What people mean by the struggle for life is really the struggle for success. What people fear when they engage in the struggle is not that they will fail to get their breakfast the next morning, but that they will fail to outshine their neighbours.”

Success means different things to different people but everyone wishes to be successful in his own way. So far the struggle for life is concerned, you have hardly any choice. You are destined to be locked in a struggle for life.

The success or failure has hardly any meaning to the struggle for life in a world.

I believe that your life is the sum total of your thoughts and beliefs about life. If you were taught that life will be a struggle, every experience you have will be framed within this thinking. Instead of being open-minded about what life throws at you, you will automatically be expecting bad things to happen. Of course bad things do happen but we can pre-empt negative occurrences, expecting them to occur-this is called a self fulfilling prophecy. Typical sayings such as “it’s a dog eat dog world” or “you get nothing for nothing” suggest an attitude of negativity. many people do not realise how much their thinking affects the quality of their life. I’m not saying that life is always easy-life is a challenge. When we struggle against the natural rhythms of life, we create resistance and opposition and this is what leads to struggle.

With struggle there is no joy and rarely any reward. In fact, for some people struggle is the reward. They are a little lost without it. There is comfort in what you know. They struggle through life sacrificing their own needs and falling to bed exhausted every night. They justify this joyless existence by saying things like, “that’s life”. I have had clients who are incredibly successful but at the same time thoroughly miserable. They loathe what they do and what they have become. Often this is what they expected. “This is just how life is. You have to get on with it”.