137 - Worthy of Your Potential

<p>“Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Therefore, give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths. Remain steadfast...and one day you will build something that endures: something worthy of your potential.”</p><p>― Epictetus</p><p><strong>Show Notes:</strong></p><ul><li>One of most important habits to cultivate is a strong work ethic.</li><li>Time and dedicated effort make it more fulfilling.</li><li>There’s a saying: “How you do one thing is how you do everything.”</li><li>Often, trying to take shortcuts, we’re often wasting more time going back to fix what wasn’t done well, than if we’d just done it right in the first place.</li><li>Sometimes, best shortcut is to do good work.</li><li>And if you’re going to put effort into something, why half ass your way through it? That’s wasted time.</li><li>If we’re always looking for the easy way, then we may miss out on a more difficult path that has a greater reward.</li><li>Hard work makes us to get stronger.</li><li>We’ll never climb a great mountain if we’re only climbing hills.</li><li>If you’re running a marathon, and you take shortcut and make it to the finish line, then you really didn’t run a marathon.</li><li>Getting to the finish line and completing the race are two different things.</li><li>While it’s great to get to the end, how we got there is more important than getting there.</li><li>And why are we always so focused on getting to the end?</li><li>When we get to the end, that means the journey is over.</li><li>It’s the journey, it’s doing the work, it’s the process that’s important.</li><li>If we’re making only tentative efforts, then we never achieve that mastery which allows to excel at something.</li><li>Whether we’re building a business, composing music, or writing a book, or training for a marathon, we should dedicate ourselves to our work.</li><li>And we you achieve that mastery, you’ll be in place where you can create something that endures, something that’s worthy of your potential.</li></ul><div>---<br>Hello friends! Thanks for listening. <br>Want to take these principles to the next level?<a href="https://stoic.coffee/join"> Join the Stoic Coffee House Community</a>!&nbsp; <br><br>Stop by the website at <a href="http://www.stoic.coffee/">stoic.coffee</a> where you can sign up for our newsletter, and buy some great looking shirts and hoodies at the <a href="https://stoic.coffee/">Stoic Coffee Shop</a>. <br><br>Like the theme song? You can find it <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ericklind/journey-by-moonlight">here from my alter ego</a>. :)<br><br></div><div>Find me on <a href="https://instagram.co/stoic.coffee">instagram</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/stoiccoffee">twitter</a>, or <a href="https://threads.net/stoic.coffee">threads</a><br><br></div><div>Lastly if you know of someone that would benefit from or appreciate this podcast, please share it. Word of mouth is the best way to help this podcast grow. <br><strong>Thanks again for listening.</strong></div><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>