Don’t call maintenance to shut it down. Put on your work boots. Walk inside. Grab the raw material of right now—the frustration, the ache, the fear—and ask yourself:
But what if I told you that the “pain factory” isn’t your enemy? What if it’s your single greatest source of production? pain factory
We spend most of our lives trying to shut the factory down. Don’t call maintenance to shut it down
You don’t need to “love” pain. You just need to stop running from it. Here’s the operating manual for your pain factory: Grab the raw material of right now—the frustration,
Not “Why is this happening to me?” (That question keeps you on the loading dock, complaining about the shipment.)
The headache might be producing a need for hydration or rest. The broken relationship might be producing a standard for how you deserve to be treated. The failed project might be producing resilience.
Look around your life today. Where is the factory smoking? Where are the alarms going off?