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I begin this article with a wonderful quote from Brian Tracy in his book "Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life." (Highly recommended)
"You are a thoroughly good person. You are honest, decent, truthful, and hardworking. You treat others with courtesy, respect, and warmth. You are dedicated to your family, friends, and company/workplace/business/career. You are strong, confident, and responsible. You are knowledgeable, intelligent, and experienced. You are important not only to the people closest to you, but also to your community. You were born for a special reason and you have a great destiny to fulfill. You are an excellent person in every way." He goes on to say, and I paraphrase slightly, that this is a statement of your true personality, perhaps not 100% of the time, but it's a good, general description of who you are. When you accept this, you become this. Add all your own personal quirks, and you become the best you can become. And a joy to be around. That's a powerful claim: what you accept about yourself, you become. If you have bought into what others have decided you are or should be, you are a product of their opinions. But you have still created it by your acceptance of it. That's how powerful you actually are; that's how much energy you have available within you to become whatever you choose to become. Don't buy it? Too scary? Well, good ol' Mark Twain put it this way: "Courage is not lack of fear or absence of fear. It is mastery of fear, control of fear." How do you master fear? By becoming obstinate. Obstinate: firmly adhering to a purpose, opinion, or course of action. Not easily overcome or controlled by outside forces/sources. "When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." FDR Being obstinate, then, is acting with tenacity, perseverance, resolution. It's allowing a ruling passion to come through, to show through. It's willfulness and determination. As you allow yourself these qualities, you become persuasive, invincible. You step into natural, instinctual power. You do not procrastinate. Discouragement and despair depart. You try more, risk more, give more, are more. Refusing to become obstinate can mean giving in to the demands of others. It's easy to slip into indecisiveness. You hesitate. You don't take action. You vacillate, compromise; you become compliant (different from flexible). You may seem charming on the surface. Cute-sy. After all, you just want to get along. But most will call it boring. Go To Page: 1 2
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