Do What You Can

Nothing worth doing is ever easy. Your dreams, goals, and desires will always be equally matched with opposition. You will typically be forced to operate with limits and disadvantages.

If this is true, why is it that some people still get what they want? Are they more fortunate than us? Did they get some type of “leg up on us?” In most cases, this is not so. It’s much more simple than that.

People who achieve simply make up in their mind to do what they can. Regardless of circumstance. No matter the opposition. They take action. Perhaps not the action they prefer. But definitely all they can. That’s all anyone can do.

But our problem is not what we can’t do. But rather what we won’t do. Perhaps we tend to stop short, or even quit, when times get tough. Yet greatness teaches us that in those moments, we are closer than we’ve ever been to achievement.

But greatness requires something different than what we have been giving. Perhaps it’s persistence. Maybe creativity, or critical thinking. Or maybe it’s just a step of faith. Whatever that action is, the move is ours to make.

As long as we don’t quit, we can’t fail. Let’s be willing to approach every obstacle as an opportunity for greatness. And then, simply, do what we can.

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