August 3rd

“In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm…in the real world, all rest on perseverance.”

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Motivation comes and goes. When it comes, we feel energetic and inspired. 

We feel like we can work 20 hours a day. We feel great and feel like this will last forever. 

Suddenly, life gets in the way. 

Motivation vanishes as quickly as it came.

Bills need to get paid. Chores need to get done. Life’s inconveniences appear.

Motivation is unreliable.

Grit is the only thing that will take you to the promised land.

Grit is developed. We are not born with it.

It is acquired through the pain of enduring.

It is what you need to win.