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Overnight success is a myth that is pushing many potential talents out of the game too soon.
Rome was not built in a day, yet we want success overnight. Like a child with an eye on a toy. With the proliferation of social media, we can admire successful people at a mere scroll up every day. We see everyone winning but us.
If I open my Linked-in account, my notifications say congratulation X and Y on this or that milestone, on a daily basis. I tend to forget I have a decent network on Linked-in and the probability of one of them getting promoted or achieving something on any given day I open my profile is high. It used to overwhelm me. Now I rarely check my account and only if I have something interesting to post. I have my own goals to double down on and my own milestones as my beacon.
It is easy for me to say forget the others and focus on yourself. Afterall, we are all humans and comparing notes is in our nature. But the problem is we see the big dream in the distant future but cannot designed the steps to get there. Even if we do make a plan, we get discouraged by the first sign of failure.
Recently, I had a client who told me in one of our sessions that she had a vision of making a spectacular chocolate masterpiece as…
