Do you have what it takes?

In some countries, becoming a doctor means that you have to spend a lot of time in school… I mean A LOT!! You have to finish university, then go to like seven more years of Grey’s Anatomy, Scrubs, and House (You may have to watch them too)before someone can officially say to you “What’s up doc?” It’s not easy, but that is what it “took" from you in order to become a doctor. Okay, that’s not all it took. You must have given up sleep, some of your sanity, and all of your human handwriting. But who’s complaining if you gave all that for the ability to save lives right?
Everything we want has a price and when we say “I have what it takes", we had better know what we mean. Everything will cost us something. Weight loss will require your gluttony, can you give it up? It will take your morning sleep, can you spare it? It will take you to say “no” to your favourite foods, does that work for you? Do you see where I’m going with this?
Everything we have ever accomplished did cost us something. We may have become better people but that means we had to give up our previous selves. We had to give up our old thought and habits even though they felt so “us" at the time.
There you go! Peek into the future and see your next level. Ask again, “ do I have what it takes?” Being a billionaire is going to take “pausing on the shopping sprees”, think you can handle that? Can you manage to delay some immediate pleasures in order to invest in the future? Can you stare at money for 30 years and not touch it till it grows to 1000 times what you invested? Do you have what it takes?
You gotta have it!
I want to build a unique family. I will never hit my children. That’s a beautiful thing to aspire to, but it will need you to be tolerant. Do you have any tolerance in you? Have you invested in emotional intelligence? How can you build uniqueness when you are quick to yell and insult the children? So it would be wise to first get tolerance…acquire it so when it is needed of you, you will have it to give. You must have what great parenting ‘takes’.
I had to acquire some 'will power' in order to write and post an article here every single day because that is what was required, and that is what it has taken and will continue to take until I reach my goal. If along the way, I lose my willpower, then the next day, when it is required of me, I won’t have and then succumb to another night of Videogames and Instagram. That won’t be my case.
But where do you get what you need in order to keep giving it?
Charles Haanel wrote about an athlete in ‘The Master Key system’. He said the athlete who wants to get stronger must first use the strength he has. So getting stronger will take the strength he already has. In summary, we get what we give, but we must give the one we have first. You don’t have to think about how you’ll wake up at 5:00 am consistently for the next three months, but just do it one morning, give the one to can and from doing that, you build strength to continue.
Last Words
Everything we want and aspire to requires us to give something. Everything will take something from anyone who wants it. So to make it easy for you, the next time you have a goal you want to crush, write down what it will take from you to crush it. Before you embark on the task, ask yourself again while looking at your list. “Do I have these requirements? Am I willing to cultivate them?” and you only proceed if the answer is ‘yes’. Because when the tough times come, even ‘more’ will be required of us. And to succeed, we must have what our goals and dreams take.
There can be no other way!






