Buildings Things is Sometimes Hard

It sounds like a bit of a no-brainer, and perhaps even common sense, to make a statement like, "If things were easy, they wouldn't be hard," but when you start to break it down a little bit and expand on the idea of it, suddenly it makes a lot of sense.

It's hard to make a lot of money in life and become rich. It's hard to become a super-star athlete or become a rock star who fills stadiums for a concert. It's hard to become a celebrity YouTuber who gets a ton of views and makes a living creating content.

Things are hard because they are not easy, and because they are hard, not everyone will be able to achieve it unless they work very hard at doing it.

Again, just common sense, right?

If anyone could simply accomplish anything easily, it wouldn't really be worth achieving the result. On top of that, it wouldn't be special in any way. And then, at the same time, it wouldn't be worth anything at all.

It would simply be a thing and that's that.

But of course, just because things are hard, and just because even if we work really hard doing it, it may not ever actually pay off—it doesn't mean we simply stop doing it.

The challenge is as much a part of the process as anything else is. And the challenge is what makes us go and keep on striving for the accomplishment.

Many people lose out on a vast amount of opportunity simply because they aren't willing to put in the time, work, and effort to get to where they want to be. I mean, it may sound like a funny thing to say—what we do here on a site like this—but it does apply quite well to what we do here. On a site like this.

Building an audience is hard. Continuing to write good content that people will want to read and engage with is hard. Whether I am writing here or somewhere else, which I do, it's hard to make enough money at it that you can do it full time.

None of these goals may ever be achieved fully. But that doesn't stop me from trying.

The thing is, I know I just have to keep on doing it in order to achieve anything. It's the only way I can notch the needle forward a tick or two more every time I do it. I understand it is going to be a slow process and that nothing will happen overnight. It's going to take time, and it's going to be hard.

When it comes to writing, I also have to understand the importance of what I do with that audience once I have them hooked in. Like I said before, I have other places where I do this—I call it a hub and spoke.

Because not everyone you capture the attention of is going to be on read.cash. Not everyone is going to be on HubPages. Not everyone is going to be on myLot. But all of them will still have some level of interest in what you are doing no matter where you do it.

You can create a hub. A primary place where anyone you have captured the attention of can follow you around wherever you go—the spokes.

It has another advantage too. Especially if you do other things as well. It offers a centralized location where they can follow some of the other things you do. But again, all of it will be hard.

The main point here is that so many people simply give up too quickly on most things because they are hard, and don't see the true future value of what can be achieved if they just keep at it.

It's like I often say about the lottery. The odds are terrible. It's almost like even if you play you simply can't possibly win. That's true. But you absolutely cannot win if you don't play.

The field out there is vast. No matter what it is. Writing, music, writing books, making YouTube videos, or competing in sports. There's a lot of people out there all wanting the same thing, but only enough room for a few people to get it.

No one gets it, though, despite the terrible odds, who does not at least play.

I think it is important, as well, to understand that a lot of the things that we strive for are a labor of love long before they are ever a profitable venture. It doesn't have to make money today in order for it to achieve a level of success—and perhaps have a profitable outcome in the future.

I mean, think of any business startup. Not a single one of them made money from the word go. And some of them took a very long time to actually do that. Tesla took 20 years to make its first actual profit. Colonel Sanders didn't start making any money from his fried chicken until he was in his sixties.

But Musk loved what he was doing and so did Harlan Sanders. Eventually, for them, it paid off.

At any time throughout the work, the effort, and the struggles had they simply thrown in the towel and quit—they'd have never had the opportunity to achieve anything at all. And wouldn't have.

When it comes to becoming successful at anything we have to have the patience to wait for the work we do to finally produce something. We have to be able to constantly examine what we do and find ways to hone it and make it better. We have to do the work within what we do to learn what works and what doesn't, and expand on the things that do work while removing the things that don't.

Again, it all seems like a no-brainer. It all seems like common sense. But it isn't as common as you think. Because many people have already thrown in the towel and have given up.

That goes for anything by the way. All the things I talked about above. But it also applies to saving money and other things.

As the title suggests, building things is a hard thing to do. But it is because they are hard that they are worth things worth doing at all. And that's the point.

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