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The greatest gift that you can give your children
is a sense of their own self worth and an understanding
that their rewards in life will be in direct proportion
to the value of their contribution to life.

All too often we blame our circumstances for our position in life. We resent what we do and therefore resist doing it or we do the least we can and then complain that our rewards are so small. Even worse we justify our misery by saying that this is our lot in life and blaming fate.

It is not our circumstances but our belief that this is our lot in life that causes distress. The story of SB Fuller should illustrate this. Now SB Fuller was a prominent business man in America back in the sixties. He either owned outright or had controlling interest in eight companies yet he was one of seven children born to an impoverished tenant farmer. He started working at the age of five. By the time he was nine he was driving mules. This was not unusual in a community where the people accepted poverty as their lot.

Now SB Fuller's mother did not accept that poverty was the way of life. She knew that there was something fundamentally wrong with the fact that they were barely surviving in a world of plenty. She knew that they were not poor because of circumstance but because her husband had never developed a desire to be rich. No-one in, either her or, his family had ever developed a desire to be rich. Sure they might talk with envy about the rich folk, but they had resigned themselves to being poor.

Luckily, SB Fuller took heed of his mothers words and he decided to be rich. He realised that his rewards would be in proportion to the value of his contribution. He went to work as a salesman selling soap door to door, the best job he could get at the time. He had almost no education, came from a poor community but he had a strong sense of self worth and knew he could make a valuable contribution. After twelve years he bought the company that made the soap.

History is full of stories like this. People who rise above their circumstances to achieve greatness. The great tragedy of life is that "Society" has the tendency to relegate you to a position in life, you are labelled according to your background and "Society's" perception of you. Well that label only becomes true when you decide to wear it, when you decide to accept "Society's" judgement as final. Never do that, what do they know anyway? What do they know of your hopes and dreams, of your aspirations?

One of the most important things that you can do for yourself or for any other person is to give a sense of hope, a sense of possibility, to create the belief that they can grow beyond their circumstances. Let people know that they can have whatever it is that they want in life if only they are prepared to do what it takes to get it.

You have a responsibility to prepare your children for the future so remember that "The greatest gift that you can give your children is a sense of their own self worth and an understanding that their rewards in life will be in direct proportion to the value of their contribution to life."

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