Stumbling Over Circumstances
The greatest stumbling block to achieving anything of importance in your life is circumstances.
We let circumstances get us off the hook when we should be giving it everything we’ve got. More dreams are shattered and goals lost because of circumstances than any other single factor.    Â
How often have you caught yourself saying, “I would like to do or have this but I can’t because…?” Whatever follows “because” is the circumstance. Â Â Â
Successful people use circumstances to catapult them on toward their goal, while the masses use them as road blocks. A circumstance may cause a detour in your life but you should never permit it to stop you.   Â
George Bernard Shaw is quoted as saying, “People are always blaming circumstance for what they are. I do not believe in circumstance. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstance they want and if they can’t find them they make them.”Â
Napoleon said, “Circumstances hell, I make them.”  Â
 The next time you hear someone say they would like to vacation in
Explain they don’t need the money until they make a decision to go to
The circumstance they are using is one of the most common: a lack of money. The real cause of their problem is lack of decision. You always attract what you need when you decide it must be done. Try this yourself today. You know the task you have been putting off “because…” Make a decision, forget the circumstance or adopt Shaw’s theory, but get it done!
Bob Proctor
Thank you Bob…
Kirk out
June 18th, 2009 at 9:37 am
Kirk,
I am listening to an audiobook by M. Scott Peck M.D. (The Road Less Traveled) and it is about this very thing. If you have not read it, I highly recommend it. He doesn’t pull punches…tells us that the responsibility of decision is ours and anything less leads to victimization.
Good thoughy today, I’ve got some work to do in this area. I appreciate the prompting.
Jay