What Does it Take to Be Successful?

If you can generate ideas, then you can solve problems. Problems are not the problem. Ideas are the problem. Every single problem, challenge, or storm you face today has as its solution an idea waiting to be used. Understand that the only thing between your current and its removal is an idea. Get your eyes off your problems and onto solutions. You may not be able to do anything about what has happened, but you surely can, and should, do something about finding a solution. Yesterday is gone! You can’t do anything about it. You can’t re-live it! But today is here, with new opportunities. You can learn from the mistakes you made yesterday and avoid making the same today. You can change your life today. Oh! remember this, if you thought small, you will stay small, you have no intention of staying small, right? Think big!

If you remain the way you are you always get what you have been getting. But if you make a change, your life can be totally different. If you don’t change, your life will be the same in the next five years as it is now. For things to get better, you have to change. It is not what happens that determines your success, it what’s you do that determines success. Direction determines destiny. All you got to do is to make a little change to change your destiny. If you want a brand-new destination in two three years, change your direction.

The Treasure Alice Grey wrote a story called the “The Treasure.” The cheerful girl with bouncy golden curls was almost five. Waiting with her mother at the checkout stand, she saw them, a circle of glistening white pearls in a pink foil box. “Oh, please, mommy, can I have them? Can I have them? Please, please, mommy?” Quickly, the mother checked the back of the little foil box and then looked back into the pleading blue eyes of her little girl’s upturned face. “A dollar and ninety-five cents. That’s almost two dollars. If you really want them, in no time you can save enough to buy them for yourself. Your birthday is only a week away and you might get another crisp dollar bill from Grandma.” As soon as Jenny got home, she emptied her penny box and counted out seventeen pennies. After dinner, she did more than her share of chores and went to the neighbor’s house and asked Mrs. McJames if she could pick dandelions for ten cents. On her birthday, Grandma did give her another new dolla...