Don't be afraid of hard work (thread) 👇

1/ Follow your passion, but don’t mistake that for having it easy all the time.

Go after your dreams, but keep going after them even when they drag you through a muddy pile of hard work.

2/ Don’t guilt-trip yourself into doing things you hate, but love your goals enough to hustle beyond the happy hours of comfort and convenience.

3/ Being creative means so much more than having a big imagination and a cool personality.

It also means having the sense of artistry to create massive opportunities out of mundane tasks.

4/ Creativity also means having an imagination that’s big enough to discover new ways to manufacture your own inspiration as you navigate the peaks and valleys of the creative process.

5/ In your quest to create a 4-hour work week, don’t forget about the value of the 40-hour work week.

Freedom from hard work is often the reward of learning to find freedom in hard work.

6/ I’ve had several business owners over the years tell me about “creative-types” who came to them seeking opportunities, but who were turned away because they hadn’t proven their ability to stick with something for longer than a few weeks or a few months.

7/ Here are some insightful words from one of those CEO's:

8/ “Be more of a worker than a dreamer. Everybody claims to be creative and passionate nowadays, but nobody knows how to work hard anymore."

9/ "If you can consistently work eight-hour days, you’ll be way ahead of most people. It sounds sad, I know, but the bar is that."

10/ "Nothing is harder to find than a person who can be consistently reliable with executing ideas and following through on the things they start."

10/ Hustle-porn is unhealthy, but so is vacation-porn and create-only-when-I-feel-amazing-porn.

Hard work isn't everything, but...

It's still a thing.