Fifty Shades of Gray was that book. It was self-published by a working mom who
wrote in her free time. Yup.
By the way, that’s also how Grammy award-winning musician Ed Sheeran got
discovered. He was 15 years old playing songs in a park in England with no permit
and no guarantee that anyone would notice. That’s how you do it. You push
yourself to get out of your comfort zone and you begin. There is no other way.
You stop waiting for “the right time” and you start. That’s how award-winning
Broad City landed its hit show on Comedy Central. They acted with courage and
started filming 3-minute clips on an iPhone and posting them on YouTube.
And every single YouTube star, from Tyler Oakley, to make-up tutorial phenom
Michelle Phan, to “My Drunk Kitchen” host Hannah Hart, to Minecraft narrator
“Stampy Cat,” will tell you that if they had told themselves to wait until they felt
ready or until they had a sponsor, they would still be living a boring life instead
creating a life of their dreams and laughing all the way to the bank.
Waiting, thinking, and “almost doing it” don’t count. As Kyra explains, to
change anything you actually have to do it. #AlmostDoesntCount
The difference between people who make their dreams come true and those of
us who don’t is just one thing: the courage to start and the discipline to keep going.