Work and Effort

I'm really not very good at the things I'm interested in. I realise that it takes a huge investment of time and effort before I reach the threshold where my rate of improvement starts to accelerate. It usually gets off to a very slow start. And then I either have too little time or I lose interest.

That happened to touch rugby, to netball, to even music and literature, to dance, and I think to acting... There is never enough time to do everything I want to do.

For every attempt at a new avenue, it always takes sheer effort and concentration. Nothing really comes that easily. Either that, or I need to relook my own focus and start measuring it up to the amount of focus that others give to their work or the things to do. I might have been underestimating the amount of effort required at doing things for the last 24 years of my life. And there is always that Eureka moment, the moment when you realise how much effort is actually required. And that is when the sense of awe overcomes you for the first time, when you realise how high the hurdle is. But when the hurdle is crossed, that's when the sense of might and achievement comes.