How to use discomfort to achieve your goals.

You won't want to hear this, but discomfort is necessary for the growth. You want to hit your life goals. You will need to tolerate being uncomfortable and experiencing a level of pain you are not used to. Loving the journey and enjoying the process is totally overplayed. It can imply that all parts of the journey must be enjoyed and loved. I don't agree, especially in the early stages. If you've ever started working out, those first few workouts can be horrendous no matter how light they are. But after a few sessions, your body acclimatizes and you start start getting stronger. More importantly though, your mind starts associating this pain and discomfort with progress and growth, creating a strong mental connection. The pain doesn't change, your association with it does. This is where I feel a lot of advice being given is totally detached from the experience of the recipients. With good intentions, people will tell you to enjoy the process, but they are long past the point of that pain growth connection and their brains have already rewired that new association long ago, which you probably haven't experienced yet. So if you're at the beginning stages, you will likely feel a bit little.