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Achieving Success Starts With Believing You Are Capable
What if What I’m Doing Is All Wrong?
In 1990, sitting on a train stationed at Manchester, a book fanatic began to write. That day sparked a 5-year long journey creating what turned out to be 7 books in a famous series.
In 1992, the young writer moved to Portugal, notes in hand, to teach English. From there she taught for a brief while and then returned to the UK where she found a home in Edinburgh and continued to teach.
7 years later, in 1997, the first book ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ was published.
You are probably fairly familiar with the story of J.K.Rowling’s journey to success. What is so curious though is the time it took her to achieve the levels of success we all know of her today.
7 years is a fairly hefty amount of time. 5 years of writing without any incline of success or positive reception must have been a difficult path to tread. How could she have been sure that the work she was putting in was going to receive any success at all?
For most of us, it would be a hard pill to swallow, to work for 5 years with no outward indication of reward. To only be able to dedicate a limited number of hours to a craft that we enjoyed so much. The idea of having to dedicate 7 years of…
