Anything ever deemed as worth it or that elevated the world (your own or the world in general) was hard and most of the times the one(s) doing it wouldn’t have made it through if they didn’t have grit, persistence and faith, a strange fusion of mad determination and a sort of enchanting contagious optimism that is anything but naive. The larger the project the more faith you’ll need to foster in its end goal and purpose in order to keep the doubt and the desire to quit at bay. Hard is on the other side of success in any area, but it will be compensated by joy of seeing something come to life.

The faith you have in something is in direct proportion to the persistence you display even when you’re backed into a corner or your knees are scabbed from trying to stand up and being knocked down. Falling is good. There is so much to learn on the way down that will get you a step higher the next time you rise. Can we be persistent at the wrong things? Sure. If it gives you nothing, you don’t believe in the goal any more or it doesn’t fill you up, than the effort you invest into that particular idea should be invested in something else because our time here is limited. Yet, if you put a thing you’re working on onto the soul scale and it tips into the “worth it” balance, stick to it. Blind faith that demands no growth from you is void of meaning and doesn’t generate persistence, but faith accompanied by trying and growth is a guiding beacon to being more than you were.

Make sure things you decide to stick with are decisions and not accidents you floated into and never given them a second thought, make sure you’ve weight and measured them and made a choice to stay, believe and persist. Once you’ve made this choice willingly, consciously and openly it doesn’t really matter if it is not easy, that doesn’t even calculate into the equation and becomes irrelevant. Easy is very rarely a part of a worthwhile thing and there was never a true opportunity with no challenges or a road tiled with hard work before the point where you can finally breathe. Believe and persist. Do the work and keep your mad gorgeous wild optimism burning. There really are no rules to where beautiful things can be found.