Are you also not successful because of this common reason?

Ever wish that an authoritative personality would uncover your amazing talents and put you up in front of the world?

That personality making you so successful that folks begin to cheer in awe when your name is pronounced?

This could be a cool storyline for a fiction, but let the harsh sun of this actual world shine on your soft skin – even if it scorches it, burns it, tears it.

Waiting for such a miracle can keep us waiting, waiting, waiting.

But most of us, inspired by fantastic fiction, are drilled and drugged with the notion that an influential personality, noticing our deep talents and potential, would make us rise, following which we’re going to be wildly successful.

This thought stops us from taking the real action and keeps us occupied with the shallow. It arms us with an excuse for not taking risks, not putting our work under people’s scrutiny, not trying out with our greatest powers.

Because we hope to be lifted up by a lofty figure like Richard Branson or Tom Cruise or Steaven King, it feels unnecessary to try everything in our powers.

We prefer researching, practising and burnishing our skills instead of stepping up in the real action and actually putting out our work.

Waiting, waiting, waiting. Waiting for that special someone influential – who never waited to be lifted up – who is too busy working, creating, shipping.

It’s because of this flawed, common reason that we don’t leap up to give our best.

Get successful yourself instead of counting on someone influential to make you successful.

A better approach therefore is to work, create, and then ship.

There’re numerous platforms using which we can get successful.

If you’re into gaming, you can code your own game, put it on operating systems, market for it via blogs or videos or podcasts and get moving.

If you’re into writing, you can right away start a blog and make it popular by creating your own network.

If you’re into acting, you can put up your videos on to YouTube and get going.

More important is to have the courage to create and then ship. More important is to squeeze out the very best from inside us and throw it out in public.

But?

But most of us wait for the authorities. We rely on shortcuts rather than dragging ourselves in the frontline to do the work it requires.

If I had been writing regularly with the best of my efforts for the past 6 years or so, this time I would have grabbed what I want to.

But, alas…

I was waiting for an authority.

Was hoping that one of those powerful influencers would come across my writing, appreciate me, and lift me up on the forefront.

This almost never happens. And even if it does happen, it’s only by sheer chance, like you winning a lottery.