May the Throes of Envy Inspire You
What does it take to get a few shakes from the talent tree?! 
How pitiful is it that those who grind and grind to eek out something that barely tips the scale at mediocre only to discover your best efforts are trounced by those touched by the hand of the “rock-gods.” When Tim Lambesis can pilot the uber-popular metalcore band As I Lay Dying as his main gig and in his spare time fart out a humorous and totally brutal metal four piece rock-tet of Tim, Tim, Tim and Ahhhnold known to the world as Austrian Death Machine, you may doubt your abilities and be tempted to turn in your sticks for good. I want to encourage you, my young rock Padawans, to consider another way.
“I Need Your Clothes, Your Boots, and Your Motorcycle”
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Let pain or even despair fuel you. Of course reality is that those who have mastered their skills do not arrive upon their perch by accident, top tier talent the likes of Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods are relentless in their pursuit of greatness. Perhaps they’ve been given a special touch but more so than any mystical talent, like a sword in the stone released, the rise comes with an ability to take frustrations and pound them into submission. While it would be easy to throw the white flag up, when stacking your piddly accomplishments to men turned monsters like Mr. Lambesis, rather than wait for you rock fairy to arrive and sprinkle you with her dust let your revelry in the triumphs of others spur you to the pursuit of excellence.
Grab your frustration and failures by the throat and continue to wrestle your dreams to victory. When you are faced with a battle that you feel unprepared for, sometimes you have to fight with what you’ve got. 
Addressing a nation basically of farmers, the prophet Joel instructs, “Hammer your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Train even your weaklings to be warriors.” (SIDENOTE: if you’ve ever wanted to know more about the book of Joel from the Bible, HERE’s a quick yet thorough intro) Everyone starts somewhere, so beat those plowshares into swords – what’s more brutal than that!
Aside from his more noted Hollywood personas, Arnold’s own story does bear some weight of what dedication can create. In serious note, let Mr. Schwarzenegger encourage you in this,
“For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.”
Well said sir. Well said. [-Have you HURD?!]
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