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Most things worth doing take longer than we wish, but rarely as long as our worst fears tell us they will.

We’d all like to lose some weight wouldn’t we, but the problem is it takes longer than we want it too. We want to workout twice and lose twenty pounds, so we start the diet or workout routine, get discouraged a week into it and tell ourselves “This is going to take forever, it’s probably going to take 5 years for me to lose this weight.” The reality is that it will probably take you between 3-6 months.

Perhaps you’ve been thinking about starting a cool business or non-profit. Deep down you’re hoping that within 6 months you’re organization will be rocking it like Charity Water or Apple, you can almost taste success. However, deep in your psyche you’re also aware of your worst fear, your fear is that you start the organization and 20 years from now you’ve helped roughly two people.

Most thing in life aren’t as easy as we want them to be but that doesn’t make them impossible. Reality tends to be somewhere in-between our fairy tale and our worst nightmare.

Photo Credit: Hsin Ho.