“All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.”
Pope Paul VI
There’s always a great excuse not to do something.
I can give one-thousand justifications why I can’t, why something didn’t work out, why something didn’t go the way I expected to. However, at the end of the day, the only questions that matter are:
Did I put the work in?
Am I doing what I said I’m doing?
Am I doing what I want to do?
If not, I’ve got some work to do.
Kevin Hart once said, “Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.”
Let’s suppose that hard work doesn’t pay off. You put all this work in to make your business, art, band, acting — whatever — happen and years go by without results. When you put in the hard work, at least you know you gave it your all. You were too early, or too late or the fit wasn’t right. That’s okay. Nothing done well is without its takeaways. Hard work doesn’t leave you with nothing. Now you have developed more and better skills, you’ve connected with more people, you learned and grown from your experience. And now you can take those experiences with you to the next thing. The key is never losing your enthusiasm.
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
Winston Churchill
There’s a lot of excuse that can stop us from achieving our dreams. Tell me, what do you want more — excuses or your dreams?
STAY BOLD, Keep Pursuing,
— Josh Waggoner
Daily Blog #630
Join the Renaissance:
If you enjoyed this blog post, consider becoming a patron.
Subscribe: Renaissance Life on Apple Podcast | Renaissance Life on Spotify
