Make it Happen

I read something in the email from James Clear which is sort of a mantra to me.
Poet and novelist Charles Bukowski on forging your own reality:  "I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen but as the years wasted on nothing ever did unless I caused it."  Source: Post Office (1971)
To me this is what preparation is all about.  Finding the right goal and preparing so that I am ready for it when it happens.  Initially I may know only that this is the way for me to go.  When I truly feel that I feel it is incumbent on me to make it happen.  In fact, that is one of my go to sayings, “make it happen.”
So often I see others (and it is understandable) say, “I do not see what I need so I will move on until I find it.”  I do not blame the majority for thinking that way.  Yet I do feel it is necessary for one to say at some stage, “I do not see what I am after so I will make it happen.”
That is the way I live my life.  Making it happen.  My experience is it can be a very lonely place - especially initially.  But I see it happen.  A coming together of those of like mind working towards what they collectively want.
I liken it to what I see in our front garden.  We planted stuff and now the same stuff is in places we did not plant it.  It took one to make many.   
There is an old saying that, “a burden shared is a burden halved.”  One can only do so much while two can do sometimes twice as much or more.  And as an organization grows two can become twenty.
My thinking is to build what is self-sustaining.  That is, it is not built on the charisma of one person and when that person goes the organization dies.  What I like to see is an organization continuing because it is not dependant on personality.  It reminds me of something I heard recently.  “Personalities come and go while policy remains.”
It is all about making it happen.  Like attracts like and anything (worthwhile or otherwise) needs to start somewhere.  When I feel it is right for me then it may as well be me.