Once you have defined what success looks like for you and have begun to design it, next comes the work.
There's no substitute for hard work; we all have to roll up our sleeves and take the stairs
to get to that floor we're going after.
The Roman philosopher Seneca once said "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
The preparation is the work, and the opportunity wiil find us when we are truly ready to work and make it ours.
While some get caught up in wishful thinking,visualizations and acting
as if we already have it, one the thing that glues the whole process together is putting in the elbow grease.
A gardener can't just wish for a beautiful garden and one suddenly appears; she has to choose the seed,
pick the place,clear the ground, dig the holes, plant the seeds,water it,
add mulch and repeat these steps over and over again
if she wants to experence that beautiful healthy garden in the flesh.
Similarly if you want to live a full,adventurous,abundant,joy-filled and loving life, it's going to take work.
Trust that there will be setbacks and temporary bumps along the journey,
But they're nature's way of strengthening us to be ready for what it is
we're working toward.
The highly respected physicist Enrico Fermi told to his students that an experment
that successfully proves a hypothesis
is a measurement; one that doesn't is a discovery.