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Flipping through the channels, I once caught a few minutes of a Simpson's episode. The exchange between Homer and his son, Bart, went something like this:Homer: Hey, how come you never play your guitar anymore?
Bart: I'll tell ya the truth, Dad. I wasn't good at it right away, so I quit. I hope you're not mad.
Homer: [sweetly] Son, come here! Heh heh heh.... [Bart sits on Homer's knee] Of course I'm not mad. If something is too hard to do, then it's not worth doing. You just stick that guitar in the closet next to your short-wave radio, your karate outfit and your unicycle and we'll go inside and watch TV.
How many times do we find ourselves falling into a Homer mentality of throwing in the towel way too early? Yes, it's hard to get up for that early morning run and it's hard to keep turning away tempting desserts, but don't forget, it's the hard that makes it great. In the movie "A League of Their Own," Tom Hanks plays a baseball coach. When his star player wants to quit because it's just too hard, he tells her, "Of course it's hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great."
The next time you find yourself thinking, "It's just too hard," give yourself a Tom Hanks pep talk. Revel in the hardness. You're doing something most people won't. Celebrate your successes. It's the hard that makes it great!
-Michelle
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