by Dwayne Gilbert
I often ask people what they want out of life and in life. I get a very large variety of answers. Everything from love to money to success in all areas. Then I ask people what they are doing right now to get those things or what their plan is. The typical response is a blank stare as most people have no idea what to do to get there. After that, I ask what they plan on doing to get it or why they don't try this or that to get there. This is where the excuses and stories come in. People never have trouble at this point explaining to me why they couldn't possibly have all that money or don't stand a chance of getting that love. People are never at a loss for reasons why they don't have what they want, or why they can't get it.
There are never excuses for why we can't be, do, or have what we want. Sometimes there are acceptable temporary reasons for not being able to be, do, or have what we want, but there are never acceptable excuses. There is a story of a woman who had lost her little boy at the age of two. She had cried for weeks in sorrow when she finally went to a great sage to ask him how to bring her son back to life. The sage listened carefully as the woman explained to him how sad she was and how badly she wanted her son back and how she wanted to die herself because of her loss. In response, the sage told the woman to go around the village and get a grain of rice from someone who had never experienced sorrow or who never lost a loved one and he would give her the answer for getting rid of her pain.
The woman set out in a hurry with great hope as she had wanted to get rid of her pain and sorrow. House after house she knocked on door after door. Every time she knocked on a door she heard story after story of person after person who had exprienced the loss of a loved one and sorrow. The woman returned to the sage without the grain of rice in which the sage had requested but with a whole new perspective on her situation. The sage smiled gently as the woman went away with a sense of peace.
The moral of the story is that everyone has a story and excuse. The real question is whether or not your story will inspire and motivate you or whether or not it will stop you from moving forward. Everyone has gone through hard times and experienced negative things in their lives. Everyone has a story they could use to stop them from accomplishing everything they want in life. There are people out there who have accomplished great things and had reasonable stories why they shouldn't have, and there are normal people who have no story that is reasonable and still accomplish nothing. So ask yourself honestly if you are willing to spread your wings and fly, or are you making excuses for why you aren't where you want to be.
I often ask people what they want out of life and in life. I get a very large variety of answers. Everything from love to money to success in all areas. Then I ask people what they are doing right now to get those things or what their plan is. The typical response is a blank stare as most people have no idea what to do to get there. After that, I ask what they plan on doing to get it or why they don't try this or that to get there. This is where the excuses and stories come in. People never have trouble at this point explaining to me why they couldn't possibly have all that money or don't stand a chance of getting that love. People are never at a loss for reasons why they don't have what they want, or why they can't get it.
There are never excuses for why we can't be, do, or have what we want. Sometimes there are acceptable temporary reasons for not being able to be, do, or have what we want, but there are never acceptable excuses. There is a story of a woman who had lost her little boy at the age of two. She had cried for weeks in sorrow when she finally went to a great sage to ask him how to bring her son back to life. The sage listened carefully as the woman explained to him how sad she was and how badly she wanted her son back and how she wanted to die herself because of her loss. In response, the sage told the woman to go around the village and get a grain of rice from someone who had never experienced sorrow or who never lost a loved one and he would give her the answer for getting rid of her pain.
The woman set out in a hurry with great hope as she had wanted to get rid of her pain and sorrow. House after house she knocked on door after door. Every time she knocked on a door she heard story after story of person after person who had exprienced the loss of a loved one and sorrow. The woman returned to the sage without the grain of rice in which the sage had requested but with a whole new perspective on her situation. The sage smiled gently as the woman went away with a sense of peace.
The moral of the story is that everyone has a story and excuse. The real question is whether or not your story will inspire and motivate you or whether or not it will stop you from moving forward. Everyone has gone through hard times and experienced negative things in their lives. Everyone has a story they could use to stop them from accomplishing everything they want in life. There are people out there who have accomplished great things and had reasonable stories why they shouldn't have, and there are normal people who have no story that is reasonable and still accomplish nothing. So ask yourself honestly if you are willing to spread your wings and fly, or are you making excuses for why you aren't where you want to be.
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