“People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be”

Now those aren’t my words, they are Abraham Lincoln’s. They are still very true and often disregarded.

My adaptation to this would be “People are about as successful as they make up their minds to be.”

People may disagree, find fault with that statement or plain call me names. I don’t care because I have made it up in my mind that I would be successful. The first time I said it out loud, I was about 10 years old. I actually said it as a way to torture my younger brother. I told him that he would be a homeless person and that I would be a millionaire. Now I am not exactly proud of telling him that, but we were young and that’s what boys do – they terrorize each other.

What was remarkable about that situation was that he asked me how I was going to do it. See, he was also the first person to not believe I could do it. That was the first time anyone had asked me how. It was the first time that I had actually tried to answer it. It was the first time I had actually wondered myself – how will I become a millionaire?

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