No pain, no gain
When pursuing fitness goals or difficult achievements
Understanding the Rule
Meaningful achievements require effort, discomfort, and sacrifice. Growth happens outside your comfort zone. Avoiding all difficulty means avoiding all progress.
What Happens When You Break It
Always choosing comfort leads to stagnation, atrophy, unfulfilled potential, watching others surpass you, and never discovering what you're capable of achieving.
Benefits of Following This Rule
Embracing productive discomfort builds strength, develops resilience, achieves goals, unlocks potential, creates confidence, and produces results that make the pain worthwhile.