That is what Dr. Ben Carson’s mother told him many times. Very wise words indeed. Ben Carson was the subject of a recent TV movie called “Gifted Hands”. He is a world renown neurosurgeon. He rose up from a very poor disadvantaged life, and his mother taught him how to see what his eyes couldn’t see. His eyes saw kids making fun of him for being stupid. His eyes saw the used clothes that his mother bought for him. His eyes saw the poor neighborhood he lived in. But his mother knew there was much more to be seen if only he would look deep enough.
Perhaps one of the things that makes our success so pervasive is that it usually can’t be seen with the naked eye. As I was on my tread mill stepping away, I had a thought that visits me often and it’s this: “I still have a bit of a belly and all this walking doesn’t seem to be making a difference”. Or how about ‘I put money in the bank but it never seems to amount to much’. Or, ‘I work on this business idea but it never seems to take off’. Success requires vision that most people simply don’t have or even better yet, simply won’t access. Success requires us to believe in something that may not be quite evident. Success requires us to have faith.
Faith isn’t wishful thinking. Faith isn’t saying ‘Well ‘I’ll try my best’. Faith is being convinced before there is compelling evidence to support the belief. If there was a man outside your door with a million dollars telling you it’s all yours if you work your tail off, that’s not faith if you then go do the work. If the extra weight dropped of after one session on the tread mill that’s not faith in action. Faith is when you keep getting on the tread mill day after day, week after week, and sometimes even month after month and still don’t see results, but you keep working out. Faith is when you work tirelessly on your website, and still you don’t make a dime, but you keep on tweaking your site and studying and applying more.
Success is arrogant and conceited. Success thinks it’s better than you…and it usually is. That is until you prove it wrong. Success will have nothing to do with you until you make it submit to you by doing all the necessary work up front before you see any return for your efforts. Success will make you prove you are worthy, and if you can muster the blood, sweat, and tears to pay the price, success will kneel down at your feet, and it will be your faithful servant. First however, you gotta pay. You may wonder how much is enough? How much do I have to pay to be successful? I say you’ll know when you get there, because the heavens will open up, and rain down on you. Until then you’re not done yet.
So… you must develop the ability to see beyond where you are at. Shortsightedness is the enemy of success. I say these things knowing that I too am in the fight. However, I know that I am always one keystroke, or one phone call, or one minute away from the door being opened to me, and so I continue…even when my eyes can’t see it.
Stay Fly and Fly High
KLH
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