Folks, if you don’t pony up in life, you will never get anywhere.
Some folks call it stepping up. Some folks call it manning up. Simpler people just describe it as trying, or putting forth effort. I prefer the easiest term, “working”.
I was probably in third grade when I realized that life needed to contain some work if I ever expected to succeed at anything. I had a science test, and did not bother to study for it, figuring my inherent brilliance would get me through. Well, obviously I was wrong, as my “D” proved. My science teacher took me aside and said that I was much better than my “D” had shown, and that she expected me to work harder for the next test. Her logic seemed to make sense, especially after my parents concurred.
School really proves something. It proves to you that work pays off. And in my opinion school does a better job of that than most jobs. I have never had a job that is anywhere close to as hard as college was. The work I put out in college was so phenomenal that I was often driven to sleepless nights and bad decisions. But after getting out, and doing the corporate thing for a few years, I realized that it was never going to be that hard again, at least not because of a job.
For those of you in relationships, you know that it takes work. In fact, it probably takes more work for guys than girls. Girls get passes in relationships usually, because they hold some sort of natural power over men who are in love with them. But both partners need to work. Without putting effort out every single day, that experience just does not succeed. Writing is the same way. Without spending some sweat, you don’t get anywhere.
Are you worried about having the balls to really get things done? That’s everyone’s problem. Do you think FDR really was not worried that we would lose WW2? Of course he was freaked out about it. But he could still sleep at night. He might ring Churchill with an idea at 2am, but it was still impressive being him. We’re 70 years past all that, and most people would GLADLY swap Obama for EITHER Roosevelt.
I’m not saying that there is a special trait that good leaders have. I just think they have learned enough about life to realize that when powerful effort is fired at a good plan, then great things happen. The problem is that we have so many cooks in the kitchen at this point, getting things done can be quite hard. The G8 recently turned into the G20, or something else huge. Can you imagine how those meetings go? We doubled the size of the world’s powerful countries. Do you think that makes things harder or easier? Frankly, I’m really to move my family to Fiji and live on a beach. That sounds more appealing than getting taxed into the poor house, which is what will happen otherwise.
Some folks call it stepping up. Some folks call it manning up. Simpler people just describe it as trying, or putting forth effort. I prefer the easiest term, “working”.
I was probably in third grade when I realized that life needed to contain some work if I ever expected to succeed at anything. I had a science test, and did not bother to study for it, figuring my inherent brilliance would get me through. Well, obviously I was wrong, as my “D” proved. My science teacher took me aside and said that I was much better than my “D” had shown, and that she expected me to work harder for the next test. Her logic seemed to make sense, especially after my parents concurred.
School really proves something. It proves to you that work pays off. And in my opinion school does a better job of that than most jobs. I have never had a job that is anywhere close to as hard as college was. The work I put out in college was so phenomenal that I was often driven to sleepless nights and bad decisions. But after getting out, and doing the corporate thing for a few years, I realized that it was never going to be that hard again, at least not because of a job.
For those of you in relationships, you know that it takes work. In fact, it probably takes more work for guys than girls. Girls get passes in relationships usually, because they hold some sort of natural power over men who are in love with them. But both partners need to work. Without putting effort out every single day, that experience just does not succeed. Writing is the same way. Without spending some sweat, you don’t get anywhere.
Are you worried about having the balls to really get things done? That’s everyone’s problem. Do you think FDR really was not worried that we would lose WW2? Of course he was freaked out about it. But he could still sleep at night. He might ring Churchill with an idea at 2am, but it was still impressive being him. We’re 70 years past all that, and most people would GLADLY swap Obama for EITHER Roosevelt.
I’m not saying that there is a special trait that good leaders have. I just think they have learned enough about life to realize that when powerful effort is fired at a good plan, then great things happen. The problem is that we have so many cooks in the kitchen at this point, getting things done can be quite hard. The G8 recently turned into the G20, or something else huge. Can you imagine how those meetings go? We doubled the size of the world’s powerful countries. Do you think that makes things harder or easier? Frankly, I’m really to move my family to Fiji and live on a beach. That sounds more appealing than getting taxed into the poor house, which is what will happen otherwise.