depends, basically, on what you put in. The old ‘what you see is what you get’ can be applied to your ‘gettings’. What you do is of paramount importance. If you do nothing, do you still expect? Many people do. The do nothing but expect something is the ‘free ride’ mindset – but this doesn’t exist. Sometimes there is a getting but it isn’t what you expect or want. Does this describe you?
There are two old sayings that seem applicable: ‘God helps those who help themselves.’ and, ‘All things cometh to those who waiteth, if they worketh like h**l while they waiteth.’ There’s some truth in this, but perhaps not precisely what you may be thinking. While multiple issues pop to mind, the one we’re interested in at this moment is what are you doing to get what you want? The corollary: is what you’re getting what you want?
Doing and getting are ‘concepts’ that are highly interrelated and interdependent. Is your doing done with the proper motive? Are you investing all that you need to in order to get the outcome you are seeking? The one who risks nothings gets precisely that – nothing. Are you ‘pie in the sky’ expecting without any personal expenditure of doing? And perhaps the underscoring question… why do you want what you want?
I don’t have your answers and those are only some of the questions. But, you need to know where you are and what your expectations are as well as your level of willingness to get what you want. What if you ‘lose’? What if the price is to much to bear? While I don’t believe in failure per se, it is true that the only real failure is a failure to try. Trite? Yes, but that’s what happens to true sayings. If you are sitting, if you are expecting but not personally committed then?????? Never be afraid to try, rather… fear sameness.
…but, what do you think?
