Hello,
First time poster here. My name is Ari.
My life story has so many parallels with Steve's it's not even funny. Except he was a game developer and I was (still am) a musician. For 10 years I tried and tried to make a living with music -- and I had a couple of projects that achieved modest success in indie market. But virtually no income has been generated from this activity.
The last thing I did was to make a rock album on my own. I didn't spend any money and I did everything by myself. I didn't let anyone hear it in progress -- I was just trying to create music that I wanted to hear.
The result was a rock album I was very proud of. I've received many great feedback, and I am now planning to do more of that. After all those years of trying to provide needed service for others, I'm back where I started from, making music that *I* love.
Of course, on the way I got interested in blogging and entrepreneurship, and here I am.... I am now a musician, blogger and entrepreneur. It's a potent combination, I hope. ;-)
But here's a quote that I thought would summarize what Steve is saying:
Quote:
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"Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you will miss it. For success, like happiness, can not be pursued; and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see -- in the long run, I say! -- success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it." ~ Viktor Frankl
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(Thanks to
The Financial Philosopher for the quote.)
I'm going to write a blog entry about this quote some time.
ari