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Article on Success from
"A-Woman's-Life"
Success and the car by Tami Marple
As most of us know
"the higher you climb your mountain of success, the easier a target
you become for the people down below". And the harder you fall. MVH
For many, the battle, the fight and the climb are more fulfilling than
actually making it to where you are headed.
You may remember at one point in your life yearning for something that
was a little or possibly a lot out of reach. Maybe a classy car, an
expensive house, a dream job. Let's say it is a car. You probably saw
the car of your dreams in a commercial or saw one in a lot and said to
yourself "If I had that car all the men I desire would flock to me. I'd
have to beat them off with a stick. My life would be so much easier. I
would have the greatest friends and they would want to travel with me in
the car to all these exciting places. People would look at me with more
respect. I would be better looking. The car would surely make it a lot
easier to diet and the pounds would just slide off. This car would make
me a better person. This car will bring me happiness and a life full of
joy. I will be successful."
The car commercials that we see on television, in magazines, on the
internet, etc., all paint a picture of living the perfect life if you
own their vehicle. You can be whatever you want to be when you drive
this car.
Working and saving to get that special car we long for can take many
weeks, months, or years of hard excruciating work and sacrifices. You
work for that promotion. Your take your lunch to work instead of buying
out.
Usually, even though you may stumble a few times on your trip to the
automobile dealership, you learn from these setbacks and find they can
motivate you even more. Because this vehicle you dream of has become a
passion, you put pictures of it on the fridge and go on the internet and
read all the details on the car you can possibly find. Nothing is going
to stop you from owning your greatest desire.
Finally it is time, you are at the car lot picking up your status
symbol; the big hunk of metal that is your association with success.
But soon after your purchase, you find the car didn't fulfill all of
your expectations; it may have filled your need for instant
gratification, but it didn't make you a man magnet, it didn't change the
challenges you face on a daily basis, it didn't make your friends closer
to you, it didn't create new friends for you, it didn't make anyone
respect you any more than they did before, it didn't change your looks
or weight (although you may feel like taking better care of yourself).
This car did not make you a better person or happier. You may even find
that some of your friends may not be impressed, because they may see you
as trying to outdo others. "Who are you trying to impress?", they may
think.
For some the car will gratify a desire, an immediate satisfaction, but
then you are left with the same person you began with.
The car didn't make you a success, the work you did to get it made you
successful.
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