Convenience

I love my conveniences. I love being able to communicate with friends across the globe. I am thankful for that and so many other 21st-century conveniences. They make work and play easier. Good stuff!

But if I let convenience become part of my value system, my character, I will never be great. I will gravitate to the easy. I will demand the world conform to me. I will not persevere. I will take the route of least resistance.

The great men and women who overcame and changed their worlds were people who did not give up when things got hard. During the US Revolutionary War Things seemed bleak…sometimes impossible but George Washington and his soldiers stayed through the tough times until Victory.

Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, Roy Benevetez, Audie Murphy, and millions of others who helped change history, and change the world all persevered when things were tough. They stayed the course when things were not convenient.

Conveniences are fine, But there is no convenience button or EZ button for relationships, success, or greatness. To improve ourselves and our world we must press through the inconveniences and not fall back to whatever is easiest.