If you don’t believe success is mostly a matter of luck, just ask anyone who’s failed. They’ll tell you, “Hey, with a few good breaks, I could have achieved something.”
Achievement is not the result of lucky breaks. The crucial difference between those who accomplish and those who don’t is rarely a roll of the dice. It’s simply that achievers “do it” while others “dream” about it.
It’s so easy to “say” what we’re going to do. To dream of doing. Fantasize. Plan. Talk. Get “ready” to do.
But actually doing it…that’s what separates “winners” from “wishers”.
How many people have a book inside their head just waiting to be written? Libraries couldn’t contain all of the novels if suddenly every aspiring author actually wrote one. As someone who does write for a living, I have this caution taped to my desk. It says, “Planning to write is not writing. Thinking about writing is not writing. Talking about writing is not writing. Researching to write, outlining to write….none of this is writing. ‘Writing’ is writing”.
When asked if he only wrote when inspired, a famous author told on journalism class, “Yes, I write only when inspired. And I make certain that I’m inspired every morning from 8:00 until 11:00.”
This principle applies to everything: Doing is doing. There is no substitute. No other way to achieve. The world is ready and waiting for people who’ll put their dreams to work.
And those people will find the competition not nearly as tough as they’d imagined. Because so many potential competitors will do everything it takes to succeed.
Expect to “do it!”
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