I have heard it said that success is a matter of hard work. Hard work is definitely a matter that relates to success (there will be hard work… I am sure) BUT is it the only thing that assures success? Let’s take an example of my favourite entrepreneur… Richard Branson. Compare Richard Branson to yourself. You work hard like him? If this was the way success is measured then you should be as rich as he is… but you are not. Are you?
Let me extend this question and ask you if you could work harder would it bring you success? Probably not. You may be working hard at a job that has limited prospects (like I am at the moment) or you may be someone who has endless potential. My great aunt could play the piano by ear for example. She had one lesson in her entire life and could hear any piece and then play it back knowing intuitively where to put her fingers. She never became a famous musician, neither did she go on to become the world’s greatest piano player. She died.
She had a natural inclination to music that was freakish yet she never stepped out of her world to do anything more. I think success is a matter of conceptualisation. What you think you have to do in order to obtain it, ironically, is what you will do in order to obtain it. I cannot speak beyond this point because it would make me a hypocrite. What about being in the right place at the right time… *coughs* Digital Research DOS… *coughs*.
So what can we do to obtain success? I don’t know. But what I can tell you is this… if hard work is the only thing that brings success then I would be a billionaire eight times by now.
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