How much work is hard-work?
23 days to 23; A Birthday Series Day 18
There are some truths that become lies over a period of time. Yet we tell those truths in hopes that they never become lies.
It’s strange how much a person can learn, change and understand through all the processes of a life that they are subject to. It’s reasonable to think that not learning, not changing and not understanding through life’s ordeals are a gateway to a life of mediocrity.
Life will always give you a pass grade depending on how mediocrity assesses you to be and a fail grade depending on how mediocre you choose to be. It’s left to you to decide what life gives you.
In whatever case scenario, as long as you are okay with mediocrity, whatever grade life hands you, will never disappoint or upset you.
So how much work is hard-work.
Just as it is not quantifiable how much work is needed to bring a mountain down, hard work is not quantifiable through sheer willpower, although it is one of the tools needed.
Two major tools of hard-work are discipline and full responsibility. How much discipline are you putting into hard-work? And how much responsibility are you handling to hard-work?
Someone once said “discipline really feels like dying to self” and that is because every action and decision you take is either working for you or against you.
Building small habits consistently really feels like dying to self because one day you don’t feel like doing it, another day you don’t think it’s worth doing it.
And that is where responsibility comes in. I don’t feel like going to work everyday but I have to show up there. I don’t feel like being an adult every day but I have to be one. I don’t feel like doing a lot of things but, I have to because that is how I teach myself to be disciplined.
Responsibility is understanding accountability for your actions and decisions.
It is good to feel tired and rest along the way which is a part of the system.
It is good to get lost on the way, you can retrace your steps and put things where they belong.
It is good to redefine your purpose with clarity and focus.
It is good to have reality-checks along the way to ensure we are still on track.
I have heard a lot of people ask “is it okay to start all over again at 40?” What makes it not okay? How much work are you putting in to start again at 40?
We all have different timelines which is why starting over at 40 is as good as starting over at any other age. Using age limits and groups to determine how much you can do is how life equates you to mediocrity.
So when we ask our questions, what truths do we tell with hopes they don’t become lies?
How much are we willing to give and take for hard-work?
How much achievement is hard-work?
How many more reality checks are needed as we pursue change and purpose?
How much of self are we disciplined to die to? Or how much discipline is needed to dying to self?
How much work is hard-work?
“Commitment has levels” ~ Pastor Odeyemi
What level of commitment determines how much work is hard-work?
We are allowed to have different answers to these questions because we have different perspectives on how much work we do.
But does your hard-work pave the path to success? Checkmate!
This is day 18!
From my heart and for the journey, I will complete this series - Oyin 💕