If you’re going through a hard time right now, here’s the most valuable lesson we’ve learnt from Alex Hormozi:
This will be the story you will one day tell.
The harder it is, the bigger the dragon, the more epic the story.
And by consequence…
The more epic the hero.
Because, here's what they don't tell you about the difficult part, the hero’s journey.
In the movie the rocky cut scene: it lasts 90 seconds.
But in reality it lasts 5 years.
But that's exactly what makes you legendary.
Imagine you're talking to a god about the person you want to become.
You say "I want to be courageous."
The god replies "Then I will give you monsters to terrify you. That way you can conquer them."
You say "I want to be patient."
"Then I will make you work harder and longer. That way you can learn to wait."
You say "I want to be wise." "Then I will give you failures that will crush your spirit. That way you can learn the value of judgment."
You then say "That sounds like a hard life. Can you give me a good life?"
The god replies "Just like we measure the quality of a blacksmith by the strength of his steel, I measure you by what you are at the end, not the fire and the hammer it took to make you. A good life isn't an easy life. A good life makes you into a good person. And that, my child, is a hard life."
Every entrepreneur who's made it has a version of this story.
The years when nothing worked. When everyone doubted them. When they doubted themselves.
Those weren't the years that broke them. Those were the years that made them.
Your current struggle isn't happening TO you - it's happening FOR you.
Every rejection is building your resilience. Every failure is sharpening your judgment. Every sleepless night is forging your determination.
And it’s not that the dragons you’re going to slay aren’t going to get bigger. They are.
But you will become so much more well equipped to fight them.
And when you finally slay them, you won't just have a victory story.
You'll have become someone worthy of telling it.
-HelpBnk
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