Why There’s No Such Thing As An Overnight Success
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Was 2009 ever so slightly disappointing? Is success taking it’s time showing up in your life and career? But here’s a question for you. Have we all been deluding ourselves about the nature of success? Are our expectations far too unrealistic?
Put it this way - I’d hazard a guess that over Christmas you probably ate some cheese and biscuits, accompanied by a couple of glasses of vintage port. I would also assume that they tasted rather nice, even perfect. You took the time to savour the flavour. Now I’m not about to start talking about the slow food movement - but what I’d like to say to that person who hasn’t yet tasted succes (yet), is that as with certain speciality foods - you can’t hurry perfection. You can’t ‘make’ cheese ripen any quicker than its meant to, or a bottle of special reserve reach maturity in a hurry. Yes I know there’s probably some scientist somewhere working on that - but that’s missing the point.
From a personal and achievement perspective - it’s actually quite reassuring to know that an overnight success is almost a myth. ‘The Fab Four’ played in front of audiences for over 10,000 hours before they ‘shot‘ to fame. Leonard Da Vinci didn’t paint the Last Supper in a weekend and countless Olympians didn’t achieve that status staying on the sofa on a rainy night or by sleeping in and missing the training session.
We’ve all been slightly misled into thinking that if you don’t succeed at something right away then you’re a failure, whilst reinforcing this by saying things like ‘it will never work’. AND those at the top forget to mention the years of training, study, struggle and countless mistakes they experienced on their way to achieving their targets. Some have more failures behind them than success.
Thousands of individuals are probably starting the new year knowing that by the end of 2010 nothing will have changed for them. Nothing.
They are the ones stuck in the same groove, running the same dispiriting thought viruses and programmes which are guaranteed to sabotage their success.
The differences between the Beatles and Leonardo’s of this world is that they threw themselves into what they loved - but were prepared to put in the hours and dedicate their lives to their quest, knowing that the results might not necessarily show up instantaneously. Some persistance and work was involved (OK quite a lot). Even Will Smith admitted in an interview that the reason he’s so successful was because he’s prepared to outrun everyone else in order to succeed - or die trying!
We need to get real here. Look pay attention. You have 12 whole months to take an Opportunity that’s in your sights, get the right Support, and in some cases start to think more Innovatively, in order to secure the Reward and Recognition that you seek. Why not make 2010 the year where you really went after the Vision of what you really want? When you Decide to do something about that, share it with someone who will champion your success.
Until The New Year
Warmest Regards
Wendy Dashwood-Quick
Wendy is an Executive Coach the Author of “Discover Yourself On The Yellow Brick Road - 7 Core Principles of Career Success” author of “Ultrapreneurs Unplugged - What They Don’t Tell You About Building A Successful Micro Business“.
Wendy is the Founder of Resolution Coaching & The Ultrapreneur Academy
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