There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
― Beverly Sills
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
― Lucille Ball
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
― Colin Powell
Researchers have found that folks who lose a lot of weight in a relatively short amount of time radically alter their metabolism. Their metabolisms slow to a crawl (sometimes permanently), and their bodies no longer burn enough calories to maintain their thinner size. People who come into a large amount of wealth, such as through an inheritance or the lottery, rarely keep it because they have no idea how to manage money. Folks who decide to buy a business without any previous knowledge or training often find themselves with too many irons and no fire (energy). Sills, Ball and Powell really do know what they're talking about; there are no short cuts to finding what hard work and study will produce.
It is like knitting: a sweater is knit stitch by stitch.
ReplyDeleteOften when we work hard an diligent on a project, the amount of fulfillment is so much greater
Exactly! And doing each stitch gives us an understanding of the process we wouldn't have otherwise. :)
DeleteI have worked hard, well for the most part, most of my life; really since I was fourteen, or I could go back to eleven when I delivered news papers for a couple of years. I have never won the lottery and yet I am pretty sure I could handle it, in fact I dream of it. "Show me the money" I am after all a Queen of Pentacles. Seize the Day!
ReplyDeleteI think there is a big difference between someone like you - who has worked hard, learned not to waste and how to manage money - and someone who hasn't and suddenly winds up with a windfall. :)
DeleteI like Ellen's analogy. we have to know how to knit a stitch before we can design a pattern. How often we blow right past that road sign!
ReplyDeleteI can't count the times I had to start over but I never regret doing it
DeleteImpatience always builds on a weak foundation.
DeleteI am one for luck now. I worked hard, followed a lot of the business models. Planned and prepared and it took one big act of nature to take it all away. Nothing like starting out with nothing and not much time to begin again. I buy my lottery tickets every week.
ReplyDelete