Working hard won’t make you rich

Working hard won’t make you rich. I know that’s not what we’ve grown up hearing. We’ve heard the opposite. Put in the hours. Outwork everyone. Grind now, get paid later. Do that long enough and the money shows up. It doesn’t work that way, though… At least not the way we’ve been promised. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Even if you work hard and you don’t get rich, the work gives you something else. Something most people overlook because they’re too busy waiting for the paycheck. And it’s worth more than the money. The mirror A while ago I hung a mirror in our house. It sounds like nothing. It wasn’t nothing to me. I spent more time measuring than drilling. I worked out the exact height. I checked the gap between the edge of the mirror and the edge of the wall. I thought about who would stand in front of it, and at what angle. Then I marked the two screw holes and made sure they sat on a perfectly straight line. Drilled. Hung it. The whole thing took longer than it had any…