Do the Boring Work: My Journey Through Faith, Fitness, and Focus by stevenson7

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hive-196233 · @stevenson7 · 2025-06-13T18:44:42+00:00

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Do the Boring Work: My Journey Through Faith, Fitness, and Focus

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<div class="text-justify">I've become a complete gym head, and honestly, I'm not even complaining. I see fitness and my journey with Christ as an avenue to fuel every other aspect of my life, and I keep walking the walk. I try to remind myself also that it isn't about the destination, but about the journey, because what truly matters isn't the big payday you got last time out, or the horrible experience you had the other day, or the embarrassing situation that plagued you all week; no. Those things come and go and everyone, including you, forgets about them. What truly matters is the consistency, you showing up again tomorrow to go at it, win or lose.</div>


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<div class="text-justify">I learned something important lately. The rule of success and happiness is in doing the boring work. After starting my fitness journey over a year ago, as you'd expect, the algorithm started flooding me with similar content and I realized that most things are just grandiose BS people do to put on a show. What truly works is doing the simple boring things, and optimizing them as you go. This applies to work, life, health, family, relationships, etc. And the reality is, oftentimes, nobody wants to do the boring work, but that's the real precedent for greatness.</div>

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<div class="text-justify">It's easy to think you're falling behind, it's easy to think you're not doing it right, it's even easier to think you are missing out, but the reality is none of this is true. What truly matters is your journey, your experience. Nobody has your traits, nobody has your skills, nobody has your background, nobody has your family, and so on. I know I'm starting to sound like all those shithead motivational speakers, "aspire to Maguire" crap. My message is simple and it's that: do the boring work and cut out the noise. Enjoy it, optimize it, grow with it, write your own story. Peace is better than fun. Oh and by the way, I took these sunset photos. Cool right?!</div>

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@hivebuzz · 2025-06-19T14:15:27+00:00

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@ibbtammy · 2025-06-13T19:03:51+00:00

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@stevenson7 · 2025-06-13T19:07:33+00:00

🫶🏿

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@indiaunited · 2025-06-14T03:23:54+00:00

Indiaunited Curation 1749871435988

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@stevenson7 · 2025-06-14T22:48:39+00:00

Grazie señor @bhattg 🫂

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@macchiata · 2025-06-14T10:55:27+00:00

That's one of a good read from you in a while definitely a motivational  speakers. Boring work definitely is the key, like people sleep on that but that's where things usually matters.

👍 stevenson7

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@stevenson7 · 2025-06-14T22:52:51+00:00

Agreed 

There's this guy on Twitter (Charles Miller), reads a lot of books and talks about books a a lot. He said, "the boring work is where the magic happens". He did a thing where he could DMed all the top authors around his city for a writers gathering, surprisingly majority of them accepted. He organized it and now it has become a ritual. He talks about how the willingness to do the boring work is where greatness starts. It really inspires me.

Thank you for the compliment Mac. Well appreciated 🙏🏿

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