Entitlement is an emotion that doesn't usually present itself in the way you would think it would.

This sneaky emotion steals your happiness in the present moment and quite frankly, makes you a whiny baby no one wants to be around.

Entitlement is the emotion behind complaining and ungratefulness.

It's also an emotion that shows up whenever life gets hard.

The reason it's sneaky is that it is socially acceptable to complain.

Entitlement is the emotional driver behind complaining.

For some reason, we think throwing a fit will give us what we want.

That only worked when you were 2 and it wore your poor parents down!

You're an adult now, so throwing a fit only makes you and everyone around you miserable.

Stop it!

You have permission to go forth and get what you want, and no fit throwing is needed.

You will only need discipline, practice, and persistence.

If you don't master entitlement now, it will catch up to you at some point.

Everything you want that you don't have is because you think you are entitled to an easy road.

You're not!

What you are entitled to is having a brain and your God-given gifts.

When you think it should be easy, you'll still be sad, AND you'll give up.

No one gets a life of ease and bliss.

That is just not the way the world works.

It's not your fault... you're just not skilled at making your needs known and having the emotional strength to stay the course of persistence and long-suffering.

You may have never learned this skill, or like most, you have no reason to be good at it in a world full of delicious snacks and easy distractions.

But life is hard, and emotions must be felt.

And we are the generation of avoiders.

This doesn't mean you need to beat yourself up. What it means is you need to practice love, care, compassion, and acceptance for both yourself and everyone else.

We are all doing our best with what we know, but what I want to share is there is another level of emotional intelligence you need to achieve and practice to thrive in this day and age.

It's not the easy route of mainstream thinking, though.

In fact, it's the opposite.

It's long term practice and giving up all instant false pleasure in the now.

It is a practice of actually feeling all your emotions.

You most likely won't find lots of others in this group because most people today live in entitlement.

When we don't get what we think we are entitled to, guess what happens?...

We get depressed or have anxiety simply because we aren't good at hard crap.

If we thought life was supposed to be difficult (which it actually is), I think we wouldn't be so sad, overwhelmed, or disappointed when it gets hard.

We wouldn't be in the food soothing ourselves.

We would be out there asking the question, how do I get better at doing hard things?

Can you imagine if that was the question you asked yourself every day?

Questions like- How do I feel the uncomfortable feelings that inevitably come with being a human on the planet?

What do I have to do to conquer this yucky emotion?

I've found that all the good stuff is on the other side of negative emotions.

Spend some time today in the question of how do I get good at the hard stuff?

Stop avoiding it and stop always looking for easy.

It will serve you more and you'll be living in actual reality.

The hard never stops. You don't get to choose.

The world was made this way and no one can change that.

But what you get to change is how strong you are.

How persistent you are.

How disciplined you are.

And how skilled you are at feeling all the uncomfortable emotions that come with living without buffers, distractions, and false pleasure.

So now that you know what the rules are, that life isn't supposed to be easy, now what?

Do you know what my favorite question is?

What tools or skills do I need to live a life of contentment, fulfillment, and joy?

Not, "why is this so hard?".

It's supposed to be hard!

If you knew that you could do hard things (which by the way, you can!), what would your next step be?