30 Seconds = 10k Hrs

In life, no one will ever care about your desire to succeed. No one cares about how much time and work you put into becoming great; It’s all irrelevant. At the end of the day; What people see, is either a winner or a loser. Either you won or you simply did not. And everything leading up that; The heart. The work ethic. The dedication. It all remains solely with you. It's a by-product of the contract that you signed with yourself; To go through hell, to fight in the trenches, even when you see no immediate validation. Which will happen. If success came at the snap of a finger, everyone would be running four- minute miles and driving Ferraris. But that’s not how the world works.

When you make the decision to be different, to give up temporary comfort for something greater. You’ve committed to the ride of your life. And when the time comes and you cross the finish line first or you realize success, in whatever capacity. You can smile at the world as they look at you like some miracle; utterly oblivious to the price that you paid for it, but you know, and there’s no greater gratification than that.  

It's been said that it takes 10K hours to perfect your craft. 10k hours of walking away from immediate satisfaction to enter this sense of solitude and dedication to where you weed out mediocrity. It’s where you carve out your place in history. So if you are waiting for someone to come along and just make that happen for you. It will be a long wait, my friend.

Because it’s your flame and if you don’t keep it lit. It will die. And a flame can be a fragile thing. Weakness, doubt, uncertainty, and failures; They all want to put it out; And if you're not bigger than your body; They will. Trust me. You’ll fail. Time and time again. It may not be until your 100th attempt that you even begin to see success; but if you don’t have the foresight, and that persistence, to see past the bumps in the road.

You will never know, that relentlessness; it’s how you separate yourself from the people that feel sorry for themselves and watch the world from their bedroom window, but that’s not what you signed up for. Nothing good falls into your hands. It’s why, every day, is so important. Think of every hour as a piece of paper. Right.

By itself, very little weight, and very little significance for committing to the grind. Every day causes these pieces to stack up, and before you know you’ve transformed yourself and your ability and that’s what people don’t see; that stack is being built, piece by piece. What they see is the finish line is crossed one by one. They see 30 seconds. They didn’t see 10k hrs, but you did. It’s why you hold your head high. It’s why you can smile to yourself when people talk about you “Quote/Un-Quote’ Being born with talent.  It’s why you're looking at them from the podium.