TW,

Thanks for waking up.

Here's something else to sleep on...

Everything that determines your ultimate success is dependent on other people. Therefore, whether you succeed or not and make the Big Time, is a crap shoot.

Take Music, for example. You have people who can Really play instruments well, can really sing and sound great and can write a song that conveys exactly what they wanted to convey - will lift you up, or make you shed a tear, or give you tingles all over when you hear it (like Pavarotti singing Nessun Dorma). But the general public Never hears of them. Instead, we Hear about people who cannot really sing, can't play an instrument to save themselves, cannot write melodies or lyrics and who can't even Entertain all that well. And such Talentless dweebs are held aloft as points of aspirations.

To true Talent... they could feel somewhat Miffed, ripped off, stiffed and Unfairly done by. And you might agree. But here is the Solution...

They should Never create music for anyone other than themselves and the Joy They get out of creating it. If they are picked up, good. If not, it won't change their world or the sheer enjoyment they get from doing and creating their music.

There are better authors than Stephen King. Better singers than Timberlake, Robbie Williams, Brooks and Dunn. Better actors than Deniro and Paccino and Hackman. Better guitarists than Vie or Angus from ACDC. But, we will never hear of them UNLESS they happen to win the Big Success Lottery.

You have heard of the Overnight Success in only 25 years. What you don't hear about is the person who has also plugged away for 25 or more years - but - whom the Big Success Light never shines on. And there are Plenty of those types of people.

Not just Delusional dreamers who are lying to themselves. But people of genuine skill and talent whom the world passes by because... they didn't win the Big Success lottery.

Let me let you in on something else too...

You see all those businesses for sale. Make $500 - $1,500 a week. They are for Office People who are pissed off with their $25k - $40k a year Job. People who don't work in an office and who make $100k a year, find those business Laughable. For them to be Enticed into a business, it would need to be generating at least Their income - $100k+, right?

Head out into the general public, take a seat somewhere and Tune In to the conversations around you...

Uni Students discussing Important stuff and thinking they are important too. Yuppies in soon-to-be-closed Starbucks outlets sipping Chai Tea Lattes and solving all the world's problems, as if their thoughts will make a difference.

The world doesn't give a Rats about any of it. They could all disappear in a puff of smoke and the world would chug along like normal.

People write to their Govt as if it matters. It doesn't. If you can write and Know it matters not an iota, then you're merely getting something off your chest so you can get one with your life. But most people aren't like that. They think what they think in written form, will make a difference. It won't.

Trump could go bust tomorrow and life will go on. Just like cars whizzing by an Accident on the side of the road. Those directly involved have Issues to deal with. But everyone else continues on their merry way.

If you like inventing, then do it because you like it and no other reason. If you try to market it, then market with the fore-knowledge you will sell nothing. Then you cannot be disappointed. Don't care about Breaking Through and your illusioned problems will vanish - poof. Gone.

Screw the Big Time.

In actuality, aiming for the Big Time is Limited Thinking. Do you know why?

Michael Ross