The Power Of Persistence

                                                    "A river cuts through rock,

                                                      not because of it's power,

                                                  but because of it's persistence."

                                                             - Jim Watkins

What is PERSISTENCE?

Persistence : the quality that allows someone to continue doing something or trying to do something even though it is difficult or opposed by other people : the state of occurring or existing beyond the usual, expected, or normal time.

Here is the book selection for the month of January.

Think and Grow Rich.....written by Napoleon Hill.

Have you read it?

I believe this was my fourth time reading it. Actually this time I was listening to the audio version of it.

Think and Grow Rich is a guide to success by Napoleon Hill, which was first published in 1937 following the Great Depression. It was immediately welcomed as an antidote to hard times and remained a bestseller for decades. Many people still find its philosophy of positive thinking and its specific steps for achieving wealth both relevant and life-changing. Hill contends that our thoughts become our reality, and offers a plan and principles for transforming thoughts into riches, including visualization, affirmation, creating a Master Mind group, defining a goal, and planning.

Here are a few nuggets of wisdom from chapter 9 - Persistence 

Persistence is an essential factor in the procedure of transmitting desire into its monetary equivalent. The basis of persistence is the power of will.

The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on despite all opposition until they attain their goal.

Lack of persistence is one of the major causes of failure. Moreover, experience with thousands of people have proved that lack of persistence is a weakness common to the majority of people. The ease with which lack of persistence may be conquered will depend entirely upon the intensity of one's desire.

The starting point of all achievements is desire. Keep this in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. If you find yourself lacking in persistence, this weakness may be remedied by building a strong fire under your desires.

You may find it necessary to "snap" out of your mental inertia through a similar procedure, moving slowly at first, then increasing your speed until you gain complete control over your will. Be persistent no matter how slowly you may, at first, have to move. With persistence will come success.

There is no substitute for persistence! It cannot be supplanted by any other quality! Remember this in the beginning and it will hearten you when the going may seem difficult and slow. 

Those who can "take it" are bountiful rewarded for their persistence. They receive, as their compensation, whatever goal they are pursuing. That is not all! They receive something infinitely more important than material compensations - the knowledge that every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage.

A few people know from experience the soundness of persistence. They are the ones who have not accepted defeat as being anything more than temporary. They are the ones whose desires are so persistently applied that defeat is finally changes into victory. We who stand on the sidelines of life see the overwhelmingly large number who go down in defeat, never to rise again.

                                      "Energy and persistence conquer all things."

                                                     - Benjamin Franklin

                                         Karin Glannstam - Life Coach & Author

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Are You Tied To An Old Belief?

                                                        "The only limits you have 

                                                         are the limits you believe."

                                                               - Wayne Dyer

What is a belief?

A belief is a thought you keep thinking over and over and over again. 

Beliefs can be empowering or disempowering.

If you think and believe you can do a thing, or if you think and believe you can't do a thing, you are right.

                                                    "If I have the belief that I can do it,

                                                I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it

                                               even if I may not have it at the beginning."

                                                                     - Gandhi

Do you know how a circus elephant are trained? 

When an elephant is small and weak, one of his legs is tied with a rope to a wooden stake. The elephant  tries to break free but the rope is too strong and after a while the small elephant is convinced that breaking free is impossible.

Years later when the elephant has grown and become very strong, he still believes that he can't break free from the rope. Despite the enormous strength of the elephant, it is constrained by a small rope and a thin wooden stake.

The elephant leaned his limitations when he was small and weak and unfortunately he remains convinced for the rest of his life that he isn't strong enough to break free. In other words, what was once true when he was small and weak will always be true, no matter how big and strong he has gotten.

The elephant is imprisoned by his own limiting beliefs, that he isn't strong enough to break free and he will remain where he is, tied to a thin stake.

                                      "A belief system is nothing more than a thought

                                              you've thought over and over again."

                                                               - Wayne Dyer

Where in your life do you feel powerless?

In what area of your life do you feel like you are tied to some kind of limiting belief and can't break free?

Is it really true that you can't do something?

The truth is that you can do whatever you believe you can do.

You can change a limiting belief to an empowering belief at any time you decide to.

                                       "Believe you can and you're halfway there."

                                                           - Theodore Roosevelt

             

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A Wish Or A Commitment?

                                        "Most people fail, not because of lack of desire,

                                                  but because lack of commitment."

                                                               - Vince Lombardi

A New Year And A New You!

