“It makes no difference.” Ever hear that as an excuse for why certain things were being neglected, not done, or alibiing why they were not necessary? “It makes no difference” is the shoal on which more businesses are wrecked than any other one condition. The minute any person in business makes that statement once, and believes it, he is slipping and needs checking of his mental state.
Go out on the golf links and pull your club with the left arm. “It makes no difference,” but your ball goes hook. Look up and follow your ball. “It makes no difference,” and you find you dub your ball. Do lots of things you shouldn’t do; “it makes no difference” until you count the sum total of your score at the end of the game, to find the man across the hall from you, who knows that these things that “make no difference” to you make a difference to him, has secured your business.
Those things which “make no difference” to you on the first tee are the very things which make the difference on the 18th hole at the end of the game. Slip at the beginning and you may check all you please at the end, but your score is against you just the same.
These are some powerful words from a man who lived to MAKE A DIFFERENCE! Dr. Palmer explained this understanding to us in the story of Slipping and Checking from within Volume 22, The Bigness Of The Fellow Within. His values of visionary discipline expels to the forefront of what we see and procure while on the awesome path that is laid before us to follow. He understood that there is a difference and if you can bring that to your inner core and accept that it is not up to you to change the core of what IT is, but to simply follow and allow yourself to become ONE WITH INNATE, then you too will be able to KNOW the DIFFERENCE and will be able to recognize it. When you deepen your roots into what that is that IS the DIFFERENCE, then you will not be bent by a difference.
~Kale
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