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life? Have you placed your great future in the hands of fate and are waiting for that glorious day when it will all come through for you?
Well, I have some sad news. You may never get that break. Fate will disappoint you as it has millions before you. The good news is you don’t need fate to help you. You just need to follow
“the process” to make your dreams come true.
There was a man who spent his life searching for the big break. He was searching for that one get-rich-quick scheme that would change his whole life. He was intelligent, no doubt, and had
great ability in more than one area. He did not live a spectacular life. In fact, by most standards
he was poor. He could not hold a job for too long either. I can only guess that that was
because he felt the process was taking too long
and required too much effort.
However, when you spoke to him, he was always on the verge of some major breakthrough. He would always talk with great
enthusiasm and energy about that one great deal he was about to make that would make
him a huge fortune and change his life forever! Of course, all he needed was some start-up
capital to get him along. You could help him out a great deal by lending this to him and, once he
made his fortune, he could pay you back in no time. Sounds familiar?
It all sounded very easy and very possible at the time. But years went by with one failed scheme after another. He died a poor man with
very little to his name and left nothing for his children to inherit. They were left to struggle
through life. I always wonder what he could have achieved
had he not been searching for a quick fix. If he could have committed his time and energy to
one thing, consistently worked at it and followed the process of building a good solid business,
surely he would have succeeded eventually.With time, he would have made that huge
fortune and lived a better life. How different life would be for his children today! Sad as this story is, it is being replayed in
millions of people’s lives throughout the world.
They are looking for an easy way out or a shortcut to success. These are people who have not realized that there are no quick fixes to life’s
issues. A quick fix by definition is “a remedy that has the benefit of immediate gratification but
the drawback of not being very effective.” It can be present in everything we do from our
relationships to our health and spirituality.We wait for that big promotion, that big house,
a good family and rich businesses all our lives.What else are we doing about it but waiting? We are waiting for the quick fix. We are waiting for
the instant answer that will some day just reveal itself and give us all our desires. Some people actually do get the answer. They might win the lottery, get an inheritance or get
their hard earned pension if they had a good job, which for a lot of people, seems to be the only plan they have of getting rich. It then
suddenly seems that their dreams are coming true. Then, as suddenly as it came, it’s all gone.
The lesson is that if it did not come through a process but by some quick fix, it will leave the
same way. It is surprising how many think once they get
their pension they will start a business and live off the business. Meanwhile, their whole life
they have never run a single successful business. Their pension is the quick fix they are
looking for. It will solve all their problems. You have to realize that life is about gradual
processes and not quick fixes. Whether you find yourself poor, unhappy, lonely or defeated,
there is a process that has led you there. It did not all happen in one day. How then, do you expect to find the answers and reverse the
situation in one day or one week?
Before you go out looking for a quick fix or some get-rich-quick scheme, you should know that
there are several problems with this approach. The first is that quick fixes are temporary and
do not last. Secondly, they do not deal with the underlying problem nor can they satisfy your
ultimate aim of living a fulfilled life.
A more serious consequence of quick fixes is that they do not address the underlying
problem. In medicine, we call it “symptomatic
treatment”. For instance, paracetamol may stop
the headache, but it will not cure the malaria.Quick fixes will offer superficial solutions, but
the real issues will be overlooked.
The person who is always looking for the easiest way to get something is a person that never
matures in character. As a muscle must be strained to the limit for it to get stronger, so your character must be challenged for it to
develop. This can only happen if you are willing to grow through the process required for you to
achieve your dreams.
It takes time, patience, planning, perseverance and determination, amongst other things.
However the effort is well worth it because it will yield to you the ability to surmount any obstacle
that comes your way.
It will also help you to appreciate your success more because you will realize that it took a lot
for you to get there. It is a sad, but true saying about human nature that we do not appreciate
things that come easy. When you are going through the process, success will be even
sweeter. In the words of Louis Binstock: “Too often the
shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory
success.”Build your dreams on a solid foundation. Follow
the process necessary for you to achieve lasting
results.You are all you can be. Go on and be it!
Meet success
Source; dreamers
