Work

In a fitness article about GRIT, I once read something that kind of went like this: "Once you decide to do it--whatever IT is for you, stay committed. Don't question it. After a long, awful day of grading papers and trying to keep up in my own classes: this is not the time to question whether I should really become a professor. Schedule a time to reevaluate your goals in three months. And then forget about it and stick to your decision. If you have a rough day, just say, 'Now is not the time to question this,' and stay true to what you committed to accomplish."

"Now is not the time to question this" has saved my dreams and kept me on the path, multiple times.

The second key to accomplishing the goal is WORK; you can have anything, but you have to work to make it happen.  This Ira Glass quote inspires me when I'm in a funk. Watch it, and then go get what you want by doing lots of work.


Ira Glass on Storytelling from David Shiyang Liu on Vimeo.