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richest women in this planet. However, when Rowling wrote
the first Harry Potter book in 1995, it was rejected by 12
different publishers. Even Bloomsbury, the small publishing
house that finally purchased Rowling’s manuscript, told the
author to “get a day job.” At the time when Rowling was
writing the original Harry Potter book, her life was a self-
described mess. She was going through a divorce and living
in a tiny flat with her daughter. Rowling was surviving on
government subsidies, and her mother had just passed away
from multiple sclerosis. At such a bleak juncture in her
life, what do you think carried her through? The answer is
simple: a tiny little voice that arises from within and says,
yes you can. J.K. Rowling followed that voice and turned
these negatives into a positive by devoting most of her free
time to the Harry Potter series. She in fact also drew from
her bad personal experiences when writing. The result is now
a brand name currently worth nearly $15 billion, but more
importantly, a name which shall be remembered as having
gotten children across the world back to reading books and
discovering the attics of their imagination.
Friends, in a society indecisive people neither get anything
nor give anything. Only those who can take firmdecisions can
reach their desired targets. The valuable time of indecisive
people gets wasted. You might have seen such people living
in frustration; even if there are lots of options available in
