Tuesday, February 24, 2009

PURSUING GREATNESS

Wisdom is buried within the problem.

Close your eyes lest you stumble, and close your mouth lest you grumble. Solve the problem by perservering, rejecting the doubt that you are hearing. You can never gain wisdom without fixing the problem. Moreover no one ever became great without being engulfed. If they did, they didn't last.

Sunday, February 22, 2009

THE CHORUS

You have to be porous to hear the chorus that calls some to greatness. Those who can't ignore its chant, being deaf to music.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

SIGNS

SIGNS SEVER SOME FROM THEMSELVES.

Signs are deceiving, especially when they are lacking. Then we believe that our dreams will never happen. Desire waters but barrenness follows. We can't imagine why because we followed the recipe exactly. We forget, however, the law of reciprocity, which promises that we will reap in due season. But even this helps, provided we harness doubt's power. In failing, we cease believing that our season is coming. We trust more in signs than we do in ourselves. Achievers endure though signs fail.

Saturday, February 7, 2009

REQUIRING SUCCESS

The timid die intestate.

Success requires that we be kind and considerate, open and inventive, surrendering to nothing but what aids our aims.

Monday, February 2, 2009

FACTORING FEAR

Fear is often the factor ill-figured.

I just talked with a guy whose a lawyer by training and ambitious by nature. At 51 he's still striving to do the dream. In listening to him, however, I was reminded of the importance of having a sense of destiny. That's what his conversation lacked. He's read all the books and knows how to befriend people, but his sense of destiny is dulled, because in doing the dream he's too open to opportunity. So, he goes to meetings "just in case," or to inquire curiously.

Nothing's wrong with being curious. Everyone should strive to be so. Opportunities likewise should be explored. But once you've marketed yourself through all the nebulous networks when do you learn? When do you transition and become the opportunity that you seek? If destiny is anything, it is opportunity. Otherwise we're doomed to dream. Developed, however, a sense of destiny makes us the opportunity that others seek.

Then we cease being courtiers and become courted instead. Yes, we may still need their resources to fund our resolve. But a sense of destiny redirects, enabling the resourceful to see us as instruments of change rather than as aspirants of opportunity. Thus they willingly offer what we desperately need. So few, however, know this way because most are too anxious.

They don't know who they are or what they have. So, they let opportunity overthrow. The rest are too impatient and pawn their integrity. They aren't inherently immoral, just ethically misguided, which is why so few reach their place without being impugned. Only a sense of destiny grants this grace. In covering us so, we avoid the errors created by the lure of opportunity in a land of opportunists.