Your shortcut is a sacrifice from your glory.

“Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.
After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.”

– Zen Proverb

You see, while you’re trying to be elsewhere, you need to be here.

Your elsewhere is equivalent to the enlightenment. And while you want to arrive – and you will arrive – you forsake what is in front of you, wanting something better off in the distance.

But, you’ll find, that the all glorious desire you want – that is off in the distance – is actually, from where you’re standing right now, often a mirage.

Let me explain; the point of arrival you wish to arrive at cannot be appreciated if you don’t spend your present moment fortifying the current foundations right here and now. Your present circumstance is the foundation you build for later, so that you can – when you arrive at your desired destination – fully enjoy your point of arrival.

Every shortcut you take right now, adds up, and when you arrive at your point of arrival, every brick (which you lay every day) is add up, contributes to the Hight at which you’re able to perceive your point of arrival.

No brick today, means you get to go to your point of arrival, but your experience of that moment will be empty, or lacking something. Because you will have taken shortcuts along the way.

Your shortcut is a sacrifice from your moment of arrival.

The shortcuts you take are withdrawals you make from your moment of arrival.

In other words, every shortcut you take right now, is a subtraction to the outcome you desire to arrive at. Every Rep you don’t do right now, equals every rep you won’t have done when you arrive.