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I work for the county out on 95
All day I hold a red flag and watch the traffic pass me by
In my head I keep a picture of a pretty little miss
Someday mister I’m gonna lead a better life than this

Working on the highway laying down the blacktop
Working on the highway all day long I don’t stop
Working on the highway blasting through the bedrock
Working on the highway, working on the highway
Bruce Springsteen

Everything in life comes down to work, ask Tiger Woods or Lebron James. Great golfers and basketball players are great because they work hard at the thing they love.

So what level of work does it take to be great? Well, according to author Malcolm Gladwell in the book Outliers, between the ages of 5 and 20 Tiger and Lebron logged 10,000 hours doing the thing they loved to do. In his book, he points out example after example of people that achieved greatness and they all logged in 10,000 hours or better on what they loved.

It takes a lot of work to be the best you; it takes the same amount of work to be a jerk. So, do you love yourself? Do you believe and understand that your belief in yourself, your self-esteem, is incredibly important to accomplishing your goals? Then start logging those hours making you a better you. Not for your sake, but rather for the sake of those that are most important to you. A better you is a better world.

Carlos Castaneda said it all, “The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”