In his book The Obstacle is the Way, Ryan Holiday talks about how the daily micro-decisions add up to our overall success. He gives the example of Bill Gates, who started programming when he was 13 and, by 19, had co-founded Microsoft. It’s easy to look at someone like Bill Gates and think he was just lucky – that he was in the right place at the right time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But the reality is that his success resulted from years of hard work and dedication. Micro-decisions he made along the way – like spending hours coding as a teenager – laid the foundation for his eventual success. Even though he was ‘lucky’ and went to a school with an advanced computer program, it would be for nothing without hard work and patience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So if you’re feeling discouraged because you’re not where you want to be, remember that success doesn’t happen overnight. It results from countless small decisions, each moving you closer to your goal.<\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Success doesn’t happen overnight. It results from countless small decisions, each moving you closer to your goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_custom_body_class":"","_custom_post_class":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,12,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insight","category-journal","category-articles","category-productivity"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t