Going The Distance

Going the Distance

We all know them. We know the people who have succeeded in life. We look up to them, respect them, envy them, and wonder what it was that got them there. We think that things must have gone easy for them, or that they met the right people at the right time, or had things handed to them in life.

But in reality when you dig into people’s lives and see how they go to where they were, it was never an easy road. I am in the middle of Teddy Roosevelt’s autobiography. Arguably one of our greatest presidents, but he didn’t start out great. Many things came to him with much difficulty, but he chose to rise up to meet the challenges rather than quit things or give in.

Jim Carrey was homeless and wrote himself a check for ten million dollars saying he would cash it in five years and he did. That sounds absurd when you think about it, but that’s the kind of crazy determination you have to have when it comes to being successful.

No one becomes successful overnight or with ease. It takes work, hard work. It takes determination, lots of it. It takes sacrifice, giving up your time, your money, yourself.

Nothing worth having ever comes easy, and if somone tells you it does be very wary of them because chances are they are lying or trying to trick you into something that’s a scam.

So when you see someone you want to be like, let it be an encouragment to you to work hard and not give up. To strive to be more, to be better at whatever it is you want to achieve. It is possible. With enough sweat, enough drive, and enough motivation, anything is possible.