“No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process. A teacher is only a guide to point out the way and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s colouring book. You must fill in the colours by yourself.”
Louis L’Amour (1908 – 1988), who left school at 15 and became a prolific author of American Western novels.
I found this interesting quote by Louis L’Amour and felt I had to share it with you. It caused me to ponder on the different ways that one could “fill in the colours” by one’s self. What do you think? How could you do some filling in?
I think we could do this in 3 ways:
1. Acquiring all the knowledge, skills and experiences we need to achieve our life’s goals.
2. Getting all the personal development to turn us into who we need to be, in order to lay hold of our dreams.
3. Seizing all the opportunities we can, creating them where possible.
Could you add some more?
I think the important part of the quote is the “by yourself” part. To achieve our dreams and aspirations we’ve got to be proactive. And as Anthony Robbins says, take massive action. Without procrastination. In fact it’s massive, immediate action!
How could you take some massive, immediate action, filling in the colours by yourself, to achieve an outrageous goal today? Haven’t got an outrageous goal? Please stop for a moment and set one up right away, while the iron is still hot! Set yourself an outrageous goal today and go for it, massively. That’s what I’m doing at the moment, and though it could be frightening, I like what I’m achieving.
Care to share your outrageous goal? Go on, commit yourself. Just hit reply and spell it out. A written goal is a nearly-done goal!
Copyright 2009 Oma Edoja
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