Recently I read a really nice post by Bill Archambault titled "Great Photographs and Real Estate / Not What You're Expecting." The gist of what I took away from the article was that it is not LUCK that gets us where we are, whether it's in real estate or photography. It is knowing your business and having the right tools and constantly being on the lookout for the right opportunities. The bottom line on that is . . . you have to be WORKING at it to be LUCKY.
As so often happens when you read a post, it reminds you of other things, sometimes seemingly unrelated. This reminded me of something that I used to think of often when my daughters were younger. People always say that they want quality time with their kids. Of course we do. But you don't get the quality without the quantity. You don't say, "Okay, NOW we're going to have a wonderful moment." The wonderful moments come in the midst of spending a lot of time with them. The 'aha' moment comes when you realize you have just made a memory . . . it doesn't just get created because "Now I'm ready," it gets created because you have taken the time and invested in what is important. This picture is one I took of my five daughters . . . right time, right place . . . we couldn't have created this, it was part of the whole. But it is a CLASSIC memory . . . (and not a one of them will tell you what they were laughing at :) ) (Is THIS idea what is called a non-sequitur? ;) )
It Takes WORK to Have LUCK was written by Mimi Foster
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