I’m coming off the top of the head again today as I had another interesting thought about time being money.
But first, let’s just take a second to revel in the fact that today is post number 200. I was about to go back and find a link to something I said of relevance for today but at this point, I honestly have no clue where it is. Anyways, sometime earlier this year, I talked about how during the last couple years of high school, my brother from another and I would workout with his dad (we’ll call him Coach because well, he is one) and one or two other homies who were looking to get better during the offseason. To this day, those were still some of the hardest workouts I’ve ever done. But it’s because of that that I was in the best shape of my life.
I’ve picked up a couple phrases from Coach over time but one of the ones that has stuck with me is “Put something in the bank.” I knew what it meant from the first moment I heard it: put in work. I knew that much but I didn’t understand it the way I do now. Put in the work now and watch as it pays off later. Michael Jordan put something in the bank when he trained every day the summer after getting cut from the basketball team. Of course, he made it the next year and eventually became a McDonald’s All-American. The rest is literally history.
Michael Jordan is just one of a slew of examples. It’s simple to discuss athletes and this topic because it’s the most straight forward. If there is a desire to be great in whatever it may be, it requires you to pay the price, to put something in the bank. Napoleon Hill talks highly of the power of thought, a burning desire, having faith in order to turn thoughts into their physical equivalent, i.e. making money. But, in essence, he explains that none of that matters if there’s no taking action.
LOTD:
Work is the bridge between reality and a dream. The work put in internally and externally is what translates riches, dreams fulfilled, all of it.
Work is the needed deposit to cash out on your dreams.
Peace,
J
