitting for me. This lesson is late. I was supposed to send it over to the team for publishing hours ago…
It’s late because my laptop exploded in a ball of fiery flames this morning. I knew today was going to be a challenge even before that happened though.
Sure do hope I get all that information out of my laptop somehow. All of it compiled = my life.
I threw my back out doing dips in the gym a couple days ago. Doing dips. Who does that? Needless to say, the pain is pretty annoying.
I woke up yesterday morning with a sprained ankle. You heard me right. Some people wake up with a sore throat. I wake up with a sprained ankle. It hurts SO freakin’ bad. I literally have NO idea how this happened. I am, however, setting up a video camera in my bedroom to see just what in the heck really goes on at night while I’m unconscious. I suspect alien activity.
This lesson that you are currently reading is actually totally completed (albeit on a completely different topic and way funnier)… in a Word doc that is currently in computer hell right now.
I have a very important meeting tonight that requires, you guessed it, information from my ex-computer.
Plus I have some other fairly difficult personal things going on in the background.
Why am I vomiting all this stuff on you?
Well, it’s not to complain, that’s for darn sure. Complainers are sissies.
I’m telling you all this because you need to know that I’m smiling as I type this. Literally, I wish you could see me. I am 100% confident that all this stuff will just work itself out.
And more importantly, in my eyes, this merely confirms that I am about to become really big.
“The night is always darkest before the sunrise.”
Are you going through some tough times?
Well it could be that you are merely being prepared for bigger things. Did you ever think of that? Big promotions require big people to handle them. And there is only one way to get big.
Suffer.
There is no other way.
In fact this reminds me of another lesson, one of the first lessons I ever did here at Mogul about the way of the warrior and why you should want pain now. That’s right, I said you should want pain now, which is the way of the warrior. And ya know what, if you haven’t read that, you should because it’s freakin’ awesome and it’s one of life’s most profound truths. And if you haven’t learned it already, you might as well learn it now. Stop right now and go read that lesson, I’m not kidding. Go now.
Welcome back. What did you think? Pretty powerful stuff, right?
So keep your head up. Be of good cheer. Life is good! And good things are right around the corner…if you believe they are.
Be Well,
Preston
P.S. Speaking of belief, if you’re having a hard time believing that your trials are preparing you for bigger things, than they’re not. You have to believe in order for it to be true. Did you know that your thoughts really call the shots? If you didn’t, here’s another lesson from the past that you should definitely check out from my boy JP. It’s called Engineering Success: How Your Thoughts Call the Shots. Go read it; you’ll be glad you did.
P.P.S.
Talk to me below. If you disagree, you’re probably wrong, but I’d still like to hear it. ;)
Come to terms with the fact that we have to go through hard times sometimes to get tougher and achieve greatness on the other side.
Understand that this saying is more than a silly cliché: No pain, no gain.
Read the two lessons linked above – they will improve your mindset in ways you never even thought about.
Preston Ely
is a real estate investor, serial entrepreneur, life coach, musician and philanthropist. CEO of Real Freedom, Inc, one of the most influential internet-based information publishers in the world, owns the largest Anytime Fitness Gym in the United States, is recording a music album with Atlantic Records, sits on the board of Advocates Of Love Orphanage, and has a non-profit charity assisting the poor and oppressed in Cuba with both their physical and spiritual needs.
With over 200,000 subscribers to his email newsletter, he is rapidly fulfilling his mission on earth, which is to glorify God by setting people physically, mentally, financially, and spiritually free through his music and his message of FREEDOM. Preston is 37 years old, lives in Tampa, FL with his wife Ashley, where he spends most of his time reading, writing, and practicing mixed martial arts.