“I don't count my sit-ups; I only start counting when it starts hurting because they’re the only ones that count.”   

~ Muhammad Ali

Success is doing what others won’t do so you can have what others won’t have. Most people quit when it gets difficult and they begin to feel the pain. If you want to win. If you want to succeed. If you want a life that matters, then you must be willing to outwork the competition and never quit.

Even when it gets hard.

Some people say, “work smarter, not harder”.

If you want to play in the big leagues it requires both.

Greatness doesn’t slack. It doesn’t lay down when the winds of change blow. It doesn’t dream small.

Greatness aims higher than most people can see. It reaches where others aren’t willing to go. It believes in the unseen.

Intelligence will magnify your work. And working hard will multiply your intelligence.

When you pour the blood, sweat, and tears of real work into your life, you will experience a treasure that has been lost by some and never experienced by others.

The riches of self-confidence, perseverance, guts, and grit await you. The kind of treasures that forge an ordinary life into a legendary one.

This work, this hard-fought bout with forces intent to beat you to the ground and rob you of your dreams, is what makes you capable and qualified to achieve them at all.

This is life’s gift to you.

The genius that you bring to your work is what allows you to scale your dreams, soar to heights unknown, and build something that matters to the rest of the world.

This is your gift to life.

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