Want Greatness? Make The Right Choices!

Are people born and destined for greatness? Does it take a Masters Degree or a High IQ to become successful or a great leader? Consider this:
1) More than 50 percent of all CEO's of Fortune 500 companies had C or C- averages in college.
2) 65 percent of all US Senators come from the bottom half of their school classes.
3) 65 percent of U.S. presidents were in the lower half club in their school.
4) More than 50 percent of millionaire entrepreneurs never finished college.
It's obvious, a college degree or incredible intelligence isn't everything.
The truth of the matter is that everyone is capable of doing something better than the next ten thousand people. It doesn't matter how you feel about yourself, or whether you previously have achieved success. Everyone has talent and everyone can develop talent.
What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Life is a matter of choices and every choice you make makes you, and one of the most important choices you'll make is "who will you become."
It's been said that the key choices you make-apart from the natural talent you already have-will set you apart from others who just have talent alone.
Life isn't about holding and playing a good hand as you would in a card games. What you start with isn't up to you. Life is playing the hand you have been dealt with and that is determined by choices.
I love the passage in a Dr. Suess book I was reading to my son not to long ago which bore so much truth: "You have brains in your head, you have feet in your shoes, you can steer yourself any direction you choose."