A NOTE OF ENCOURAGEMENT.

I now realize that we need to fix in our minds the exact thing we desire. It is never sufficient just to say I want this…one has to be definite as to what she or he exactly wants. Having a burning desire will eventually come to your aid. If you truly want something so keenly that your desire is an obsession you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want it and to become determined to have it that you convince yourself you will have it.

So go on and Imagine yourself as a………………………………(Fill in the blank) have sufficient imagination and write it down on paper. Don’t leave anything to chance or good luck. All leaders who have accumulated great success first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring and planning before they acquired it.

You can never have success in great quanlity unless you can work yourself into a burning desire for it and actually believe you can get it.

DESIRES to OBSESSIONS.

A great man once said, “The starting point of all achievement is to Desire.”
This can be translated into craving or longing. But in this case, one must have gigantic thoughts; one must see him/herself standing in the presences of what they want.
One must have a burning desire… and I’m not just referring to some Hope or a Wish.
I’m referring to something specific and well-defined.
Sooner or later, this desire will be translated into reality. As said earlier, “Our Dominating Thoughts Become a Reality.”

We should choose a definite goal; place all our energy, all our will power, all our effort and everything on the goal. Then burn all the bridges behind us and stand by our desire until it becomes the dominating obsessions in our lives.

Define one thing in the world that you are determined to have and let it be specific. Then erase all the things stopping you in your mind and stake the entire future on the ability to get what you want. In the end, this goal will turn into a fact.

When the going gets tough and the future looks hopeless most people would go where it’s easier but The Tough Get Going.
Every human being wishes for something. Wishing will not bring dreams to pass, but desiring with a state of mind which becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire it with persistence which doesn’t recognize failure will bring you to succeed.

WIN OR WIN. That is all there is.

It’s 4:54am and I’m absolved in the fascinating habit of writing. The tranquility around me seems to take its toll. I am so thankful and grateful for yet another day and another year. I get into the day with an open-mind, with the questions that have caused me to ponder over the strangest of life.

For the past years, I have noted that one of the strongest weaknesses of human nature is the average man’s familiarity with the word “Impossible." Man seems to know all the rules that will not work and how it cannot be done.

I think we should stake the rules on things that work and focus less on things that don’t work.
Napoleon Hill my best author states that, “Success comes to those who are success conscious. Please note that, failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.

We need to seek and learn the art of changing our minds from failure conscious to success conscious. We should stop using the word IMPOSSIBLE! We have all hard the lines… all things are possible through Christ who strengthens us. Just refuse to believe that which we do not understand. Your limitations are not the proper measure of boundaries. NEVER SAY IT’S IMPOSSIBLE.
Stay at the job until you succeed, no matter how much time is required. Sooner or later the secret will be discovered. Your determination will win.

In the first place, Know what you want (Desire). Henley stated great truths in a poetic form that, “You are the master of your fate, and you are the captain of your soul”. In other words, “You Have The Power To Control Your Thoughts”. There is no thing like impossibility given the right time. All things are possible with time.

Your brain becomes magnetized with the dominating thoughts which you are holding in your mind and these magnets attract to you the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with nature of our dominating thoughts.

Before you can accumulate any thing you must magnetize our minds with intense desire of the possibilities in your life. …ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE…maintain the spirit of open mindness.

Quote for the day:

Whatever THE MIND OF MAN can CONCEIVE and BELIEVE it CAN ACHIEVE. (Napoleon Hill)

LESSONS IN PERSISTENCE

In Mother Teresa’s a poem about Life, she writes, “Life is a gift, TAKE it.

LIFE is a gift no matter what we all go through.
We all go through the “University of Hard Rocks”, our real life experiences that may not be so good but we should make sure that we profit from these incidents.
“No” and “Failures” do not necessary mean the end of life.

Do not be moved by what has not worked out in your life, Persist; this is the key to success. Sooner or later you will receive what you deserve. You will conquer, this I promise.

