It’s not there yet.
Believe me on this: things are happening when they are ready to happen. You cannot force something to make it happen; you can only make yourself ready when it is supposed to happen. Whatever you’re doing will not increase the speed nor the chance of it happening faster than it is supposed to be. It WILL happen sooner or later, for better or worse, whether we’re ready or not.
Now the question is: are you ready when it happens?
Is your body ready? Your mind? Your mental? Your soul? Are your desire and your stress indicator under control? Because if you’re not ready when it’s happening, most likely you’re not going to have a second chance. Most likely, you’ll never have enough time or the opportunity to experience it happening again. So my realistic advice is to treat it like it’s the last time you’ll see it happen. Don’t hoard your time; don’t wait for the perfect moment. Assest the situation and seize the chance when it happens.
But I know, sometimes we feel like we waited too long for it to happen, and we start to wonder: Where the hell is that opportunity? If you’re feeling the same as I did, please repeat this sentence:
It’s not there yet.
You should have patience as big as your ambition. Understand that even though we feel like we’re the most expert in our field, there’s always someone who is more expert, more knowledgeable, and far better than us from every single perspective. There’s always an upper limit; there’s always taller mountains; there’s always higher skies. We may think, well, we mostly think we are the only person who climbs the tallest mountain. We are THE man, and other people aren’t shit.
But we’re not.
As Tyler Durden once said: we are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. We are the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We just happen to have a set of skills that most people don’t, thanks to the privilege we have, whatever it is. You can’t boast your privilege; it’s not yours to flaunt in the first place.
So keep your heads down. Keep grinding, keep hustling, and keep focusing on upgrading and mastering your art. If the opportunity comes and you fail to seize it, then it’s not there yet. YOU are not there yet. YOU are still not qualified to attain that chance. YOU still have to climb the taller mountain and reach the new height you never climbed before.
Keep your focus, and be patient with yourself. It WILL happen sooner or later.
