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One Person Can Change Your Life
No, the person is not you. Not that motivational crap
I have one question for you…
If you take nothing away from this article, I want you to think deeply about this one question:
Can you lift yourself up by your shoe straps?
Think about it. If you are in a private space, I’d like you to try it. Try lifting yourself up by lifting your shoe straps or whatever you are wearing on your feet.
If you have nothing on, try grabbing your ankles to lift yourself up. Even just for a little bit, see if you can do it.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure it out — you can’t.
The physics doesn’t work.
All truth is parallel. The same is true for success…
You cannot lift yourself up.
The Motivational Cesspool
I am not saying that you have no part to play in becoming successful. You certainly do.
But the idea that your success in life is completely up to you is bogus. It doesn’t matter how skilled you are. It doesn’t matter how intelligent you are.
There are doors of opportunity that can only be opened from the inside. And you are outside.
If no one opens those doors for you, there is nothing you can do to get in.
Is it fair? Nope.
Is it the reality? Yes.
Motivational speakers deceive people by making them think that they are failing because they are not working hard enough. And that could be further from the truth.
If you want to hurt yourself and punish yourself, you can find reasons to. There will always be something you didn’t do. There will always be something you missed.
Maybe that contributed to the size of the failure. But if you look at the people who succeeded, they didn’t check all the boxes either.
Behind every successful person is someone (with a big reputation) who endorsed (or backed) them (in some way).
The most qualified person does not always get the job. You cannot work hard to get…
