On Your Own
Monday, October 27, 2008 14:13Most millionaires are non-conformists. So are the most famous actors
and actresses; and the most prominent artists. Writers are known fortheir individual traits and eccentricities.
Your convictions and goals are your own business, even when you find
help along the path. Mentors often take people under their wings to
nourish and teach. Or spiritual guides will show you the path to
attainment. But you’re on your own to achieve.
Cultivate a sense of justice and an ability to make decisions.
Cooperate with everybody and develop your own self-respect.
And follow good criticism and advice after you’ve judged carefully.
J. Paul Getty said, “I advise young millionaires to be skeptical ofadvice. They should advise themselves; they should form their own
opinions.”
Lord Byron wrote, “There is rapture on the lonely shore.” And if you
attain your goals with poise and sincerity, you’ll find warmth and
love at the top- not the cold loneliness pictured by the jealous.
Put on blinders to negative comments and criticism meant to hurt you.
About the people who criticize, Voltaire wrote, “Never having been
able to succeed in the world, they took revenge by speaking ill of
it.”
Seize the Day!
People are judged by what they think and what they say. But the true
measure of their character is what they do. Anyone who has achieved
success and fortune in the world has done it by action.
William Jennings Bryan wrote, “Destiny is not a matter of chance, it
is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a
thing to be achieved.”
The choice of the path you follow is often put before you as
opportunity. “Few people recognize opportunity,” said Cary Grant,
“because it comes disguised as hard work.”
Don’t let opportunities slip past while you’re still considering
them, and create new ones as you see them. “Wise people make
more opportunities than they find,” said Francis Bacon.
What opportunities can you act upon? Woolworth saw a need for small
inexpensive items and opened the chain of stores that grossed
billions.
Wrigley started giving gum away as a bonus from a supplies wagon he
sold from, and saw the opportunity to make money from the gum that
became in high demand.
All successful people the world over have found the opportunities for
their own special talents and acted upon those ways to achieve. Why
wait for the time to pass? There’s never a better time than now.
Lewis Carroll believed as many as six impossible things before
breakfast. Take your own impossible dreams and make them become
reality.
