Success! But Wait! Who are We Kidding?
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The power for success is ? where?
?Don, can I find success in prophets writings or guru declarations??
?Well Jon, Let?s face it; anyone, even God himself, can offer a formula for success. No matter if it has freed thousands, in all guarantees made, what would it be worth without your participation. That?s right, the main ingredient in any success formula is you. The burden is placed directly on you. Maybe you don?t want to hear that, but, like it or not, it is you who makes success happen and brings God?s promises into an experience.
?Bring God?s promises into an experience, what can that mean? Can you invoke God?s power for your benefit??
?You better believe you can! All the power of the Universe is at your disposal.?
?Wow, wait a minute, that can?t be, God doesn?t allow man to create . . . does he??
?The fact is, man was created in God?s own image and likeness, man is a creative being. Your quest for success is not done blindly for it is in faith that you forge ahead. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.?
?Wait a minute, If that?s true, why can?t I create my own environment??
?You?ve clearly ignored the truth up tell now what makes you think you can handle the truth?? The truth is, you can, by simply using God?s laws.?
?How about success??
Success is only a state of mind. What is success for one person may be failure to another, so success is what you believe it to be.?
?But Don, I have worked hard and God has not supplied me anything up to now. My family has lost faith in me, and even my church friends don?t seem to care?
?Jon, another eye-opening fact is, no one, not even God will make it happen for you and quite frankly no one on earth cares if you make or not. Look around, in most instances, people want to see you fail. Friends, family, associates, don?t want to see you doing better than them, I?m sorry to say, sad but true.?
?What can I put my trust in??
?All events that affect you are actually controlled by you in other words, nothing is going to happen in your life without you accepting and allowing it happen. If you have a tyrant boss, don?t accept his/her conditions, find another job. One guarantee I can make, you won?t be successful if you don?t do any thing different than you did yesterday. If you accept the face of success, you are accepting God?s personal promise for your future. When all is said and done, success comes at a steep price, one you must pay to reap its benefits.?
Do you make or break ? yourself?
As you can see, Jon is in a quandary, be believes everyone has let him down and success is beyond his reach.
A startling fact is, in God?s creation nothing moves forward without some effort being made by the participant. Sometimes the effort is tremendous and almost beyond measure, sometimes it is small and accomplished with little sweat. Anytime a person toils and sews the seeds of success a harvest time will follow. It?s a matter of how much effort he/she is willing to expend as to how much bounty his/her harvest will be. This is no earth shaking revelation, everyone knows success is self made, or do they?
Make no mistake, God?s laws know no boundaries, they are the same for everyone, believers and non-believers alike. Don?t be so naive as to believe that just because you are a Christian, God?s laws are proprietary to you; they are not. God?s laws encompass the whole of mankind equally; they are cause and effect or the action in choice. There can be no beginning without an ending. It?s a matter of the course taken between the beginning and the ending that determines success.
Regrettably, statistics disclose most of the world?s greatest self-help and how-to publications published over the years are never read by most purchasers and the material contained within is in no way put into practice. So all the writing in the world is of no use if it is presented to the blind.
The greatest majority of people simply can not grasp the truths of success or self-disciplined themselves to implement or even partially learn the best of laid out instructional concepts. It is sad that the many efforts of learned people who toiled diligently to present success manuals go unheeded while most people can?t lend themselves to put them into practice in their lives. This is the very reason universities and colleges are so valuable and are able to charge so much; they prepare undisciplined people in how to arouse the inner self. They also teach people how to focus on the task at hand. I can?t stress enough, if you can not discipline yourself in this effort you too will fall to uncertainty and ultimately disappointment. What most people never learn is that to become great at anything, you must become single minded and task directed.
First law of success, ?the force needed to move an object is in direct proportion to its resistance?.
Sound like a riddle? No, it simply means, ?the harder you work the more you get.? But wait, there?s another rule that says, ?work smarter not harder? which also applies. Also, ?necessity is the mother of invention?. Man is the only creature within God?s creation that has the capacity to take an idea from conception to creation. Why? Because in conception lies possibilities in discovery and truth which is a God inherited trait. What is the Universe but a possibility, idea, conception taken to its highest limits?
Even though God provides abundance, it is still a test of your intent and willingness. Do you have the strength to complete the mission? What is success but a test of endurance, desire, and commitment? When courted success is an elusive mistress who always resist capture and when not minded, will seek a more apt suitor.
The fact is, the concept of personal accomplishment, and financial success may seem worthy but without a clearly defined plan of action, they are little more than pipe dreams that come and go in the mind and may never be realized. Concepts must be visualized in your mind first before they will become a reality, then they can become strategies of success. Success is closer than you think.
Happy Trails
onald Yates, Former Director of Leadership and Development for the First Baptist Church of Crossville, and Business Development coordinator for Imperial Research , is now retired but continues to engage life through self discovery.
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