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Life isn’t fair. I’m sorry to burst your bubble, but the fair only comes once a year and it’s probably going to be canceled anyway.

There is certainly not an even distribution of many important resources. Some folks are smarter than others. Some may have to overcome learning disabilities. Some of us had supportive parents and others may not even know their parents. Some are well-connected, others aren’t. Some had access to a top-notch education, but some barely had an opportunity for a bare-bones high school education.

There never has been and never will be an equal sharing of resources, and much of that is out of our control. But while talents and means are important, they are simply isolated aspects of potential. And potential alone doesn’t mean much. Every lump of coal has the potential to be a diamond, but I don’t see a lot of women wearing coal in their rings and necklaces.


But what you can control is effort. Effort is the great equalizer. Properly applied with intentionality and decisiveness, effort is what causes even small seeds of potential to produce valuable fruit. No, you can’t pick your family, where you were born, the socioeconomic status into which you were born or even your early formal education, but you can always choose the intensity and aim of your effort. And that is where diamonds come from, even if it seems like you are starting with just a lump of coal. 

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