By Default or Design

Today, I'll talk about what everybody's interested in: getting ahead, making money, having a good life. Being productive, being contributive, having the things you want, travel, schools for your children, you name it. It goes by 1,001 faces, and it is different and unique in each case.

But it all comes by default or design. See, one of the big things—and again, this is a theme you see me speaking and writing about so often—is that so many people think the world is designed as it is. So they were born into a middle class family, so they never had any opportunities.

They didn't have an oil well that was pumping out money for them. They didn't have a book that was bringing in royalties. They didn't have their father in a business that he passed on to them.

So they think that the world is as it is—when the truth is, you can get serious, get in tempo. You can design anything to happen that you want to happen. Of course, you've got to do the requisite work and give it the requisite time. You're not going to say, "Well, I want to have an organization like Disney this year." It didn't happen that fast for Disney either, did it?

But what Disney created didn't come by accident—that was his vision.

What Asa Chandler, the proprietor of Coca-Cola, invented didn't come by accident. What FedEx created didn't come by accident. And even what Ron LeGrand created didn't come by accident.

I don't even know if you know the guy, but he's a real estate guru making millions of dollars a year, making hundreds of thousands of dollars a week. I happen to know his personal story. I happen to know when he suffered and when he got chastised, when he was rejected.

I happen to know that at one point his wife was wondering, "If we lose everything, can I live with it?"

Now folks, I tell you what—nowhere do we say that intention, attention, and work are not necessary. We say this... You make the decisions of what you will have in your life, either by default or design. Default you don’t like—that's what everybody gets barely getting by regardless of income.

Design requires more effort, more dedication, but it's worth every ounce of it!

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