One Apple A Day #910 - do it because you love it
The main narrative in our society is that the only thing that matters is the result. We celebrate the winners, the ones who achieve something, who deliver the results.
Even worse, we learn that the result depends solely on our effort. The way to achieve something it's work hard and put in a lot of effort. And if you don't get the result you want, most probably it's because you didn't work hard enough. In short, it's your fault.
However, results are a lot more elusive. The final outcome of any human endeavour depends on many factors of which your work is only one.
Even when we win, we should be honest enough to admit that it's not all our making. That luck, fate or coincidences - call it as you want - played a significant role.
That doesn't diminish a bit your effort and commitment.
This mindset's problem is that by focusing on the outcome, we lose the joy of the journey. And we get to the end and don't achieve the desired results, then the whole journey will feel like a waste of time and energy.
That is why you should ask yourself what your real intention for doing something is. Would you do it even if you know you won' get the results in the end?
In my experience, if you do the work because you love it and because you love the person you become by doing it, then the results will come. And even when they don't come, it will be a success.