Success doesn’t come overnight

As a creative generation with wide access to social media, we are able to keep up with people in a whole new way.  We see many people rise to success through the highlight reel that is social media, and it’s almost impossible not to fall into the pit of thinking it happened over night. The truth we must remember is it never happens that way.

Jacob Riis says, “Look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”

So for anyone struggling with their path to success... think of yourself as the stone cutter and your dreams as the rock. The rock will not budge at first, but you have to keep hammering. This is the work of faith. You might have dropped a new mixtape or even a new YouTube video and got little traction. Keep sharing. If the next one doesn’t blow, try again. If that one doesn’t blow, try again. Keep chipping for your rock to split. Drake dropped his first mixtape in 2006 and didn’t get a number one hit until 2014. That's 8 years!!! Sometimes all it takes is one little chip for your rock to finally crack. Just remember, the rock never cracked from one hit...it was the build up, the grind, and the pressure that really made it blow.