If you hear someone state that success is easy, hightail it as fast as you are able to as you're about to hear a sales pitch for some product. The honest truth is that it's truly hard to win at something you've never executed previously.
But that's absolutely all right. Get the picture that that failure and success aren't opposites. If you bomb, it signifies you're taking action, so you're making mistakes and training yourself. Success occurs by nature once you finally learn how to take the right actions.
What do you desire? What are your fantasies? What do you long for so severely that you can't quit thinking of it, even if you believe it unimaginable? Let yourself dream. Cultivate your richest desires, regardless how impractical or unimaginable they appear. It's absolutely all right to wish the unimaginable. It's not all right to make-believe that your wants don't matter.
Take one step at a time. Be patient with yourself as you experience failure. When you're pursuing a goal you truly want, the sort that nearly brings you to tears when you consider it as you connect with it so deeply, then you have to persist with it. Regardless how hard it gets, don't stop.
Don't press yourself to achieve massive success at the beginning. Merely do the best you are able to. At the start, your best may be scarcely one notch above total half-wit -if you're lucky. Sooner or later you'll earn a little basic competence.
And farther down the road, people will call you an authority-an authority being an person whose failed enough to win at getting what they want.
It's incredible inspiring to watch individuals battle through one failure after some other without resigning. From the exterior looking in, it may appear as if they can't possibly succeed. However they still hang in.
Finally they learn what they have to learn. They successfully align their anticipations to fit reality, and finally their actions start bringing on the intended results. I'm struck by those who I can see are bound for greatness, but no one else realizes it yet. The revealing sign is always the same- persistence.
If you're clear about what you want, settle for nothing less. Admit that success will take time, maybe much longer than you'd like. Free yourself of the fast and simple, something-for-nothing mentality.