Whats the Buzz!!

As I sat down to write this evening, I opened the doors to get in some air and inadvertently allowed a mosquito the opportunity to make a complete nuisance of himself - it has been tormenting me for the last hour now and notwithstanding my best efforts, I have failed hopelessly in catching and exterminating this irritating creature.  So what has this got to do with today's piece - well everything, because I have learnt the following lessons from the beast, namely persistence, dedication, risk and reward.  The little fellow must be the most persistent creature ever and I have decided that we too need to be exactly like this in all we do. Whatever the task may be, we cannot afford to do it without effort and an expectation of success.  However many times we may get turned away from something or suffer a set back, that is exactly the number of times (except for one extra) that we need to retrace our steps and plainly try again.  And each time is another learning opportunity just waiting for us to take something from the experience and begin to carve out the final success we are striving to achieve.  This requires the dedication which this mosquito seems to have perfected and which frankly many people cannot seem to grasp.  Dedication is not just the art of trying again, but is it the concerted effort, taking into account previous mistakes and losses and using that to achieve perfection, which in the case of the mosquito is a nice red bite mark, just about on my right ankle.  In my own industry and work, we can try to lodge documents in the deeds office as many times as we want, but unless we submit the correct papers with the correct info, we will never get our transactions registered.  We should thus all take heed of this mantle and not wait for others to do it, such as government, parents or teachers, our boss or even our friends. But there is another ingredient needed in the recipe to success and this requires a little word called risk.  Just recently I have been accused of being too stereotyped and not willing to take a risk and as I watched this mosquito fly away and then return every time that I swatted at him and then missed, I gathered that there much truth in this four letter word (and not that 4 letter word I was using every time I missed the cretin!).  Several years ago I did take a risk to start my own business and I am grateful for the encouragement and support I received in doing so from clients, family and business colleagues.  Without your ongoing support Miller Attorneys would not be what it is today.  And thus when we mix the ingredients mentioned above with a healthy dose of risk, then the reward we receive will be every moment it's worth as my little creature discovered when he bit me multiple times.  Fortunately for me I learned from my mistakes, I too kept going and my reward was the eventual slamming of him on my leg which gave me the chance to complete this blog with a bit of advice, "find something that you love and cherish and persistently work towards it without hesitation and never thinking about giving up and then when the time comes to make it happen, have the courage to take the risk and I guarantee you that the reward will eventually take care of itself.