Do you Want or Work?
We all have hopes and dreams of being successful one day. We’re all trying to reach for financial freedom and have extra income, or something many people call, passive income. I believe this kind of dream which is within most people is based upon the success of someone else. This makes sense. Not many of us wake up everyday and dream of being able to fly in the air, mainly because not many people have been able to achieve this.
However, what has been achieved by countless people is financial freedom. We all heard the stories of all the people who went from scratch and now are millionaires. If it’s been done, then it’s possible, but more importantly, we want to succeed too!
And this is where most people stop. They just read the story of someone who made lots of money by selling a company, or someone who just build a website and is making a lot of money, or someone who had a great invention idea and made million selling their product. We want to do it too, but we do nothing. It almost sounds like most people are reading these great stories just to tell them to their friends.
“Hey, did you hear YouTube sold for 1.6 billion dollars.”
“Did you hear FaceBook is worth like 2 billion dollars. The guy who made that site started with nothing!”
And hundreds of other stories…
This is all great, but does this really change anything in your life? Will YouTube make you a billionaire?
Stories like these inspire many people in the dreams that one day, something similar will happen to them. But the next day these people already forgot about it and return to their normal life and forget about their short dream they had just the day before.
Nothing happens with nothing, and hardly does someone succeed in their first try. There’s another group of people who actually try working on a project, but after a few months when they aren’t making any money, they give up.
There is a saying that goes like this: “The more you work, the luckier you get.” The real people who got lucky made and constructed their luck. Luck can happen just as bad luck can happen. Don’t be a pessimist, be patient! Keep it up, be persistent and as time goes, you might not see the fruits of your labor right away, but a streak of luck and you’re good to go. And the next time you tell a story to one of your friend, it might very well be your own.