Where are you at??

By: Amalynn Mood: Full of life Date: Mar 25, 2008 Music: None

There are many navigational systems in life. Sometimes a mentor is a navigational influence. Somtimes parents can be navigational influences. Prayer can assist with navigation. Most of us are affected by many contributors. They either contribute to our seccess or they contribute to our dysfunction. But none of us got where we are, good or bad, by ourselves. Someone helped you get there and someone will help you get out.

A drug dealer isn't born the way he is anymore than an astronaut is born an astronaut. Someone helped him get there. Rapists had help getting there. Scientists had help getting there. Navigation is influenced by enviorment.. As children,  we could not control our enviorment, and maybe some of you more than likely suffered some parental issues that maybe hampered your development. But, the good news is that as an adult, if we want to change the destination we can begin using the navigational system we have.

Ask yourself these questions ok? Do you have the right people around you for where you are going? Identify those who are navigationally right for you and build those relationships. Start with approaching them with humility as well as confidence and let them know that they are significant to your success by what you say and how you behave around them.  The WRONG way to approace them is from a place of neediness. Instead, ask yourself what you have to offer them , how you can make their lives better. People Loovvee to be around others who give to them and feel better about giving to those who are themeselves generous.

Lastly, and it kind of goes, maybe it doesn't but I thought I would say it anyway...you cannot base your life on the so-called odds of your demographics, no matter how specific, accurate, or inclusive they may or may not be. Numbers can always be manipulated to support, refute, or justify any position. The key is that you do NOT allow others' perceptions and probablilites to define and decide your destiny. You are the only one who controls the ultimate odds against your own likelihood of success.