Gregory Harris

Remember the good ol’ days of grade school or even high school when the teacher was away for the day and we had a substitute teacher? Remember how we misbehaved when the teacher was away? There’s a really good reason for that. If there isn’t a heart to heart connection with the person of authority, as soon as they’re away we find freedom to make choices our way.

While you were growing up did you have the freedom to make choices or were you living in fear of being disciplined for making wrong choices or mistakes? Were you taught to love yourself or were you taught that there was someone else in power and it wasn’t you? As an entrepreneur you have an opportunity to help others finally see that they are in control of themselves.

For me I’m still struggling with the idea that I have control of my choices. I have a responsibility to be a leader for myself. There isn’t a person of authority making choices for me anymore. So consequently the fear I felt for making wrong choices has become fear of taking control or leading me. And since I’m still living in fear I’ve been taught that I can control others with fear too. If I’m afraid then you need to be afraid too.

I’d like to take the actions necessary to change that attitude. Have you ever heard the saying, how can you love someone else if you don’t love yourself? How can you lead others if you’re afraid to lead yourself? Take a look at yourself in the mirror and tell yourself that you are the leader in your life and you are in control of your options and that you love yourself. Perfect love drives away fear, and fear in the same way drives away love. Cast away any fear you may be feeling and make way for better relationships with others.

Success counts the power to decide.

If one gets too close to comfort or procrastinates, fulfillment of goals will seem too heavy or tasks will be unfinished. Most likely, there will be no clear outcomes, but unfinished duties. Indecision may show lack of plans and a wavering will. Success needs a brave heart.

But then, during the act of deciding one will need a pure intention to win and achieve goals. In this 21st century, if bad guys loiter around, the power of the crowd, communities and networks will trap them slowly and soon justice will lash them a verdict. The age of good workers has come for the benefit of everyone, especially to uplift the poor.

But then, know there are risks, too. That is why alternate plans and still more plans must be on the reserved drives. It should not be hanging oneself or others up a tree, but hanging on the hands of God. The hands of God lift in any dead end, even in the roads not taken.

Never decide, if responsibility be denied. Never decide, and later blame others. Never decide and weep, but head on leading the force.

In the book of Herbert Casson titled, The Business Success Series, the author writes, “Judgment, however sound, is of no value until it ends in decision.”

For example, if ideas wouldn’t be applied and acted on they will remain as ideas forever. These thoughts unless put to work and shared will never achieve any result in any way.

Knowledge must be put to work in a wise undertaking that will spark and create more ideas.

“Find out what to do and do it,” H. Casson adds.

Many successful people aimed only at a goal, but acted on it.