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Simon has some advice for you though, as you consider your swing. This comes straight from your personal success coach and you will do well to listen and learn. To be forewarned is to be prepared.
• Have a healthy skepticism for what can go wrong.
You plan to succeed. You always believe you are going to get a hit; but in the best of times, you cannot connect 100% of the time. There are just too many variables for you to completely control or always predict exactly how they are all going to play out; and since you cannot,
• Know in advance what you will do if it does not work out.
Just as you swing, knowing what can happen and feeling prepared, you cross the invisible line preventing most people from reaching their goals, from stepping up to the plate and taking their swing at success. You know exactly what they know; but in situations where you confidently swing for the center field fence, they sit down and watch someone else succeed.
What is the source of their misgiving? What keeps them from crossing the invisible success line?
• They do not want to proceed until circumstances are more ideal.
• They wait until conditions are more favorable.
• They sit this one out and hope for better weather next time.
Good for them, if that is their orientation to their success. For you though, succeeding means accepting some risk. You are certainly not going to step up to the plate in a hurricane or hang in there with a hundred miles per hour fast ball with your eyes closed; but you are not going to wait for a sunny day in July either. What you know others may not is,
• You never experience the exact conditions you think you need to succeed.
Although conditions are never ideal, you have done your success groundwork and are prepared to bat. You trust your intuition and believe you are able to handle most anything. You are as ready as you will ever be. The moment is at hand and you most assuredly swing the bat, take your turn at success.