{"id":35374,"date":"2021-12-21T22:17:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T04:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=35374"},"modified":"2021-12-21T22:18:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T04:18:53","slug":"briefly-to-do-something-difficult-you-have-to-find-your-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=35374","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: To do something difficult, you have to find your purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you\u2019re doing something that comes easily to you, motivation isn\u2019t that important. It\u2019s easy. But if you want to do something difficult, you\u2019d better have some serious motivation \u2014 or you\u2019ll quit. I discovered a three-minute film from Germany tonight that\u2019s a beautiful and emotional illustration of that. It\u2019s an ad about a frail old man \u2014 who seems defeated and weak \u2014 who suddenly decides to start pushing himself to get stronger again. As we see him struggle through early difficulties, we don\u2019t know why. But in the last seconds of the film, everything makes sense. He had wanted to do something for a special little girl \u2014 and she had been the motivation for all the hard work. Click below to see the three-minute film.<\/p>\n