"Nothing will work unless you do." ~Maya
Angelou
"The only place success comes before work is in the
dictionary." ~Vince Lombardi
"By working faithfully eight hours a day you may
eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day." ~Robert Frost
"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and
importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence." ~Martin
Luther King, Jr.
Do you love work? I love work. You do not have to look very
far to see that hard work is becoming a lost art, a thing of the past.
Something that many, many people appear so much to be afraid of. Like I always
say, "A little work won't hurt you", and so far it has held out true.
I am convinced that those who are afraid of rolling up their sleeves and diving
in will never receive the reward of the satisfaction that only comes after the
sweat breaks the forehead. If success is a scale that suggests balance, one
side would be thought or the goal setting, which includes vision and direction.
The other side would be action or the mechanics of doing the thing. Buckling
down and working hard, causing something to move. After all nothing works
unless and until you do. You hear people say, "I don't feel like it".
Well the truth of it is that you are much more likely to act yourself into
feeling like it, then you are to feel yourself into any sort of action.
In a 1903 Labor
Day speech, Theodore Roosevelt
said something about work in such a powerful way that we still remember it and
quote him to this day. "Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." The key is doing what you
love. Work hard at a job you love and you will never work a day in your life.
Successful people are not afraid of work, they are willing,
able, and capable of doing what it takes. They expand their capacities and
become more capable by just going for it. They do not however work in hectic
fashion but rather with purpose, direction, and specific goals. Having a goal
is like going on a hike in the mountains with a specific aim and destination
and the work of course is hiking down the trail. No goal or direction would be
like setting out on a hike with no destination in mind. You can hike all you
want and put tremendous effort in, but you will never get there. It is
impossible to get to somewhere that is nowhere. If you don't know where you are
going, any road will take you there.
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