How to Develop a Work Ethic

A serious question:

“Can you briefly go over work ethic in the right mindset?

I know you talk about how not to give up and it takes as long as it takes, but do you ever feel like you’re not doing it?

Or do you procrastinate?

Any other advice about building a solid work ethic?”

The ONLY advice you NEED to develop a solid work ethic is to know that you don’t have to work.

I don’t work... at all.

I don’t have a work ethic.

I play a game.

And I enjoy playing the game, so I do it every single day.

I don’t need outside factors to push me to play the game because I always just simply enjoy playing the game.

I don’t work.

I know I say “do the work” all the time.

But I don’t work, I just simply play.

I do what I like to do, I play, and I play every single day.

I don’t have a work ethic because I don’t work for anybody else.

I would NEVER be able to work for anybody else.

I would NEVER be able to do something I didn’t want to do or didn’t have fun at.

So that’s the trick – find the game that you like to play and play it every single day.

Find what you would do even IF you weren’t making any money and turn that into the game that pays YOU money.

That’s the VERY simple magic trick.

You will NEVER have to work a day in your life if you just play this VERY simple game.

That’s the trick.

You will NEVER have to work a day in your life if you JUST play the game.

Because it is NOT work, it’s just simply FUN.

That’s the trick. Just simply Don’t. Ever. Work.

I NEVER work. I don’t ever work.

I just simply live my life and I play the daily game that I just simply enjoy to play.

There is absolutely NO distinction between work and life and social life and relationship life and blah, blah, blah, blah. It is all intertwined.

How could I turn off one but not the other?

It is all intertwined.

It is all the SAME.

It is all just a damn game that I play.

So intertwine it all so you don’t ever QUIT.

And if you play the game… that you like and always enjoy to play... you won’t WANT to ever QUIT.

The ONLY people who QUIT the game are those folks who are LOSING the game.

The people who are WINNING the game will simply go on to play it FOREVER.

It’s ONLY when you start to lose the game that you begin to think about QUITTING.

So be a winner of the game.

Pick the game that you like to play. You’ll NEVER have to develop a work ethic.

A work ethic is something that I NEVER want to have.

I just want to be. And that’s the trick. 

Just be.

Don’t ever work.

Just be.

Let it all be.

Let it all intertwine.

When Will You Find Success?

A lot of people ask me this same damn question.

They say, I’ve been at this for 30 days already, two months already, three months already, 6 months already and I have NOT seen any success yet.

When am I going to find success?

When am I going to see even a hint of success?

And I always respond the exact same way…

Why the fuck are you WAITING for success instead of WORKING?

Success is only going to come to you when you’re BUSY doing other things.

It’s NEVER going to come to you while you are just simply standing there WAITING FOR IT.

Because while you are waiting you are not doing anything. It is IMPOSSIBLE to be doing 2 things simultaneously at ONCE.

Waiting means not doing anything. You should always be working.

Have you ever waited for a phone call, and the phone call never came until you left the phone and went away and did something else?

And then while you were BUSY with something else the phone started to ring.

Have you ever sat at your computer waiting for an e‑mail to come in only to get bored of waiting and go do some other things?

And when you finally get back to the computer, the e‑mail has come in.

Those things are just like SUCCESS.

They will not come to you while you are WAITING. They will come to you whenever they simply feel like coming to you. They will come at their leisure NOT yours.

So do NOT ever wait for success because it will find you when it just simply feels like finding you.

What you do instead is continue doing the work that is going to INCREASE the chances of success eventually finding you.

Success doesn’t give a fuck about YOU if you are NOT working for it.

Success wants to come find you while you’re VERY busy.

It is NOT going to come to you while you are on the couch just simply WAITING FOR IT.

So when is success going to find you?

It’s going to find you when you’re busy doing other work.

It’s going to find you when you least expect it. That phone call is going to ring when you’re BUSY doing other things.

Why You Should do Hard Work (it becomes very EASY)

A lot of people don’t want to do hard work.

I can’t say that I blame them, because I’m not dying to do hard work either.

But the thing about hard work is that it’s only hard for a little while. And then it starts to become VERY EASY.

Going to the gym at first and lifting weights is hard at first. It’s hard for a GOOD number of times.

Then it just becomes downright EASY. Going to the gym becomes as EASY as walking around in the supermarket.

Going to the gym is hard when you’re very WEAK, but when you’re STRONG it becomes pathetically VERY EASY.

Riding up a mountain ‑‑ riding up a hill is hard when your cardio is bad and weak. When your cardio is good, it becomes instantly EASY.

So I understand you don’t want to do hard work.

I don’t want to do hard work either. But it’s ONLY hard for a little while.

The more you do it the easier it gets, and eventually it’s going to be just like walking to the supermarket.

How do You FAIL and KEEP Moving Forward?

“Have you ever failed?

And if so, what did you do to keep moving forward?”

No. I have NEVER failed and kept moving forward, because you ONLY fail if you GIVE UP.

When you STOP moving forward is when you FAIL. That’s failure.

If it takes you 500 tries and you succeed on the 501st try that’s NOT failure that is simply learning.

So no, I have NEVER failed and kept moving forward.

I have failed and QUIT many times. Everything I tried that didn’t work out and I left and I QUIT, that’s failure.

It you stick at it diligently, consistently, you WILL succeed at some point. So it’s not failure if you don’t get it right now or tomorrow or even next year.

It’s failure when you just simply throw in the towel and walk away.

That’s when you admit failure…

That’s when you admit defeat and move onto something else…

It’s okay to try and try and try and try and just keep on trying repeatedly.

You will have to TRY many times before you succeed.

I didn’t succeed on my first try or my second or my third or my fifth. It took me a VERY long time.

The reason I’m where I’m at NOW is because I simply REFUSED to ever give up.

I did not care. And I also did not ever walk away.

I had a mission and I stuck to it and now it’s paying off. That’s how you succeed. The way that you fail is you walk away.

If you focus your life around succeeding then you 100% WILL. If you focus your life around NOT succeeding, you will. The choice is easy — SUCCEED!

The key to getting what you want is actually defining what you want. You gotta know yourself to grow yourself.

Master the mind, which is everything and the world becomes a playground, which is the fun thing.

Spend your time playing a game you enjoy and you will NEVER work a day in your life.

If all your work is play you’ll NEVER work another day again.

How to get successful?

People who are successful chose to never give up.

Make the decision to never quit and success will become inevitable.

Reader comment of the day: “I think more people are opening up to the idea that they can become sharks. I work nights with one other guy whose always busy trying to build his band up and I work as a writer all day.

We never have time to hang out after work, but we never shoot each others ideas down. Usually we give each other a hard time if we haven’t made any progress on our projects from one night to the next.

If you can find friends that don’t laugh at your dreams but laugh at you when you don’t work on those dreams, keep them. They’re worth their weight in gold.”

Until next time.

Your man,

-Elijah “The Realist”