It's not who we are that holds us back, it's who we think we’re not.
I have come to realise that we often model our life base on other people’s expectations for us, positive or negative.
It’s almost like we go out of our way consciously or subconsciously to validate their spoken words for our lives, and this some time determine the success in our lives or maybe the lack there of.
But if we wish to achieve success in our life we have to take a stand and break free from the negative thought patterns that as kept us captive, because our mind push our thoughts, our thoughts push our actions, while our actions push our Lives.
“Successful people don't do great things they only do small things in a great way”.
There is a story that I love about a little boy who didn’t allow other people’s negative expectation of him to dictates his life and now every one all over the world are happy that he didn’t.
The story is about little Tommy.
One day a partially deaf four year old kid came home with a note in his pocket from his teacher and the note said “Your Tommy is too stupid to learn, get him out of the school."
His mother read the note and answered, "My Tommy is not stupid to learn, I will teach him myself" And that Tommy grew up to be who we know today without a doubt is the greatest inventor scientist and businessman of the modern era, the great Thomas A Edison.
Thomas Edison had only three months of formal schooling and he was partially deaf and was told that he was too stupid to learn but many of his over one thousand Ninety three (1093) inventions have profoundly changed the lives of everyone in the world.
Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding 1,093 U.S. patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France and Germany.
- The Phonograph (Record player)
- The Light bulb
- The Carbon microphone used in all telephones (he made the telephone easier to use)
- Hello! (He coined the phrase HELLO!)
- Electricity (he electrifies the world)
- The First commercial fluoroscope (X-ray machine)
- The Stock ticker (the Stock ticker machines are an ancestor of the modern computer printer)
- The Motion picture camera (Thanks to Edison we now have a multi-billion dollar film industry because of is invention)
- The Quadruplex, sextuplex and multiplex (the telegraph which turned Western Union into a million-dollar company)
Thomas Edison tried fourteen thousand (14,000) times before he got a durable working light bulb and some one said to him “so you failed 14,000 times before you got it right huh” and “Thomas Edison replied and said no I’ve discovered 14,000 ways how not to make a sustainable light bulb.”
Can you believe that? He made 14,000 attempts and still he never gave up, but what blew me away is that he never saw is attempts as failures he saw them as progress and breakthroughs that lead to greatness because with every attempt he got stronger, wiser, confident and more focus because he knew that he had to prove it to himself that it was possible and he made his critiques eat their own words.
The only difference there are between you and Mr Edison is that he never listens to people who told him that he can’t do something and that is because he was hard of hearing that was his super secret weapon to greatness but guess what you too can shut your ears to all the people that are telling you that you cant and just keep trying.
In this game call life when it comes to opportunities you will always miss 99% of the shots that you DON'T TAKE.
NEVER LET ANYONE OR ANYTHING FLIP THE SWITCH ON YOU DREAMS!
