“What’d you do today?"   “Excuse me?” I responded.   This wasn’t an innocent or idle question. I’d been fretting to a colleague that I didn’t reach a goal I’d set for myself. Her response was curt and dispassionate.   “What’d you do today? What did you do yesterday?”    She never said anything else but just let me live with my own responses.   If you want to make a difference with your photography, your degree of success is often found in the actions you took today. And yesterday. It’s your level of effort. It’s your hustle.   I was listening to Chase Jarvis interview Levar Burton on the 30 Days of Genius series when Levar dropped this truth bomb.   You have to not only be the artist and creator, you have to be the promoter, too. The distributor. The chief bottle washer. You have to sweep up. You have to hustle. You have to hustle. And I believe one’s hustle is a sign of the degree to which one is really passionate about getting it done. So where is your hustle game?   Let’s unpack that quote because in it Levar Burton gave us the opportunity, the prescription, and the challenge.   Listen to the episode