Difference between Successful and unsuccessful people
Buxton said: ‘The longer I live, the more certain I am that the great difference between men, the feeble and the powerful, the great and insignificant, is energy and invincible determination. This quality will do anything that can be done in this world and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged creature a man without it.
Energy and invincible determination-these two things will sweep away mighty barriers and will surmount the greatest obstacles. They must be used together. Energy without determination will go to waste. Lots of men have plenty of energy-they are full to overflowing with it; and yet they lack concentration-the lack of concentrated force that enables them to bring their part to bear upon the right spot. Energy is not nearly so rare a thing as many imagine it to be. I can look around me at any time and pick out a number of people I know who are full of energy-many of them are energy plus-and yet, somehow, they do not seem to make any headway.
They are wasting their energy all the time. Now they are fooling with this thing-now meddling with that. They will take up some trifling things of no real interest or importance and waste enough energy and nervous force to carry them through hard day's work; and yet when they are through, nothing has been accomplished.
Others who have plenty of energy, failed to direct it by the power of the will towards the desired end. Marshall your energy, and then guide and direct it by your will - Bestow upon it that invincible determination and you will do that thing. Everyone has within him a giant will, but the majority of us are too lazy to use it. We cannot get ourselves up to the point at which we can say truthfully, I will. Will is one of the greatest dynamic forces of the universe and if harnessed and directed properly it is capable of accomplishing almost miraculous things.
So, purpose once fixed-it should be guided by concentrated forces- energy and invincible determination.