Four Things You Do Not Have to Work to Succeed At
"It takes no
effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not
even a challenge.
You can do nothing and
be ordinary."
- Bernard Hopkins
American
Boxing Champ
I know this
sounds like a simple or odd question, however, I believe it is important. Why do you think there are so many ordinary
people around? It is not just because we
are all ordinary. For one, I do not
believe that is true. There are many who
have achieved extraordinary things in life.
So why do some succeed and others do not? I think the answer is just as simple, they do
not succeed because they choose not to do anything to succeed.
For some it may be a case of
plain old laziness. For others it is
just not being willing to put forth all the effort that it takes to
succeed. They want to get what doing
nothing can bring them. Here are four
things that you can succeed at without having to do any work at all.
#1. Do not stand out
I have heard from people that
they have not done extraordinary things in life simply because they did not
want to stand out or gather attention.
That my friends is just out and out foolishness. People who are successful stand out not because
they are prideful or desire to get attention.
Most are very humble people. They
stand out because they have succeeded at something. They stand out because they have done what
others would not do and therefore they are different than the crowd. There is no honor in hiding and keeping your
gift from the world. The person who keep
their talents and skills to them self is not humble, they are selfish.
#2. Never live out your dream
We all have a dream. It is something that you were born with. I know that some have beaten it down so much
it seems hard to find, but it is there.
The problem is never finding the dream, it is living the dream. It takes no effort at all to sit back and go
through life with, what Oliver Wendell Holmes called, "Having the music
still inside them". Every day,
ordinary people die with nothing to show for the years they have lived on this
planet. What a waste of human potential.
#3. Always fail in life
We have become a society that
takes some kind of pride in being a failure.
We allow others to take care of our needs. We are told what to do, what to believe and
how to feel. Not only do we see no
problem with this kind of thinking but we encourage it in others. So many people go through life dead, only
waiting for the moment they can be buried.
Failure takes no effort at all.
In fact, all you have to do is give up and you are there. Thomas Edison reminds us, "Many of
life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success
when they gave up."
#4. Never leave a trace
In Scouting, we have a badge
boys can earn that is called, Leave No Trace.
The purpose is to help them understand that you should leave the woods
just as you found them and leave no trace that you had been there. In life it is different. No one should leave this life with nothing
that out lives them. A successful life
is one that is full of tracks left behind by a productive person. For those who wish to do nothing you will
leave nothing but space behind you. A
sad legacy if a legacy at all.
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