When we look at highly successful and productive people, they often seem like aliens from a distant planet where failure and procrastination don’t exist as even a concept in their culture. They look like mysterious beings that somehow can do everything they set out to do. Distant and strange, it’s hard to relate to these highly productive and successful people. One of the reasons is that the average person doesn’t believe they can achieve the same level of success and productivity as those people. They make up excuses that validate the differences observed between themselves and the productive others. Those people are brilliant, talented, lucky, or were at the right place at the right time. Most people don’t feel as fortunate or that they don’t have the right ingredients to achieve the same level of success. Something’s always in their way, it’s not their time yet, or it just wasn’t meant to be.
