No pain, no gain. No work, no results.
All great minds have worked hard.
Nothing comes for free.
This is the first point in the Wooden’s book that I’m reading now. And it’s a good one. Nothing ever was accomplished without hard work.
On a practical level, I need to establish a more hard-working schedule. After work and before work. Like I said before, I need to be down here in the basement before 6am. I need to get a solid hour before work. What do I need to do after work? I should find 25 minutes to work. I’ll take that as a start. Doing what? Something useful. Writing, for instance. Or reviewing what I learned. Something. I can start at 9 or 9:15 or 9:30 the latest. After that, I’m too tired. But I haven’t been doing late-day work for a few years now. So this will feel like a stretch. But that’s a good thing.