Effort: between you and you

25-09-2022

Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential. -Winston Churchill.

What if I told you that you can tell your mom that she can quit her job, that she no longer has to go in and work 2 or 3 jobs? What if I told you that you would never have to find your children wanting what others have? What if I told you that you can change the world forever for the better? What if I told you that you only need one thing to be successful, to fulfill every wish, every goal, every dream you’ve ever had?

What if I told you that for that to happen you EVERYONE had to do ONE thing?

Could you do it? Would you be able to do it?

If you want to make your dreams come true all you have to do is give the right kind of EFFORT.

Talent without a job (EFFORT) is going to be defeated every time the talent faces the work (EFFORT). If you have not heard any variation of this statement in his life, or he is very young, he has been under a rock all his life, or he has no ambition. That is just true, some of you may need to hear that so you can turn around and start working on your EFFORT.

When I was a child, school was easy for me, I did not have a difficult life. A blessing that many in my position don’t really understand. I lived (and still live) in a 2 parent house, I don’t have to pay bills, I don’t have to worry too much (although I try to make things as easy as possible for my parents because it’s hard to put three kids through school plus a series of other expenses). I was smart and LAZY. I excelled in school, skipped fifth grade. I was valedictorian in sixth grade. I didn’t study for the SAT I got a high score (I read the whole book the night before the test). I dropped out of high school in grade 11 at the age of 15 to go to college. I thought I had arrived and I did it with a bit of a tailwind. I was proud, I liked to achieve greatness and excellence and I thought I would do it for the rest of my days.

But he was in a fight with life heading for a second-round knockout. I thought I was going to kill, but my fight had only just begun. I went to college finished my first semester with a 2.69 GPA the lowest I had ever gotten in my LIFE up to that point was 3.67. Imagine the horror that washed over me when I thought of telling my parents. I hid that rating from them for as long as I could because I was embarrassed, I was disappointed in myself.

The truth is that I had no one to blame but myself because I lacked effort. I didn’t say enough. I figured if I made it to college with the same lackluster effort as always, it would still be a smooth ride. But that level of effort was able to handle this new academic rigor. In short, he was playing. I was playing with LIFE. He wasn’t serious, didn’t have the heart to do whatever it took to get what he wanted. I must have been crazy because you don’t get out of life what you want, you get out of life who you are.

I was only INTERESTED in getting good grades. It wasn’t that it couldn’t be done as I was trying to convince myself, these masters are too difficult, they want you to bleed, they don’t want you to have a life. No, that was a LIE. I just put a self-interested effort into my schoolwork. Because there were others there who were getting A’s and I was getting C’s.

My first summer at home, my mom got me a chemistry tutor and I was still interested in doing well, trying hard and interested. My mom pleaded with me and in front of my tutor, Mrs. Gordon’s response was don’t worry, man, when he sees all his friends leaving him, then he’ll start buckling up or something.

That statement didn’t hit home with me until 2010, when I was supposed to graduate and didn’t have the credits and two of my closest classmates left me behind. One of them took only three years to get her degree, she got there after me and left me. I finished the next semester my required credits. I applied to UWI for mona campus for medical school. I did not receive an answer. What he should have done applied to all three campuses.

I thought my GPA was not high enough and that was the result of my efforts. I graduated with a 3.08 GPA. I must have been crazy to think it was a competitive enough place to pull it off. So I was torn between applying to school abroad and doing post-bachelor’s work to improve my academic record. I chose to go down the path of improving my record, though I was accepted to St. Matthews University, a US medical school abroad in the Cayman Islands.

I attended Oakwood University for a year and saw how hungry those students in my department were. I saw how much they studied and how much they loved him. It was then that I took my effort to the level of committed. It was in Calculus I that I tested true effort. I previously did Pre-Calculus I and II and the highest I could get was a B- and I went to Calculus I and got an A- and it blew me away because I tried my hardest and got amazing results. Results that I had not achieved before in my university career until that moment in my life. I came out of Oakwood University in Huntsville, Alabama with a 3.44 GPA. I was starting to build some traction here.

That summer I applied to all three UWI campuses and was accepted by two of them who still hadn’t heard from Mona, I thought they just didn’t like my last name or something. Besides, I honestly didn’t want to go because I had already spent 5 years in Jamaica, I wanted a new experience. I packed my bags and headed to Trinidad and Tobago.

My second semester is when I got to the next level. I went to work every day of the week. I put in the necessary hours and even went above and beyond. I repeated those cycles over and over and over and over again. Night after night after night after night. I felt like I couldn’t take it anymore and that’s when I gave a little more, I pushed a little harder, I pushed a little more. That semester I got my first distinction, it was the first time in my university career after the exam that I didn’t have to wait for my grades to come out, I knew after I put my pencil what I got. It was then that I reached the level of FULLY COMMITTED EFFORT. At this point in my life I began to see things change. I bit into that thing, tasted the kind of success that comes from fully committed effort and GOOD TASTE.

If you work hard, the results WILL COME. You will begin to notice a change in yourself. The things you used to put up with won’t anymore because at the end of the day the only thing that matters is the results. Once you start getting results, you almost become addicted to that higher level of success that you can’t get back to. The effort will do that for you.

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Some of you are not making the necessary effort. You are interested, you want to be successful, you want the house you have always dreamed of. You want the job you told your teacher you’d get when she asked you what you want to be when you grow up, but you’re just interested. You start with excitement and passion and then all of a sudden it dies.

Others of you are committed, you are pushing yourself and you are trying to live your dream, but you get distracted by other things. Your guy just called you and you have a game night. You’ve worked all week and feel like you deserve a little “mini weekend getaway.” It’s that moment when you take a break, when you go to sleep, when you stop to eat, someone else comes out there trying to take your sleep away.

I have some news for you. you’re doing it YOU’RE DOING IT! But you are not fully committed, you are not giving the required effort. Those who live their dreams go above and beyond what is required. They come out on Mondays and DOMINATE, they come out on Tuesdays and DOMINATE, they come out on WEDNESDAY and DOMINATE! I think you’re getting my point now. They go out every day 25 hours 8 days a week and DOMINATE. They are totally committed and give that kind of effort. You have to ask yourself if I’m fully committed to this, whatever it is, whatever your dream is and giving that kind of effort to master every day. Where you decide that no one will work harder than you and I mean no one. Then you will have what you want to have, you will do what you want to do and you will be who you want to be.

When you answer yes to that question, I promise you, I don’t know how long it will take, maybe a few months, a year, maybe more, but I promise you will make every dream you’ve ever had come true. . If you have never heard someone say this to you before, now I am telling you that I believe in you. Your effort is between you and you and no one else can judge that.

I leave you with this paraphrased text. Proverbs 22:29 Have you seen a man diligent in his business? he will be before kings, and not before petty men.

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