#170. Nobody’s forcing you

Josiah Ross
Jan 18, 2017 · 2 min read

Nobody forces you to do anything.

Nobody forces you to eat

Nobody forces you to live

Nobody forces you to sleep

Nobody forces you to work

Nobody forces you to talk

Nobody forces you to walk

Nobody forces you to see

These are simple actions that you do on a daily basis. Nobody is going to force you to complete the basic tasks of life, just like they won’t force you to suceed.

Nobody forces you to change

Nobody forces you to be successful

Nobody forces you to be a good person

Nobody forces you to be a bad person

Nobody forces you to make decisions

Nobody forces you to seek more

Nobody forces you to improve your life

Nobody needs to force you to be successful. It’s all a choice. As soon as you wake up you have a choice. You have a choice to do or not to do. To live or not to live. To be or not to be(Shakespeare?).

You have to choose every single day to be successful. When you wake up, go be successful. Do that enough times, and it’s going to become a habit.

Trying and failing is better than not trying at all. Even if you fail, that failure is getting you one step closer to reaching your goals. Thomas Edison never failed, he just found 1000s of ways that don’t work. Go succeed, or go find something that doesn’t work, but always remember, nobody’s forcing you to do it.


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