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Carolyn Smagalski
Self Mastery
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Brian Tracy, personal development trainer, says, "You can
become an even more excellent person by constantly setting
higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing
everything possible to live up to those standards."
Take Colonel Harland Sanders, for instance, the Founder of
Kentucky Fried Chicken. Colonel Sanders began to make his
mark in the world at sixty years old. After being a cook all
his life, he decided he wanted more. He had nothing more than
a great recipe. No money. No education. No connections.
Just a recipe...and a decision!
 Of this he says, "I made a resolve then that I was going to
amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of
labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best
that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I
win by it. I know."
"The fact is, the difference between peak performers and
everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks,"
stresses Charles A. Garfield.
Frederick Nietzsche said, "On the mountains of truth you can
never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up
today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be
able to climb higher tomorrow."
Harvey Mackay agrees. "People begin to become successful the
minute they decide to be." It is amazing what sudden,
extraordinary power you possess when you finally become
sick-and-tired of being sick-and-tired. When you finally
become determined to follow it through until!
One of my favorite people on the subject of self-determination
is Denis Waitley. Denis has a powerhouse of information on
success development. Of perseverance, he says, "Out of need
springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the
will to win."
Picture yourself in bed at night. You have just slipped into
that twilight sleep - the period just past wakefulness but
before a true, deep sleep - that time when you are alert
enough to think you are awake, but yet, are not.
Suddenly, you begin having a nightmare of preposterous
proportions. You struggle to run, but cannot. You
"will" yourself to awaken. Slowly, you begin to move
the fingers on one hand. You gain control of your arm, then
the other. You keep persisting, determined to escape the
monster of the night. Eventually, you struggle to move your
legs, as well.
Finally, you are fully awake, the "danger" is past, and you
have succeeded in gaining control over yourself and your
situation.
Moving toward success is much the same. You may see the
"monsters" of your own fears and excuses. With determination
and absolute will, you will be able to gain control over those
external ghosts. The path to freedom in success will suddenly
gain clarity.
The words of Thomas Carlyle advise, "Permanence, perseverance
and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements,
and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things
distinguishes the strong soul from the weak."
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