Click here for Evan Carmichael's J.K. Rowling's Top 10 Rules For Success (@jk_rowling), which he has summarised as follows:
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"1. Failure helps you discovers yourself
She went from living on state benefits to multi-millionaire status within 5 years.
2. Take action on your ideas
The Harry Potter books have become the best-selling book series in history.
3. You will be criticized
Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers asked that she use two initials, rather than her full name.
4. Remember where you started
She was diagnosed with clinical depression which she claims gave her inspiration to create the Dementors in the Potter series.
5. #Believe
Twelve publishing houses rejected her original Harry Potter manuscripts, but eventually small publisher Bloomsbury gave her a chance with a small advance.
6. There is always trepidation
She conceived the idea for Harry Potter in 1990. The 7 years that followed saw the death of her mother, divorce from her first husband and relative poverty until Rowling finished the first novel.
7. Life is not a checklist of achievements
She named communist and civil rights activist Jessica Mitford as her "most influential writer".
8. Persevere
She's the United Kingdom's best-selling living author, with sales in excess of £238m.
9. Dreams can happen
In 2010, she was named the "Most Influential Woman in Britain" by leading magazine editors.
10. We have the power to imagine better
Harry Potter is now a global brand worth an estimated US$15 billion."
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To fire up your belly and get you moving to do your thing, you may wanna review the following quotes by J.K. Rowling:-
"I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write."
"Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared."
"You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity."
"The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive."
"We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better."
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
May you find good success as you persevere in the pursuit of your passion and dream life.
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