“Master your situations”, do not let your situations Master you. Keep your mind alert, you have strange power to take over situations. Go back to your past experiences of Failure or Defeat, and bring to surface some lessons by which you can regain all that you have lost.

When people say “NO”, Say… NEXT! And go on.

These experiences are blessings in disguise. Keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going might be.

Three Feet From Gold.

There is a story told by Napoleon Hill of an uncle of R. U. Darby who was caught by the “gold rush” in the gold rush days, and went west to dig and grow riche had never heard that more gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has ever been taken from the earth. He staked a claim and went to work with pick and shovel.

After weeks of labor, he was rewarded by the discovery of the shining ore. He needed machinery to bring the ore to the surface. Quietly, he covered up the mine, retraced his footsteps to his home in Williamsburg, Maryland, told his relatives and a few neighbors of the “strike.” They got together money for the needed machinery, and had it shipped. The uncle and Darby went back to the mine.

The first car of ore was mined and shipped to the smelter. The returns proved they had one of the richest mines in Colorado! A few more cars of that ore would clear the debts. Then would come the big killings in profits.

Down went the drills! Up went the hopes of Darby and uncle! Then something happened. The vein of gold ore disappeared! They had come to the end of the rainbow, and the pot of gold was no longer there. They drilled on, desperately trying to pick up the vain again – all to no again.

Finally, they decided to Quit.

They sold the machinery to a junk man for a few hundred dollars, and took the train back home. The junk man called in a mining engineer to look at the mine and do a little calculating. The engineer advised that the project had failed because the owners were not familiar with fault lines. His calculations showed that the vain would be found just "Three Feet" from where the Darbys had stopped drilling! That is exactly where it was found.

This junk man took millions of dollars in ore from the mine because he knew enough to seek expert counsel before giving up. Never stop because some people say “No.” Profit by the experience but never stop because of circumstances.
Before success comes in any person’s life, he is sure to meet some obstacles or temporary defeats and perhaps some failures.

One of the most universal causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. Every one of us is guilty of this mistake at one time or another.

When defeat overtakes man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is what the majority of us do.
But success comes just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken you. Sometimes failure takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost with in reach.

Do not quit! You are just three feet away from your break-through.

Sly cover ups of Opportunity!

When an opening or opportunity comes up, it appears in a different form and it usually comes from a different direction than expected. This is one of the tricks of opportunity.

A great author once said, “That opportunity has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.” How true this is!

Sometimes we are not enthusiastic about what stands in our way, but we always have to see that opportunity usually crawls in quietly hidden in queer-looking overalls which interest no one.

Knowing your “Definite Major Purpose” helps you note opportunities and promptly taking chances.

Think and seek the opportunities life hands you. Know what you want and have the determination to stand by your desire until it is realized.

THOUGHTS ARE THINGS. (In other words Feelings become things.)

I woke up this morning looking forward to the rising of the sun…in Africa that seems to be a daily gift. This adds another smile on my amazed face. Another day, one more gift, an extra reason to be thankful.

A great man once said “Thoughts are Things”. And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, a burning desire and persistence.

Having said that, I look back in my life and search for occurrences that can witness to this.
Three years ago, many people inspired me but not many touched and changed my life like Inspirational and Motivational teachers. I was fascinated by what they taught and wrote. Not only did they give hope, they helped people think and act differently in their day to day life.
I hoped, prayed and dreamed to be part of these people too.

I had a burning desire to become one of them. It was definite; I wanted to work with them. When the desire or impulse of thought first flashed into my mind. I was in no position to act on it. Difficulties of fear stood in my way. I didn’t know where to start from, I didn’t have the experience, and I had no certificate or diploma to help. These difficulties discourage a majority of men from making any attempt to carry out the desire. But this was not any ordinary desire for me!

