NEVER MIND WHAT OTHERS DIDN’T DO. IT’S WHAT YOU DO THAT COUNTS.
If you depend upon others for your success, you are doomed to a life of failure and despair. It is a sad fact of life that few people consistently deliver what they promise. Instead of lamenting what someone else should have done to help you, focus on what you can do to help yourself. The best plan of action is one that provides opportunities for others to benefit if they wish to work with you toward the accomplishment of your goals but that does not depend upon these people for success.-Napoleon Hill
We have already established on this website the importance of action and not just optimism. But now lets deal with whether or not your are a captain of your ship. Napoleon Hill used to decry the idle mind. A non-active mind, one not actively working towards the achievement of a goal is sad. We are noble men, not sad creatures, but happy men living from one goal to another raising people up around us along the way.
One does not have to go backwards to help people, one does not have to sink to bring people up. One can be in control and in the process of achieving worthwhile goals allow others to share in this achievement.
The next goal you write down (you should be thinking on paper) make a separate accounting of how you can provide opportunities for those who might be interested in helping out. Just make sure you are not dependent on these people, they are just invited to come along for the ride. Be self-reliant, do something for yourself all the while providing opportunities for others. Engage the world, you may be the captain of the ship but if you reach the destination without passengers, you are leaving behind very precious cargo.
Suggestion : Go to the Napoleon Hill Foundation and sign up for their daily email. Get some good emails!
Try this exercise and see how you feel after you do it.
Go to Network For Good and make a contribution no matter how small to an organization that you admire. Click the button that says to make your contribution anonymous and then never tell anyone about it (except perhaps your accountant during tax time).
This is an exercise that will build your self worth and value. Everyone needs a treasury of deeds that they are proud of, the larger the treasure the easy it is to build a sense of value of your life.
Making another feel good by creating rapport and giving them the space to let them express themselves and then rewarding them for it is another noble deed that creates value. There are many that I hope to share with you on this website.
This one is easy for you to do and adds a dimension of value to your sense of self that you can start to build on right away plus it creates good karma so to speak. Go to the website and do it, you will feel different, let it sink in, enjoy your growing self-worth and value and start being the man you know you ought to be.
I love this commercial. Besides being ridiculously funny, more revealing is why we find it humorous. It is unusual to see depictions on TV of a man with great social grace, a man of adventure, and a man of style. It is humorous because it is a classic representation of a James Bond like masculinity that is not often shown. Translate that into a commercial with over the top visuals and situations and you say “Now that is a man!!.” Way to go Dos Equis. Very funny and right on. I have never had Dos Equis but I think I may have to try it:)
Do you think that he cares what women think of him? Do you think he is not authentic with his words and action? A truly authentic man:)!
I have a new role model “The Most Interesting Man in the World.”