Episode #66

The Gardener's Badge

Did you ever watch that old chick flick called "Under the Tuscan Sun?"

Italy is one of my favorite countries to visit, but that's not the reason I liked this movie. Actually I don't remember anything about this movie except one very memorable line where one of the characters talks about a very steep section of the Alps between Austria and Italy called the Semmering. It is an impossibly steep, very high part of the mountains. The reason this part of the movie stuck out to me is that this one character tells us the true story of how they built a train track over these Alps to connect Vienna and Venice. But here's the thing. They built these train tracks even BEFORE there was a train in existence that could make the trip. They built it because they knew someday, the train would come.

And the train did come.

In other words, you have to act like success is already yours - and this is the act that MAKES success happen. It's like acting something into existence.

This episode is another version of that story ...

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