“A Saint was a sinner who never gave up” — Sri Paramahansa Yogananda
“Never Never Give Up” — Winston Churchill
Most successful people experienced some type of adversities like all humans, but they always emerge even stronger because they face them head-on.
Anything is possible, and so you just go ahead and make the change! Improving little by little is worth the effort, and it's even self-fulfilling.
A thoughtful process to consider during transformation to improve yourself:
1. Recognize the problem because you are not happy with the current situation. Honestly confronting the facts of the current reality helps to make it easier, and to make the right decisions
2. Feel the urgency of your condition and that you want better results. Seek help - get a coach or mentor as your guide, or form/join a support group. You may also take a relevant course
3. Develop a strategy with the support of your coach or mentor as to how you are going to achieve your objectives. Communicate any change in vision and objective with your support group
3. Commitment to take action. Be empowered to take daily action based on your vision or objectives. Commitment helps to see the goal in your mind's eye daily, morning or night, waking up with that in mind, and before you go to sleep – so that nothing deters you to give up, but only motivated to achieve results no matter what, which leads to point #4
4. Persevere to never give up until the objective is achieved. Celebrate short term wins and then look forward to the next win
Just Keep on keeping on no matter what.
Here are some examples of things people can improve on:
A. To increase or double income - by when? Time it reasonably - maybe to get a new job by what date?
B. Change in lifestyle from unhappy life to a peaceful, joyful, fulfilling life…
C. To increase productivity at work or work/life balance by using your best resources - 'time' effectively and efficiently…
D. To lose weight from 200 to 170 pounds…
E. To create something that no one has ever created...
The Stockdale Paradox: When Prof. Jim Collins interviewed Vice Admiral James Stockdale regarding how he survived as a Vietnam POW, Stockdale said "You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be."
Therefore, in addition to retaining absolute faith and conviction that you can and will overcome and succeed no matter what, you must also be pragmatic for as long as it takes to succeed. May you grow in intelligence and compassion as much as you grow in strength!
“Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.” -- Wolfgang Riebe
“Winners never quit and quitters never win." -- Vince Lombardi
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