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Will power. We don't want to really look at that word as it looks like work! But what can one accomplish without will power? Imagine the child learning to walk. If she didn't have the will power to keep going after the first few falls, she would be hopelessly crippled all her life. We adults should approach our own obstacles with such determination. What we think is possible seems to become more and more impossible to us as we go through life. Most of us tend to place more faith in our own failures than in our own successes..
Our minds work like a navigation system and however we program our navigation system becomes our own reality. Much of what we see may not even be what is actually the case, but simply the reality we see through the lens of our own beliefs. Remember the story of the man who was mistakenly locked into a refrigerated railroad car? He died after one night, even though the refrigeration was not working. Because he believed it was... his mind caused him to freeze to death.
If we have failed before, we program that into our navigation system and the odds of failure in the next venture multiply, depending upon how we look at failure. If we insist upon looking at failure as the end of the road, then failure becomes a habit. However, if we look upon failure as simply a route that didn't work, then we can stay on the road until we succeed.
Where there's a will there's a way. This is true in most cases. Building will power is simply changing your belief about your own willingness to pursue your goal whatever it may be. Take a mental inventory. If your thoughts and impressions seem to see you as having no will power, then start working to change those thoughts. At the same time you can build self confidence about your will power by keeping small commitments to yourself. Negative ideas about yourself can be erased by building up small victories. Like the child learning to walk, see yourself walking, see yourself accomplishing that which you need the willpower to accomplish, and you will eventually be walking through the obstacles towards your goal.
Jay Hopson is a creature of his own making. Bankrupt at age 52, he did some major self examination and realized a great deal of his problems were caused by his own habits and belief system. Changing those beliefs has become the most fascinating process in his life. See how he does it at:
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