Security can only be found inside of us. If it isn’t there, it isn’t anywhere.
A trick is not in achieving our goals, it is in establishing them. A ship would never leave a harbor if it did not have a destination. Every business operates for a purpose. Every game has a reason.
Can you tell your destination just as quickly and in one sentence?
The captain of the ship knows that he can arrive at only one port at a time, He also knows that his destination will be invisible for fully 99% of his voyage, but he knows it’s there and that he’ll reach it. Barring an unforeseen catastrophe if he will just keeps doing certain things a certain way every day, one fine morning his destination will appear on the horizon, he will sail into the port his voyage successfully completed, when his business has been accomplished, he’ll sail to another predetermined port of call and this will take him and his ship from one success to another for the rest of both of their lives.
By understanding that he can reach only one port at a time, the owner of the ship can, in the short space of very few years, reach hundreds of ports successfully. There will be problems, lots of them, but they will be solved and the ship will steam its solitary course over the deep oceans of the world, devoting its life to accomplish its mission and contributing its share to the welfare, and economy of the world.
Most of the people are like ships without rudders, they are subject to the whims of wind and tide. while they hope they will one day arrive at a rich and bustling port, you and I know that for every narrow harbor entrance, there are a thousand miles of treacherous rocky coastlines. The chances of they are just drifting into the port are 1000 to 1 against them. These are the unfortunate people of the world who not knowing the rules, believe that circumstance controls their lives. They believe in luck and superstition, fate, and the breaks. They believe that success comes as a result of who you know not what you know. While they cling to their false alibis, life passes them by, for the rules of life are just, and they are checkmated without haste but without remorse.
Security can only be found inside of us. If it isn’t there, it isn’t anywhere.
Our rewards will be in exact proportion to our service, If we want to get in the top 5% of the people we must cut ourselves away from the effects of our environment, and become individuals with individual goals, individual thinking, and individual actions.
We must realize that our daily work contains more opportunities that we could develop in a lifetime and that our job contains within itself the key to greatness. The road to everything we could possibly want in life for ourselves and our families, We must realize that security can be found in one place only inside of us. If it isn’t there, it isn’t anywhere. The only road to security lies in doing what we do for a living surpassingly well.
And lastly, that we must become professionals at what we do, and becoming a pro involves knowledge, planning, and working. Knowledge of what we sell, who we sell, and selling. Planning by establishing the goal which automatically establishes a work pattern. The great salesman is like a great golfer, it looks easy the way he does it because it is easy the way he does it. But it took time, dedication, and work in its accomplishments. is it worth it? You bet it is!
P G Hamilton wrote, “let’s be different a strong life is that of a ship of war, which has its own place in the fleet, and can share in its strength and discipline, but can also go forth alone to the solitude of the infinite sea.”
We ought to belong to society, to have our place in it, and yet be capable of a complete individual existence outside of it.