Lifestyle/Personal Growth

The Grass Is Greener Where You Water It

You can improve on where you are by putting in more effort.

You can revamp your existing project by putting in more effort. Photo by Nina Rumbines on Unsplash

Many of us believe we need a total change of direction or abandonment of our existing project to make things better, but this is not necessarily so. However, success is more of an action than anything else.

It is natural for an average person to wrongly access his peers, and believe they are doing better than him, despite the fact that success is measured by different parameters. We can look at their business, their choice of trade or profession. To an average person, the grass is always greener on the other side.

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This may want to drive us to ‘copy’ their strategy in order to achieve our own success too. We have examples of those who are new here on the Medium platform, and they are an instant success. Some have written about how to achieve the same success. And there are few who have set up a course program to teach others how to make it big on Medium.

Few who have taken the course have been disappointed, as their subsequent stories have still not gone viral. These students have learned the lesson that success is putting in more effort by those whose articles have gone viral.

Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, and so many surprises. That thing you had to force yourself to do — -the actual act of writing — -turns out to be the best part. The act of writing turns out to be its own reward.

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Challenge Yourself

Whatever you want to achieve or improve upon in your life, challenge yourself to put in more effort, just one small positive effort at a time. The sweet thing about putting in more effort is that all effort is rewarded, at one point or another. The timing of the reward is definitely different for each one of us. That is why your article has not gone viral yet, and it may take time to see the progress you want, but hopefully, the reward will come, if you do not give up, and keep watering the grass where you want to make it greener.

The Takeaways

• “The end is not the reward; the path you take, the emotions that course through you as you grasp life — that is the reward.” Jamie Magee, Embody
• “Get busy watering your own grass so as not to notice whether it’s greener elsewhere.” Karon Waddell
• “If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, chances are it’s getting better care.” Frank Sonnenberg,

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