Andy Dufresne didn’t do it.



The truth didn’t matter, though. In 1947, he was convicted of double murder and ordered to serve two consecutive life sentences at Shawshank Prison.


(SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t watched The Shawshank Redemption, you might want to skip this post.)



Disinclined to spend the rest of his natural life in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, Andy escaped.

But this wasn’t your average escape plan. Freedom would not come quick nor easy.

For Andy, freedom was on the other side of a tunnel in the wall of his prison cell and a 500-foot sewage pipe.



Did he just happen upon a cell with a man-sized, ten-foot tunnel in the wall?



No. 



Using a small rock hammer, he dug his way out. 

Little by little, he picked away at that wall. 

For 19 years.



Andy Dufresne’s story — his patience and persistence, his commitment to delayed gratification — is instructive for anyone who aspires to be free.



It’s a reminder that your goals will likely never be achieved by means of an explosion of energy and effort over a brief span of time, but rather a systematic, consistent approach performed everyday for oftentimes a period of years.

Like John Maxwell says on today’s episode, doing a little bit everyday is a lot more important than doing a lot someday.



So, what’s your Shawshank?

To get the kind of life you want, what tunnel are you committed to picking away at, slowly but surely, little by little, everyday, for however long it takes?

What loathsome obstacles are you willing to crawl through so you can get to what’s on the other side?



Which tools will you use?



Tap the PLAY button to hear John Maxwell share how you can use his “Rule of Five” to accomplish seemingly monumental tasks with consistent, manageable, everyday efforts.

Source: How to Master the Art of Leadership | John Maxwell

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Sean