Success Doesn’t Just happen

Our parents knew something that most of us still don’t know: Failure is the default position in life. That’s right! Failure is the default setting for those who do not know what they are doing. So while failure is the outcome of most people’s lives, success is rare, because the person who would succeed in life is the person who understands what he must do differently from the masses of people around him, the 96 percent who will fall short of their goals. He has figured out what constitutes success and what he (or she) must do to achieve it.

Success doesn’t just “happen” to a person, and it won’t just fall out of a tree and hit you on the head simply because you were born or because the people in your immediate family are all successful. It is the people who understand the importance of the seeds they plant in their own heads who will end up achieving their goals. It is the people who comprehend the connection between their thinking and their behavior, their beliefs and the outcome of their lives, who will experience the ultimate life.

Unfortunately, most people will never know about this principle, so most people will never be able to apply this truth to their lives unless someone tells them about it. Like the people who lived under the law of gravity before they knew what gravity was, they won’t be able to understand why things work the way that they do in the world and why they cannot succeed like the people they admire from afar. They won’t be able to harness the power of a life principle that God designed for their benefit, because they won’t even realize that there is a direct connection between the seeds they sow into their own minds and the outcome of their lives.