I presented my prayer to God. Kneeling like an ordinary human. There was something from the bottom of my heart that was real and I was determined to make a difference.

It is said that “When a person really desires a thing so deeply, and is willing to stake his or her entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, they are sure to win.

At this time I had no experience but a single thought that counted. I made up my mind to stand until I succeeded.

Nothing happened in the first few months but my mind had a Definite Major Purpose. The desire was intensifying day by day. Psychologists have correctly said that, “When one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its Appearance.”
It is also said that, “When a Student is Ready, the Teacher Appears.” I was ready; moreover I was determined to remain ready until I got that which I was seeking. I was created for a reason and I will accomplish this end even if it takes the remainder of my life. For the first time in life, I meant what I said.

What a different story PEOPLE would have to tell if only they would ADOPT a DEFINITE PURPOSE and stand by that purpose until it became a CONSUMING OBSESSION!
What if we all had a bulldog determination like Napoleon Hill calls it.

Bulldog determination: is Persistence ready to mow down all opposition and bring the opportunity we are seeking.

THE SECRETS OF LIFE!

Stupendously, life takes on its path! 5-6 years ago, I was trapped in a battle... a race that cannot be described. Regardless of me reading a lot of inspiring books and embracing on to many positive beliefs, sad mornings, less smiling & laughing, not looking forward to what the day brings and pursuing almost nothing was beginning to be part of my lifestyle.

As the facts of my life became well-known to me, I started to search for a new path... a direction to happiness, to fulfillment and knowledge.

What was life all about? Where there any secrets to having the life I wanted? Why was I created?

Despite having a job that helped me earn a monthly salary and satisfied with the cash in flow in my business at that time, I quested for real facts to greater life” questions like, “What Do I What From Life? Is this all there is? Could it be that some people are meant to have more than others? If so, where was I placed?
I wanted to know the secret of having it all and staying fulfilled... I wanted to know the undisclosed of not having enough and staying happy. Was it really possible not to have enough and stay happy? I had many questions; It was time to find some answers.

Discouragements, difficulties, failures or physical afflictions could have taken the soul out of me, but this proved to be the oasis in the desert of Lost Hope for which I had been searching. I discovered a peculiar thing about searching for fulfillment; “That those who once acquired it and used it, found themselves literally swept on to “success”. (whatever you definition may be).

So much has been mentioned in many great books that I have read , but I will not directly name any secret or principle for it seems to work more successfully when it is merely uncovered and left in sight where those who are ready and searching for it, may pick it up.
For this reason, I won’t give any specific names of my discoveries. I wish I may feel privileged to tell you how you will know if you are ready but that will deprive you of so much benefit you will receive when you make the discovery in your own way.


Anyways, from that moment on, I realized that there has got to be a price to pay. I came to know that There is no such thing as something for nothing.
I recognized that what I wanted cannot be had without a price… yet I knew that the price will be far less than the value. However, I was determined to find this at any price because I was intentionally searching for it. This led to the resignation from my job.

Did I succeed? This story is to be told too.

Day by day it comes to my knowledge that this cannot be given away, it can not be purchased for money. It comes in possession for those who quest for it and it serves equally well for those who are ready for it.
Believe me; Education has nothing to do with it. Long before we were born, this secret found its way to those hungry for it and many have used it so intelligently even without having gone to school. People have accumulated great fortunes in relationships, family, society, careers and even in monetary areas.
I now realize that all this is not beyond my reach. I appreciated that I could still be who I wished to be. I understood that good relationships, successful careers, close families, happiness & fulfillment, contented souls and lastly money can be found by all who are ready and determined to have these blessings.

So I get to say this to you, that somewhere in your life, the unknown to which I refer will jump from you life experiences and stand boldly before you, if you are ready for it! When it appears, you will recognize it. Stop then for a moment when it presents itself for this may be the turning point of your life.

One can recognize the secret at least once in their day to day lives and all achievement has its beginning however small the idea could seem.