Which way to success?

From an anonymous source comes this beautiful article and I would love to share this with you.

A businessman one day approached a bearded guru along the path, a sage known for his wisdom and philosophy. This businessman had only one question. “Which way is it to success?”

The guru said nothing but he simply pointed his bony finger and gestured down the path.

The seeker became excited. He never expected that the way to success is just so close and so easy. And so he rushed ahead. Suddenly you can hear the sound of “Splat.” A little while later when the seeker was able to recover, stunned and astounded the seeker assumed he must have taken the wrong turn.

He went back to the guru and repeats his question.

The guru once more said nothing but gestured down the same path.

The businessman thought about it and decided to follow down the same path as before.

This time the sound of “Splat” is deafening. The seeker crawled back to the guru bloody, hurt and angry. He demands why he was set off towards the direction of disaster. Screaming at the guru this time the businessman said, “No more pointing now. Talk.”

Only then does the guru speak.

“Success is that way,” the guru said just a little past splat!”

But most people meet splat and they give up!

Most people are held back by the fear that they don’t have what it takes to succeed. While they may pay lip service to believing in themselves, they turn right around and complain about all the obstacles in their way: the boss, the company, too much work, too little work, or too many bad breaks.

The fact is that many successful people do not have exceptional ability, and many have limited educations. A lot of them don’t score high on aptitude tests, don’t go to the best schools, don’t get the best grades.

The common traits among all successful people are desire, determination, and confidence. Your chance of success and fulfillment is just as good as anyone else’s and probably much better than you think. Only when you understand this can you plunge ahead with enthusiasm and start functioning at your full potential.

Now this is a true story and I would like you to pay attention.

He was told he would never be able to do the things other people did. He had a disability. Yet, Erik Weihenmayer refused to accept a lie with such limitation. After fighting his disability for years, Erik learned to embrace his adversity, making it part of him.

First, he joined his high school wrestling team, became cocaptain, and state champion runner-up in his class. Next Weihenmayer took on the challenge of rock climbing – a difficult hobby for people with normal facilities yet Erik said, that his disability won’t keep him from having fun. He took his adversity – his disability – and turned it into his strength, using his heightened senses to take on challenges few will conquer.

In 1995, he scaled 20,230-foot Mt. McKinley, North America’s highest peak. You see Erik was born with a rare degenerative eye disease and he became completely blind at age 13. In 1996, he became the first blind person to ever scale the 3,000-foot granite monolith El Capitan in Yosemite. Says Weihenmayer, a teacher at the private Phoenix Country Day School, “Blindness is just a nuisance.” As for climbing, he says, “You just have to find a different way of doing it.”

You May Have A Disability, But You Don’t Have To Be Disabled

God will not allow any problem to come to you that cannot be a learning, a turning, or an earning experience.

So now you know. Just go a little beyond splat!

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