The Only Way You Can Keep Working On Your Dreams Even When You See No Results

The world is obsessed with giving advice on how to be successful. And one common advice, beneath all the other crap, is always — work hard.

It goes something like this:

“Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.”

But what if you had been working hard in silence, and there is no measurable success to make ‘noise.’

Or quotes like:

“Nothing will work unless you do.”

Well, what if you had been working consistently and still nothing seems to move ahead?

What then?

The motivational influencers and typical self-help books repeat the same thing on loop until your ears bleed — work hard. Everything you want is on the other side of hard work. Go beyond your laziness. Show the world what you are made of.

But no one ever talks about those moments when you realize it’s been a long time since you have been working hard and yet, you have no result, no visible big achievements in the form of money or a vacation in Spain to show to the world (or maybe yourself) that you made it. That you were right to believe in yourself. That your hard work finally paid off. That all the hangouts you missed with your friends, all the people you lost in the process, all the weight you lost or gained, all the other opportunities you rejected because you were so sure of this dream, all of it worked out.