22/09/2023
YOUR TWO WORST ENEMIES
Just as self-discipline is the key to success, the lack of self-discipline is the major cause of failure,frustration, underachievement, and unhappiness in life. It causes us to make excuses and sellourselves short.
Perhaps the two biggest enemies of success, happiness and personal fulfillment, are first the Path of
Least Resistance and, second, the Expediency Factor.
The Path of Least Resistance is what causes people to take the easy way in almost every situation.They seek shortcuts to everything.They arrive at work at the last minute and leave at the firstopportunity. They look for get-rich-quick schemes and easy money.
Over time, they develop the habit
of always seeking an easier, faster way to get the things they want rather than doing what is hard butnecessary to achieve real success.
The Expediency Factor, which is an extension of the law of least resistance, is even worse when leading people to failure and underachievement. This principle says, “People invariably seek thefastest and easiest way to get the things they want, right now, with little or no concern for the longterm consequences of their behaviors.” In other words, most people do what is expedient, what is funand easy rather than what is necessary for success.
Every day, and every minute of every day, there is a battle going on inside of you between doingwhat is right, hard, and necessary (like the angel on one shoulder) or doing what is fun, easy, and oflittle or no value (like the devil on your other shoulder).
Every minute of every day, you must fightand win this battle with the Expediency Factor and resist the pull of the Path of Least Resistance if you truly desire to become everything you are capable of becoming.