It's time to recharge ourselves. Refresh ourselves, get energized and re-commit to what is important in our lives.

Every new year a lot of people will make resolutions and decisions that they have been putting off making for a while.

Some people want to commit to losing weight. Starting to exercise on a regular basis. Live a healthier lifestyle. Get a new job. Start a new career or even start a business of their own. Move to another city or country. Leave a relationship that is longer working or maybe start a new relationship. 

Most of us are looking for something that will make us feel better about ourselves and our life.

                                          "The road to success is through commitments."

                                                                    - Will Smith

One common problem with new year's resolutions is that they are usually temporary, and after a few weeks the majority of people will go back to the same old ways and the same old life.

New year's resolutions are suppose to be a commitment, but most of the time the resolutions looks more like a preference or a wish list. 

People prefer or wish for a change, but are seldom committed to the process of getting to where they want to go. 

Anyone can wish for things to change. We all do that. But are you committed to actually make it happen this year?

                                               "If I'm committed there is always a way."

                                                                - Tony Robbins 

True and lasting change will involve that we step out of our comfort zone, and then do what is necessary to make change happen. Sitting on the sidelines simply wishing for something to happen, is not going to work. Sitting on the sidelines is a very comfortable lifestyle, and we love to be comfortable. But it won't create the new life that we are seeking.

If we want true change we must get out of our comfort zone, do things that feel uncomfortable and feel unfamiliar to us. It will require energy and it will also require that we establishing some kind of new daily rituals. Any change that we are looking for and wish for, will require a commitment, effort and energy.

                                "Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality."

                                                           - Abraham Lincoln

The majority of people are looking for temporary and short term solutions to their problems. They are not willing to create and adapt to a new way of living. In other words, long term solutions.

We can't change our life by simply wishing for change. We must be committed.

To create lasting change we must  implementing new habits and behaviors.

It's a lifestyle, not a quick fix to feel better for the moment.

Do you simply prefer or wish that things will change in your life? 

Or are you 100 percent committed to create the changes that you want to see happen in 2021?

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Fall In Love With Yourself First

                                         "Self-love is the air beneath the wings

                                                     of all our relationships."

                                                      - Elin Stebbins Waldal

One major issue that a lot of people struggle with is self-love. Or a lack of self-love.

It's a lot easier to improve relationships when you love yourself because you are capable of giving love and you are also capable of allowing others to love you. 

If you don't love yourself, your relationships will usually be strained. And even if someone else really does love you, you won't be able to feel it.

The truth is that you can only allow someone else to love you to the extend that you love yourself. You can only love and accept another person to the extent that you love an accept yourself.

Look around yourself and understand that everything and everyone in your environment is a reflection of your own selflove or lack of it.

If you want to change what is going on around you, here is the great news....you can!!! 

Since everything comes from you, you don't have to fix other people and the outside world. To change you can start working on your inside world.

A lot of things in your outside world will change when you start working on your inside world. And the best place to start this inner work is by loving yourself more.

When you start loving yourself a lot of things will improve. Your relationships will improve. Your health, happiness, joy and vitality will also improve. You will have more energy and you will also discover brand new opportunities showing up all around you.

                                                                 You Yourself,

                                         as much as anyone in the entire Universe 

                                                   deserve your love and affection.

                                                                     - Buddha

Today I want you to start treating yourself like the very special person that you are.

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Where Do You Want To Go?

                                                 "Your goals are the road maps

                                                   that guide you and show you

                                                  what is possible for your life."

                                                           - Les Brown

Person #1: Would you please tell me which way I ought to go from here?

Person #2: That depends on where you want to get to?

                                                                   Set goals.

                                                                 Make a plan.

                                                                 Go to work.

                                                                 Stick to it.

                                                                Reach goal.

Do you have a VISION of where you want to go in 2021?

Do you know WHY you want  it?

Do you have a VISION of who you want to become?

Do you know WHY you want to become what you want to become?

Do you have a PLAN or some kind of a MAP of how you will get there?

                                            "A goal without a plan is only a dream."

                                                              - Brain Tracy

If you don't know where you want to go......then how will you know where you need to go from here?

Don't start 2021 without knowing where you want to go. Why you want to go there and some kind of written a plan on how you will get there.

If this sounds like you, you must get busy creating your vision for this new year.

Don't allow this year to be exactly like last year. Time to make some changes and time to make some progress in your life.

                                           "Setting goals is the first step in turning

                                                    the invisible into the visible."

                                                                 - Tony Robbins 

                 

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