Pressure Creates Diamonds. Manifest Greatness by Changing Your Thinking.
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
Embrace Pressure, Because that crystalises the Diamond Within You.
Have you heard of this saying?
“A Ship In Harbor Is Safe, But That’s Not Why Ship Is Built For…”
A ship and it’s captain gain their name and fame after coming out of a stormy sea. They together become legends overnight.
We all are pre-occupied with money, wealth, big cars, big house, life style etc.
Because of this pre-occupation, we forget the basics of happiness.
Let me ask you this question…
If your journey to success was easy would you enjoy the destiny?
or if your journey was hard, you faced so many challenges, overcame it and then you reached your destination?
Which is more satisfying?
Which gives you the pleasure?
The journey or the destination?
Will you feel proud if you have all those things won by a freak lottery or if you acquired it by your own effort?
The self-made millionaire lives a happier life than a born billionaire with inherited wealth, always.
And A Diamond Is Forever…
Diamond is the emblem prosperity, strength and beauty.
Whoever you are, you covet diamonds.
Why so?
Diamond is rare. And Diamond became diamond because of what it has gone through it’s life’s journey…
Diamond is made of carbon that crystallized under conditions of extreme temperature and pressure. It is formed millions of years ago in molten rock within the Earth at depths greater than 160 km. After it’s formation, diamond is carried up to the surface of the Earth in rising magma by strong volcanic activity. When the magma cooled, cone-shaped pipes of bluish rock called kimberlite were left behind. Over the years, wind, rain, snow and ice eroded the kimberlites and released diamond and indicator minerals (small particles indicating the presence of diamonds).
So, if you understand the above definition correctly, you will realize, no journey is harder than the journey of the Diamond from depth of 160 km to earth’s surface.
And the vehicle which brings diamond from the depth of 160 km is molten lava…
So, whatever your journey was…,
How so ever hard it was…
Please don’t tell me it was the hardest.
You haven’t heard some of the success stories I have heard.
Example…
Have you heard of a story of a guy who, 5 years ago was standing in the dirtiest of toilets and was preparing a doze of his cocaine shot.
Accidentally he spilled it on the dirty toilet seat and started scraping it from the toilet seat to have his shot….
Then he stopped himself and said, “Fuck it, this is not me…”
Came out and within 5 years, rehabilitated himself to such a level where in the last 15 months, he started his own company which paid 40 million dollars in commissions in 180 countries…
He is a Diamond. His journey can be compared to the journey in molten lava of the real diamond.
I have stories galore of such giants.
My friend, if success is easy, how can we call it success? Ask the Diamond.
Do you know the biggest reward of success?
The biggest reward is, “The sitting with friends and with your previous foes and talking about the journey to success.
Talking about the struggles, the challenges, the insults, the hardships and the ultimate victory over all of them.
Talking about it and noticing the joy in your friend’s face and the blush in your ex-foe’s face.
How would that feel.
Imagine that.
That’s biggest reward apart from the reward itself.”
That’s the biggest reward of hitting your goals, achieving your dreams, proving your detractors wrong and become a giant in front of the pigmies that is your critics.
That is the biggest reward.
Savour that before taking on another journey…
Another pinnacle to climb…
Another dream to be realized…
Because man is a Goal Seeking Mechanism.
“Your dream must exceed your reach or what else is heaven for?”
If a Diamond can reach earth’s surface traveling 160 miles from the core of earth floating in volcanic lava, what’s your excuse?
Ask the Diamond, was the journey painless?
It will say, it was the most painful, almost unbearable pain…
Ask the Kohinoor Diamond, is it worth it?
It will shout from the Royal Collection housed in the Queen’s Gallery London…
YES, YES, YES…
That is the reward of “Success Against All Odds.”
The feeling of Dejavu is a reward,
The feeling on being at the pedestal is a reward,
The memories of the journey is a reward.
Go for it my friend, there is nothing better than beating the odds and winning the race of life…
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