The Courage To Keep Showing Up

At the Sapling House, Sundays were laundry days. Ten or more loads, hauled down three flights of stairs, washed in a wringer machine that burned your hands if you moved too slowly, then carried back up and hung to dry before the week began again.

It wasn’t glamorous. No one applauded when the last basket was folded. But I learned something there that I carry with me still: excellence is made in the small things.

Writing Dreams That Matter felt a lot like those Sundays. Endless pages, revisions stacked like wet clothes, every line wrung out by hand. There was no applause when a chapter was finished. No spotlight when I kept showing up to the blank page. But excellence, I had learned, is not about performance. It is about consistency.

The same truth lives inside JASPER. When we walk into a home mid-project, the stage doesn’t look glamorous. There are studs exposed, sawdust on the floor, schedules stretched thin. But every small choice, every detail done with care, becomes the kind of excellence you can feel in your bones when you walk through the finished home.

Maybe you are in a season where your own “laundry” feels endless. The work no one sees. The repetition that makes you wonder if it matters. I want you to know: it does.

Excellence isn’t a single grand gesture. It is one small act done with integrity, repeated until it becomes who you are. It is built when no one claps. It is built when you are tired. It is built when you choose to keep showing up.

-Jasmine