Sometimes the more difficult task is to stay on the right path once you’ve found it. You may have an inkling you’re headed in the right direction, but you’re not getting the results you would like quickly enough.
That’s where patience comes in. You must be willing to keep walking, even if you don’t reap rewards immediately. You are in control of the path you choose, but you can’t mandate the amount of time it will take you to reach success. However, if you are on the right path, you will eventually make progress. You will find success.
Your assignment today is to take a look at your path. Are you on the right path or the wrong path? Are you getting impatient?
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“My little [note]books were beginnings—they were the ground into which I dropped the seed . . . I would work in this way when I was out in the crowds, then put the stuff together at home.”
— Walt Whitman
Your very first assignment was to get a notebook. You may have discovered by now that having a notebook with you at all times can be extremely handy. Numerous successful individuals keep a notebook with them to jot down their ideas whenever they think of them. Do you keep your notebook handy? That is your assignment today.
Why? There is one very good reason: you never know when inspiration will hit. Walt Whitman was a wonderful observer, and he found many seeds of creative inspiration when he was out and about. He didn’t want to forget his best ideas by the time he returned home. Inspiration is a fleeting thing. It is front and center in your mind at one moment, and then the next minute it vanishes.
You may take a walk on a beautifully crisp blue morning and witness a hawk flying against the bright sky. The scene inspires you to write down a few lines. Those lines may become a poem, a song, or a new advertising campaign. They may even motivate you to use similar colors when you remodel your living room. Who knows?