What Would Napoleon Hill Do? 13 & 14

welcome back everybody because today i want to explore why some people seem to create opportunities while others spend years waiting for opportunities to ring their doorbell doorbells those

are useful they require almost no effort on my part creating opportunities

optimism optimism without action though that's merely entertainment many people confuse wishing for results with building the habits that actually produce them

my wishes they've been working overtime for years i'm beginning to suspect they belong in a different department than results

personal initiative that you know that often begins when someone stops asking who should solve a problem and starts asking what they can do about it themselves self-reliance sounds

noble

until the printer

breaks the wi-fi disappears and the coffee maker

Which contains an invitation to become more capable.

Although most invitations arrive wearing terrible disguises.

Challenges should really hire better

public relations representatives.

Because nobody sees a problem and says...

Wonderful personal growth has arrived.

Fair point, although growth rarely asks permission before showing up.

Growth and telemarketers appear to share several personality traits when you describe it that way.

And courage is often misunderstood because people imagine fearless heroes when most progress comes from ordinary people acting despite uncertainty.

Uncertainty and I have been roommates for years.

So perhaps DT is more qualified than we realized.

We'll have to check into that.

Many successful people are uncertain at the beginning.

And the difference was that they kept moving while uncertainty rode along in the passenger seat.

My uncertainty usually grabs the steering wheel and starts offering directions.

Well, okay, self-confidence does grow through evidence.

And evidence accumulates when we repeatedly keep promises to ourselves.