Powerful Wealth Building Secrets - Secret # 3 - Do You Have the COURAGE to Succeed in Home Business?

My Powerful Wealth Building Secrets have introduced me to many wonderful leaders in the home business community.  Below you will find just one of those friends.

James Roswell Quinn, a Keynote Speaker and friend of mine, discovered this obscure speech on courage by the late William Penn Patrick, (former CEO of Holiday Magic).  It is now my pleasure to share it with you. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have and that you will read it often and share it because we all need COURAGE. If you are a budding entrepreneur or a seasoned entrepreneur, be it in a home business, a brick and mortar business, or working in the traditional employment marketplace: you will find the information below inspiring and helpful.

COURAGE

(Adapted from a 1971 speech by William Penn Patrick, CEO of Holiday Magic)

Why is it that most lives are controlled by small and petty circumstances? I am saddened as I watch people lose the good and the great things that are within their reach, that could be theirs with but a little act of courage. Mediocre, average people are the ones I speak of here.

• These are the people who have so little self-esteem that they cannot trust their own thoughts and judgments, and who, in the final analysis, must rely on outside sources for their decisions.
• These are the people who are ruled by the mob, or who accept all that they read as the truth, and finally become like the mob.
• These are the people who have some degree of success, only when caught upon the crest of a wave that was generated by one of the few, exceptional self-directed individuals.
• These are the people who have a positive attitude for that moment they are in the presence of positive individuals, but when left alone, fall to their negative knees.
•  These are the people who sell their birthright – the commitment to their own thoughts – for fear of what they think their neighbor might think.
• These are the people who stand tall as they are prompted by the actions of the mob, but are terrified of the silence of their own presence.
• These are the people who follow and fear to lead.
• These are the people who hide their deeds in the cloak of nobility, since their dishonesty presents them from dealing with truth and reality.
• These are the people who cry “foul” when life has passed them by.
• These are the people who are ruled by circumstances.

Strong people create circumstances that serve their needs and desires. If you area a person of circumstances, the cure for this disease is courage. Courage is the most beautiful of all human expressions. Courage, as I see it, is an act in the face of fear. We only need courage when we are afraid, which means that we need courage almost all of the time because we are afraid of something almost all of the time.

 I have discovered that fear becomes a coward when faced with but a small act of courage, and further, that the muscle of courage will grow stronger with continued use. My advice to myself is –Do those things which you fear, and keep doing them until you are no longer afraid. Then you will become the master of your fate.
 I have studied the deeds of people both great and small. In this study there appear to be many differences. But all the differences that count have one single thing at their base – Courage.
 Courage is that one ingredient that separates the strong from the weak, the successful from the unsuccessful, and the great from the average. All the things you desire in life have one common handle that is made for the hand of the person of courage.

To be afraid is to be alive.  To act against that fear is to be a Leader.  Someone once said, "I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees."


Your SUCCESS is My business.
Donna Petrella
For more information: http://prosperityconnections.com/


Permission granted by Quinn, Inc. for Donna Petrella, 2009