Growth takes place through hardship. It doesn't matter what it is - health, fitness, career, hobby, etc... When you start you should be uncomfortable. It should be hard. In fact it usually feels hardest right before you achieve mastery.
The modern world is comfortable and easy. This is the challenge. You have to figure out how to fight your natural impulse to lean into comfort. Comfort is easy, but leads to stagnation and unhappiness.
It's easy to sit on the couch, zone out into a screen, eat junk food, coast at work.
It's hard to get up, exercise, eat healthy, learn new things, take risks, and push forward.
Something in your life should be uncomfortable. If you find yourself coasting through life then you have to seek out discomfort.
Happiness is the pursuit of greatness, not greatness itself.
The modern world is comfortable and easy. This is the challenge. You have to figure out how to fight your natural impulse to lean into comfort. Comfort is easy, but leads to stagnation and unhappiness.
It's easy to sit on the couch, zone out into a screen, eat junk food, coast at work.
It's hard to get up, exercise, eat healthy, learn new things, take risks, and push forward.
Something in your life should be uncomfortable. If you find yourself coasting through life then you have to seek out discomfort.
Happiness is the pursuit of greatness, not greatness itself.