Favorite Inspirational Quotes

The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created - created first in the mind and will, created next in activity.  The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating.  The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination.

Deborah James

When I was young, the normal choices for women were pretty well limited to a handful.  You could be a stay at home mom, you could become a school teacher, or you could be a nurse.  About the only other type of “acceptable” work was being some type of secretary or clerk.  And this really wasn’t all that long ago.

I chose to become an engineer, a very unlikely choice for women.  Only 2% of all engineers were women.  I don’t think the numbers are much better today. I even had to put with criticism for my choice.

I made lots of mistakes but I chose to create a different future for me than was the normal choice at the time.  If you think about it, any choices we have now in the present are the result of a future we created in the past.  And the choices that I will have in the future will be the result of the type of future I create now.  I decide what type of future I want, determine to carry it out, and take the steps to create that future.  I am again making my path to the future.

Jim Rohn has a saying, “Become a millionaire.  Not for the money you make but for what you become in the process.”

I think that is what James means here in the last sentence.  As you take action, fail and learn, and then finally meet success, you cannot help but to be changed by the process.  Sometimes this changes the destination as well.  Isn’t it wonderful?

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