Shortcuts

# Chapter 213

I am starting to think that there are no shortcuts. None. I know, there are entire websites dedicated to taking shortcuts. I even subscribe to a couple! But the older I get the more it seems that I get what I pay for, that the results I reap are directly related to the effort and quality that I put it, that the reward may actually be in the effort and work rather than the results! Yeah ok, the results are fine too, but you get out what you put in and that is my point here.

Shortcuts have long been a driving force in my life. Nothing existed for me that a perceived shortcut couldn’t make 10 times better. While my brother lived for the “deal” it didn’t matter if he made $1 or $11,000.00 closing the “deal” brought him the same amount of pleasure, I lived for the shortcut. Faster, better, quicker, shorter, cheaper, though I have to admit that my shortcuts were always about less energy for the same or near same results, because I am a lazy dog. Yep, my shortcuts are driven by laziness for the 95% part, and I own that completely.

I can freely admit that because I am starting to think that there are no shortcuts. Its easy to remember that my dad rejected 99.99% of the shortcuts that I proposed as a kid and not because they were bad ideas, but because it would not give us the results he wanted - no shortcut at all as far as he was concerned and unfortunately I concur that he was more correct than wrong. I have wasted good portion of my life looking for a shortcut. Time to give it up and dig in.