Sep 10 2007

Provide Opportunity Through YOUR Goals

Published by noble at 2:10 am under Activism vs Optimism

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.

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One Response to “Provide Opportunity Through YOUR Goals”

  1. # DrSteveon 07 Nov 2007 at 1:37 am

    It’s a tough one isn’t it - how to be independant and yet not a loner; how to be sociable abd yet not one of the herd. Kipling’s oem ‘If’ is good on this.

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