Neglecting Success
by, Corey Wells

Why do some people become extremely successful and others do not? Mainly because successful people found it easy to do the things that were needed to make them successful, while the others found it easier not to do those things. Those achieving unlimited success found it easy to attend seminars, read books, attend classes and associate themselves with successful people. But the unsuccessful found it much easier not to do these things, or any other of the things necessary to ensure their own success.

While some become rich and successful, other sit around and blame their parents, the government, the economy or someone else, even though they were the ones that neglected to do the basic things needed to achieve success. The primary reason some never achieve their desired level of accomplishment can be summed up with one simple word… neglect!

Some people just seem to neglect the fact that everything they could ever need to become successful was well within their reach. Neglect is like a cancer that if left unchecked will circulate throughout the body and mind leading to a loss of life just as with any other malignant tumor. A loss of the life they could have had if they had only done the things they knew they should have. As a result, they began to feel guilty and guilt always erodes self-confidence. As self-confidence declines, so does attitude which ultimately results in complacency and mediocrity.

Today’s Quotes

1. “Life, they urge, would be intolerable if men were to be guided in all they did by reason and reason only.”
   Samuel Butler
2. ”Men and women belong to different species, and communication between them is a science still in its infancy.”
   Bill Cosby
3. “The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.”
   Pierre de Coubertin
4. ”Moral considerations must outweigh the mere blind struggle for existence in human affairs.”
   Nicholas Murray Butler
5. “While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.”
   Unknown
6. “He is the freeman whom the truth makes free.”
   William Cowper,
7. “Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.”
   Frank Crane
8. “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
   Marie Curie