unsinkable people

JOIN THE UNSINKABLES

Here are four characteristics of those awesome people called the “unsinkables”:

1. Unsinkable people say no to despair.
2. Unsinkable people say yes to responsibility.
3. Unsinkable people say no to complacency.
• No goal for your life. I remember watching Dustin Hoffman in the role of Willie Loman in “Death of a Salesman”. On the stage, Willie dies. Then one actor walks to the edge of the stage and says, “He never knew, like a little boat, he never knew where he was going; he never knew who he was.”
• Goals that are far too small. Ty Boyd, a speaker friend of mine, said, “Some men die by shrapnel; some men die in flames; most men die inch by inch, playing at little games.”
• Goals that are far too large. In Austria, over the tomb of Joseph the Second in this inscription: “Here lies Joseph the Second, Emperor of Austria… a man with the greatest of intentions, never carried out a single plan in his life.”