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Determining What You Need......

Determining what you really need and want.

Do you know what it is that you want out of life? Do you know what you need to help you get everything out of life that you can? I believe that most people do not really know what it is that they want out of life. Most people do not spend enough time determining what they need to achieve more. Here’s a great story that illustrates that most people do not know what they really want or need. The story involves two brothers who were going to each open their own hamburger stand.

It seems the two brothers were quite competitive, and so they had a bet on who…could make the most money from their hamburger stand. The younger brother, George, told Ned that he could have any advantage he wanted for his own hamburger stand.

Ned thought for a minute and said, “All right – I want the best hamburgers in town.”

“Fine,” George said, “Your hamburgers will be better than mine. Now what other advantage would you like?”

“I want the cleanest, nicest-looking restaurant in the entire state.”

“Fine,” George said, “Your restaurant will be the best around. What other advantage would you like?”

“I want the friendliest, best waitresses.”

“No problem. What other advantage do you want?”

“I want the best location for my hamburger stand.”

“You got it-the best location is yours.”

By this time Ned was feeling a bit smug about winning their bet. After all, George had given him every advantage he wanted, so there was no way he could lose.

So when George said, “I would like to have one thing for my hamburger stand, though…”

Ned gladly obliged: “Anything you want, you got it.”

George couldn’t help but smile: “The only thing I want for my hamburger stand is a starving crowd inside it!”

And then he went on to win the bet by a landslide.

So what does the hamburger story have to do with your life? Everything! Most people spend their entire lives pursuing dreams that are not even their own. They pursue other peoples’ dreams because they don’t even know what they want out of life.

Ned thought that he knew what he needed, but George knew what he needed. Do you know what you need to achieve success? Ned thought that many external things would give him the advantage but George realized that it was something on the inside that would make all the difference in the world.

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posted by Fire Yourself @ 9:08 AM