Desire.  Napoleon Hill refers to this critical ingredient in his first chapter of Think and Grow Rich.  It is that important!  Building a fire under your desire...cutting all forms of retreat... propelling yourself onward toward your goal through persistent action.

Christian Nevell Bovee, 1820-1904, American author and lawyer, wrote, "We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none." 

Fuzzy-headed philosophers may speak of the infinite powers of the universe and our connection to these infinite powers.  However, you do not have to become credulous to understand that there are a number of intangible forces in the world that are incomprehensible to our understanding:  The power of a tornado, the forces of a lightning bolt, the mystery of the oceans, the unharnessed energy of a volcano, the potency of magnetism. 

Contemplate also, the abundance of leaves on a tree, blades of grass in a field, grains of sand in the desert, and gallons of water in the ocean; that the sun produces food for plant-life through photosynthesis; and that the forests are given life with the rainfall, one drop at a time.   With such demonstrations of the opulence of such natural gifts, right before our eyes, it suddenly becomes clear that our world is, by nature, vastly abundant.  

Limitations are a product of our thought process, the suppression of our inborn creative talents.  These talents are unlocked through the emotions associated with intense desire.  Love, faith, intense belief, sexual desire, imagination, alliance with others - our list, in this regard, is also limitless.

"One essential to success is that your desire be an all obsessing one, your thoughts and aims be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup," wrote Claude M. Bristol, author of The Magic of Believing. 

Create your vision of the life you desire.  Create it clearly in your mind.  The way in which you communicate with yourself will determine how you envision this ideal life. 

If you are a visual thinker, you will "picture it" with color, light, and clear-sightedness. 

If you are a kinesthetic thinker, you will create the "feel" of affluence - the emotions associated with applause, the aura of your surroundings, the warmth of the sun on your skin.

If you are an auditory thinker, you will unlock your desires through audible messages - the sound of music that you associate with an opulent life, the sound of cheering, the whisper of love in your ear.

If you are an auditory-digital thinker, the overwhelming thought of how many drops of water fall during a rainstorm, translated into their monetary equivalent, and organized in rows in a bank vault, may be the propelling force that will unlock your potential.

Discover your own key.  Once you do, you will take the action necessary to achieve the life you desire.