Doing It Yourself Doesn’t Mean Doing It Alone

I was going into Home Depot a while back and I wanted to put up some shelves in my house. I was going into Home Depot and it said, at the time I lived in Massachusetts and so it said right on the front there it said, “Massachusetts’s do it yourself center.” It says that in every state, whatever Ohio, Kentucky or whatever state you’re in.

I looked that sign and I had an interesting thought, I said you know what’s so funny, is that do it yourself doesn’t mean do it alone. Do it yourself doesn’t mean do it alone, and what do I mean? I’m going into this big store, I didn’t make the store, and I’m going in to buy shelves. I didn’t make the shelves. I didn’t make the screws. I didn’t make the hammer. I didn’t make the drill. I didn’t do any of that, I just went in and bought it, but somebody else did it for me.

Yes, I’m doing it myself, but I’m not doing it alone. Imagine if I’d had to make the drill or a shelf or do that, it’s like Napoleon Hill in Think and Grow Rich when he talks about having to actually make your own breakfast. Having to swim to China to get the tea, and drive down to Florida to get the oranges, you know, do all of these things. Who made the car?

We live in a vast inter-dependent universe and world, whether we want to believe it or see it or acknowledge it or not. We live in an interdependent world, not an independent one. We want to be independent, but what we really truly are is interdependent. I mean who made the computer you’re sitting in front of, did you? Of course you didn’t. Did you make the phone you’re on? No. We are interdependent. The better and deeper we understand and use that truth then the deeper, better, and higher we will get in our results in our life.

That is the essence of a loving mirror principle. It is a principle, it’s not a person, it’s not based on you and me, and it’s a principle that is whether we like it or not. I have to say in all honesty that it's annoying sometimes. It would be so nice to just do it yourself. Again you’re doing it yourself; you’re just not doing it alone.

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