The World Needs Men Who Hustle

I can personally vouch for hustle’s ability to make up for average and even below average innate talent. Two instances in my life stick out where hard-work and hustling did not pay off despite my weaknesses.
The first was back in school days. I did musical stuff, lots of businesses, unfortunately nature did not bless me  to excel .Starting off  was so hard, bad, not very coordinated, and weak. Needless to say,. I didn’t discover this vote of confidence until I graduated.
    Many don’t have any results to show for all their ambitious goals in life. Some are on year seven of a four year degree,shambled business and others are stuck in a job that’s going nowhere. Maybe you know a man like this. Heck, maybe you feel like this.
    Unfulfilled goals, of course, can lead to frustration, depression, and just a general dampening of your man spirit, which only makes it harder to get unstuck. When we dig a little deeper into the lives of these “stuck” men, a few commonalities appear.
   First, there are the excuses. “The economy sucks.” “I’m not naturally smart/athletic/gifted.” “I don’t have enough time.” You get the idea.
Things are pretty rough right now. We’re facing some big problems that are going to take a lot of work to solve. We need men to step up and be leaders in our communities and families. We need more entrepreneurs , more creative ideas to start small businesses and employees who bust butt to help get our economy going again. We need men who hustle.
So many aspects of our lives have speed up, from fast-food to the internet,technology and lots more. So much of the world is now only a few keystrokes away. We don’t need
to break a sweat to see what’s happening in China. Having the world at your fingertips is wonderful-what a privilege to live in this time. But we must vigilantly guard against “expectation-creep.” 
    Expectation-creep is our ever increasing expectation that everything in life will come to us quicker and easier than before. That fortune and fame is only a google search away. While a lot of things in this world have changed, the need for hustle has not. The requisite brow sweat may be more figurative these days, but time, focus, dedication, and determination will remain the eternal principles of success.
So, here’s a challenge I’d like to issue to all of us: Let’s think more, hustle more. I know if we all start hustling we can make things happen- in our own life and in the world around us. It won’t happen right away, but it will happen.
     If you’re tired of your crappy job, hustle your way into a better one. The economy is in the crapper and unemployment is dismal. You’re going to be competing with a lot of people for limited jobs. With all things being equal, the job is going to go to the man who hustles. Maybe you’ll need to go to night school in order to beef up your resume. Yeah, it’s going to be hard, especially if you have family, but it’s been done before. It’s just going to take some hustling.