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OK, they seem to think that us "normal folk" cant do this. You don't want to listen, but you hear them and some fears start creeping into your mind. What if they are right? Yeah, so what? Accept that YES, they could be, but don't let them project their fears onto you. That's them. They probably aren't prepared to put in
work, whereas, if you are reading this, we can presume you are -- and that's half
battle licked already.
Failure or learning? It's a question of attitude
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by
things you didn't do than by
ones you did do. So throw off
bowlines. Sail away from
safe harbor. Catch
trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain
Focus merely on doing what's right for you, now, (even if you suffer
consequences) for only you can regret not trying something if you choose and allow others to influence you to hesitate.
If at first you don't succeed ...
You will read statistics (and actually, they are not lies) that state only 5% of people will succeed. Almost none of them will do it on
first attempt. And this is where
95% -- that
doubting Thomases above hold as being normal -- simply give up.
It's not because IT doesn't work, it's not because they couldn't have done it. They just didn't have that one elusive secret, quality or knowledge that
5% do realise they have.
So what's
mystical secret that
5% have?
Absolutely nothing more than
fact that they do not give up and they know they shouldn't. If their first ideas don't work, they learn why and go on to try something better. Again and again. They keep learning and they keep trying, for which they require inspiration, motivation and a large measure of tenacity. In my dictionary, failure is merely a sinister word that other people give to a natural learning-by-doing process. It ain't a big deal, it's no more than a knee-scrape in
scheme of things. Get back on that bike!
I've tried many things that didn't work for me, but I don't think I have failed, ever.
In fact, I have learned and I am still learning, but
two most important things so far are:
=> Finally, I am seeing results --
ones that matter to me currently, ones that pay
bills => I am enjoying what I do at last instead of being an opressed wage-slave.
The motivation thus becomes self-fuelling. I am realising a dream.
