It's obvious with horses and carts

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But applying the well-know adage "Don't put your cart before your horse," is not obvious for certain types of fundamental life choices, especially when our cultures have taught us to put our horse before the cart.

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Where have we put our horses before our carts?

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#1: We have prioritized results over having an enjoyable process and journey

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"No pain, no gain."

"Never give up."

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."

—Helen Keller

“No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear.”

—Greg Kincaid

“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”

—Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else.”

—Henry Ward Beecher

“If you're going through hell, keep going.”

—Winston Churchill

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."

—Friedrich Nietzsche

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”

—Ernest Hemingway

"Hard work is an essential element in tracking down and perfecting a strategy or in executing it."

—Charlie Munger

"Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No Excuses."

—Kobe Bryant

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

—Peter Drucker

Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.

—Proverbs 6:6

I never took a day off in my 20s. Not one.

—Bill Gates

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

—Thomas Jefferson

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Okay, okay, I'll stop. I don't have to prove what you already know. 

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