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Hard Work

Your unnoticed work will be noticed; all you need is the right attitude.

By Mahonry FrancoPublished 3 years ago 4 min read
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Hard Work
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When was the last time you had a day when even your coffee needed coffee? A day when your childhood punishments such as: going to bed early, not leaving the house, or not going to a party became your adult goals? Was that day today? A week ago? A month ago?

Our day to day lives are physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually demanding. In many cases, it's hard to maintain a good attitude. It can be exhausting! Perhaps you have had days where you're in the zone and it's just go, go, go but when you retire to bed, just as you are about to fall asleep you suddenly remember a few more items on your to-do list. Check out this conversation I had with myself a few nights ago that I'm sure you can relate to. "what a day; at least I can finally go to bed. 'You forgot to buy milk' shut up brain let me sleep."

I could be wrong, however, if we had "The perfect day" where everything was going our way and circumstances were just right I feel like it would defeat the purpose. Honestly! Why do you think the good days have so much value? The journey is a whole lot more interesting when we, like Taylor Swift, are "happy, free, confused, and lonely at the same time" Now, she might not be 100% right because the truth is that we are not lonely. Nonetheless, life is amazing due to the fact that we aren't perfect. We need each other for together we make life "miserable and magical."

There is a man we all know, who I believe is a phenomenal example of this. We see him on our way to work or on T.V in the comfort of our homes. If we don't recognize his face we surely will familiarize his name. I will be sharing the story of his life while you try to figure out who this mysterious man is. You could easily scroll down and get the answer right away but then again, this defeats the purpose and is no longer fun.

The story goes like this: He faced many challenges. To kick things off, his father died when he was 5 years old, at age 13 he quit school, lost four jobs by the time he was 17, married at 18, became a father at 19, his wife left him and took his daughter at 20. He was a railroad conductor and failed. He joined the army and lost there too. When he received a law degree but later decided he didn't want to be in that field anymore. As an insurance salesman, he disappointed all the same, facing constant rejection. He ended up being a cook and a dishwasher in an unpopular cafe. By the time he was 65 years old he retired. The government sent him a cheque on his first day of retirement and he interpreted it as if they were saying "this guy can't provide for himself." With unending trials, he decided that life wasn't worth living. After all, his results were failure after failure for 65 years! He began to write his suicide note adding a list of the things he wishes he would have done in his life. Then he lifts a gun to his head and just as he was about to pull the trigger, he glanced at his list and said "why don't I just do those things?" ... a few seconds later he threw the gun away, got up, and pursued the things he wrote down. This man knew he had great talent in cooking, therefore, he gathered as much money as he could to bring to light his personal dream. Long story short, he continued to face adversity. He received over a thousand "No's" before his first "Yes." At age 88 Colonel Sanders had built an empire famously known as Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC). Once a poor nobody now a filthy rich somebody!

The Colonel never gave up and neither should you. Both you and he have the same 24 hours. What you do and how you act with the time you have is up to you. I promise your unnoticed work will be noticed; all you need is the right attitude.

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Mahonry Franco

Experience, learn, share, repeat. To me, Vocal is a journal to do exactly that.

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