Boldness has genius, power and magic in it
Here's an interesting quote of W.H. Murray, from the Scottish
Himalayan Expedition. Read it carefully. "Until one is
committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always
ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and
creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which
kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one
definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts
of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have
occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision,
raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and
meetings and material assistance, which no man could have
dreamed would have come his way. I have learned a deep respect
for one of Goethe's couplets: Whatever you can do, or dream you
can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
Some people, when they encounter a success story or someone "who
has made it", say he/she's been "lucky". Nothing could be
further from the truth, luck has nothing to do with it. You can
do as much affirmations as you want, but nothing really changes
until you start to act. You can do affirmations, you can pray,
you can visualize, you can meditate, set goals and write them on
paper, you can brainstorm, etc... You can do all kinds of things
and this isn't bad at all. There's nothing wrong with it; all
these techniques can indeed be very helpful and effective. BUT
in the end, nothing really changes until you take action. It's
not that action in itself is a kind of magic formula or that
success is guaranteed just because you finally took action. Yet
once you commit and really take forceful, decisive action to
realise your goal, nice things start to happen. Some people call
that "luck". (The strange thing is that the people who start
this luck, mostly never take any action themselves to realise
their dreams , they prefer watching TV or playing computer games
instead). It's as if the Universe all of a sudden starts to
cooperate with you, but only once you've proven that you really
mean it! If you still doubt in some way, if you only take some
action from time to time, or if you work on a Plan A and on Plan
B at the same time because you're afraid to fail at Plan A,
success might escape you. But once you really commit and burn
your bridges behind you and really go for it, goofy thing start
to happen. This is what the cynical people call "luck". Not that
everything will go automatically all of a sudden or so.
Sometimes this can be rather subtle yet important. As if "the
force is with you" ;-) So whatever it is, you want to achieve,
GO FOR IT. Take action. Start to act right now. Stop
procrastinating. You know that you must take action or you will
never be satisfied, so start right NOW !