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Walking your talk isn’t easy. Best to just make your walk first, then talk from it. Never make any commitment until you’ve determined that you can and will do whatever it takes to keep that commitment.

But, why is it so important to keep every commitment?

What promises are most important—promises that promise the greatest return? The most important promises to keep are whatever the most difficult are to keep. Keeping challenging promises, makes us challenging promise keepers.

Only God keeps every promise. He reserves the most promising promises for people who keep theirs, especially the small and difficult.  · · · →

To most people, the work necessary to finish and succeed feels like too much.

As you progress, as you advance and move forward, you start to sweat. You get tired. You get exhausted. You get hungry for food so much that you can easily forget about your hunger to finish.

It even looks like too much.

People watching see neither results nor your vision, they only see your exhaustion. If you’re running a race they have not run themselves, they think you’re just abusing yourself.

So, they’ll tell you to quit. “Love yourself,” they’ll say. But, they just can’t know.  · · · →

The amount of hard work needed to survive is unfair. But, so are the payoffs.

Every victor, every winner, every success story did an unfair amount of hard, smart work—too much, in fact. That’s why they make victory look so easy.

Don’t be distracted by fairness. Nothing is fair, even  your strengths. Everyone has an unfair advantage and an unfair disadvantage. Often times they are the same. What makes it fair is hard work and self honesty about why hard work fails.

Keep going. Once you’ve done more work than you need, you’ll be rewarded more than you deserve.  · · · →

Some people would bend rules of gravity—with friend or enemy, to reward or punish—all as they see fit. Others give justice even to enemies.

We prove which type of people we are in the small things. As such, gravity, being both jealous and powerful, takes note and agrees with us. Those who would bend gravity become the objects of “chronic bad luck”, while “chronic good luck” finds those who respect universal justice.

There are two ways to create good and bad luck: One is agreement with gravity, the other is work ethic. That is most everyone’s life story.  · · · →