1. All those who have achieved great things have had a great goal, they have set their sights on a goal that was high, that sometimes seemed impossible. This is something I repeat often, however I cannot stress enough the need to know what you want and define a singular and overriding goal for your life. We don’t need to know how we will accomplish that, we just need to be aware that the things we do further this singular purpose.
2. In the depths of man dwell those sleepy powers; powers that would amaze him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if they were awakened and put into action. As I take action toward my great goal, it never amazes me how many times apparent accidents and various events fall into place or get in my way. When you’re in action with a big goal, the resources, personal power, and people you need, at the moment you need them, seem to appear. When I stray and take my eyes off the target, not much seems to go right.
3. If you don’t feel yourself growing in your work and your life widening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic for you, you have not found your place. I really get lost in time and live in the moments, when I’m doing what you need to do. You often hear about people operating in The Zone. I also find myself learning the lessons from life and experience that I need to expose myself to for the next phase of achieving a result. I often experience personal breakthroughs that prepare me for further growth.
4. It is like the seed planted in the ground: the more it is sown, the greater the harvest. An example is the number of readers who subscribe to a members site. The more value you provide, the more your subscriber list grows. As the list grows in number of people, it attracts a higher caliber of offers and people who contact the site owner to participate in joint ventures. In turn, this increases the abundance of resources that are also available to the site owner, including financial reward.
5. Most of our obstacles would vanish if, instead of cowering before them, we would decide to walk boldly through them. We’ve all heard that ninety percent of a task is the start of it. When confronted and overtaken by fear or doubt, it is always a better remedy to simply take action towards the desired result. Just decide, and then keep walking. If we look in the right direction, all we have to do is keep walking.
6. Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards, but they will fool you if they can. If they see that you are afraid of them… they are likely to jump on you; but if you look them straight in the eye, they’ll scurry out of sight. Our imagination is a wonderful tool, but it can also be your biggest enemy when faced with big goals. Remember to use the images in your mind to the best advantage. Avoid allowing your mind to create mountains out of a grain of sand.
7. There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or security, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake. Our greatest job is to build personal and self-confidence, trusting that what is happening today is meant to happen for the greatest eventual good. Surely you have heard the story of the man who cut the cocoon of a butterfly, while it was struggling to emerge.
8. Unless you have prepared yourself to seize your opportunity, the opportunity will only make a fool of yourself. A great opportunity is valuable to you to the extent that you have educated yourself to take advantage of it. This quote reminds me of the saying: when the student is ready, the teacher appears. I’m sure we’ve all personally experienced this in our own lives at some point. Leave spaces for gestation, and develop patience, learn to relax a bit!
9. We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe that we are going to be victorious. Collect evidence of success as you go on your journey. Build self-confidence by noticing all the big and small victories along the way. It’s useful for measuring progress and knowing how far you’ve come, to build confidence for the rest of the journey. For example, when climbing mountains, the accumulation of peaks is often used as a motivation to keep reaching new peaks.
10 You can’t measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him? What did he get out of them? I love the Japanese saying, fall down seven times and get up eight. Trust that every time you dust yourself off after a fall and take action on what’s next instead of giving in to temporary setbacks, you will grow. The most inspiring biographies include stories of personal challenges that were overcome and overcome.
eleven You will never succeed as long as you ache under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted by the thought that you could be more successful elsewhere. You should not split your focus. As long as you live with the idea that the grass is greener on the other side, you won’t be able to see that you can create whatever you want with what you currently have. Instead, you can continually wait for the right conditions. I recommend reading Russell H. Conwell’s story Acres of Diamonds.
12 Your expectations open or close the doors of your supply. If you expect great things and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond to your expectation. Raise your expectations. On what the mind stops, the body acts. If you find yourself stuck on a plateau, increase your target size to one that inspires more action. The hands cannot have what the mind cannot see.
13 Your outlook on life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your worth are largely influenced by your environment. Your entire career will be modified, shaped, shaped by your environment, by the character of the people you come into contact with every day. Look around you and see what you are committed to. You created everything around you. Spend time fixing things around you to enhance your life experience and support the things you say you are committed to. Mix with people who have set their sights high, stay away from drama, complaining and gossip. If you find it difficult to do that physically, at least remove your thoughts from those conversations and have an alternate mental image that you can focus on in the midst of such situations. Learn and practice strategies to turn conversations into more constructive ones.
14 When we are sure that we are on the right path, there is no need to plan our trip too far in advance. There is no need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears about the obstacles that may impede our progress. In the words of Martin Luther King, we cannot take more than one step at a time. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. He did not see the end of the work he started, but it came to fruition.
fifteen. This is the proof of your manhood. [humanity]: How much is left in you after having lost everything outside of yourself? Many of us are now accustomed and programmed to measure ourselves and others by tangible possessions. Also remember the intangibles and begin to see your true value. Know who you are when you part with that job, home, or car. If you didn’t own any of those, what gift(s) do you bring to the table?