Stop Making Excuses!

"I read an inspirational story that I will never forgot. It

came from Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude,

by Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Stone.

They told a story about a farmer named Milo C. Jones, who

for most of his life had owned a small farm in Wisconsin.

He had been barely able to provide enough for his family

and himself year after year, never making a great living.

One year Jones was struck down with paralysis that

left him bedridden and incapacitated. Though paralyzed,

he had a very sharp mind. He believed in being responsible

and strengthened his determination not to quit or give up on

life. Jones knew he had to do something to help his family.

He called his family together around his bed for a meeting

at which time he told them his new plan of action.

“I am no longer able to work with my hands, so I have

decided to work with my mind. Everyone of you can, if you

will, take the place of my hands, feet, and physical body.

Let’s plant every tillable acre of our farm in corn. Then

let’s raise pigs and feed them the corn. Let’s slaughter the

pigs while they are young and tender and convert them

into sausages. Then we can package and sell the sausages

under our own brand name. We’ll sell them in retail stores

around the country. They’ll sell like hot cakes,” Jones told

his family enthusiastically.

This was the founding idea that began Jones’ Little Pigcompensating for the

and hard work is the piston driving you forward. You can

achieve your goals in spite of your problems.

Imagine what you could do if you went from using the

five percent of your brain to using ten percent of your brain.

Every percentage point that you increase in using your brain

could yield incredible results in your life.
C- 2005 J. Carinci from the book: The Power Of Being Different

Sausages. The family members followed the plan and the

sausages sold in stores and the business thrived. That was

in 1889 and the recipe is still used today.

Milo C. Jones could have given up on life very easily and

nobody would have blamed him because of his disability.

But Jones was a man who did not want to lie in bed doing

nothing. He took what he had left, his mind, and used it to

the very best of his ability. He used his creative imagination.

I’m convinced that his mind actually got sharper after he

became paralyzed.

A blind person learns to hear differently than a person

who has the ability to see. People have learned to work

through their physical limitations without being defeated

by the limitations. We may call it

limitation, but it’s more than plain compensation. There’s a

new way of thinking. The limitation forces some people to

think differently in spite of the limitation.

All of us have limitations of some type – physical or

financial. Your goal is to achieve your dreams in spite of

your limitations. Limitations are no longer limitations; they

are no longer an excuse for failure. Limitations are simply a

set of problems that you have to solve in order to go forward

to find success. Your creative imagination is the spark,