Everything plus this

My boooyaaaness today was a passage from Pushing Up People by A.L. Williams:

There’s just no substitute for hard work. If there is a “secret" to success, this is probably it. The person who works the longest and the hardest, and with the most intensity, is the person who's going the farthest.
I believe you can beat 50 percent of the people out there by just working hard. Most people wont work hard enough or long enough to win, so you’ve got half the folks licked if you can just keep working. You beat another 40 percent by living right, finding something you believe in and having decent morals and principles.
So if you just work hard and live right, you can be in the top 10 percent. In the free enterprise system, the top 10 percent is a dogfight, plain and simple, and you’ve got to fight it out the rest of the way. In my experience, the people who win big are the people who are willing to pay the price for success. Nothing good comes easy. In the free enterprise system, you’ve got to work for it. Vince Lombardi, one of the most famous football coaches of all time, said, “The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish almost anything if you’re willing to pay the price.” – Passage from Pushing Up People by A.L. Williams

It made me reflect on everything I have done thus far in my life and why things have happened the way that they have happened. I have come to this conclusion : I go harder than anyone that I know or have heard of (minus Jay-Z). I have been writing this blog for 19 months and have gone over every experience and life lesson that I have learned up to this point in my life. Everything that I have learned can be pretty much summed up in the above passage. Nothing that I have discussed can be done without the message from the above passage. If you are not willing to work harder than you can even contemplate, nothing else that you "attempt" to do will matter.