Overnight Success Exists, but It Happens Only for Those Who Build It Daily Over Years
Don’t be fooled by an illusion.
Society is such that we only notice people who achieve great things. Only great successes are highlighted. So when someone succeeds in your field, you feel that their success is dazzling.
The media reinforces this impression by talking just about success stories.
It must be said that this type of success sells. Making a buzz by telling the story of a struggling entrepreneur seems impossible. Indeed, even you prefer to read stories of successful people.
If I told you about someone who works hard every day but hasn’t yet achieved great things, I’m not sure you would listen to me in the same way as if I told you the story of Jeff Bezos or Steve Jobs.
Success inspires much more than the harsh reality of life.
Overnight success is just the tip of the iceberg
It makes it seem like success falls on some people overnight. You were walking down the street like a normal person, and all of a sudden, by chance, incredible success came your way. You become a recognized person in your field, and you are rich.
In reality, overnight success exists, but only as of the tip of the iceberg.
Most people only look at the outcome, which is a person’s brilliant success.
Everything that has gone before is forgotten or overlooked.
This creates a complex in some people when they face incredible difficulties daily. The weak results they get give them the feeling that they will never make it. If this person was such a huge success, it is not with my current weak results that I could ever be as successful.
Many make the mistake of giving up because of the iceberg illusion that others’ success confronts us all with.
Overnight success is the outcome of a long and complex process
In reality, if overnight success exists, it only happens to people who have built their success with daily efforts for many years before.
Your overnight success will therefore only be the tip of something much deeper: the submerged part of the iceberg.
This submerged part of the iceberg is the less glamorous side that doesn’t make people click on articles. This explains why very few media make stories about it.
Rather than continuing to look only at the outcome of someone who is a huge success, you need to step back and see the bigger picture. Only then will you be able to see all that the road to this success has involved for this person who has succeeded so brilliantly?
Working hard is the starting point, but it is not enough
Success is all about hard work. If you don’t work hard, you’ll never be able to achieve the goals you’ve set for yourself.
So the key is to find your purpose, what motivates you to move forward every day in your life. Once you have found your deeper purpose, your motivation problems slowly disappear.
You will need to be disciplined, and for this, adopting good habits is essential. Some people like to get up early to take advantage of their morning productivity spike. It’s a possibility, but not an obligation. The important thing is to build a routine that will allow you to give your best every day.
Being consistent day after day is another key that you should keep in mind.
No one can achieve overnight success if it has not been consistent over the years. That means making sacrifices. You may have to give up some of life’s pleasures. I’m not saying you have to give up everything, because you’ll have to find the right balance to hold out over time.
Nevertheless, you will have to make choices. It’s up to you to find out if you’re motivated to achieve your most ambitious goals.
No one can be successful if they don’t evolve. You will be no exception. Throughout your journey, you will experience many failures. Don’t let them discourage you. All these disappointments will serve to show you what is not working.
Failure becomes your ally on your path to success
You must learn from each failure. By being resilient, you will be even more motivated after each failure, and you will be able to use your failures as a stepping stone to future success.
No matter what happens, you must be patient. Patience is important because you can never know in advance how long it will take you to succeed in your field.
Thomas Edison’s persistence should serve as a model for you.
Thomas Edison was a genius inventor who, among other things, invented the light bulb, phonograph, and motion picture. For his few inventions that changed the course of history, you must keep in mind that he failed an incredible number of times.
But for Thomas Edison, failure was an integral part of his journey to success:
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
— Thomas Edison
Taking risks is the key to innovation
By considering failure as a good thing, because it brings you closer to your future success, you will never be afraid of it again. Freed from the fear of failure, you will be able to take real risks.
Taking risks is essential if you want to innovate and achieve great things.
Failure and innovation are therefore intimately linked, as Jeff Bezos explains so well:
“Failure and invention are inseparable twins. To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it’s going to work, it’s not an experiment.”
— Jeff Bezos
Don’t give in to the doubts that will necessarily take hold of you on your path to success. To give in to doubt is to take the easy way out and then limit yourself to doing things that you know will succeed.
Your comfort zone is the enemy.
If you never get out of your comfort zone, you will never be able to reach the growth zone where the greatest things will happen to you. To get there, you will have to fight not only against yourself but also against the eyes of others.
Follow your path without being discouraged by others
Ambitious people are often frowned upon by society. Many will try to discourage you. So the golden rule is to never listen to others when they try to tell you that your dreams are too big. Just because they don’t have ambition like you, you shouldn’t do as they do.
You must follow your path in life.
The story of Jeff Bezos speaks for itself, and I invite you to discover it.
You will understand that throughout his life, Jeff Bezos has done everything possible to pursue his true goal, which is to colonize space. At the head of a real fortune today, Jeff Bezos has never been so close to achieving his goal.
No one dares to make fun of his goal today, whereas when he talked about it in 1982, everyone thought he was a young high school student who was a bit zany. Once again, you understand the importance of never giving up on your dreams.
People who can demonstrate all these qualities along the way will sooner or later achieve that famous overnight success that so many people fantasize about.
But before you get to that overnight success, I hope you understand the effort you will have to make. You are capable of it, as soon as you no longer fall into the iceberg illusion.
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