YES, It Takes Work!
YES, It Takes Work! WHETHER you're an aspiring athlete, an upstart employee worker OR an upcoming entrepreneur, you and me will need to start right from Ground Zero. YES, It Takes Work! BUT obviously with exception. UNLESS you are Baron Trump OR a scion of the legitimate rich and famous billionaires. Otherwise, everyone of us needs to hue to this age-old mantra YES, It Takes Work! BUT this should NOT floor you down or scare you away dude๐๐๐
So, one might ask, WHAT do we mean WHEN we blurt out that IT TAKES WORK? Simple, dude. Work your ass. Grind at work. Work like a DAWG. Think about the BIG LEAGUES. For the techies, we could be looking at the IT Parks in India OR if the stars will align for you, you can end up all the way up and out there at San Jose CA's Silicon Valley. In the competitive world of sports, we have witnessed hundreds of gold medalists from the Olympics BUT looking at their storied life, they started right from Ground Zero many years prior to reaching the zenith of their competition. Diminutive Olympics Gymnast Carlos Yulo was a 16-year old boy WHO accepted a scholarship from the Japan Gymnastics association, and had to start learning Nihongo up to the conversation level before he started grinding hard for his rigorous gymnastics training. Eight years after, he stepped up the Olympics podium twice to receive two gold medals๐ง๐ง๐ง
So, WHAT'S the secret? That secret is the best known secret in the world spelled E-X-T-R-A M-I-L-E. Through the years, I've seen a big segment of people [WHOM I know up close] to shrug off their shoulders WHEN they hear EXTRA MILE ringing through their ears. Sadly, many times, it does fall through deaf ears on the simple narrative that WE WON'T HEAR WHAT WE REFUSE TO HEAR. Makes sense???
Just to share, HOW was I WHEN I started right there at Ground Zero. YES, I did squat on the floor with a soldering tool to solder hundreds of coaxial cables. That time, we were literally moving the local office of Shell Oil to Makati, the country's financial hub. BUT things DIDN'T stop there. I spent countless way below crawling the raised floorings. YES because large data centers require raised floorings and many times, I was a worker for hard-labor work, tracing huge, heavy and long cables connecting the IBM mainframes with all the peripheral hardware scattered all over the sprawling area๐๐๐
Our takeaway: So, WHAT does it take for us to go that EXTRA MILE? YES, lots of sweat, lots of time and mile-long of patience, perseverance and persistence. So, you might ask, is that a steep mountain to climb? YES if you consider that steep. NO if you rewire yourself and have that EXTRA MILER mindset. Down the road, you will eventually reap the fruits of your labor. YES, IT TAKES WORK, dude๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