You think you want success to come easy. You don’t. Not really. You want to work for it. You want to work for it like you’ve never worked for anything in your life.

Social media platforms are brimming with asshats schlepping hacks, secrets and get-rich-quick schemes. They will try and convince you there is an easier path to get wherever it is you’re going. You might be tempted to believe them—don’t.

You can’t dodge the work.

You can’t cheat the work.

You can’t buy your way out of the work.

Not without costing yourself the process; the beautiful, gut-wrenching process. There is a spiritual transformation that happens during the process. With each pass of the brush or pen or plane, you nudge closer to some truth buried deep within yourself.

The forces that dictate this Earth will collect around you. They might not strike in a single flash of lightning. However, with time, your work will find the appreciation it deserves.

And when it does, it will not matter. It will not matter because the work itself will have become enough.