HOW TO GET EVERYTHING YOU WANT OUT OF LIFE -PART 3

The next step takes no real effort, and strangely enough, it is the most difficult step for the average person to take. FOURTH: COMMIT! Make the decision to achieve those goals, to strive for the things you want which will make your life and yourself all that much better. Make that commitment from the heart, not at the lips! It will take time to really feel that commitment, and regularly reviewing the goals you’ve written down will make it possible to truly feel that commitment. You’ll go through agonies at first and wonder if any of this is really worth it, and that’s the point most people give up.

Remember this and you’ll look forward to that agony. Every change comes with pain. It hurts to be born, to fall in love, to pass an exam, run a marathon. Once you start feeling that pain, know it for what it is – your old self screaming for life. Let your old self win and you lose! Once you pass through that barrier of pain between what you are and what you want, you will know what it is worth every bit of discomfort. You’ve been through it before, and you’ll need the memory of past incidents where you’ve made it to help you get through it. You’ll need the support of others, too. So you’ll have to consider the people with whom you spend most of your time. If they are not as interested in improving themselves as you are, it’s time to expand your circle of friends to include those people, and make them the best you could want. Make your friends inspirations to you in your quest for a better life. The final step is so simple and so tough it literally separates the men from the boys, the women from the girls. It means sacrificing immediate pleasure for real satisfaction down the road, so if you’re not ready to make the trade, go back two paces.

FIFTH:  Spend every moment of your life in the most effective, efficient way possible in the pursuit of your goals. You’ll never be able to do this as well as you will want to, but that’s fine. Nobody spends all their time as effectively as humanly possible. The degree to which you can tune your desire to the things you want and discipline yourself to do the things that lead to getting them – will determine how successful you will be. Regardless of how weak you are now, you can and will increase the value of your time and activities and garner more happiness than you might think fair, only if you’ll keep your failures in perspective. Think of them as lessons and gain something from them. Use your successes as a well of strength on which you can draw when you’re ready to quit. These simple steps are the true secret to getting what you want out of life. It has been proven time and time again by great men through history. The words may change, but the ideas will be the same. For centuries men have tried to find ways of making this simple set of guidelines more complicated and more difficult to understand and follow. Most of them succeeded admirably. Most got what they wanted by doing so. What they really wanted was less than they set out to achieve. Getting what you truly want is so difficult precisely because it is so simple. Humans are very complex beings and thrive on making things even more complicated.