The Long and Winding Road
Posted by: richman in The Epistles of Home Business, tags: inspiration, long & winding road, motivation, richBy: Jo-Anne A. Cuyugan
I wanna get rich… I do… I believe.
Climbing the ladder of success could be easy and not so easy with some people but the key here is what we call—Attitude. First you must start with attitude. What makes you tick? Or who makes you tick? What drives you? Or who drives you?
If you know the answer to those questions, you would see how far you’d go. If you know you’re leaning on to something more solid than yourself, or Someone like the One who created them all, you know you’re in good hands. But if you’re reclining into something temporal and changeable, then, as one wise king once said, everything is vanity.
Life is one hell of a ride, people say. It is. Life is short and quick the key is how to spend it. We want to get rich, at least most people do. For different reasons, for different motivations, we want to climb that high ladder of success. We can push, kick, grasp, strive, pant, we wanna get there. But on what means?
If you are not able to master a positive and rightful attitude, all efforts to get rich become like sinking sand. Some people would climb the ladder fast and easy but falling down is much quicker. While some people do it steadily, patiently, consistently, and reach the top just right. Which of these is you?
One Filipino author once told, a lady went to a mango vendor. She asked the vendor how much a kilo of mango costs. The vendor told her Php 50 per kilo. She was shocked. The vendor saw the unbelief in her face and he calmly suggested: “Madam, if you want cheaper mangos, you can look at that bunch over there. They’re yours for free.” She looked and there were overripe, rotten mangos.
Excellence or Mediocrity? Excellence costs a higher price of hardwork and perseverance. Mediocrity is “pwede na yan” (“that would do”) attitude. Like those sweet, ripe and luscious mangoes that cost 50 pesos, excellence produce as such output. While mediocrity spells old, overripe, rotten mangos anybody can have for free. They’re totally useless.
I wanna get rich. I wanna get there. I believe I can. I believe the big Boss up there will see me through reach my dreams. I have to have the right attitude, and the right motivation.
Hardwork, perseverance, determination- they all must lead to one road: Excellence. If you want to get rich, I have one word for you…excel.
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