If you want a breakthrough, or something at the top of the rankings, or a skill that few have, or a chance to build something you’re proud of … it doesn’t pay to also require it to be convenient.*
Seth Godin

In the so-called Hero’s Journey, the “call to adventure” is followed in almost all cases by the refusal of the call … There’s almost no accomplishment that is possible without courage. The courage …to take a risk … to be uniquely you … to challenge the status quo … to do what looks strange to others … to run toward while others run away … to do what people say is impossible.**
Ryan Holiday

It will require effort
to be repeated,
Probably each day;
There will be other
things to be done, but
we will have to decide
if they are really
more important –
The life story you’re writing
will help you decide:
It can be the convenient that
gets in the way of life.

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not whither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.^

*Seth Godin’s blog: And also inconvenient (source lost);
**gapingvoid’s blog: Courage is calling;
^J. R. R. Tolkien‘s All That is Gold Does Not Whither, from William Sieghart’s The Poetry Pharmacy.