French poet Edouard Pailleron said, "Have success and there will always be fools to say that you have talent."
Sometimes when people succeed, they contribute their success to talent. Or often, others explain accomplishments by simply attributing everything to talent. How often have you heard someone say of a singer, "He is so talented", or a leader, "She is so talented" or a multi-tasking mom, "She is so talented".
I thought this for a while until I started auditioning. I saw so many people with so much talent. And yet, they were unsuccessful. I remember being astounded at an audition for the musical Showboat. There were over 200 people at the audition. And I only saw 5 people that were not talented. And yet, only 15 people were successful.
How does this happen? Some of the people that "got cut" were more talented than those that "booked it"?
I do not know what your talent is, but I do know that it will not be lifted to its highest level until you have belief. If you want to become your best, you will have to believe your best.
To "book it", to become successful, those 15 first believed that they could attain a role in the musical Showboat.
What do you want to "book it"? Where do you want to be successful? Where do you want to go, but don't believe you can? Let me leave you with this.
Believe
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