Become A CAN DO Person and Achieve Your Own Goals

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Food for thought today is about achievement. Are you a "can do" person? More pertinently, do you believe you are and if you are, are you using this belief to motivate you?

You must know that if you feel that you can't do something, it is because you have given away your power.

You are letting someone else manage, control and direct your actions. It is easier, is it not.

 

He who has conquered weakness, and has put away all selfish thoughts belongs neither to oppressor nor oppressed. He is Free.  James Allen

The thing is though that you are not happy and if you say you are and you  are in this situation, then you are lying to the most important person in your life! Yes, I am talking about you!

In fact, you are secretly resentful but a lot of you do not have the guts to admit this to yourself and own it because that means you will have to do something about it, and that is scary like ooh, I won't know what to do and...

So instead, you nitpick, micro-manage and become angry about inconsequential things; sweating the small stuff in other words and continue to feel dissatisfied.

Your dis-empowering actions are making you weak and your thoughts (unconscious bad habits) are keeping you there.

If resentment is an issue, think carefully about Ann Landers' words: Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.

This is a big issue, read stumbling block and brake for many of us in the vein of "I refuse to give him/her/them the satisfaction of..." but who is it really affecting; you and no one else.

Don't you think it is time you decided to become a "can do" person and take those brakes off, knock down those blocks, so that you can achieve your own goals?

 

James Allen says in As A Man Thinketh: All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.  
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In a justly ordered universe where loss of equipoise would mean total destruction, individual responsibility must be absolute.  

A man's weakness and strength, purity and impurity are his own and not another man's.

They are brought about by himself, and not by another; and they can only be altered by himself, never by another.  His condition is also his own, and not another man's. 

His suffering and his happiness are evolved from within. 

As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.

A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting away all selfish thoughts. He can only remain weak, and abject, and miserable by refusing to lift up his thoughts.