You Can Create Your Own Future

beyondstories (25)in #truth • 5 years ago (edited)

Peter Drucker wrote, “The very best way to predict the future is to create it.” Everyone wants to be happy, healthy, popular, prosperous and successful in whatever they do. But the only way for you to achieve and enjoy all that is possible for you is to create your own future. And the good news is that there have never been more opportunities, in more different areas, for you to fulfill your dreams and goals than there are today. Your chief aim in life should be to take full advantage of everything that your world has to offer.

There are basically two types of people in our world, the active and the passive. Only about 10% are proactive, and they are very much in the minority. They are however the movers and shakers in every area. They are the people who take their lives into their own hands, and make things happen. They accept complete responsibility for themselves and for results. They dare to go forward in the face of risk and uncertainty. When you decide to create your own future, you join this vital minority. You begin to push to the front of the line in your own life

The majority of people tend to be passive in their responses and reactions to life. They constantly wish and hope that something good will happen to them. They buy lottery tickets, watch television endlessly and complain about their situations. They resent successful people but are not willing to make the efforts that others have made to achieve what they have achieved. They live their lives like a person waiting for a bus on a street where no busses go.

Success Is Predictable

“It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits to our abilities do not exist.”

more than anything

Go to one of the top people in your field and ask him or

Take events that have happened in your life

then trace back to the various actions you took that contributed to

Take one specific action immediately that can increase

Action Exercises – what to do now:

Develop your own personal definition of happiness. What sort of activities or conditions do you enjoy more than anything else?
Go to one of the top people in your field and ask him or her

for advice that will help you to be more successful.

Most People Are Lazy

Unfortunately, most people are lazy. They do just as much as they have to do to avoid getting fired. They sometimes act as if they are entitled to a job, whether they do it well or not. Sustained affluence since World War II has created two or three generations of employees who have grown up with the idea that they can do a half job and get a full salary.

Because of the dumbing down of our educational system, with diminished course work combined with social promotion, many people were able to coast from the first grade to the twelfth grade, and even through university, without working particularly hard to get a diploma or a degree. When they enter the world of work, they simply continue doing what they have been doing for years.

Create Your Own Reputation

Here’s a question for you. Do you have a reputation for being one of the hardest and most efficient workers in your company? Do people look up to you and respect you as one of the top people in your business? Are you continually being given more and bigger assignments, more important responsibilities, and more opportunities for promotion than anyone else? If the answer is “no,” isn’t it time for you to make a decision to “get serious” about your future? Remember, this life is not a rehearsal for something else. The Law of Applied Effort The Law of Applied Effort is a key luck factor. It says, “Any goal, task or activity is amenable to the sustained effort of hard work.”

There is very little that you cannot accomplish in life if you are willing to work at it long enough and hard enough, and to persist in the face of all obstacles and difficulties until you win through. Hard, hard work is and has always been the key to great success.