November 8, 2012. Canyon Lake, Texas. Working.

Hard work is always beneficial.   No one has ever achieved anything without a lot of hard work.   Most people we know well were not been born rich although they are do live well today.  When you ask,  folks are keen to tell you how they did it.  All the scrimping and working their way through college and graduate school, then saving for the first house, all the while making a life with their family.   Never living the high life but saving and investing in their future and the future of their children.

When you look at those folks now, you would never know how hard and diligently they worked, until you ask.  One problem for the young today is that their education was provided by the parents.  By the time young adults became aware of their parents, the parents were no longer poor, so their life seemed easy.

I asked my good friend the other evening if her children worked as hard as she did when they were young.    When she was 10, she decided to be a doctor and coming from a poor family, worked her way through both college and medical school.  " Of course not,"  she said. "I could not pretend to be poor.  I paid for them to attend college, which is the normal thing to do today."

I suspect that many young people today have no idea how difficult it is to achieve anything, and are somewhat surprised  and irritated they are not affluent.   Hard work is it's own reward, as is a bit of deprivation.  The next few years will be interesting, but will all require a lot of hard work.  You can count on it.