Time and Effort

If you are living hand-to-mouth, you have no option but to solve the immediate problems in the way you are most confident works. 

Building space, to take knocks (Short Term - Resilience) and give you confidence that sufficient time is available (Long Term – Endurance), allows you to look at problems differently. You can afford to try something different. 

This is the capacity that allows firms, countries, and people to invest in research and development. To allocate money to potential. Most people are looking for quick fixes and easy solutions. The higher your required rate of return, the shorter the time frame that is considered. 

One of the strongest competitive advantages you can have is willingness and capacity to commit to obvious, but hard, challenges. Where everyone knows the answer, but it is too much effort. 

Like getting fit and eating healthily. The further down the road the payoff for effort is, the more support you need till that pay off arrives. 

Most of us know how to run, and have done since we were kids. Few of us have run marathons because of the hours of training and effort required. A lot of people just don’t want to run marathons. Some want to. Theoretically. Maybe. Probably not. 

A common skill many Olympians share is the capacity to not have to earn money during the time they are training. Time and effort are significant barriers.

Time and Effort

to overcome barriers