On a particularly frustrating day at work this week, a friend shared this quote with me.

If you want something, you have to keep working for it. The only thing that lands in your lap while you’re just sitting around, is bird poop. And that really such when you’re wearing black pants.”

I’m learning that happiness and luck are the results of hard work and diligence. When I want something, I work for it. If it means I start at the bottom, then that’s what I do (and have done more than once or twice in my life).

Things worth having are worth working for. If you’re not willing to work for it, it’s not worth you having it.

Some of us have to work for things that come naturally to others. I’ll share a story a friend of mine shared with me a few years ago.

This friend of mine has six daughters. Two of the older daughters were born to run. They can get up, strap on some shoes, and run for hours. One of their sisters loves to run but wasn’t born to do it. She wasn’t making the same distances in the same amount of time as her sisters. Instead of whining and complaining and giving up because she wasn’t as good as them, she worked harder until she was. She didn’t give up.

Some of us are born to do something and others of us have to work really hard to get the same thing. As I’ve said before, that’s a good thing. That means that we’re all different. If we were all the same, life would be very boring, and there would be a lot of bird poop on our pants.