What makes us start?

There are things we want to do, things within our power that we would like to achieve. These things we call our hopes and dreams. Sometimes we start working towards them and find that it is easier to do whatever's easier.

Instead of working to be an author and online publisher,  I've worked administrative and secretarial jobs since my twenties. In fact, I didn't believe I could be a successful writer so I started secretarial training in my late teens so that I'd have a real job. Even though I eventually managed to get a job at a newspaper, it was in advertising sales when I really wanted to be a writer there instead. I wrote some articles that the newspaper published and became one of their freelance writers after my advertising sales reached a plateau and my enthusiasm declined...and the sales manager let me go.

When I began to write for the newspaper, I was still not happy. I was on the news desk but I wanted to write for the features desk instead.  Feature writers covered interesting people like musicians, visual artists, authors, successful business people...those were the stories I wanted to write. Stories about people who were living their dreams..

Then I got the opportunity to come to the U.S. and reluctantly left that newspaper job and my focus shifted back to secretarial and administrative work after my feeble attempts at getting a job, any job, at the Washington Post failed.

Now, more than 15 years later, I'm turning my eyes, again, towards publishing. My desire to make a living at writing has brought me back to writing, again.

So. What makes us start? Desire. You want something. You do it. It's taken too long for me to admit to myself that I'll never be fulfilled doing anything esle.

Go ahead and start..let your desires compel you, go for your dreams.

Hard Work Makes Your Dreams Come True

Dreaming doesn't make your dreams come true, work does. You have to focus on what you want to achieve. If you are not qualified, get trained, get experience, and keep working towards your goal.

There is something to be said for starting young too. The health and strength of youth are precious there is time to train for or work towards a dream. When you're 17 you may start training to compete in your first Olympics but the results may be better than if you start at 37. Not that 37 is old but some dreams are better sought in one's youth.

As a child, a friend of mine longed to be an airplane pilot. In those days, that was a big dream for a boy in the Caribbean. When he was a teenager his parents supported his dream and financed light-aircraft flying lessons. When he completed technical school, he went on to commercial flight school. He is a airline pilot today with Southwest Airlines in the United States.

I hope this encourages you to start early if you can and even if you haven't started young to find new dreams, new hopes, and great success.