Swing and miss

Financial Success is like a baseball game. A very special baseball game.

When you get up to bat, they blindfold you. Hand you a bat that weighs 25 pounds. And spin you around in a circle so you don't know which way to face.

Then the pitches come at you at 127 miles per hour.

Your chances of hitting it are pretty small by design.

If you don't swing the hefty bat, you definitely won't hit the ball.

You could swing your whole life and never hit the ball.

So what do you do? Swing and miss. Swing and miss. Swing and miss. Swing and miss. Swing and...

Then you hear it. The inevitable stories of those who hit the ball. Those who are half your age who hit the ball on their first swing.

Or so the story goes.

So what do you do? Swing and miss. Swing and miss. Swing and miss. Swing and...

Then you dedicate yourself. You buy the book of the kid who hit the ball on the first swing.

Turns out he didn't hit it on the first swing. And turns out that he could afford his own bat, which gave him a slight edge.

The rich kid's book tells of his hard work, talent and tenacity.

So what do you do? Swing and miss. Swing and miss. Swing and...

Then you do some more research and learn that once the kid hit his first ball, that they took off the blindfold, handed him a regular bat, put him way out in center field and lobbed him slow, underhand pitches.

Now the kid hits almost every pitch out of the park.

So what do you do? Swing and miss. Swing and...

Then you realize that if that kid had your bat and your blindfold and was spun around and was standing where you are...

He was lucky. And all you need is some luck. But where do you get luck?

So what do you do? Swing and...

Now you've been swinging for a long, long time. You've forgone life's pleasures to swing that damn bat.

You realize you may never get that lucky break. Too many variables out of your control.

So what do you do?