I
have learned that no matter how much you want to control the final outcome
of everything that happens to you, you can’t. All that you can
do is control the controllable, take responsibility for doing all that you can
and leave the outcome up to God.”
Let
me tell you a story distilled from an unknown author. A jobless man applied
for the position of ‘office boy’ at a
very big company. The HR Manager interviewed him then watched him cleaning the
floor as a test. “You are hired.” –
the employer told him at the end of the test. “Give me your email address, and I’ll send you the application to fill,
as well as when you will start.” Surprisingly, the man replied, “I don’t have a computer, neither an email.”
“I’m sorry,” said the HR Manager,
“if you don’t have an email that means
you do not exist. And who doesn’t exist, cannot have the job.” The man left
with no hope. He didn’t know what to do, with only $10 USD in his pocket. It occurred
to him that whether
you register success or failure in your live, you choose.
He then decided to go to the
supermarket, bought a 10kg tomato crate, then sold the tomatoes door to door.
In less than two hours, he succeeded and doubled his capital. He repeated the
operation 3 times and returned home with $60 USD. The man realized that he
could survive by this way, and started to go everyday earlier, and returned
late. Thus, his money doubled or tripled everyday. Shortly later, he bought a wagon,
then a truck, and then he had his own fleet of delivery vehicles.
Five years later, the man’s company was one of the biggest food retailers. He started to plan his family’s future, and decided to have a life insurance. He called an insurance broker and chose a protection plan. When the conversation was concluded, the broker asked him his email. The man replied: “I don’t have an email.”
The broker replied curiously, “You don’t have an email, and yet have
succeeded to build an empire. Do you imagine what you could have done if you
had an email?” The man paused for a while, and replied: “An office boy!”
First thing
first, I don’t want to sound as if there is no point having an email address,
far from it. I rather want to send home the message that you can’t afford to
allow the lack of an email address to come between you and the future you want
for yourself. The internet is not the only solution to your problems
in life. If you don’t have an email address and work hard, you can still be a
millionaire.
More importantly,
you should NEVER ever be discouraged
if something does not work in your favor today. Better opportunities are always
waiting ahead if you stay
through to your cause and learn from every single mistake you make along the
way.
