No More Excuses!
Are you ready for your inspirational jolt for the day? When you first read it, it may seem too simple…which is really how life is and why we sometimes miss out on some really good things. However, if you think about it for even a moment, you’ll see that the implications are profound – and inspiring. This is it:
“Whatever goals you have in your life, and no matter where you start, someone has succeeded at something similar or even more difficult, starting with less than you have.”
There may be some of you out of the six billion or so on the planet for whom this doesn’t apply. Perhaps some really want to do things that are far beyond anything a man or woman has ever done, so I apologize to the fifty of you. There is nothing new under the sun therefore, someone somewhere has done it before! As for the rest of you, what do you want?
Want a loving partner? Somebody less attractive, charming and intelligent than you is getting happily married somewhere today. Want to create a new food and successfully market it? You probably already have more resources than Harland Sanders had when he started trying to sell his Kentucky Fried Chicken. Want a big beautiful home? Three or more people in your city have such a home after being poorer than you at some point in their lives.
Anthony Hopkin’s character, in the movie “The Edge,” says “What one man can do, another can do.” He goes on to kill the bear that is stalking him. What if you aren’t as strong, as rich, or as smart as others? Not all those who have done great things were always stronger, smarter and richer than you. Just like them, you can learn the right things, take the right actions and put in the effort. This is why this is an inspirational jolt. I want to jolt you out of your current mindset. Check out where some people started from and you’ll find yourself saying, “Hey! If he/she can do it, I can too.”
I told a guy he could save money to buy a home, and he claimed he just didn’t have any extra to save. He forgot that he already knew several people who were making less money than him and surviving just fine. If he lived like those people for a while, couldn’t he bank the difference? (Just say yes – finding reasons why you can’t do something is a terrible habit to encourage.)
Would you like a date for this Friday? How? Here’s a clue: An awkward young man asked a woman friend why he couldn’t get a date. She asked if he had asked anyone out. After he thought about it for a moment he said, “No.” “That’s why,” she told him. Better example: I know a jerk that always has a date – after asking twenty women a week out. These are lessons, aren’t they? If a self-proclaimed geek and a jerk can get a date, you can too, right?
Colonel Sanders drove around in an old van living off his social security check as 900 restaurants told him they were not interested in his recipe. One eventually said yes, and he eventually made millions of dollars. Maybe this could inspire us to try something more than three times? I believe it was W. E. Hickson who made this 1800′s proverb popular: ‘Tis a lesson you should heed:Try, try, try again.If at first you don’t succeed,Try, try, try again.
People come here with little money and speaking little English and end up owning restaurants and stores. If you want to own a restaurant or store, find out how they do it. There are almost three million millionaires in the U.S. If you really want millions, read their stories, studythem, and learn how to make money. Whatever you want to do, someone has done it, starting from a worse situation than yours. If they can do it, you can too. No excuse will do. “Excuses are tools of incompetence that build monuments of nothingness and those that insist upon using them are seldom good at anything else.-Unknown This is your inspirational jolt for the day.
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