How To Get What You Want From Life
It all comes back to one truth: you get what you’re prepared to tolerate.
It’s tempting to think that we’ll achieve everything we want. But then, why don’t so many of us? Why do some people achieve success, and others jealously wish they could’ve done the same?
I found the answer in one of the best books I’ve read over the past 12 months, The Wealthy Gardener.
‘Our lives’ conditions are not determined by what we want, but by what we will accept and tolerate.’
We don’t receive what we want in life. Instead, receive what we can tolerate. We get what we can accept silently, even though we might have wanted something else.
If you want to be rich, but will accept working a 9–5 job, you’ll get the latter.
If you want to become a successful writer, writing books and living on your terms, but will accept working as a copywriter for somebody else on UpWork, that’s what you’ll get.
And if you want to travel the world, but will accept waiting 40 years until you retire, you’ll not enjoy the travels when you’re young.
Everyone is making the exact amount of money they need.
