potential

“Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Therefore, give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths. Remain steadfast…and one day you will build something that endures: something worthy of your potential.”

― Epictetus

Show Notes:

• One of most important habits to cultivate is a strong work ethic.
• Time and dedicated effort make it more fulfilling.
• There’s a saying: “How you do one thing is how you do everything.”
• Often, trying to take shortcuts, we’re often wasting more time going back to fix what wasn’t done well, than if we’d just done it right in the first place.
• Sometimes, best shortcut is to do good work.
• And if you’re going to put effort into something, why half ass your way through it? That’s wasted time.
• If we’re always looking for the easy way, then we may miss out on a more difficult path that has a greater reward.
• Hard work makes us to get stronger.
• We’ll never climb a great mountain if we’re only climbing hills.
• If you’re running a marathon, and you take shortcut and make it to the finish line, then you really didn’t run a marathon.
• Getting to the finish line and completing the race are two different things.
• While it’s great to get to the end, how we got there is more important than getting there.
• And why are we always so focused on getting to the end?
• When we get to the end, that means the journey is over.
• It’s the journey, it’s doing the work, it’s the process that’s important.
• If we’re making only tentative efforts, then we never achieve that mastery which allows to excel at something.
• Whether we’re building a business, composing music, or writing a book, or training for a marathon, we should dedicate ourselves to our work.
• And we you achieve that mastery, you’ll be in place where you can create something that endures, something that’s worthy of your potential.

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