The Ultimate Investment

Have you been conditioned to think being successful is hard?  Do you believe that following a complicated path, being highly educated, or having money is required for happiness and success? 

That’s wrong; dead wrong.  Success — true success — doesn’t depend on any of these. 

Real success depends on who you are, what you do, and a belief in your own abilities.  Sound easy?  It is.  But most don’t get it. 

Your aptitude for achievement is already built-in.  Throughout your life it’s been covered over with learned attitudes and beliefs that are self defeating.  From an early age you learned from parents, teachers, and friends what is, and what isn’t possible to achieve over your lifetime.  Some are lucky and learn there are no limits.  Most aren’t so lucky.

Early critics of the space program said man would never walk on the moon.  Still more recently, business leaders said the concept of a personal computer would never be economically viable.  Not only has man walked on the moon once, but several times.  Now in the United States alone, almost 85 percent of all households have a personal computer, many have two. 

Luckily for you, there were those born who didn’t believe landing on the moon or making an affordable personal computer were impossible feats.

“Men who say that something can’t be done are usually passed up by someone doing it.”  Most of the limits you place on yourself are fictitious.  They only exist because you believe they do. 

Robert grew up thinking that learning math was difficult.  Ironically, he also grew up with the knack for managing money.  Since managing money depends heavily on math skills, his parents couldn’t figure out why he wasn’t a math whiz.  But since Robert had these beliefs, it affected his abilities in both areas.  He struggled with math, but if you put a dollar sign in front of the same problem, he’d easily grasp the concept and often solve it in his head. 

Robert didn’t realize the irony until attending college.  Once discovered, the false barrier dissolved, and math, virtually overnight, became one of his best subjects.

Your capacity for achievement is already within.  Just uncover and use it.  It’s your birth-right to achieve.  A prominent religious leader of the early 1800’s taught, “Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it.”  Happiness is gained by reaching for and achieving your full potential.  You weren’t placed on earth to fail or to even be mediocre.    Success and happiness are within your grasp any time you want.  All you have to do is “follow the path that leads to it.”

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