There is No Denying it, Everything Takes Effort

The first step is the hardest. I and every other worthwhile quote means just that, the first step is the hardest. A worthwhile life and existence is worthwhile effort on your own behalf in every way, everything else is just commentary. Sure, I can say, luck has something to do with it. But I will not, I will say, taking that first step has everything to do with it. Genuine effort over genuine laziness makes a genuine winner. A genuine winner wants to do more instead of less with his life. A genuine winner is never ever a "one hit wonder" of the sort. Sure, I agree with certain other self help authors that luck is preparation meeting opportunity. But the thing is that they have the word "preparation" in there which is always the first step. So, is that a tangent when I say that the first step is the hardest and most important? I know it is not. Because you get nowhere without that all important first step.

Indeed, everything to be achieved takes some sort of effort. With that effort comes the process of perfecting, not perfection itself. Note, I said "the process" in the first part of the sentence. That means trial, error, work and training before you genuinely achieve. If you love the process, you love the winning when it happens. From the very start to the finish of what you are doing each time, if you love the process, you learn something. If you hate the process and win hastily, and only do it once, you learn nothing and process of perfection does not happen. Sure, I am saying this to tell you that no matter what, everything worthwhile takes productive effort. If it did not, hey, there is the laziest physical state of all. The state I mean is the permanent sleep of the body or physical death. I am not trying to be morbid, I am showing reality in its totality as it is. Not as "normal people" dream it to be.

Alexander Graham Bell once said that a man is what he makes himself. I say, a person is what they make themselves regardless of what is considered "normal" or accepted. So, I say one more time, if you are genuinely going to "raise the bar" on something, you have to train to that level and love every minute, reality, and all of your training right up to the winning, record breaking or whatever it is. Life is a calling, a reality of answering with that first step to where you want to go along with all the other steps and actions it takes to be, do and have what you want. For, productive effort for desired things and conditions makes you and any default to laziness breaks you. Sure, some would argue that point with me, but, from experience I say, I would be right about that all the time. Think about it, even an old saying goes, "we all must put out to get" or something like that. How old is that saying? Older than Pascal and his first calculator? Sure, my point is that we all do what we need, want and love to do to genuinely and productively happily survive. No denying it, waking up and going to sleep takes effort and everything in between takes effort and the grave is the only "escape" and it is a silly escape when you have a chance to genuinely live.

My name is Joshua Clayton, I am a freelance writer based in Inglewood, California. I also write under a few pen-names and aliases, but Joshua Clayton is my real name, and I write by that for the most part now. I am a philosophical writer and objective thinker and honest action taker.
I also work at a senior center in Gardena, California as my day job, among other things, but primarily I am a writer.