Seeing The Light

I've been doing a lot of reading lately.

One of the advantages of working for oneself, and working from home, is the ability to devote whatever time we wish to whatever we choose to do.

It's also one of the disadvantages, but more on that in a moment.

One of the books I finally got around to reading is The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Another is Rich Dad Poor Dad andyet another was a more recent book called How to Get Rich, by Felix Dennis.

While Dennis talks very openly about the disadvantages of becoming rich, he is also gracious enough to tell us how we might do so, so we can find out for ourselves.

And while each of the authors of the above books has his own own slant on it (what marketers sometimes call a 'unique technology'), they all ultimately converge upon a few essential ideas:

1 Identifying a market or a need or a hunger

2 Sourcing, creating or reinventing a product to meet that need or hunger

3 Taking action

Which probably means - once we've truly got the message on board - reading fewer books when we could be acting on the advice within them!

Now, for each of us, there might be a particular book, maybe even a particular passage in a particular book, that will tip the balance within us, finally compelling us to act.

Maybe it's a matter of reaching a critical mass - a mass of information, knowledge, wisdom or ideas. I suspect it's a combination of both these, plus outside circumstances that finally tips us into our new way of life.

Whatever; whenever we finally take action, the results of that action often seem as inevitable as sunrise (and almost as illuminating)...

One way I know to hurry the sunrise is to move towards it. The faster we run (or fly) the sooner we get to see the light.

Or, the faster we act, the sooner our sky brightens.

Roy Everitt, Writing For Results