Hope is not a strategy for success

This excerpt from a recent Larry Winget newsletter is worth reading.  Stupid or sensible, it’s up to you.  How often are we stuck in a rut?  Knowing what we should do but never getting around to it?  Next thing we know, we wake up and it’s too late.

Here is the deal:  We talk a good game. We say we want to do more, be more, and have more.  Sadly, it stops right there for most.  The talk is about as far as it goes.  Of course, some will tell you that talk is all you need to change your life.  They will tell you the secret is to get your thinking right and your self-talk right and repeat affirmations about what you want to have happen, and then your life will get on track and you will see amazing things start to happen.  What a waste of time all of that is.  Let’s get a few things straight:  Hope is not a strategy for success.  Positive thinking is not a wealth plan.  Self-talk does not move you closer to success.  Your rose-colored glasses and your positive-attitude smiley-face outlook aren’t going to do it either.  It takes work.  Good old-fashioned, roll-up-your sleeves and break-a-sweat W-O-R-K!  That is what’s wrong with a lot of the fluff and advice that’s out there.  Some people won’t tell you that it takes hard work to change your life.  That’s also attributed to a lot of silliness.  They talk about all the success they want in every area of their lives but don’t take the appropriate action to make sure they back up their words with the work it takes to make their words come to pass.  The huge discrepancy [is] between what we say and what we do.

Larry Winget

http://www.nightingale.com

Interesting thought for a Monday.  Read the article and let me know what you think.

"When things go wrong as they sometimes will
When the road you're trudging seems all up hill.
When funds are low and the debts are high.
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh.
When care is pressing you down a bit.
Rest, if you must, but don't you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns.
As everyone of us sometimes learns.
And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out:
Don't give up though the pace seems slow -
You may succeed with another blow.
Success is failure turned inside out -
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt.
And you never can tell how close you are.
It may be near when it seems so far:
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit
It's when things seem worst that you must not QUIT.

Author Unknown