By Dr Charles Leyman Kachitsa
Others would have walked the same path and they would have taken note of all the landmarks. In that case there is no way one would get lost if they enquired from those who have walked the path before. Experience is a good teacher. In those days if one landmark needed to be avoided, those who asked were forewarned before they take the journey to pass though the area. Some would all together abandon a trip if it has had challenges on the way beyond their own strength.
It has always been the case that only the ones who know where to get their knowledge from before taking the reap, excel in all that they do. All knowledge has been there in this world waiting to be discovered by those willing enough. In fact there is no phenomena that happens in this world that has never happened before. What is has ever happened before though the episodes may be different in dimension.
All that is seen and experienced in life has been seen and experienced by others before including those who lived on earth more than a thousand years ago. The version may be different and man’s discovered over the years as technology became advanced, has simplified how knowledge is obtained and compared with previous happenings.
The quotes this week are extracted as a continuation of last week from a book that with success giving tips which perhaps when followed can lead to attainment of what one desires as the pinnacle of their life. I am sure the few selected quotations listed below from the book will enlighten you to one or two lessons to enhance your life. Read and enjoy:
THE RICHEST MAN IN BABYLON by George S. Clason
“Preceding accomplishment must be desire. Thy desires must be strong and definite. General desires are but weak longings. For a man to wish to be rich is of little purpose. For a man to desire five pieces of gold is a tangible desire which he can press to fulfilment. After he has backed his desire for five pieces of gold with strength of purpose to acquire it, next he can find similar ways to obtain ten pieces and then twenty pieces and later a thousand pieces and, behold, he has become wealthy. In learning to secure his one definite small desire, he hath trained himself to secure a larger one. This is the process by which wealth is accumulated: first in small sums, then in larger ones as a man learns and becomes more capable.”
“In tilling the soil, in honest trading, in all of man’s occupations, there is opportunity to make a profit upon his efforts and his transactions. Perhaps not all the time will be rewarded because sometimes his judgement may be faulty and other times the winds and the weather may defeat his efforts. Yet, if he persists, he may usually expect to realize his profit. This is so because the chances of profit are always in his favour. —— But, when a man playeth the games, the situation is reversed for the chances of profit are always against himand always in favour of the keeper. It is his business at which the plans to make a liberal profit for himself from the coins bet by the players. Few players realize how certain are the game keeper’s profits and how uncertain are their own chances.”
“……. we see how good luck waits to come to that man who accepts opportunity,’ commented a swarthy man of the desert. ‘To the building of an estate there must always be the beginning. That start may be a few pieces of gold or silver which a man diverts from his earnings to his first investment. I, myself, am the owner of many herds. The start of my herds I did begin when I was a mere boy and did purchase with one piece of silver a young calf. This, being the beginning of my wealth, was of great importance to me.”
“The more of wisdom we learn the more we may earn. The man who seeks to learn more of his craft shall be richly rewarded. If he is an artisan, he may seek to learn the methods and the tools of those most skillful in the same line. If he laboureth at the law or at healing, he may consult and exchange knowledge with others of his calling. If he be a merchant, he may continually seek better goods that can be purchased at lower prices.”
