11-16-03
SUCCESS COMES IN SMALL PORTIONS
Denis Waitley says “Real success comes in small portions day by day. You need to take pleasure in life’s little daily treasures. It is the most important thing in measuring success.”
Recently I wrote on how to make a habit of success and how we learn from our successes, not our failures. Today the idea is that success comes in teaspoons, not shovels and buckets. Even if you come up with a bucketful, it comes in teaspoons.
Recently I saw the beaming faces of a couple who won a $140 million lottery jackpot. Aha, you’re thinking, that proves success can come on a bucketful.
Not true. Just getting that money is not success. If someone put $140 million in a special bank account for you and you didn’t know it, what good would it do you? You would instantly be worth $140 million but your would not be aware of it.
When that lucky couple starts learning how to be multi-millionaires, their success will begin. The first thing they will learn is that they cannot give a million to each of their kids without paying income tax on it. So they will have to become successful in their knowledge of tax laws.
They will have to become successful in evaluating sob stories. Friends and cousins they didn’t even know they had will come to them with sob stories, asking for money. So they will be forced to become successful in using their intuition and good judgment. If you’ve lived even 20 years, you know that learning those two things is a matter of baby steps.
They will have top learn investment strategy or their money will begin to go down with no income on the interest and use of it. Unless they have studied the investment field, these will be tiny steps in knowledge and understanding.
I think about my songwriting career. I wrote at least 25 songs before I got one recorded and at least 50 before I had a hit. Each song written was a baby-step toward success.
Waitley is right. Success comes in small portions. And the greatest secret of all is learning to enjoy each tiny portion, to relish the taste of every teaspoon.
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