Creating Your Legacy – Part I

This is an excerpt from one of my favourite reads and Author, Steve Harvey, in his book titled “Act like a success think like a success“. 

Whilst I detest the use of the word haters, I believe there is a strong message between the lines. Enjoy!

…In your quest to become successful and to be more, have more, and enjoy more, there is going to be opposition. Sad to say, but opposition is not always just circumstances; a lot of times it’s either people, and those people show up as haters.
Every time you take a decision to do more, be more, want more, here comes opposition. The good news is that there is no progress without it. There’s no need to address the opposition, because it will be ongoing. The only cure for enemies is success.

Look at success as being on a ladder. Every time you step up one rung a ladder, you have to lift one foot higher than the other one. If you stop to address a foe, you’re not raising your foot to the next level. You are now spending time with a person who is not a decision maker, a power broker, a shaker, or a mover. They are merely a hater. Their one goal is to impede your progress, and the moment you stop to address them, you have helped them accomplish it. You cannot afford to spend a single day engaging with that kind of energy.

Throughout history, you can see examples of people who have been attacked but they just kept putting one foot above the next and continued to climb up the next rung.  They have no power over you, unless you give it to them. Martin Luther King Jr. said something that I will alway remember. He said, ”A man can’t ride your back unless it’s bent”. Don’t bend over. Stay tall, Keep climbing.

People who are stuck in the muck and the mire of their misery will spew out their venom on others just to deflect their own everyday struggles. The question becomes: How do you stay motivated and moving toward your goals in an environment filled with negativity? Wo are you going to be in the face of critics? Will you fall under the weight of someone else’s opinion? Or will you rise to the occasion and let your haters motivate you to even bigger success?

Peace & Light.