I Wished And It Was Done
When I sat to write this, I spent hours staring at the screen while wishing I could skip to the part I hit publish. After spending what seemed like an eternity, I typed away letter by letter. It was a grudging process in the beginning. Two lifetimes and one revolution later, it became easier heck I even started to enjoy it. Then it hit a piano falling from the sky. This is the only way.
Wouldn’t it be great if in an instant you could go from zero to hero, from nothing in your savings to 1000 or even more? To go from amateur guitarist to pro-amateur guitarist no longer playing for an audience of one. Better yet to go from zero sales a month to a hundred in a day, in a DAY. Hell yeah, Of course, it would be but, that’s just not how it works. Sad news right? it’s the truth, I wish this article was typed out magically as I thought of it but I never got my admission to Hogwarts. My godmother isn’t a fairy.
There are no shortcuts. For anything important and worthwhile. It’s not going to happen overnight, it never does even lotto winners had to buy tickets. It’s going to take many nights, energy, and a heavy dose of persistence. There’s no other way, not that I know of anyway. You will have to put the work in.