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Chapter
from the book: "SO FAR"
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the wealth and beauties of the world
are for you too. Only that you haven't
thought about having them and haven't
fought for them. Actually, you don't
think you can have them and that's why
you don't fight. And you don't think
so because of the conditions, experiences
and information you have had so far! |
We
believe or disbelieve something based
on our experience or our knowledge.
We believe or disbelieve that we can
fulfill our dreams or goals, based on
our experience and knowledge so far.
But does this mean that we are incapable
of fulfilling our goals and dreams?
Obviously not. It just means that we
have to change our experiences and knowledge.
There are so many people in this world
who have been faced to many serious
and difficult problems and yet they've
made it. Why? Because they've changed
their conditions, experiences and knowledge. |
You
might have wished to start up a business,
but you didn't or maybe you did and
failed. At that moment, your experience
and knowledge tell you that you aren't
cut for business. But is this true?
Certainly not. It only means that with
your knowledge and experience so far,
the deal won't work. So you must change
them.
You may have wished to go to college
but failed the exam.
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this make you inapt for college? Not
at all, it's just that the knowledge
you have accumulated is not enough.
You might desire a house. But your knowledge
and experience so far make it impossible.
Is it really so? No, but you have to
change your knowledge and experience. |
You might wish
to travel around the world or anything
else. If you didn't manage to obtain
what you wanted, apply this rule: SO
FAR.
Or maybe that the experience and knowledge
of those around you tell you it's impossible.
Is it really? No, it isn't. You only
have to change your knowledge and experience.
Ask the ones who made it and see what
they tell you. |
Your
experience so far, the circumstances,
your training, the situation so far
may not allow you to think about big
things and may make them seem impossible.
Many accomplishments seemed impossible
at a certain time, but now they are
usual. The mobile phone, for example.
A few years ago, you couldn't even have
imagined yourself talking in the street
or on a mountain top, on wireless telephone,
with somebody at the other end of the
world. |
It's
the same for any other achievement:
the plane, flying to the Moon, etc.
Take any field you want, any thing you
want and you will see that it seemed
impossible to be accomplished at a certain
moment.
It's true, back then, it really was
impossible. But somebody didn't want
to give up and changed the conditions
step by step and then, what seemed impossible
became possible. I repeat: somebody
didn't give it up !!! |
You
may now think that some dreams are impossible
to fulfill. And you may be right. Your
"parameters", experience and
information so far may make your goals
seem impossible to reach.
But remember this: tomorrow is the first
time you live tomorrow. It's up to you
to "fill" it. |
If
you keep on struggling for your goals
and dreams, if you keep on evolving,
your conditions and parameters will
change and you will make it.
You must understand this "so
far", you must believe that you
can become perfect, that you can fulfill
your aims and dreams if you don't
give up.
Faith has nothing to do with the current
conditions. Because if you take a
look at the present, your dreams and
goals may seem impossible to achieve.
Faith is related to a strong wish
to accomplish something and to the
decision of doing something in this
direction.
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"All
right, all right, but to take a decision
in a certain direction, you must believe
that what you think of may be done".
True, but there is something far beyond
this: to wish it were possible and to
decide that you'll do everything in
your power to make that thing which
you now find impossible, possible to
achieve.
What guarantees do you have that it
will become possible? |
You
are the guarantee. Because, if you don't
give up and continue to develop yourself,
many impossible things will become possible,
by changing the conditions and changing
yourself.
Let's think about Edison, the inventor
of the bulb and other hundreds of inventions.
At that time, the bulb seemed impossible
to exist. And yet, after so many attempts,
he did it. Did he have any guarantee
that he would succeed, when he started
working? He didn't have anybody around
to encourage him and tell him "you'll
do it". On the contrary. He couldn't
even resort to the examples of other
people who had done it. But he didn't
get discouraged. Do you know what he
said about those 9,000 failures in inventing
the bulb? "I've discovered over
9,000 ways the bulb doesn't work".
Now that's what I call attitude! |
How
many ways did you find you couldn't
fulfill your dreams?
You are right. I don't know your situation.
You might tell yourself: "how can
I think about fulfilling my dreams,
when I don't have the money for this
month's bills?"
Regardless of your situation and regardless
of how difficult it is, I know it was
valid until now.
From now on you can start changing your
situation, and begin by changing yourself.
And this is up to you alone, up to your
own decision.
If you don't take it, you have no right
to complain anymore. Because you've
found out that the situation is in your
hands. It doesn't depend on your past,
on your experience, on the problems
you are facing, on your family, government
and I don't know who or what else. It
depends on you only. |
Make
a commitment to yourself:
"Starting today... I shall do everything
possible to change myself and I shall
add a drop to my change every day. I
shall pay attention to everything that
happens to me and I shall try to learn
something every time. I shall pay attention
to the critiques made and I shall try
to discover the gold nugget in them,
I shall study the success people and
I shall learn from them, I shall work
every day to build my self-confidence,
I shall cease to complain and I shall
seek solutions". |
Is
there anything in this commitment that
depends on your past and the experiences
you've had? Is there something you can't
do? Is there something that depends
on your training or the situation you
are in?
Read this commitment every morning and
every evening, and at night make an
inventory of what you have learned or
the progress you have made that day.
These things depend on you alone. There's
no excuse for not achieving them. |
REMEMBER:
All the wealth and beauties of the world
are for you too. Only that you haven't thought
about having them and haven't fought for
them. Actually, you don't think you can
have them and that's why you don't fight.
And you don't think so because of the conditions,
experiences and information you have had
so far !
Your "parameters", experience
and information so far may make your goals
seem impossible to reach.
Faith has nothing to do with present conditions.
Regardless of your situation and regardless
of how difficult it is, I know it was valid
until now. And starting today, you can change
it.
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