What are you willing to endure?

Because to become something more is not to react to the world, but to create a new one, yours.

As my dad explained to me when I was in grade school, it's taking initiative,

seeing what isn't there, what's needed, then making it happen. And while the setting certainly

change, the situation is no longer about helping around the house so I could go to the concert

with my friends.

Right now, as we get older, our world seems to get bigger along with us.

The stakes are higher.

Now it's everything I see when I open the blinds and I look out that window.

It's all there.

And we can have as little or as much of that as we want.

But what we receive will always be directly proportional to what we're willing to endure.

To how long we push forward before results arrive. How long we can carry on with the sole company of our beliefs.

It's about Bezos packaging and delivering his own books from a garage.

Knowing it's not about today, it's about tomorrow if he can just hang on, if he can just endure.

It's Tony Robbins with $20 in his bank account, knowing that has no reflection on him or what he's capable of if he can just hang on, just keep pushing.

It's not that they had the ability to bring their dreams to life, a lot of people do.

They had more, they had patience, they had the ability to bring their dreams to life a lot of people do they had more they

had patience they had the discipline right to remain calm and collected that's nerve

racking that can be unsettling they had the ability to be focused to remove all the noise

around them the doubt that stops people before that desired payout is achieved.

And one of my favorite ways to look at this concept of growth is a little anecdote about

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