I picked up a philosophy this week that I’m pushing to the foreground. I’ve heard it before and I’ve used it before, but I’m really going to start pushing on it.
My in-laws came to the United States when they were in their early twenties. They didn’t speak English and had no money. My father-in-law worked construction and my mother-in-law cleaned houses. They don’t have a big house, but it’s immaculate. The inside and the outside are pristine, and they retired with PLENTY of money.
How did they make so much from so little? Philosophy.
And here it is.
It isn’t what you have that matters. It’s what you do with it.
It isn’t what you get that matters. It’s what you do with it.
I’ve heard my mother-in-law say something similar, but this week I was listening to Jim Rohn and he used those exact words. It hit me like a bolt out of the blue.
What am I doing with what I have?
Rather than looking at other people and what they have, and worrying about if it’s fair or not, what if you took that energy and made the most of what you’ve got?
My little guy is the smallest kid on our baseball team. He’s in second grade playing with fourth graders. In our one and only scrimmage this year, he got up to the plate with a man on second in the 5th inning. We were losing 3-4. He’s so small that the other coach pulled the infield in. He SMASHED a double down the left field line to score the tying run, and then eventually he crossed the plate for the winning run.
He uses everything he has. He doesn’t think about the other kids being bigger or stronger. He uses what he has.
Don’t worry about what you have. Use it.
Brian Wallace
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