Doing it badly...

 

Doing it badly, is better than not doing it at all and spending your time decaying away in front of the telly. I used to take dreadful photographs, but with practice, I’ve become a much better photographer and I can honestly say I enjoy the photos I take now. 

I thought all I needed was a good camera, to take a good photo. How wrong I was. I got myself that “good camera” and my photos were still really bad. It was then I realized: it’s not what’s in front of the lens, but who’s behind the lens, which makes a good picture. 

Once I realized it was me, I had to make the decision to learn, if I wanted good photos. You too, need to make a decision to work towards what you’d like to see happen in your life. What would you like to achieve? Work towards it, until you get it right.

When you first learned to walk you fell often, but you didn’t quit and eventually you became an expert at walking. It was the same with driving a car. You had to practice, until it became second nature and you became good at it. Life is like that. You start your new venture badly, keep going, get better, keep going some more, until you become expert at it. 

It doesn’t matter that you start badly. It matters that you keep trying, keep going. Work out what’s not producing the results you’re after and you do this by either reading (or you tube) how others did it, how others overcame their issue, or by trial and error. Wouldn’t you rather learn by another’s failure than create your own?

Even then, there’s no guarantee failure won’t visit you, but you will have a greater understanding; failure is the process you take and the progress you make, on the way to success. By reading what others have done you can avoid many of the pitfall’s others fell into and you’ll have less, if not none, of those pitfall’s and failures yourself. Not only that, have you thought: You might just succeed? What then?

Do what’s meaningful, not what’s expedient. And that’s hard to do. Doing the meaningful takes effort. With effort comes more responsibility. Be responsible.  Once you do, you will find the success you’ve been looking for and you can be proud of your efforts.