You have probably seen stories of someone having instant overnight success, usually in a sales letter where you’re being asked to buy a product that’s going to change your life just like it did for the person selling the product to you. If you part with your hard earned cash, you usually end up disappointed the promised results just don’t materialize and you end up wondering “What went wrong. Was it all a trick?” Or maybe there’s something more to the story…

You can get a hint from this success quote from Bobby Unser:

“Success is where preparation and opportunity meet”

Personal success is a combination of a lot of things: you need to have the right skills, you need to have the opportunity to use those skills to do something that is valued by other people, you need to have the right mindset to use those skills effectively, your personal goals and aspirations have to align with the results that you achieve and so on…

As you can see there are a lot of factors that have to be in alignment before you truly achieve success. Getting all those factors lined up can take quite a long time.

The factors that most often make a difference to your success are the ones that are internal to you like your mindset, the way you process information coming in through your senses to make decisions, the area of life where you desire to succeed. Many of your internal factors have been shaped by your childhood and your life experiences.

On top of that there will be certain skills that you need. You acquire these through your education and training.

Everyone is different, we all have our own unique combination of abilities that makes us more or less able to be successful in certain areas. There is always a small chance that you may be lucky. You may have just the right combination of personal abilities, and acquired knowledge and skills that you are a genuine overnight success! However that’s really quite rare and in many cases you may have to spend years acquiring the skills.

Bobby Unser’s success quote is a more realistic description of how you become successful. You spend many years preparing yourself, honing your skills, developing the right mindset until you are ready to seize an opportunity and you are able to recognise one when it comes along.

As you go through your daily life you are surrounded by opportunities but until you are ready for them and you can recognize them, you won’t be able to benefit from them. On the other hand, when you are ready for them, you can put all those years of personal growth and personal development to use and you will find that you are an “overnight success”.

This success quote is a powerful insight into success. The majority of people spend many years working hard at developing their mindset, their skills and their abilities until they are able to achieve success. When they do achieve success, no-one sees the years of preparation, all they see is the success – the overnight success that has been several years in the making!

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