How great do you wanna be?

Working for your dreams, finding what you love and being obsessive
Jun 7, 2023
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How great do you wanna be?

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How great do you wannna be?

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How much are you willing to work?

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How hard are you willing to work for your dreams?

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How much are you willing to delay satisfaction?

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That choice is yours.

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Every day we have the same time.

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Same 24 hours in a day.

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What we do in that time is up to us.

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Other people take most of it away.

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But in those hours we’re alone, we decide.

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It’s our choice.

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Most of us choose to rest.

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To shut off.

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To watch Netflix.

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To scroll Tik Tok.

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To watch Youtube.

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But you’re throwing your time away.

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You’re throwing hours away.

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You’re throwing your mind away.

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Our time is finite.

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We don’t know how long we’ll be here.

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We don’t know what tomorrow holds.

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We don’t know if we’re going to live for 2 days or 60 years.

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We have no clue.

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So don’t waste your time.

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Don’t waste your attention.

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Don’t waste your life.

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Work at something.

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Try something.

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Be better today than you were yesterday.

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Find your niche.

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Find what you love.

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Find what you enjoy.

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Find what makes your heart sing.

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Do that more often.

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Maybe it’ll be a career.

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Maybe it’ll be a hobby.

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Maybe it’ll just be something you do an hour a week.

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Doesn’t matter.

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But if you want to be great, it’s different.

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It’s maniacal.

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It’s obsessive.

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It never stops.

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Ever.

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Jerry Seinfeld told me this in a Howard Stern interview.

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He’s always thinking.

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Always observing.

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Always thinking about his next joke.

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Howard asked him if he ever got tired.

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No.

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It is built into him.

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It is what he does.

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It is all he knows.

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That’s how this feels.

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Writing.

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Observing.

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Explaining.

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Thinking.

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Do that as long as you live.

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If you do, success will come.

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Because success is about the process.

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It’s about the work.

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It’s about showing up.

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No matter success or failure.

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No matter if liked or hated.

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No matter if understood or criticized.

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The greats know.

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It never stops.

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Hopefully I’ll be there one day.

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It’s not up to me.

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It’s for other people to decide.

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All I’m doing is trying.

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'Keep Going You're Doing Great'

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