Hustle Until Your Haters Ask if You're Hiring*

Hope won’t carry you. Hustle will.
I’ve met people who wait on hope.
They sit still, pray for change, and expect a knock at the door.
But nobody’s coming to save you.
Even with the best degrees and a silver platter, if you can’t hustle you won’t move.
Inside the system or outside of it, hustle is your only ticket.
I believe success is where homework and faith meet opportunity.
So here’s to the ones who hustle like their future depends on it, because it does.

​Daymond John

by Skip Cohen

It's Hump Day, and I try to keep my mid-week posts relatively short and to the point. When the quote above, from Shark Tank's Daymond John, came up on LinkedIn, it hit me pretty hard.

We all know too many photographers owners who have done everything they can to learn the craft in terms of their skill set, but then kick back and wait for clients to flock to their door, but nobody showed up.  They never really hustled. They didn't market themselves, get involved in their community, or build relationships.

No need for me to write anymore this morning, Daymond John said it all.

Happy Hump Day!

* iushakovsky from Adobe Stock