Is it time for you to retire?

Is it time for you to retire?

At a recent convention in New Orleans, I had the rare privilege of meeting an interesting person. She was a real estate saleswoman, seventy-six years old, from California. I asked her what her largest single sale had been. She told me she had celebrated her seventy-fifth birthday with a fifteen million dollar sale!

She was one of those unique individuals who enjoy perpetual youth. When I asked her if she intended to retire someday, she said, “Retire? My blood is just as young as yours. Oh, it might be in an older container, but hardening of the arteries will never cause me to retire. I’ll only retire if I get hardening of the attitudes.” My guess is she’ll never retire.

What’s holding you back from achieving your dreams or even daring to take them seriously? If you're like most people, the answer that comes to mind may be lack: lack of time, lack of money, lack of opportunity, lack of some other external commodity or circumstance. The fact is that we're more often held back by our thoughts and attitudes than by what we don’t have.

Despite the stories about how people without money or opportunity have triumphed over major challenges, it may be difficult to believe that positive thinking can change your life, but it can. Positive thinking changes your attitude about yourself and what you can accomplish; it frees your intellect and intuition to find creative ways to fulfill your goals and opens. It opens your mind to possibilities.

Never allow the mediocrity of others to impact your development. Where they see failure, see success. Where they envisage only darkness, view sunshine and brightness. Where others see no future, embrace light, clarity, and opportunity.

Being positive and staying positive is not a talent, and it is not hereditary, but a matter of personal choice. If you believe you can, you will. If you think you can’t, you won’t. If you accept positive thoughts and actions, you embrace success, and if you accept negativity, you embrace failure.

Thought for today: Whatever you believe you will inevitably become.

Have a positive day.

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