Achievement

Achievement is one of the motivators to success. We all want to achieve something, but not everyone is willing to do what’s necessary to achieve. There are two groups of people: achievers and nonachievers. Achievers make up only 5% of the world’s population; the rest are the nonachievers (that’s 95%). The nonachiever daily is achieving nonacheivement and they find it easy to accept their failure to achieve anything of real worth and meaning.

Many of us are raised in environments motivated by nonacheivement. Our loved ones, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, play family, although they are good and upstanding people, are nonachievers. And that’s okay for them.

You may realize that you were in an environment like this. It is an environment where people have given up on their dreams for some reason or another. But please be mindful that you cannot rescue them. The actual will to achieve is not something that can be imposed on anyone from the outside. It is a drive that must come from within. You can’t achieve anything of lasting worth by pushing a nonachiever through doors of knowledge and opportunity if that person isn’t eager to stride through. But again, it is okay. I don’t want you to think that it’s not.

You can only hope that your life will inspire them. And even if it doesn’t, you have the opportunity to set a new standard and singlehandedly elevate your family to another level. That is achievement.

Thanks to Tom Hopkins for today’s inspiration.