Pushing the Boulder up the Hill
[by Colleen Wainwright]
“There are no short cuts to any place worth going.” –Beverly Sills
One of the gifts of the internet can also be one of its curses.
Every minute of every day, we’re exposed to amazing achievements–all of which, because of context, seem to have sprung fully formed, like Venus on the half-shell.
The truth, of course, is usually quite different. Scratch the surface of a killer portfolio or Pulitzer prize-winning book or dazzling TED talk and you’ll usually find years, if not decades, of missteps, wrong turns, or just plain hard work of the head-down variety.
More often than not these days, I trust my path and am spurred on to work harder when I see some great thing put out in the world. But on those days when I’m feeling a little frustrated or fragile, I look to this simple line from Beverly Sills, which I have set as my desktop wallpaper.
And then I get back to pushing my particular boulder up my particular hill.
Colleen Wainwright is flying to many cities as part of her ASMP chapter tour, a constant reminder that there are, indeed, no short cuts to great places.
