"As one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move."
Katherine Hepburn

We would all love to have someone else paddle our canoe. We want life to be easy, we want someone else to do all the work while we get the rewards. That's why there are so many "get rich quick" schemes on the Internet. But life doesn't work that way. You know that the more effort you put into something, the greater the rewards. You appreciate the rewards much more if you know in your heart that you have earned them.

It is only our own effort that takes us where we want to go. If you can get other people to do the work, they are going to do it for their own reasons and with their own priorities. It will ultimately benefit them more than you. If you want your canoe to go where you want it to go, you must take the driver's seat.

Don't ask other people to paddle your canoe. Do it yourself. If you aren't willing to do the work, then you will end up going nowhere. You certainly won't be in a place you want to be. And you won't feel good about it

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