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Just as a butterfly must shed her cocoon before she flies out into the deep blue sky, you too must make an energetic effort to shed the cocoon of limitations that has enveloped your life and prevented you from self-mastery and life excellence.
This minute, make the ultimate decision of your life and become aware of all those thoughts and beliefs that you have allowed to hamper your performance.
The most important initial ingredients of self-mastery and life excellence are discipline and will-power.
Discipline and will-power allow you to ensure that the things which matter most in your life are never at the mercy of those that matter the least.
Success in any endeavour requires a focused mind and regular application. Without the power that discipline brings, no dream can be realized. Without will-power, you become a victim to the evils of procrastination, laziness and sloth.
Without discipline, or at least a clear desire to build it, you are lost and are destined to be the servant of your mind rather than having your mind serve you.
Success on the outside begins with success on the inside.
You cannot do great things unless you feel great. You cannot lead a corporation or a team unless you have learned to lead yourself first.
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management begins with self-management and a key ingredient of self-management is refinin...
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Will-Power, Raymond De Saint-Laurent
"the man of character is one who selects a reasonable objective and never gives up pursuing it so long as he has not reached his goal."
i) Winners Are Disciplined!
Use Your Will!
use them or lose them!
Exert and push your memory to remember more, it too will grow strong.
Visualize the perfect you and feel that you are that person. You will soon grow strong and become that image. This is the way of your discipline/will-power muscles also.
Have Big Hopes and Think Good Thoughts!
Become a Will-Power Warrior!
You must examine yourself carefully and become aware of the disempowering thoughts that you have conditioned into your way of thinking. Then you must stop considering them and repeat to yourself, over and over, that it is these thoughts that are keeping you from ideal health, perfect wealth and a truly magical existence.
Once you start to discipline your mind, it will work wonders for you. Mental and physical fatigue will be a thing of the past.
Worry and negative thinking is the greatest cause of fatigue known.
The first step to eliminating mental fatigue is to control every thought in your mind. Make certain that each one is an optimistic, positive one.
Realize that the fatigue is your own creation. Break the habit of fatigue. Toss it away. When the tired feeling starts to take hold, keep focused on the task at hand.
you must be strong and not seek to escape the task you may be finding dull and unpleasant.
Soon your discipline will take over. Things you had trouble doing will become easy.
all of life's happiness comes from achieving goals.
Your life will be elevated by one thing and one thing alone: achievement.
start applying the Feelgood Principle for positive rather than negative ends.
Today make the decision that you need to change your behaviour.
write down your decision to dramatically improve and tape it next to your bedside. Read it ten times before you go to bed
When the first thought of the negative behaviour enters your mind, isolate it and "challenge" the thinking process by anything unique: a silly sound that you make, a bizarre word like "ookabooka!" or a pinch to your leg. This may sound strange but it will have the highly important impact of breaking the disempowering thought pattern that is holding you back.
you challenge negative, thoughts and behaviours which are holding you back from all that you deserve,
Once you have made the decision to change and challenged the pattern, you must then replace it with the new behaviour you wish to cultivate. This is known as Opposition Thinking
The essence of the strategy is to substitute the negative thought for a positive, empowering one.
If you suffer from procrastination, each time the thought of wasting time while you should be
working comes to your mind, isolate it, challenge the stream of thought and then substitute a clear thought of you working hard (just like replacing one slide with another).
continually practice the process given to you above until the new, powerful thinking pattern is conditioned in your mind.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities!
The quality of your life therefore is a direct result of what you put into your mind - your programming. Your thoughts are things which you are releasing into the world.
You've got to think positively to achieve the impossible, to be what you expect to be.
Cultivate the spirit of positivity and joy in every area of your life.
successful people are no different from anyone else, they just stay in the fight an extra round longer. This is the difference between winners and less developed people. Unsuccessful people see adversity as something that will break them and complain that life is hard. Winners design strategies to benefit from challenges, regroup if they do not work and maintain a burning commitment to succeed at all cost. Winners will always find a way.
Clear goals are the essential foundation of success and life mastery.
Peak performers know precisely where they are going mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually and financially.
One of the truest laws of Nature is that what you focus on constantly with great emotion and expectation will become a reality.
"Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing seems impossible."
Find, recognize & mentally visualize the goals you are working towards.
eulogy.
Set Precise Goals with a Deadline & Develop a Strategy.
