Are you using your time and talent well? Have you targeted those skills you have and used them to your very best advantage?
One of my favorite motivational speakers, Zig Ziegler tells a story about one such man who did not. There are lessons to be learned for anyone who is serious about succeeding in their work on the internet.
For the sake of brevity I will paraphrase much of the story about a man who failed to use his time and talent well.
He tells of a man who lived in a small southern community and was well-known and respected in the area.
One day he was trading at the local general store purchasing some food and other items. The clerk had been washing some vegetables and her hands were still wet when the customer gave her a bright, new twenty-dollar bill.
She noticed that some of the green ink came off on her hands, and just for a moment she wondered if it might be counterfeit. She had known the man well for many years and dismissed the very foolish idea from her mind.
But later after he had left, her concern grew and she called in the local sheriff to examine the money. They decided to pay a visit to the man’s house. There...