Eric Thomas

I will do the work when I'm tired.

I will do the work even if I'm sick.

I will do the work even if I didn't sleep well.

I will do the work even if I don't feel like it.

I will do the work if it's cold outside.

I will do the work if it's too hot.

I will do the work if no one else wants to do it with me because I am driven by purpose.

People wanna, they wanna jump from day one to day 10 by getting some big seed money or big investment.

And dude, I don't care how much money I've made.

I try to pretend like I'm broke every single day in the way that I think because it forces me to create new solutions and innovate in my brain.

It's about taking an idea.

It's about executing on the idea.

And it's not about having the perfect plan.

It's about your ability to adjust and create and improvise your way through this path.

Hard work is the goal.

And so it's not like work hard, so that X. Because as soon as you have a so that, then the X is the thing.

But if the goal is to work as hard as you possibly can, then the only real output we have is who we become along the way.

The most important question to ask is what pain do you want in your life?

What are you willing to struggle for?

Anything worthwhile is going to require some degree of pain and struggle.