If you are familiar with the motivation industry, you should know how the "motivators" pump you up and get you to set extraordinary goals. You probably have demanded yourself to earn one million buck within one year (despite the fact that you only earn 3,000 bucks a month), have effortless "passive income" going into your bank in two years, and then retire and do whatever you like by the age of 40. If you don't impose yourself these goals, you are deemed hopeless and have no chance to "make it" in your lifetime.
A case in point: If you have not watched "The Secret", you must have been living in a cave for the past decades. See how the authors make you believe that you can make your fortune by just believing.
As this motivation industry flourishes, there are a lot of people who have gone through the "workshops" or "seminars". So there are more and more people setting audacious goals.
However, not many of them realize that to achieve something, your need factors (a term used by economists), or conditions (a term used by Buddhists), or blessing (a term used by Muslims, Christians, etc). You can put in a lot of effort, but if the factors are not there, you just won't make it. Okay, the motivational speakers have asked you to push yourself. So you do. You jump into fields that you are not having any strength. You start selling insurance, mutual funds, option trading, or some MLM, or some forms of "get rich quick" schemes. You start online businesses, blogs, hoping that you will make it big one day. You rush yourself through, and neglected your health, your spiritual life, your family a long the way.
Many people get stuck.
Success doesn't come with force. It comes when you and the factors (or conditions, or blessing) are ready.
Over the years, I realized that the biggest factor required for success is time. Your skill need time to develop. You need time to build your products and services. Your customers take time to get familiar with you and have confidence in you. You need time to build your marketing channels. The list goes on. So you need time.
So if time is required, then don't rush it.
We have at least two options: (1) rush it, because you need to retire at 40, doesn't matter if you ruin your health, since you will have all the money to treat your failing health after you "make it"; (2) take your time, enjoy the journey, take good care of your health, and live long enough so that you have more time to grow your wealth, and to enjoy the fruits of your labor.
For me, I will take the second option on my growinglane.
everyday, at home, at school, at work. We have to go at a hurried pace just to get everything done, and sometimes we feel that we have too much to handle and our lives are getting out of our control. We get home tired, stressed out and worried about the things we failed to do and all the other things that we have yet to do the next day.