Do > Be
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— Cadre JD
Anyone who has been in the military has experienced this. You go home on leave and run into a friend from high school or a stranger in a bar and they tell you about how they were going to BE a Marine or a sailor or soldier or airman, but…
Something got in the way. Something always gets in the way of people who want to BE something.
The thing that usually get in the way is the fact that you have to DO things. Hard things.
If the US Olympic committee sat up a table in front of the local Walmart and handed out free gold medals lots of people would line up.
Lots of people want to BE a gold medalist.
Very few are willing or able to DO the work required to get there.
And those who are willing to DO long enough to BE soon learn that you have to keep Doing.
The rents due every fucking day.
To DO is greater than to BE.
Ruck the Fuck up and keep DOing.
We all have a few friends who need to Ruck the Fuck Up. Share this with them.
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Do or Do Not. There is no try. - Yoda