We can dig gold mines and discover secrets. Gold mines are in our heads. We need to learn how to use our mind properly. Earl Nightingale told that everybody knows how to follow the routine and be the part of the crowd. Unfortunately, not everybody can stand from the crowd and reach high goals in the life. It is not enough to dream and envy others or just finish college and get a job. The proper actions can lead us to new horizons and open new doors to adventures and different worlds of opportunities.
The Education
Most of the people finishes high school and the college. Later on, they create families and start new lives. They follow patterns of their friends and relatives. When we want to achieve something in our lives, we must improve our knowledge and continually evaluate ourselves. I know that it is not so easy as it seems. Anyway, the persistence and ability to have a vision pay off for everybody who moves from the static position in their lives.
Mentors and Teachers
Take a look at your life. How many influential people did you have through your life? Sometimes people are lucky to have insightful parents, friends or teachers at school or college. Unfortunately, it happens not to everybody.
What can we do? We can whine and complain that the life is not fair. We are not from royal family, or our relatives are at the same level as their ancestors few hundreds ago. I mean that they did not reach anything in their lives except having children and staying out of the trouble.
We can see crowds of people everywhere. They think in the same way, behave and dress alike. This lifestyle leads nowhere. Deep inside everybody knows that is a better way to life our lives.
Take An Action
If you do not like that do you have, it is the time to rethink your life. It does not matter how long you lived. Always options and possibilities show up when we prepared for it.
The best way is to check our hobbies and passions especially if work boring jobs. We do not need to finish it, but we can look for mentors and teachers who would inspire us and would lead towards our goals.
Think how it would be exciting to do what you want to do and paid for it? Maybe for somebody is too late to become brain surgeon but there are more ways how to improve yourself in desired areas.
You can read books, go to seminars, search Google or get emails from your favorite mentor or teacher. When you in doubt, please check few sources and ask advice from professionals. People, who already achieved results in the areas where you would like to succeed.
We can not jump to next level right away. It takes time. Anyway, the Rome not built in a one day. Everything starts from the first step, careful research, constant learning, and adoption of knowledge in your life.
What Are Gold Mines?
Gold mines are resources which will help you to find the way towards your goals. It can be books, teachers, and mentors. You can dig deep and find treasures which will open gates to a new, exciting life. Do not wait for the end when you think that I could do this or this. The regret is a waste of time. Take action, and you will see that it is not so difficult as it seemed before the start. Gold mines are here, with us.
I love your perspective into gold mines. When I finished High School, I asked the most successful man I knew for advice.
He recommended that I read “Pscyho-Cybernetics” by Dr. Maxwell Maltz and “Think and Grow Rich” by Napolean Hill.
These books and many more like them have shaped my life. For years I thought everyone read these kinds of books, but near the end of my marriage as I got into bed with headphones on prepared to listen to Dennis Waitley’s “Psychology of Winning”, my wife at the time looked at me and said, “I wish you were normal.”
Thank goodness I’m not!
Hello, Gary. I congratulate you with your achievements. From other side I am sorry that you did not find other way how to explain your wife about your discoveries and passions. I guess that people can have different views but overall they like each other and they are happy together. Of course, it is easy to tell somebody how it supposed to be. The real life is colorful and with surprises.
Books for me are gold mines. Sometimes when I have a difficult or funny situation, I find similarities with stories from these books. Books expand our worldview and our mind. They are as food for our brain. I would like to check your last mentioned book about winning. I would like to improve my skills in this area.
All the best, happy reading, Nemira.
Hey Nemira:
I do think you’re right: the treasures we hold are inside our own heads. Books, various kinds of education, mentors and other wise folks help us dig them out.
I do think, however, it is also by adding our own selves (our thoughts and observations and the work we do with our hands and minds) that we can polish up the treasures we find in there and offer them to the world as new and different thoughts that the world may be waiting to hear. The world becomes a more beautiful place when we do that.
Of course. I think that discoveries and inventions are born in this way. Books, mentors work as stimulus and triggers which let creative energy out from us. Sitting somewhere in desert or high in the mountains we can deepen our minds but for discoveries we must participate in a real world. Our brain is a powerful instrument. Not everybody knows it and wants to recognize it. People like to blame others not themselves. I think that it is easy but it does not lead anywhere. Let’s explore power of our minds and create something helpful for humanity. Not everybody can reach for stars, but everybody can find a way how to serve others.
All the best, Nemira.
Hey Nemira,
I think it is important above all to be taught how to appreciate and live. The most valuable thing you can appreciate is your own education. Perhaps if we look for teachers and learn from them, whether they be people or nature, we can teach ourselves to be happy. Gold mines are important resources for being directed towards what you want to do.
Hello, Anthony, how are you. Thanks for feedback. I think that education is one thing which never would become secondhand when used. It is a pity that people spend time watching TV or playing video games. They do not experience the joy of discovery. Maybe nobody showed them different ways how to be happy, content and relaxed.
You mentioned the nature. I think that nature can be the best teacher. We can learn how to live friendly with surroundings, how to survive and how to find pleasure in the simple things. I hope that humanity would turn back to her roots. We do not need hunt as our ancestors but we need to find source of strength.We must be grounded and believe in ourselves.
All the best, Nemira.
Hello Nemira,
I am fascinated with your inspired posts here. At the end of the day, it is up to ourselves and no one else to be blamed for failing to achieve what we want. We can bring the best out of us, we have the potential inside but if there is nothing has be done, it is because we haven’t done the mining or a suitable term would be discovering our excellent ability
Hello, Tar. You are right because many of us do not believe that we are powerful and worthy human beings. We wait for miracles. Of course miracles happen but we wait for different miracles. We want to have everything without taking action. Simple tasks just as getting from bed and driving to the job does not count.
We must discover potential inside us. We must dig deep looking for knowledge. Nobody will bring for us success and happiness. Unfortunately, we are responsible for our lives. I know that it is a cliche. All truths from mentors and wise men are cliche but it works if we use our minds.
All the best, Nemira.
To become successful in life, one must have mentors. There is a gold mine of mentors in books. These mentors are my teachers. I love to listen to audiobooks on my way to work each and every day. These books contain endless pearls of wisdom. I can then use these pearls of wisdom in my daily life. Listening to these books focus me on the need to continuously grow intellectually and spiritually on a daily basis.
Hello, David. I am glad to meet an avid book reader. Books are best thing that happened in my life. Books create second world there you can escape from cruelty, envy and boringness. Book can give so much such as opening gates to the new countries, meeting new people, learning about different cultures, experiencing adventures along with hero and so on.
Besides the pleasure, books are gold mines. We can dig in books and found wisdom, strength and inspiration. Books are real friends which give you comfort, reassurance and support.
All the best, Nemira.
We all have gold mines in us, you’re right! Unfortunately a lot of people just follow the path of everybody else before them and around them, and don’t step off onto their own path. I am all for encouraging others (and myself!) to do what feels right, even if it’s the unpopular or risky choice. You never know if you never give it a shot!
Hello, Shirley. Yes, the life is short. We do not have time to please others. When we will be happy, other individuals will be happy too. The world offers for us many opportunities. Unfortunately we absorbed with little details which do not make any difference after couple of years. We must follow leaders, people who can teach us. Books and lessons online can offer us ideas. We need to think constantly. It is easy to follow routine.
I like your enthusiasm. I wish that your dreams would come true.
All the best, Nemira