Hey everybody,
Every day of my life, I get somewhere between five and twenty emails from people who want to quit. They’re usually coming to me as a last resort. They want me to convince them to stick it out. Often times they’ve been at it for something like eight or nine months. Or maybe they want me to validate that their instinct is correct, that they should quit.
But that’s not what I’m going to tell them.
Because in the grand scheme of things, eight or nine months is nothing. Even a year is nothing. Nothing happens overnight. I worked weekends and holidays every day starting at fourteen years old to make this happen. I think back to all the time I put in of real, hard work before I saw any of the benefits. The first 18 months of WineLibraryTV when nobody was watching. When I was practically losing money trying to build up Wine Library the first few years. When VaynerMedia was working out of another company’s conference room so we could stay scrappy. Those things weren’t perfect, but in the end, they all paid off. They paid off in a big way.
And most importantly: they took time.
I bet so many reading this are not happy because they aren’t getting what they want in life; they are expecting it too quickly and want all their dreams to come true today. But they fail to comprehend what actually goes into achieving that. Most of the time, their goals are coming at the expense of distractions. Not money. .. Actual time.
You need to put in the time and actual work.
Success takes tons and tons of work.
It takes some serendipity.
It takes a lot time.
But it is a huge privilege to do what you love every day.
I hope you remember that as you’re reading this tonight.
By Gary Vee
