Achieving greatness requires a tremendous amount of hard work and dedication. You may have to wake up earlier than everyone you know and stay up after everyone has gone to sleep. You may have to skip events, turn off the tv and limit your time in all other endeavors.

But in the end, the work that you put in and the sacrifices that you make will be worth it. Your craft, your purpose, your dreams are worth pursuing, worth focusing on, worth fighting for.

And let me be clear. Some days, you’ll want to give up. Some days you’ll wonder what you were thinking and if you’re even headed in the right direction. And then the fog clears and you know you’re right where you need to be.

So I encourage you to hang in there my friend. No one said it would be easy, but you can do hard things. Keep believing and doing the work!