If you believe or think that you can be an overnight success, you’re not only wrong you’re naive. Becoming an overnight success only happens because you don’t see all the years someone puts into the work they do. You only discover them after the hit movie, the hit album or their viral YouTube video that was their 700th they posted. As the expression goes it took me 10 years to become an overnight success.
Things take time.
Knowing things take time, why add to it? You add time by being lazy, by procrastinating, by waiting to start. You want to get all the information before you start. You want to wait until you’re ready. You want to have yet another brainstorming session. Stop! Just start, now. Things already take time and you're adding to it by your own inaction.
Steven Pressfield writes in The War of Art;
“We don't tell ourselves, I'm never going to write my symphony. Instead we say, I am going to write my symphony; I'm just going to start tomorrow.”
Things take time. You’re adding to them.
You don’t yell at the cake in the oven for baking to slowly or for the recipe to come together. Desperately wanting it to hurry up because you have people coming over or the cake is your contribution to a party. No. You finish baking the cake with enough time for it to be at the party on time. For people at the party to enjoy it, when it's time to cut the cake. The same applies for you and your life. Don’t rush things along as if they helps. What does help however, is not adding to how long things take. Not everyone is fast and some may be slow. None of that matters. Focus on your speed. Stay in your lane.
Things take time. Don’t add to it.
Thought Provoking Question 1 : How are YOU adding time to the task at hand?
Dan Roman is a Husband, Father, and writer that releases a daily blog. A quick read on sharing wisdom and asking though-provoking questions.
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