USE YOUR INITIATIVE™

Have you ever heard the story of the giant ship engine that failed? The ship's owners hired one expert after another, but none of them could figure out how to fix the engine. Then they brought in an old man who had been fixing ships since he was a youngster. He carried a large bag of tools with him, and when he arrived, he immediately went to work.

He inspected the engine very carefully, top to bottom. Two of the ship's owners were there, watching this man, hoping he would know what to do. After looking things over, the old man reached into his bag and pulled out a small hammer. He gently tapped something. Instantly, the engine lunched into life. He carefully put his hammer away. The engine was fixed!
After a week, the owners received a bill from the old man
for ten thousand dollars.” What?!" the owners exclaimed. "He hardly did
anything!"

So they wrote the old man a note saying, "Please send us an itemized bill."
This was the bill the man sent to them:

Tapping with a hammer ........................ $2.00
Knowing where to tap ........................ $9998.00
The message is very clear! Effort is important, but knowing where to make effort in life makes all the difference.

Many of the world’s successful people constantly program themselves so that they instinctively react to various situations in a manner that will provide them with the greatest possible benefits, just like the old man did in the story above.

You can become successful in your chosen field or whatsoever endeavor your find yourself if only you can learn how to make use of your initiatives. You will be ahead of your colleagues; they will look up to you for assistance, because you don’t rely on the status quo to get things done. You do things differently, tactically and with great speed.

Come to think of it, initiative is a special kind of action, it means doing something worthwhile without been told to do it. The person with initiative has a standing invitation to join the elite in every business and profession that he belongs.

Many people make life unnecessarily difficult for themselves by dissipating power and energy through fuming and fretting rather than making use of their initiatives.
It’s sad to realize the number of unsuccessful people who are hampered and made miserable just because they fail to make use of their initiatives to direct their lives towards success.

Initiatives will not only make you more effective, it will also save you huge amount of time, because you won’t have to reinvent the wheel, you can fine-tune it, reshape it and perhaps even make it better than it used to be.

Remember, one of the keys to success unlimited is making use of your initiatives. It allows you to grow and take necessary action to make your life and the lives of those around you worth living.
We have that same key at our disposal every moment of the day, at any moment we can make use of it to shape our destinies and to make sure that we are going where we want to go to in life.

En-route success unlimited™, we know that;

“There are four types of people in the world; those who watch things happen, those who let things happen, those who ask what happened and those who make things happen.”
- Myles Munroe

“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail! The more varied tools you keep in the toolbox of your mind, the more innovative ways you will possess to solve problems.”
-Abraham Maslow