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#155 Making Success Easy(er): Turning Hard Work Into Inspired Action

July 22, 2018 By Jim Harshaw

Jim Harshaw Jr host of Success Through Failure podcast (Episode #155 Making Success Easy(er): Turning Hard Work Into Inspired Action)How to create “drive.” (25:28)

Does success require hard work? Well, yes and no. When you discover how to turn hard work into inspired action, the pain and suffering that is required to achieve meaningful goals get easier. But you have to stop and do the work. You have to discover what’s important, why it’s important, and how to set goals that are connected to those things.

But there’s fear. I know. And doubt. So, you wait. Maybe next year. Maybe when you read one more book or talk to one more expert. So the waiting continues. You feel adrift. Or maybe like you’re barely keeping your head above water. Like you’re so busy you can’t stop to evaluate what you even want lest you drop one of the balls you have in the air. But you know there’s more in you. You know you’re leaving too much on the table. You know you’re capable of more and being average scares the crap out of you. But still, you wait.

How do you break this cycle? How do you move forward despite chaos, busyness, fear, doubt, and uncertainty? How do you turn hard work into inspired action?

We’re going to dive into this today in this episode of Success Through Failure.

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