One day the dog & I were out walking a mile from home when I decided I didn’t want to walk anymore, but there were no good alternatives to just sucking it up & heading home. How often have you continued to do what you needed to simply because you had to & not at all because you wanted to? It might have involved a difficult project at work, a fussy child in the middle of the night, or resolving a conflict with your spouse. Much of our lives are spent “sucking it up.” Hoover & Dyson have nothing on us.
“Suck-it-uppers” clean up the mess others leave behind, they persevere to get the job done after others quit, they get tired, they have other (better) things to do … but they get the job done anyway. I’m not talking about suck-ups: those who only perform when the boss is watching. “Suck-it-uppers” are those who finish the job long after everyone else has gone home. Let’s take a lesson from them today. Are you troubled? Suck it up.