Friend of Caesar and historian of Rome, Gaius Sallustius Crispus, aka Sallust, is said to have first coined the saying,
"Faber est suae quisque fortunae",
which is to say, being interpreted,
"Every man is the maker of his own fortune".
In a way that is as true for those who "make" or "do" nothing as for those who take action.
It has been observed that there are those people that make things happen, those people that hope things happen and lastly those people who wondered what happened.
Yet, each group of people whether they take action or remain passive, will see results according to its kind.
However, people who make things happen are of course more likely to create the life they desire by focusing on what they want and taking the steps required to achieve their objectives.
In this sense it is they who are truly the makers of their own fortune, while the others might be said to have undone themselves, or done themselves out of good fortune by failing to act with decision.
Making things happen is all about taking action and doing so with vim and vigor.
As Machiavelli observed, it is often better to take a risk and act decisively than proceed cautiously, for, "
Fortune is a woman" who is apt to change and one must move swiftly to find favour with her.
Too often we spend too much time in careful preparation and tedious planning, trying to tweak everything until it is just right. But this can cause untold delays and even bring about the paralysis of overmuch analysis.
It is therefore usually much better to plunge into a project even though it is not completely ready to be launched.
You have to be brave enough to just "do it now" - and make adjustments as you go!
As long as you have a clear goal in mind, the mere fact of starting the project will provide the forward momentum that you need to motivate you to focus on the important and urgent action points and not worry about all the finer points that we sometimes waste time on.
By taking action you will also discover a
key success secret...
... namely...
On the other hand, merely "thinking about it" would not have made these people and resources available to you.
Do you see?
And what's more, by taking action you will generate some valuable feedback, as for example, the market response (or lack thereof) if you are launching a business project, which you can take on board and use to make adjustments and fine tune your progress.
So it makes sense to save the fine-tuning till after you have launched your project.
The simplicity of this technique should not be discounted as it is a sound and powerful method of accelerating your progress.
How often have you hesitated to commence a project just because it seemed a little too big or complex? And then, once you finally took the first step and got started, how much easier did it seem now that you'd got moving?
I would hazard a guess that as soon as you took action you would have felt better about your chances of achieving your goals.
That is no surprise.
Success breeds success. As you discover how to succeed with one part of your project, the feedback loop goes into action and you discover, step by bigger step how to succeed with the whole thing, for "the art of discovery grows with discovery" and with it the art of success grows as you discover how to succeed.
Or, as Machiavelli would have put it,
"Fortune is a woman who... lets herself be overcome by the bold."
Quite so, Niccolo.
David Hurley
http://grasp-the-nettle.com/Success-Secrets.htmlLabels: Fortune, fortune is a woman, Machiavelli, Sallust, success mentoring
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