There is no such thing as overnight success. If you do research on your favorite business icons or entertainers, you will find that they continuously worked on their craft for many years before reaching success. You will find that successful people have one thing in common. They stay consistent. Constant practice will eventually make you an expert over time. Consistency is what separates winners from losers. Most people never become rich and successful because they quit at the first sign of adversity. Everyone who has achieved greatness had to persevere and overcome hardship.
The Wright brothers endured a lot of difficulty before they invented the world’s first successful airplane. They stayed persistent and never gave up.
Tiger woods started playing Golf at the age of 3 years old. He had almost 20 years of constant practice before he became the #1 golfer in the world in 1997. Tiger Woods was not an overnight success.
Mozart consistently played music since the early age of 5 years old. Beethoven also started learning music at a young age from his father who was a music teacher. Mozart and Beethoven were not instant high achievers.
Basketball coach Phil Jackson won 11 NBA titles, surpassing the previous record of 9. During Phil Jacksons’ early coaching career, he had to coach in a lower-level professional league in Puerto Rico. He was turned down many times for NBA coaching jobs. Phil Jackson never became discouraged and quit. He stayed consistent for years and continued to hone his coaching skills in the lower leagues for years. His patience and consistency eventually paid off by earning him the opportunity to coach Michael Jordan with the Chicago Bulls in the 1987.
High achievers develop expertise in their chosen field. Once you become known as an expert, money and success will come. The only way to develop expertise is through patience and constant repetition.
The media shines a bright light on people after they have achieved greatness. They never show the years of persistent grind. This misleads people to think that success comes overnight. You will not become rich overnight. The rare people who do obtain an instant windfall of money are usually not able to sustain it very long. The majority of lottery winners go broke with in a few years. You will never see a seed blossom into a rose over night. Every seed of success needs time to develop. This is the law of nature.
Learn from how a bamboo tree grows. A bamboo tree grows very slow and will not show any signs of growth above ground for the first 3 to 5 years. The tree actually makes a lot of progress underground by growing strong roots to create a firm foundation. When it finally springs above ground, it will grow rapidly up to 80 feet in as little as 6 weeks. Your success will be overwhelming you once you finally make your breakthrough.
Persistent tiny drops of water will wear away a stone. Nature teaches us to relentlessly pursue our goals no matter what adversity tries to stand in our way. Persistence will defeat all hardship. Tough times never last, but tough people will. We should embrace adversity because it makes us stronger and wiser. There is no such thing as failure unless you quit. Persistence is the key to succeeding at any endeavor. Stay persistent and victory is guaranteed to be yours.