One of my favorite business minds, Tom Bilyeu, shares his stance that, in order to achieve greatness, we should only chase things that give us more energy than they take. His rationale is simple: things that are truly worth chasing are inevitably hard. And hard things require a ton of energy. If we are chasing something that is both hard and depletes our energy we will eventually quit because it's not sustainable. But if we instead chase things that energize us, even when they get hard we will never run out of energy; we'll be left with more.
I feel this way about photography. It takes a ton of my time and energy, and challenges me constantly. In order to elevate my photography to the level I envision, it will require serious commitment and sacrifice. But I know I'm on the right path, because I love every second of it; missing hours of sleep to catch the sunrise, enduring frigid fingers and toes while out in windy, snowy or rainy weather, dedicating hours of time and energy hiking to a location in hopes of capturing a shot that never quite comes together, or actually getting the shot and then having to spend hours editing the photos. Even on the roughest days I am left with more energy than when I started. Even on the roughest days I can't wait to go do it again. "Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do." -Pele
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