Looking Back

I tend to be one who enjoys what are known as “self-help” books.  Maybe they are authors of yesteryear, but they were the ones I would read.  Authors that included, Napoleon Hill, Robert Schuller (I really enjoy his grandson Bobby Schuller), Zig Ziglar, Steven Covey and of late James Clear.  I consider the Bible the greatest self-help book I have read.  It is infinite rather than finite. And I have never thought “that’s not right.”
Somewhere I recently came across a saying by Sir Winston Churchill that said, “The further back you can look the further ahead you are likely to see.”  I had never heard such a thing, but DNA research would seem to indicate the correctness of that saying.
It took my mind back to an Ancestry ad that had a women telling it is no wonder she has an affinity with the sea as she had discovered in her background was a life saver.
The point being made (and seems to me to be valid) is who we are and what we would like to achieve is built on characteristics within us that have been in our family tree.
I don’t have to look far to see that was true for me.  Dad was a businessman.  Mum cared deeply for others and would do anything to assist.  While I never went into business, I can see characteristics in myself and my brothers that reflect both parents.  Anyone who knew one of my brothers before they passed away knew they cared and were very meticulous.  That brother spent a good deal of their life assisting me.  They were also the most detailed people I know.  They could spend hours doing stuff that I found boring, but produced results.
When they passed, I was amazed to see the other brother with a folder under their arm and having sorted out things.  He to is considered a very likeable chap, and has an incredibly caring heart.
It seems to me important to go with my natural bent for certain things rather than fight against them.  After all, who I am is built on where I have come from.