How difficult is it to start over?

Getting off the ground is not easy.

At the beginning you face more adversities that you can handle and they never seem to stop coming, just like the Call of Duty troops or the first airplanes.

Anyone who wanted to fly had to solve three interrelated problems: lift, balance and power. The Wright Brothers concentrated on balance, using the image of a bird in flight as their model. Samuel Pierpont Langley, probably their biggest competitor, focused on power and the image of an arrow shot through the air: put enough force behind the machine, and it would fly.

Their focus wasn’t the only thing that differentiated them. The Wright Brothers did not have access to funding, a large workforce and backing of the governing bodies just like Langley did, and still using the principle of scarcity and necessity they pushed their imagination into realms of inconceivable.

Orville and Wilbur Wright did not get an aircraft off the ground by focusing on what they couldn’t do, but by continually extending the boundaries of what they could.

They changed the way we view the world now.

If you want more time, talk about the important things you will do rather than how busy you are.

If you want more success, talk about your aspirations and what you can do to make them a reality rather than how big your problems are.

If you want more power and influence, talk about what you will do with the influence you already have rather than how no one takes you seriously.

Perhaps Yoda was right, there is no such thing as ‘try’. Imagine president Kennedy saying, “Let’s try to get a man on the moon.” We would probably still be trying.

Success and getting to the top is a matter of choice.

Everything in life is a matter of choice. It takes little effort to change a lot.

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