Tag: Growth

Keeping the Flame Alive

The way to keep the flame of your burning desire alive is through persistence. Cultivating a persistence state of mind is possible for anybody. The book Think and Grow Rich outlines four simple steps that lead to the habit of persistence. Time and effort are the only things needed to conquer these steps. They are a definite purpose backed by a burning desire for its fulfillment, a definite plan, expressed in continuous action, a mind closed tightly against all negative and discouraging influences, including negative suggestions of relatives, friends, and acquaintances, lastly a friendly alliance with one or more persons who will encourage you to follow through with both plan and purpose.

Having a definite purpose backed by a burning desire for its fulfillment is the first step towards cultivating a persistence state of mind within yourself, this means that you know what you what and have an intense desire to acquire what you want. Knowing what you want is essential to having persistence because it is what you started for in the first place. Some things take longer to get than others, so that is when you must keep your mind on what you want to persevere.

Having a definite plan, expressed in continuous action is the second step towards cultivating your persistence state of mind. Planning your work and working your plan allows for you to measure your progress as well as enable you to be able to adjust your plans if something is not working. The goal stays the same but plans may change. Keeping organized plans and updating your plans when needed will keep you going when things get tough.

Keeping your mind closed tightly against all negative and discouraging influences, including negative suggestions of relatives, friends, and acquaintances will cultivate your persistence state of mind. The people that are closest to you are sometimes the ones that try to keep you from going for the things that you want. Most of them are doing this in an attempt to protect you. Protect you from what you ask. They have fears and other hang-ups within themselves that make them believe that what you want to go for is not capable of being had. So, they want to protect you from disappointment if you do not achieve or receive what you want. If you have completed the first two steps, you can let them know that it is just a matter of time until you have what you want.

The final step is having a friendly alliance with one or more persons who will encourage you to follow through with both plan and purpose. The bible says where two or more gather in agreement the power of God will be there also. If working with someone to gain access to the power of God doesn’t cultivate a persistence state of mind for you, you may need to check your pulse. Having that extra person or persons there with you will also add to your willpower to push through tough times because you have some cheerleaders and helpmates.

Once you master the four steps, you will be able to keep any flame you light alive. You will have cultivated a persistence state of mind. You will have paid the time and effort dues that are required payments for its obtainment. Start now with a definite purpose backed by a burning desire for its fulfillment, a definite plan, expressed in continuous action, a mind closed tightly against all negative and discouraging influences, including negative suggestions of relatives, friends, and acquaintances, lastly a friendly alliance with one or more persons who will encourage you to follow through with both plan and purpose.

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Running Toward Success and Running From Negativity


Earlier this year, I was invited to become a member of the Advisory Board for the Let Me Run organization. During the introductory meeting, all of the attendees were asked to go around and introduce themselves and answer the questions, “What are you running toward?” and, “What are you running away from?” I was sitting in the front of the room so I was the second person to go. Assuming you read the title, you already know what my answers were to the questions when I introduced myself. Take a peek to remind yourselves of it, if needed. Now, I will tell you why I gave the answers I did.

Running Toward Success

I answered, “What are you running toward?”, with “I am running toward success.” I choose to run toward success at all times. I continue running toward success, even when failures arrive because I see them as temporary. Failures are temporary because having enough knowledge, skills, and abilities we learn from failures and turn them into successes. There is at least one lesson to be learned from every failure. We have to be aware enough to recognize the lessons that our failures are attempting to teach us. If we do not recognize and learn the lessons; we are more than likely to continuously repeat that failure until we learn the lesson or quit and accept defeat, assuming that failure is permanent. I hope, we are all able to gain the wisdom needed to be able to learn from our failures and continue running toward success.

Running From Negativity

I answered, “What are you running away from?”, with “I am running away from negativity.” I choose to run away from negativity because success is achieved through a positive mental attitude. I run from negativity because it plants seeds of negative thoughts, that produce negative actions, that lead to negative results. In the same way, positivity plants seeds of positive thoughts, that produce positive actions, that lead to positive results. Think of our minds as gardens. We have to choose the purpose of our own gardens. Choosing the purpose of our gardens will help us decide the things we want to plant in our gardens. If we are not minding our gardens negativity will sprout
just like weeds and keep our garden from producing what we desired. I hope that we are all able to keep negativity out of our gardens.

Summary

When we are running toward success when failures knock us down we have to get up evaluate the failure learn the lesson the failure was teaching and continue running toward success. Running from negativity will allow us to focus on the things that we want in our gardens. If we are focused on our gardens we will recognize when the weeds of negativity sprout and get rid of them and far away from our minds garden.

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