Caption: Construction workers walking and talking on an unfinished building.
Imagine this. You have to spend 10 minutes every day doing construction work. Every day you don’t work somebody beats you up. How often do you get beat up?
In this analogy, construction work equals effort and what you are building equals society.
People think that the way to make change is by making donations, protesting, and spreading awareness on social media. But those are only tools to make change.
It's like bringing a thousand hammers to a construction site. What's your foundation? Where are your building plans? What building materials are you using?
What do you want?
Imagine you are pissed off about a political issue. You make a post online about it. All of a sudden you get a message from a person who has enough power to solve the problem. They ask you what you want. Not what you don't want. What you want. What do you tell them?
How would you solve the problem?
And how much work are you willing to put in?
If solving this issue meant you had to do 100 hours of research, send and reply to 100 emails, do 100 pages of paperwork, and go to 10 meetings would you do it?
If solving this issue meant you had to have 1 difficult conversation with someone you care about, would you do it?
Right now there’s people who can’t do construction work even if they wanted to. And most of them get beat up everyday.
There’s other people who do 10 hours a day of construction work. And they’re getting beat up because they’re building alone when they needed everyone else to help for 10 minutes.
A lot of us sit somewhere in the middle, and spend our 10 minutes a day doom scrolling or getting distracted. Think about it- if everyone had unlimited time, how many of them would really spend it doing construction for 10 minutes a day?
Not many and that might be because of a terrifying monster called time management! What you want to build is up to you, and great way to start is by setting up a time once a week in your calendar. Don’t start with 10 minutes a day because that’s not realistic. So go visit your calendar RIGHT NOW!
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