September 23, 2015 at 8:49 am, by Carl

“They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited ‘first chapters’. I have indeed written many.”

What I tell my students is that effort at the start is always the easiest.  The enthusiasm of “the new” is almost always high for most people.  At the end, equally, though tired, there is a “light at the end of the tunnel” exhilaration.  It is in the middle days though that the effort becomes the hardest.  Few people quit a diet, a Bible study, an effort to change a habit, at the end.  Fewer still quit in the first days.  It is in the middle of the slog that your greatest courage and determination must be found.