There was an old man.

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Updated 9 years ago

There was this old man who used to stop outside the front of the jewellery store every day. He would stop there to set the time on his pocket watch according to the big grandfather clock in the jewellery shop window. One day the jewellery store owner was at the front of the store sweeping, and the old man came along, took out his pocket watch and began to adjust his time to the grandfather clock.

The store owner had noticed the old man coming by everyday and asked him 'Why do you set your watch every day to that clock? I've seen you coming by for years now' To which the old man with the pocket watch replied 'Oh, well you see I work at the machinery plant down the road and I blow the quitting whistle every day at five o'clock, I want it to be on time because a lot of people rely on it to know when its time to pack up and go home to their families .

The store owner looks puzzled for a moment and then says ' I've been setting that clock to that quitting whistle for years now."

They could have been they out by six months..

The point I'm trying to make is that you should never just follow something or someone blindly.. Do your own research and make your own educated decision. If you forge your own path you can never take a wrong turn because there will be no wrong turn to take to as you are creating the path as you go.. kinda thing..

Set your goals and work towards them steadily, build, create, and be of service and the money flows after that..

Most people think that success is the result of making money, when its actually the other way around- making money is the result of being successful..

You have to put the wood on the fire before you can expect heat.. Imagine saying 'give me heat and then I'll add the wood'..

Anyway this story was told first by Earl Nightingale and it is my privilege and pleasure to share it with you.

Hope you took something of value from it..

Don't ever listen to anyone who says you can't. Where there's a will, there's a way.

Imagine If the Wright brothers had listened to the people who said flight was impossible..

Anything is Possible.

Believe in yourself.