Of all the things that go in the direction of shaping our destiny, it is our belief in our own abilities which has the greatest influence. Our stage of self belief determines whether or not we succeed or fail to realize our goals and ambitions. As Henry Ford stated "If you suppose you may, you are proper. Should you think you can't, you're right."
I was watching a program on the Biography Channel the other day which illustrated the truth of Henry Ford's phrases and highlighted the significance of self-belief. The subject of this program dropped out of the educational system with out a degree, in actual fact, he give up college before he even reached college age and left school with woefully inadequate qualifications. The explanation for this educational failure was a mixture of dyslexia and general lack of curiosity in class work.
Sadly, the lack of educational achievement was accompanied by a complete lack of prowess on the sports area. To top it all off, in addition to being a dunce and a sporting failure, the poor kid was not even good looking. He didn't have rich dad and mom to present him financial support . His dad and mom were not business homeowners, so there was no chance of a career through nepotism. He had no apparent abilities or expertise, so a profession as an artist or musician was not an possibility.
This sounded just like the stereotypical beginning for a person who will at greatest survive by taking low-paid employment and, at worst, will drift into a lifetime of crime as a approach of snatching what he's incapable of earning. His school headmaster is credited with saying on his premature departure from the education system, ‘I feel positive you'll either find yourself in prison or grow to be a millionaire'. To entertain the concept this individual had any prospect of changing into a millionaire, you would need to know his character. We are able to solely see the exterior disadvantages, the headmaster was conscious of the power of character and depth of self perception existing within this particular person. That self-perception more than made up for any lack of training and academic qualifications.
One factor the prospective jailbird/millionaire had was the power to spot a distinct segment for a brand new enterprise. No, this is not a story of luck bringing an instantaneous rags to riches transformation. Sadly his first two business ventures failed miserably. Did this set him on a path of serial business failures? Not at all, the failures most likely taught him worthwhile lessons. He started the first enterprise at the age of seven, so the possibilities of actual success had been fairly distant! The fact that he had sufficient self-perception to begin his first enterprise earlier than he even reached his teenage years gives us a clue as to his character.
The condensed version of the remainder of this biography is that the "hero" of the story built a profitable business earlier than he reached his twenties, was a millionaire by the age of 25 and was the owner of a Caribbean island before he was thirty. He didn't stop working then, he went on from flamboyant success to even greater flamboyant success, setting information and reaching the apparently not possible.
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