For years I have been asked "How did you get it all together and do all you have done.

I do not believe people ask in idle curiosity. I think they have the same reason that compelled me, when I was sixteen growing up on the streets of New York City to ask myself how I could make my own dreams come through.

The average human being has the ability to achieve almost anything. Lack of basic capability is rarely the problem. We all have great reserves of untapped power. The problem is almost always in finding out what you want. Before we go any further let me define how I am using the word want here. I am not talking about mere wishes now, I am talking about wants that gnaw at you.

Maybe you think you do not have any gnawing wants. If you think that, you are wrong! You have the wants. But they are bottled up where you cannot get at them. Your early experiences and training poured them in and pounded the cork home...And there they sit. Building pressure for their next destructive burst of envy and vindictiveness. They may leak out as blind insistence that all your problems are caused by others. Instead of trying to bottle your wants, learn to understand them. From such understanding springs the knowledge of how to use this vital force to power your drive for greater things. Your drive has to come from this source: There is no other that works for long.

It is often the fear of failure that makes us bottle up our wants. But failure is not the worst possible result. Not trying is! If you try, you can succeed; if you will not try, you have already failed. Do you suffer from this fear? Then decide in advance that you have failed and after that go out and give the try you are capable of.

Lots of us are willing to risk failure but we still do not exert ourselves. We do not see any reason to. Why? Because we would not do anything very exciting or satisfying with success if we could win it. If that is your problem, you need to give it a lot of attention. Finding the answer will take deep thinking. Widen your horizons, seek out new friends and activities, and search for unthought of rewards that will make success worth its price to you. The pivot point here is finding what will motivate your own unique personality. Many of us are so blinded by what society and other people think we should want that we can not hear our own cries for help. Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

If you really want something, that want will make a difference in your life. You will work to satisfy that want. You will sacrifice pleasure for it. You will even be willing to change and grow for it. In fact, you will deliberately change yourself and grow so that you can have what you really want. But you will not do any of these things for mere wishes. That is why you must put what you think you want on paper. Then look at your goals, written there in black and white, and commit to them. But wait you are not done yet. It is no good to write pages of goals down somewhere and the go on about your old routine as though nothing has happened.

Every day, look at each goal. Think whether you are doing what has to be done, whether you are paying the price that has to be paid. It does not matter at this point whether or not you already possess all the abilities and resources you must have if you are to achieve your goal - those you can pick up along the way. But you will not start without having the desire. The first step is to commit to the goal in writing. The great majority of people never once in their lives will take this simple first step on the journey to achievement. For this reason alone, they will never take the last step the brings them what they wish for...Apathy Stifles More Careers Than Inability Ever Does!

Since you cannot leash your creativity or accelerate your growth until you commit yourself to a goal, any positive goal is better than no goal at all. You will probably make many false starts before you discover what will keep you happily involved for the rest of your life. That is wonderful! All the time that you are committed to written goals, you are growing rapidly. You are experiencing much. Striving on the field, you are learning a ton for every pound the apathetic person learns sitting in the bleachers of life. Every moment that you are playing the great game of living to the fullest, you are charging toward an understanding of your best potential, of what your finest destiny really is . Allowing ourselves to bury our life in apathy is the greatest crime - and we commit it by not committing ourselves to goals that are real to us.

You can achieve almost any goal you have the courage to set - but sometimes it takes a painful experience to light the way.

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