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"When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it."

Jim Rohn: was an American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker

All of us had dreams and imaginations when we were children. Yes, all of us. I remember having a wild dream and my parents saying: “That’s impossible. It will never happen.”

The wild dream was that one day we could have a phone where we can see each other. (We didn’t have Television in our country at the time) I was saying it would be nice to be able to speak on the phone to the Grannies, and be able to see them. I felt like a fool for dreaming up something so silly that my parents had to tell me to stop having such impossible dreams and to live in reality.

Yes stupid me: Obviously it is impossible to see someone on the other end of the line, right?

Slowly but surely, I lost my imagination, and I started to live in the “real” world, dealing with “reality.” 

Another example comes to mind as I write this: Two boys trying to build something that will help them be able to fly; People walked past and laughed shaking their heads saying: “People can’t fly! That will never happen!” then admonishing the boys to stop dreaming and get back to reality. Unlike me, and perhaps because there were two of them, they didn’t give up on their dream. They kept going and going. The Wright Brothers eventually built the aeroplane. 

I am sure you may also have had dreams when you were a child, and perhaps you also had to “stop having these silly dreams and get back to reality.” Look what happened to these two dreams above: Today we chat on Skype or videophones and we can see the people that we are talking to. We drive in aeroplanes when we do long distance travel. Both those dreams became reality.

There is nothing that you can dream that you cannot bring into reality. There is nothing that you conceive that you cannot make real. Walt Disney said: “If you can dream it, you can achieve it.”

What did you dream? Did your dreams become real? Or did you let someone steal your dream?

You have only to look at your dreams to see your potential. What can you become?

Are you achieving your full potential?

Now go: Climb that mountain. Run that marathon. Build that business. Achieve your brilliance!

What it Takes to Be a Winner

By Hannah du Plessis

“If you continue to do what you’ve always done, you will continue to get what you’ve always got!” – Yogi Berra

It is easy to be a loser. All you have to do after you failed at something is to continue doing the same thing and being the same way. It really is that simple. Most people are scared of the challenges that being successful will bring, or they just lack the willpower to do what it takes to be successful. The realization that they are going to fail again creates anxiety and emotional unrest which most people don’t like and they return quickly to the familiar world of excuses and justifications.

Unless the cycle of thought patterns is broken in those who fail, they will experience a lower quality of life that lacks the good things in life that comes with success. The truth is: nobody is born a success, and nobody is born a failure. Losers learn from the mainstream: Negative thoughts and negative actions. Winners learn from other winners, change their thoughts accordingly, and do their best to copy their actions.

Losers say: “Don’t dream! Dreaming is impractical. Only fools dream. We are in reality! One should stay in the real world!” Winners, on the other hand, dream and dream big. The great King Solomon said over 3000 years ago …. “Unless people dream they perish.”  Did he mean dream when you sleep? No! He meant one should have a firm goal or objective to achieve.  

If we dream and do not believe that we will accomplish our dreams, the dream becomes just an idle wish, and will never be attained. On the other hand if we remember and do what Napoleon Hill said, we will never fail. He said: "Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."

The following is an example of someone who didn’t quit. See how many times he “failed.”

PORTRAIT OF AN ACHIEVER – Abraham Lincoln

• 1831 - FAILED IN BUSINESS, BANKRUPTCY
• 1832 - DEFEATED FOR LEGISLATURE
• 1834 - FAILED IN BUSINESS, BANKRUPTCY
• 1835 - FIANCE DIES
• 1836 - NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
• 1838 - DEFEATED FOR U.S. CONGRESS
• 1846 - DEFEATED AGAIN FOR U.S. CONGRESS
• 1848 - DEFEATED ONCE AGAIN FOR U.S. CONGRESS
• 1855 - DEFEATED FOR U.S. SENATE
• 1856 - DEFEATED FOR U.S. VICE PRESIDENCY
• 1858 - DEFEATED AGAIN FOR U.S. SENATE
• 1860 - ELECTED 16TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

From the above it is clear that you can’t fail unless you quit.

The great Gandhi taught: “If one advances toward a specified objective or goal, and does not lose ‘belief” in its attainment; even though they may start their journey without the necessary tools or knowledge of how to get there; if they keep their faith and focus they shall most assuredly obtain the required tools and knowledge along the way.”

Let’s look at the differences between winners and losers:

A winner says: “Let’s find out”                      

A loser says: “nobody knows”

                                                                         

When a winner makes a mistake, he says: “I was wrong.”    

When a loser makes a mistake he says: “It wasn’t my fault.”

A winner goes through a problem and deals with it. 

A loser goes around a problem, and never gets past it.

A winner makes commitments.                       

A loser makes promises

A winner says: “I am good, but not as good as I ought to be.”

A loser says: “I am not as bad as a lot of other people.”

A winner tries to learn from those who are superior to him/her.

A loser tries to tear down those who are superior to him/her.

A winner says: “There ought to be a better way to do it.”

A loser says: “That’s the way it has always been done.”

A winner says: “I will find the right people who can help me.”

A loser says: “I will do it myself.”

A winner looks for an answer in every problem.

A loser looks for a problem in every answer.

A winner says: “I will do it now!”

A loser says: “I will do it later.”

A winner says: “I will quit trying and simply do.”

A loser says: “I will keep trying.”

A winner says: “I will create my own good luck.”

A loser says: “I might get lucky.”

A winner makes things happen.

A loser lets things happen.

Now you can see that winners make different choices than losers. They think different thoughts, believe different things, adopt different attitudes, and therefore produce different results in their lives. Now you have the choice to look at the above attitudes, and decide which you want to be; a winner, or a loser. The choice is yours.