A Quote by Thomas Merton
People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.
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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy - very busy - without being very effective.
Without a mission statement, you may get to the top of the ladder and then realize it was leaning against the wrong building!
If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you're on the WRONG building.
Wouldn't it be a tragedy to get to the top of the ladder and find you placed it against the wrong wall?
Some people achieve the top of the ladder and only then realise it was standing against the wrong wall.
In Caribbean there is no middle class: you're either rich or you're poor. And the ladder to success is not really a ladder, it's a chain; once you reach a certain level, you can't go back and you can only keep going forward.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
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I work very slowly. It's like building a ladder, where you're building your own ladder rung by rung, and you're climbing the ladder. It's not the best way to build a ladder, but I don't know any other way.
You might need a little more nuance in personal relationships. Climbing the work ladder is different from climbing the social ladder.
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Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building.
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