Elevate your desire

Elevate your desire until it becomes a conviction.

I don’t think any of us should be a slave to circumstance. Some people seek a goal but give up easily, thinking that social conditions or economic factors make their goal impossible to realize. The more they study and understand their circumstances, the more convinced they become that their dream is unattainable.

If only they would cling to their dream with any intense desire, they could continuously devise better ways to make it come true. If you desire something from the bottom of your heart, your mind will work to overcome every obstacle in your path–even as you sleep. That is precisely how incredible efforts and true creativity are generated.

A slave to circumstance will only understand that unfortunate nature of a situation and conclude that the dream was unrealistic. But a person with a strong desire will start devising ways to solve the problem and not give up until the goals is reached.

The intensity of our desires is the biggest difference between those of use who move forward purposefully, those who keep stumbling, and those who idle their lives away.

P. 157.  A Passion for Success

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Wishes

We wish many things:

We wish for a father who can guide us
We wish for a brother who can encourage us
We wish for a wife who can strengthen our faith

And I:

I wish nothing.

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Strive for perfection

When it comes to work, I am a perfectonist.

If 90 percents of a task has been accomplished, some people think it is “good enough.” and move on. Office workers think they can always delete mistakes with an eraser. Since accomplishing 90 percents of a goal seems pretty good, they seldom pursue perfection.

In a chemical experiment, however, a 99 percents success could be totally blown away by the one percent error. Many engineers have been through this battlefield of pursuing the last degree of perfection. They know that even the smallest mistake can be fatal, not just to their project, but perhaps to someone’s life. That is why most engineers have an attitude of rigorously pursuing perfection.

It is extremely difficult to begin demanding perfection of yourself in everyday life. However, once it becomes your second nature, you can easiliy live that way. Aerospace engineers know that it takes tremendous energy to launch a satellite againts gravity. But once it is in orbit, the same satellite needs very littel energy to remain there.

A business leader must pursue perfection as an everyday habit.

Taken from P. 162, A Passion for Success.

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