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• My definition of hard work is that which challenges you.
• The superficial opportunities of life will be attacked by hordes of people seeking what’s easy.
• Your life will reach a whole new level when you stop avoiding and fearing hard work and simply surrender to it.
• Hard work goes hand-in-hand with acceptance.
• If it takes years, it takes years.
• “low hanging fruit.”
• In order to do that, they’d have to outdig me, and very few people are willing to do that because creative game design is excruciatingly difficult.
• Strong challenge is commonly connected with strong results. Sure you can get lucky every once in a while and find an easy path to success. But will you be able to maintain that success, or is it just a fluke? Will you be able to repeat it? Once other people learn how you did it, will you find yourself overloaded with competition?
• When you discipline yourself to do what is hard, you gain access to a realm of results that are denied everyone else. The willingness to do what is difficult is like having a key to a special private treasure room.
• Once other people learn how you did it, will you find yourself overloaded with competition?
• If it takes years, it takes years.
• Hard work pays off.
• Being healthy is hard work. Finding and maintaining a successful relationship is hard work. Raising kids is hard work. Getting organized is hard work. Setting goals, making plans to achieve them, and staying on track is hard work. Even being happy is hard work (true happiness that comes from high self-esteem, not the fake kind that comes from denial and escapism).
• I’m using this same philosophy in building this personal development business. I do a lot of things that are hard. I try to address topics that other people don’t and bypass the low hanging fruit. I strive to explore topics deeply and search for the gold. I do lots of reading and research. I write lengthy articles and give my best ideas away for free, so I’m constantly forced to better my best.
• The willingness to do what is difficult is like having a key to a special private treasure room.
• tougher challenges will usually see a lot less competition and a lot more opportunity.
• The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.
  
  - Oprah Winfrey
• Your life will reach a whole new level when you stop avoiding and fearing hard work and simply surrender to it. Make it your ally instead of your enemy. It’s a potent tool to have on your side.
• The big secret in life is that there is no big secret.
• The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.
  
  - Oprah Winfrey
• superficial

• My definition of hard work is that which challenges you.

  
  

  And why is challenge important? Why not just do what’s easiest?

  
  

  Most people will do what’s easiest and avoid hard work — and that’s precisely why you should do the opposite. The superficial opportunities of life will be attacked by hordes of people seeking what’s easy. The much tougher challenges will usually see a lot less competition and a lot more opportunity.

• hordes
• The much tougher challenges will usually see a lot less competition and a lot more opportunity
• lucrative
• attributes
• surveyed
• low hanging fruit
• interviewed
• The long-term success of this game brought home the lesson that hard work does pay.
• phase
• unseat the game from its position
• consistently
• fluke
• The willingness to do what is difficult is like having a key to a special private treasure room
• realm
• regardless of the specifics
• bypass
• strive
• to better my best
• Your life will reach a whole new level when you stop avoiding and fearing hard work and simply surrender to it. Make it your ally instead of your enemy. It’s a potent tool to have on your side.
• fluffy
• spout
• garner
• ultimately
• applause
• The greater your capacity for hard work, the more rewards fall within your grasp.
• When you discipline yourself to do what is hard, you gain access to a realm of results that are denied everyone else. The willingness to do what is difficult is like having a key to a special private treasure room.
• self-esteem
• escapism
• denial
• succumb
• Hard work goes hand-in-hand with acceptance. One of the things you must accept are those areas of your life that won’t succumb to anything less than hard work.
• Your life will reach a whole new level when you stop avoiding and fearing hard work and simply surrender to it. Make it your ally instead of your enemy. It’s a potent tool to have on your side.