Self-Confidence

“Some man achieved success because they are firmly convinced that lives could never be otherwise. Success gives them total fulfillment not even the smallest of gaps can let failure filter into their lives. This certainly thing is a lot like autosuggestion. In all circumstances, everything unfolds us if failure cannot possibly affect them, as if they are immunized against any kind of negative germ.”
-FRANCOIS GARAGNON

Succeeding, achieving my objectives and making my dreams come through call for certainty. The certainty that I can find the means and inner strength to reach my goals. In the final analysis, in the battle of life, I must be able to rely on my self. I have to maintain the energy I find in new beginnings and I have to find a path that leads me to my ultimate goal. No one can give me self-confidence, not even the encouragement of my friends and my love ones. A mental outlook that excludes the possibility that I might fail or that I might give up is my best asset.  I have to believe in my self and I have to know that I will reach my objective no matter what life brings me. My result is to believe in myself and to trust the inner wisdom that tells me that I can reach my ultimate objective.
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Going Further

“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again”

Persevere is a word whose stem comes from the Latin for “severe” (severus), meaning inflexible. Someone who is perseverant never quits. People who have been successful in their lives all have something in common: perseverance. Their success stories show consistent effort, persistence in difficult situations and the will to go on, even when the temptation to give in to discouragement has been very great.

Today, I know that perseverance comes from within. It is not something I can find outside myself. Even when friends offer me encouragement, nothing can replace my own perseverance.

Perseverance is the marathon runner who refuses to give in to exhaustion before he or she has crossed the finish line. It is standing up to adversity. It is refusing to give in even when all seems lost.
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There's Always a Solution

We should return to a simpler approach to life. In a sense, we should return to our roots. When we try to complicate life, we experience problems. If I have a disagreement with a colleague or a friend, I wait for my anger to dissipate and I go to him or her to explain my point of view frankly, and I am prepared to admit that I may have been wrong in some ways. If my children come home with a bad report card, I spend more time with them to help them understand the things they find hard to learn. If colleagues or acquaintances react coldly to me, I seek them out and I ask them to explain what’s wrong. In short, there is always a way to make life simpler.
S215

Serving Others

“No joy equals the joy of serving others.”
-SAI BABA

Most of us have lost the notion of serving others. To some extent we associate serving others with form of degradation or slavery. We live in an age of liberation. But our overly individualistic outlook results in isolation and spiritual hardship. There can only be one true goal for people living within a society: serving others. A lifetime of serving ourselves is sterile and fruitless. A lifetime of serving our families, our communities, our businesses, our planet, is the only true life.

Serving does not mean being a slave or acting as someone else’s inferior. Serving means using my talents and my resources for the greater good of all. When I serve, I find self-fulfillment, I create harmony and I become a full-fledged member of humanity.
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Family Life

When you look at the question of personal success, it is impossible to ignore family life. Our families have undergone enormous changes in the last two decades. Today, we often live through the effects of the breakdown of the family unit. However, the family remains a source of joy, of security, of belonging and emotional stability. Within the family, we learn to share, to love, to take our individual responsibilities and to take pleasure in the company of others.

Today, I see that family life is part of my sense of values. I seek to reinforce and nurture my ties with other family members. I am willing to help them, comfort them and spoil them. I know that alone, life makes no real sense. So I seek to create sound, loving and lasting ties with my family.
S214

The Power of Dreams

I can create a mental image of the goals I want to reach. If I want a particular result, I must imagine it as if it were something that I have already achieved. Such is the power of my dreams. I can imagine my future. I can imagine the kind of life I want to live and the kind of situations I want to experience. I can use my mental images as a guide.

If I have no goals and no dreams, how can I be sure that I am moving closer to self-fulfillment? I can use my imagination to guide my actions.

Today, I use my dreams to guide and inspire me.
S152