Today I asked my mentor – a very successful businessman in his 70s – what his top 3 tips are for success. He smiled and said, ‘Read something no one else is reading, think something no one else is thinking, and do something no one else is doing.’
I felt discouraged undertaking a major project. But my
father told me, ‘Just go for it and give it a try! You don’t have to be
professional to build a successful product. Amateurs started Google and Apple.
Professionals built the Titanic.
Today I interviewed my grandmother for part of a research
paper I’m working on for my Psychology class. When I asked her to define
success in her own words, she said, ‘Success is when you look back at your life
and the memories make you smile.’
Today, as my father, my brother and three sisters stood
around my mother’s hospital bed, my mother uttered her last coherent words
before she died. She simply said, ‘I feel so loved right now. We should have
gotten together like this more often.’
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