We all want to get better, it’s a goal for everyone. Whether it is proficiency in a skill, or getting better as a person, we all want to reach up and improve.
If there was a button to instantly improve or achieve goals, we’d all press it.
Everyone likes things easier – almost everything we see day-to-day has been made better over the span of human life. We started out hunting and gathering daily for breakfast – which for the most part was probably not until when what we would call lunch time, if it was there at all – because we had no fridges, we didn’t have a way to preserve food. Nowadays we have everything at a push of a button and possibly a short twenty-minute drive away; we don’t have to do much to eat, certainly not as much as our ancestors had to.
But to achieve our goals this year, in school, in hobbies, in life, we can’t lay back and take the easy road. As simple as it would be, just not working as hard as you know you can, saying “I’ll do it later”, procrastinating, none of those will get us that far. They’ll get us somewhere but it won’t take us exactly where we want to be.
Because everything has a purpose and leads to somewhere, we’ve got do everything as best as we possibly can.
Even if you only skimp out on one work-out, or just wait an extra three hours to do your project, those tiny little things could be what changes you.
Maybe if you had done that work-out instead of eating pizza at home while binging Netflix you could’ve met the somebody that would’ve become your best friend, or the person that would save your life.
Maybe if you hadn’t taken those extra three hours to procrastinate you could’ve decided to go to Publix and buy the eggs you need for breakfast in the morning and decided – for some wild reason – that you’re going to buy a lottery ticket. And then, when you check that weekend, you won.
Those examples are extremely extreme, but they get you to think, what if?
We have to be willing to put in the hard work that it takes to get something complete, and then not doing it with one hand holding a cookie, as delicious and amazing cookies are, they won’t get us to the final destination. Then, after we’ve put in all of this work after we’ve spent those hours, we’ve got to put in just a little more.
Everything adds up to something, whether it’s your final grade, whether you make it to the Olympics, or who you are as a person, it always goes to something. It may just be me, but when it comes to my future, to my end contribution to the world, I don’t want to do it half-way.