You Only Get What You Are Prepared For

This concept of having a blueprint applies to all areas of your life, success, and happiness:

• You will not find love if you don’t build the capacity within you to have love.

• You will not have deep friendships unless you build the capacity within you to have deep friendships.

• You will never be an A student if you think you are only capable of a C.
  

Keep in mind you will only receive what you are capable of receiving. Therefore, your goal must be to build yourself up so you can appreciate and handle all of the external rewards you’re sure to receive in your life.

Jack Canfield, creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, has developed a great analogy for being “ready to receive” in the form of a post office box. If you deliver a package larger than the mailbox it is going to, it won’t fit, and therefore it can’t be delivered. However, if you deliver a package to a mailbox bigger than the package, it obviously can fit.

Translation: The mailbox is you, and the packages are the things you won’t achieve in life if you’re too small of a person and unprepared to accept success. The bigger the person you become, the more you can receive from the world.

Arel Moodie is widely known as America's Top Young Speaker. He has spoken to over 65,000 students in 39 states and 2 countries on the topics of student success, student leadership and student entrepreneurship. He is a leading authority on helping students of this generation succeed and school and in life. He is also the best selling author of the book Your Starting Point For Student Success. To find out more about Arel's book, go to www.startingpointbook.com. To find out more about Arel's speaking please go to www.arelmoodie.com.