Re: About the elusive record deal


"Dec [Cluskey]" <dec@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On May 19, 5:20 am, Cynthian...@xxxxxxxxx (Cydne Singer) wrote:
Actually those coding geniuses ARE making bilion dollar deals -- not my

My motto is to never stop trying, to believe in your dream regardless of
the naysayers or the odds. And oh yeah, try and have some sort of back
up plan as well.
Cyd.


Cyd

Not sure what you mean by 'coding genius'? I am sure a lot of readers
will not either?

If you mean writing computer code [HTML, T-SQL etc.] then you are
almost right ... for every one who is making a lot there are hundreds
of thousands who are scraping a living. The boom days are over in the
Internet servicing world ... the big earners are now in Relocation
expertise [met a guy last night making fortunes] ... IT position
placing [meaning having many experts on your books and placing them
with world wide IT companies short of expert staff]. My daughter is
married to a guy with business all over Europe ... mega bucks! He
thinks a 16 hour day is a luxury!

<<<<<<<someone with the vision and a heck of a lot of luck >>>>>>>

In my experience, and in the experience of many more who 'made it' ...
there is no such thing as luck in any business ... just as there is no
such thing as 'right time, right place' .... I heard a brilliant
lecture on the subject recently and the lecturer put it beautifully
"it is about awareness ... awareness of the opportunity .... the
awareness brings the luck, the right time, the right place" ....
nicely put.

In my book, if you have the knowledge, the skill, the techniques, the
aptitude for conscientious hard work [coupled with smart work], then
it is IMPOSSIBLE to not come across the right time and the right
place ..... the luck is only for the 'flakes' as you put it so well.

<<<<<<And yes, a person has to be relentless driven, they have to
believe they will succeed.>>>>>>>>

There are many ways of putting this ... I call it 'killer
attitude' ... being prepared to walk over dead bodies to get there.
There are many other similar ideas: "The Secret" ... "The Law of
Attraction" ... "The Synergy in the Universe" etc. etc. ... all
basically saying that it is YOU that has to do it .... no one else.

Success in music is a 'journey' ... it is not a destination.

Dec [Cluskey]

.... now I must answer 187 Emails! Crazy? Then my list of 'things
to do today'. Still, as my mother used to say: "keeps me off the
streets!"


"No such thing as luck ..."
My favourite rags to riches story was a guy who fixed up cars as a sideline
so he could afford his career of choice - teaching.
He bought the cars at auction, but they kept breaking down on the way to his
yard. One day a car transporter came up, and he bought it to get the
non-runners back to his yard. One day that broke down, and he left it by the
side of the road. His phone rang - it was a rep from a Japanese car
manufacturer. He had seen one of his transporters (he only had one) "parked
by the roadside" and was looking for people to bid for the contract for
transporting cars from the new factory they were building in England.

He got the contract, and there was an enormous amount of luck involved.

There was also preparation and seizin the moment. If he had not painted up
the old transporter so that it looked like something , if he had not painted
his telephone number on the side, if he had not had the presence of mind to
say "My fleet is all tied up at the moment." ...

I would say plan to succeed, but also prepare for success. Too many get the
chance that they had hoped for, but are not ready for it when it happens.

There is bad luck too, but "It's all preparation."

David F. Cox


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