“It’s supposed to be hard. If it were easy, everyone would do it.” – Tom Hanks in A League of Their Own

Imagine if you could have everything you wanted in life. The only stipulation is that you would have to work for 15 years before you a achieved your goals. Would you do it? Would it be worth it? 

Everything that is worth while takes time. 

You’re not going to be in good enough shape for a marathon in 2 weeks. You won’t be able to have a million dollar business overnight. What’s important to note, is you can take the first step right now. 

It may not pay of now or in 1 year but eventually the small things you do on a daily basis will pay off. They have to. 

Believe that what you’re doing is hard because it’s worth doing. Believe what you’re doing now will work out and pay off. 

It won’t be easy. It will get easier over time but it will never be easy. 

Most people aren’t willing to work hard because hard works tough. It forces you to spend time doing something else besides partying or playing video games or binging on Netflix. 

You need to sacrifice some of your social life if you want to get good at anything. You’ll be different from most of the people you know. People will question you and put you down. Who cares. You’re doing what you want to do. Let them do what they want.

Make it a daily habit to do one thing you want to every day that you originally thought was impossible. Maybe it’s beginning to train for a 5k. Maybe it’s writing the first page of your book. Maybe it’s reaching out to a role model via cold email. 

Great things are hard to accomplish but that shouldn’t discourage you from trying. Just because something is hard doesn’t mean you can’t do it. 

Everything worth doing on this planet is hard, once you start, you may realize starting was the hardest part.