When asked how she would most want to be a certain female author simply replied: -
"...As someone who did the best she could with the talents she had."
As we approach a New Year, which will be undoubtedly full of challenges, fun, sorrow, successes and failures - in varying degrees, it is useful to consider how it is possible to progress towards one's dreams - just as that young author did.
In August 1996, the author in question was a single parent living in Edinburgh who had been trying to write a book for the previous 6 years, and who had been turned down by publisher after publisher.
In 2007, after a few flicks of his magic wand, Harry Potter has turned this author - J.K. Rowling into a billionaire (estimated to be worth $1 billion), one of only five self-made female billionaires, and the first billion-dollar author. Not too bad for 10 years work.
And so if we all try to do the best we can with whatever talents we have, who knows what might be the result!
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