If you want a thing bad enough<\/p>\n
To go out and fight for it,<\/p>\n
Work day and night for it,<\/p>\n
Give up your time and your peace and your sleep for it;<\/p>\n
If only desire of it<\/p>\n
Makes your aim strong enough<\/p>\n
Never to tire of it,<\/p>\n
If life seems all empty and useless without it<\/p>\n
And all that you scheme and you dream is about it,<\/p>\n
If gladly you\u2019ll sweat for it,<\/p>\n
Fret for it,<\/p>\n
Plan for it,<\/p>\n
Pray with all your strength for it,<\/p>\n
If you\u2019ll only go after the thing that you want,<\/p>\n
With all your capacity,<\/p>\n
Strength and sagacity,<\/p>\n
Faith, hope, and confidence; stern pertinacity,<\/p>\n
If neither cold or poverty, famished and gaunt,<\/p>\n
Nor sickness, nor pain,<\/p>\n
Of body or brain,<\/p>\n
Can turn you away from the aim that you want,<\/p>\n
If dogged and grim you besiege and beset it,<\/p>\n
You\u2019ll get it!<\/p>\n
My daughter shared this poem with me this week as something that has really helped motivate her to keep going and keep working hard each day. I am not sure who wrote it, but I think it\u2019s great! It\u2019s a good reminder that when we really want something we have to be prepared to put in the hard work it is going to take to get it.<\/p>\n
Anything worth having in life takes real effort to get it. And chances are it won\u2019t be an easy path. There will be obstacles and barriers and pitfalls all along the way. But if you can stay the course and keep giving it everything you\u2019ve got, and you don\u2019t give up when things get tough, eventually you will find a way to succeed. And when you finally do you will appreciate it all the more because you went through those trials and conquered them!<\/p>\n
Have an amazing day!<\/p>\n
~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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