Until You Succeed
I stare at a blank page in front of me hoping to find the light of inspiration and the spark of an idea worth writing about. I’ve often heard and come across about three types of people – optimistic, pessimistic and realistic. The two extremes and the reasonable middle. One school of thought claims that if you remain constantly positive and - to quote what I’ve read - “if you want something badly enough”, you will achieve it. Another philosophy discredits this theory with the assertion that “wanting something badly” is not enough to actually achieve it. A poor person wants riches badly, but not every poor person in the world becomes rich. A blind person wants to see badly, but not ever blind person is able to see. One commonality among most successful people is that despite a flurry of failures early on in their chosen field of work, they never gave up. If something didn’t work out, they did not become disheartened. They learnt lessons from their failures and tried something diffe