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Bloom Where You’re Planted · The Daily Writer

• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Daily Writer, where we share a lesson each day to help you cultivate the habits for creative success.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_00: What causes some writers to be successful and others not?
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_00: Is it talent, opportunity, or just plain old luck?
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_00: Well, that's what many people believe.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_00: When they see a writer who's successful, they usually attribute it to just chance.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_00: They assume that if you bloom, it means you happen to get planted in a good garden and somebody chose to water you.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_00: In other words, they see success as something that's totally out of your control.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_00: They believe that the best you can hope for is that somebody takes pity on you and gives you a shot or an opportunity.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_00: Well, here's a different perspective.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_00: You can choose to bloom wherever you're planted.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_00: Today we all basically have access to the same resources.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_00: There are so much great free content on YouTube, podcasts, blogs, and in inexpensive books that you can basically get the equivalent of a master's level education for a very, very low cost.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_00: So it's not so much about the opportunities you have, instead, it's really more about what you do with those opportunities.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_00: And today we all have more opportunity as writers than at any other time in history.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_00: In the movie The Dark Knight, the Gotham District Attorney Harvey Dent carries a two-headed coin as a symbol of his freedom to make the best of every situation.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_00: And he says this I don't leave anything up to chance.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_00: Well, the same is true for you and I.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_00: We don't have to wait to get planted in the right garden.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: We don't need to wait for somebody else to pour into us or to water us.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_00: We can bloom right where we're planted by investing in ourselves and taking advantage of all the resources and opportunities right at our fingertips.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks so much for listening to today's episode.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_00: For more, you can visit us at dailywriterlife.com.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks, and I'll see you tomorrow.