The InnerFightway

Hard work isn’t the problem. Time is.

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Most people don’t avoid hard work because they’re lazy. They avoid it because hard work is quiet. It offers very little feedback early on. We like feedback. It reassures us. It tells us we’re on the right track. It gives us something to point at and say, this is working.

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Hard work rarely does that. You show up, do the thing, and nothing obvious changes. No signal. No confirmation. Just another session, another early alarm, another decision made without applause. We’re told to ‘be patient’ while living in a world that trains us to expect the opposite. I get it that people are in conflict.

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So we chase what responds quickly. Short plans. Fast wins. Clear milestones. Numbers over feelings. Not because they’re better, but because they answer our need to feel progress now, our thirst of instant gratification. Consistency becomes rare not because it’s difficult, but because it’s unrewarding for longer than we’re comfortable with.

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And somehow we’ve all convinced ourselves we’re in a hurry, as if everything has to be solved immediately, or it won’t matter. I can not say 100% but based not the data I would say 2027 will happen.

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Hard work is multifaceted. It’s part of all areas of our lives, repeated, over time. Time is the variable we underestimate most. Six-week plans deliver six-week outcomes (at best). Six years delivers something else entirely. Speak to the InnerFight members on our commitment board. Five, ten, fifteen years of showing up. That’s hard. But what hard delivers, is very good.

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No Weakness.

Marcus