Pain Comes From Real Success

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Have you ever experienced pain in life?

I have, countless times already. Yes it hurts, it's depressing, I felt awful and so on. But what can I do, it already happened. The best thing I can do is to learn from it and move forward. Of course that's easier said than done, but it is what it is.

But you know what that pain does? Pain is actually what will drive you to succeed.

Friends real success needs to have a reason, and more often than not pain is what drives people to succeed in life. Most people are driven to succeed so that they won't have to experience again the grief that the pain has brought them.

Not all pain though is a good driver for success. Others experience what we call the pain of greed. People who experience this pain work hard so that they can satisfy their own selfish desire. The problem with this kind of pain is that people who achieve success through this pain are usually unhappy.

So what kind of pain that can drive you to succeed and still provide happiness? The pain of giving

Giving is one of the most important lesson that Jesus taught us (He gave His life to save us from sin). Giving though is not something that is easy to do for most people, that's why it's also considered a pain. When you give, you sacrifice yourself so that others may benefit and it's not that easy to do. Unconditional love is required for you to really give without expecting anything in return.

The good thing about the pain of giving is that it will really drive you to succeed so that you can give more. You'll experience real success because it has a reason and that reason is love. You want to succeed in order to give because you love.

Remember that real success comes from experiencing pain. And the best pain to experience for you to succeed is the pain of giving.