There’s a difference between SAYING you hustle, and actually putting in the work and doing it.
So you think you hustle? Fucking prove it then! Show me your calendar, bursting at the seams, overflowing with appointments, calls, meetings, creating time, selling, traveling (for business AND pleasure, duh). I want to hear you brag about how little you sleep, how much you’re in front of the camera.
I want to know exactly how you spend every second of every day. Tell me. Show me. PROVE that you’re a true hustler.
You can’t, can you?
It’s okay, I was in the same tight spot you are right now. I thought I was hustling. I thought getting on the phone with 4 clients a day was a lot. I thought selling every morning was enough. I thought writing one email a week would do.
Boy, was I ever fucking wrong. Here I was talking about how damn important the hustle was, and totally slacking on my very own hustle.
There are going to be times you’re sick, you don’t feel like it, you’re tired, you’re feeling over-worked, you’re just DONE. And you’ll want to quit. You’ll want to rest, take a break. And maybe you will. And maybe you won’t. But if you’re even THINKING about stopping, don’t tell me you hustle. Because you really only hustle when it feels good to you.
Those that are anti-hustle and anti-grind are anti-living. Listen, there are going to be times that you have to GRIND and do shit you don’t want to do. In fact, there’s a lot of grinding necessary if you ever want to really succeed in all areas of your life. Half of my day is grinding!
Do I want to get up and run every morning? Fuck no! But I want to be fit and healthy, so I grind it out and get it done.
Do I want to wake up at the ass-crack of dawn to write? Not really, but I do it anyway because it makes me feel good, I get inspired, I reach more people and I make damn good money because of that early morning writing time.
When you have passion, you’re gonna want to spend every waking moment on it. You just will. I can’t explain it. But when you find that one thing that really lights you up, excites you, makes you giddy like a kid in a candy store, you will never want to stop hustling, just so you can keep it in your life.
That’s the truth.
If things are feeling unbearably hard right now, if you’re feeling like today, ugh, today I just don’t wanna work, maybe I’ll take today off. Then GTFO of here because what the hell kind of passion is that?! Passion is necessary for success. Find your passion, work your fucking ass off to keep that passion alive and just watch how much of an impact that has on you.
I promise that it will change your life, in the best way possible.