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There's a fine line between struggling and suffering for your goal. One is healthy and one will kill you. I've only just discovered the difference.

Yes, Eminem will be referenced later.

The phrase, "you can have anything you want, but not everything" refers to the need to focus on a goal for it's rapid achievement, much to the detriment of lower-order things you might like as well - if you could have your cake and eat it too.

For example, you might get a kick out of being able to hit the bars every night and raise hell, but it's virtually impossible to pull off that "goal" and still wake up with a coherent thought in the morning to hit your money-making goals, whatever they may be. I'm sure there are only a few, rare exceptions to this rule.

In pop hustle culture, you hear of men abandoning dating to focus on business growth for an extended period of time. This is a tough (because of the biological urge for connection, duh), but an entirely reasonable sacrifice for those who chose to do it; dating takes time, money, and significant energy (at least where I live).

You need to sacrifice and struggle when it comes to tackling goals. But, when you go too far with struggle, however, you enter a state of pain that narrows the senses beyond focus. It becomes animal-like, less creative, and far less useful. This is what some refer to as "overwork" or "burning out".

That's suffering for your goal. This isn't a good state of mind, and deadly over a prolonged period of time.

Suffering won't get you anywhere faster. Suffering makes you weaker over time. Struggling, like weight training, builds you up. Suffering breaks down muscle.

While anyone who's watched the film 8 Mile, based on rapper Eminem's rise to stardom, pulling yourself out of a horrible situation, like shift-work in the ghetto of Detroit requires some extreme behavior (and suffering in the short term) to pull off.

However, once we make a little headway, and can afford to, the belt-tightening needs to ease up, as much as we may want to forever adopt this panic mindset thinking we've found an edge.

Even Eminem eased up. In his case, that was approaching his studio work (after he got Dr. Dre's attention; no small feat) the same way he approached his factory job. At 5 o'clock he'd pack up and head home to relax and spend time with his daughter.

He chose to not continue to suffer. Rather, he entered a state of diligence that got the job done. Rather, he struggled in a healthy way.

I've developed a few techniques over time to ensure I remain in the struggle, not the suffer zone. Steal my homework.

• Reduce your cost of living when taking huge risks (grow your business in Mexico City, not New York); your runway triples from three months to nine

• Determine what you really enjoy, slap a dollar amount on it and budget for it no matter what (concerts, takeout, sporting events, whatever)

• Identify those in your social circle that "pull you" to overspend or stress you out and cut them out; social pressure is a powerful force to overcome (bottle service buddies, anyone?)

• Do not, under any prolonged circumstances, put your health at risk (sleep deprivation, medication, Ramen diets, abandoning exercise)

• Make time for friends and family

To those suffering, make sure you have a timeline in sight when you ease off the gas.

And to those struggling, I salute you.

This week, I'm taking meetings in Austin, TX.

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