Today we look at ‘Having a BURNING DESIRE and OBSTACLES that get in the way of your goals’
Here’s a few of my favourite quotes:
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. Henry Ford
“A burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power – a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment”
Marsha Sin
The obstacles you face are… mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach. Clarence Blasier
There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants and a burning desire to possess it. Napolean Hill
A lot of people give up just before they’re about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.
Chuck Norris
“A burning desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.”
Napoleon Hill
“Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.”
Wilfred Peterson
Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.
Wally Amos
J Paul Getty said that a man with a burning desire and just an average ability would be a winner every time. His premise was that if a person is willing to do whatever it takes to achieve their goals, then they would eventually achieve them. Are you willing?
You know what they say – what doesn’t kill you makes you mentally stronger.
True. That strength may not come immediately after hardship. Sometimes it shows up awhile after, but I believe in most cases this is true.
Becoming mentally stronger – Sometimes it’s true, sometimes it’s false. Certainly some people are made much weaker from traumatic experiences… the experience doesn’t kill them but they never recover fully. Some people manage to come out the better for it. It really depends on the person and the experience.
I always try and pick out the positives from a bad situation – I become mentally stronger for it!
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Here’s a report that I read and some of the points really ‘hit home’, so I decided I’d have some fun and illustrate it with cartoons. Hope you enjoy it too!?
“11 Reasons Why You Will Never Succeed” By Gary Vurnum
Inside this report you will find out why there are still as
many people struggling through life as there used to be,
despite more and more self-help books being sold than ever
before.
The answer lies, not in the content of the books, or the
quality of the authors, but in the person who reads them.
By their very nature, self-help books can’t give you what
you want. The path to success is completely different for
everybody…so one size never fits all.
Don’t you wonder why 97% of the population will never
succeed?
So lets get started and find out…
REASON #1 – You never act on the information you read in
self-help books.
Reading the latest book by your favourite self-help author
may be interesting, even enlightening, but it is money
wasted if you just read the book, and do nothing else.
It seems that a lot of people want to champion the fact that
they have read “hundreds” of self-help books. For all the
good it has done them, they might as well have read hundreds
of novels!
You can get something out of every self-help book you read
…if you actually do something with the information rather
than just read it. By their very nature, these books should
be treated as life “User Guides” and dipped into at regular
intervals for inspiration.
If you do read a book from cover-to-cover make sure that you
have made notes about those “Ah ha” moments that you should
have had if the book has lived up to it’s promises.
The best thing of all to do is to summarize the book
yourself…by understanding the information on your own
terms you will be more able to focus on what you can apply
in real life.
REASON # 2 – You can never imagine yourself as a success.
Think positive – don’t let the media grind you down!
It’s all the doom and gloom in the news again this week. What with a
possible double dip recession talked about I’ve decided to switch the TV
off and engross myself in some positive thinking. Which triggered the idea
for this cartoon.
“The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.”
Napoleon Hill quotes (American author, 1883-1970)
“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” Napoleon Hill quotes (American author, 1883-1970)
Yes, gold medals are made of more than just gold. What goes into winning one of them? Blood, sweat, tears, sacrifice, determination and the passion for success and being the best.
Gold medal cartoon – what you really need to win one at the Olympics…
Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts. ~Dan Gable
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