Do This and Your Long-term Goal Will Be Successful

Sometimes the going gets tough and we leave. Or we head towards the feel-good feeling: It makes me feel good, so I leave everything—or everyone—for it. We stop communicating with our bosses, spouses, co-founders, friends and significant others.

We escape associative pain because surrendering to the pain of a difficult process is something we have been taught not to do.

What if we did the opposite?

I watched an episode of Oprah's Soul Sunday where she had an awakening moment with empowerment guru, Iyanla Vanzant. They discussed business transitions, their public breakup and makeup-boy was that a teachable moment.