Focus on What You Have to Become Successful
Personal Development, Success
I met a bright young girl who wanted to enter into the field of voice-overs. She has good voice and wonderful command on English. I asked her to give an audition also known as voice test at one of the studios I work for. The audition was for Hindi dubbing. She got feedback that she needs to polish her Hindi to become a successful Hindi voice-over artist. She discussed it with me and I told her to focus on what she has (her potential to become an English voice-over artist) and not to invest time (read waste time) practicing Hindi.
I suggested her getting into English voice-overs instead since she is more comfortable at English. Most of her schooling has been in English and she works for a company where she is supposed to deal with native English speakers. She is very good at adapting different accents. So, you know she has the perfect base to become a successful English voice-over artist.
Being an intelligent person, she saw the point and decided to try luck in English voice-overs.
I wish her all the best and I know if she practices in the right direction, she can surprise herself.
Don’t Cling to False Hope
I know a guy who is not meant to be a voice over artist at all, but he’s still clinging to some false hope. Last time I met him, he was pushing too hard to get into the voice-over industry, which is nothing but a waste of his time and money. I wish he too, can get the wisdom to see that his success lies somewhere else.
There’s nothing unusual in this kind of approach, when people cling to some imaginary success and live on false hope. And the reason is this – most of us have been conditioned to focus on what we don’t have. We have been ‘guided’ to focus more on our weaknesses rather than strengths and it has been one of the major blockages in our progress as humans.
We constantly look for flaws in our personalities and keep working on them. This approach only worsens the situation.
Remember -
If you work on your strengths, you get STRONG strengths.
If you work on your weaknesses, you get STRONG weaknesses.
You should focus at what you DO have-your qualities, your talents, your unique personality traits.
You need to find out what is it that you are made for? Not every person is born to do everything.
It’s Better to Become an Awesome Tailor Rather Than an Average Engineer
You must focus on your forte, or you will be like a bicycle that is trying too hard to be like a car. She never looks at what SHE is good at – going slow, enjoying the cool breeze, sunshine, songs of birds and many other wonderful things. She can waste her whole life practicing and perfecting, but she can never become a car. And there’s no need either. She is a bicycle and she should work on becoming a BETTER bicycle. Trying to become something else is nothing but madness.
Find out your forte and keep on polishing, perfecting and nourishing it.
Focus on what you have. Stop focusing on what you don’t have.
You can’t sing simply means that you are not born to become a singer. The universe wants you to become something else. Find out what is it, and then start working in that direction. Success is waiting for you.
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