From:
Christopher B. Jeffers
Just Down The Road A Bit
North by Northwest of Hickory Junction
Tuesday, 9:08 AM
Hello Friend and Fellow Achiever!
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“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
the mind can achieve.“
Napoleon Hill.
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Bloodied and bruised, alone in the dark, James crawled painfully to the tiny room’s one small, grimy window.
His feet shackled by rough, heavy leg irons, James smashed the glass of the window with his bare hands.
Picking up one of the razor-like shards, he slashed its splintered edge across his wrists, watching as the dark purplish blood spurted and dripped onto the dirty floor.
Saved … Barely
After four long, dreary years of often solitary confinement and brutal beatings, and having just been caught for the third time attempting to organize the resistance of his fellow prisoners, James knew he had to do something.
He didn’t want any more of his men to suffer as a result of his actions.
Miraculously, he guards found and revived James before he bled to death.
Shockingly, his captors seemed oddly awed and impressed by James’ willingness and determination to die in order to protect his fellow prisoners.
From then on, the never-ending harassment and torture of all the prisoners in the camp eased somewhat, though not entirely.
42 Years Old
As the most senior American naval officer held prisoner during the Vietnam conflict, aviation pilot Captain James B. Stockdale spent fully seven and a half years in harsh captivity.
Four of those years were suffered in solitary confinement, and in total darkness. He was brutally interrogated and tortured no fewer than 15 times.
James Stockdale demonstrated by his example, that even under the most shocking and impossible conditions, one can survive with dignity and courage.
Years later, business management researcher and author James Collins asked him which prisoners didn’t make it out of Vietnam.
Without any hesitation, Stockdale replied that it was “the optimists … they were the ones who said, ‘We’re going to be out by Christmas.’ And Christmas would come, and Christmas would go.
“Then they’d say, ‘We’re going to be out by Easter.’ And Easter would come, and Easter would go. And then Thanksgiving, and then it would be Christmas again.
“They died of a broken heart. This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end – which you can never afford to lose – with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they may be.”
What Do You Believe?
Your beliefs include your core principles, your values, and the moral standards that guide your choices and actions.
Your belief system is what you believe deep down about yourself and your place and purpose in the world.
This is no small thing. Your belief system is what guides you in the decisions you make and actions you take in your life, and how you interact with other people.
Your inner beliefs might include thoughts like:
“I’m a creative and skilled person.”
“I must be busy at all times to be productive.”
“Resting is a sign of a poor work ethic.”
Many if not most of the ideas in your head come from what you have heard or been taught. Some of them come from the religion, church, or faith tradition in which you were raised.
Others come from your parents, or from other people around you.
Some may be explicit (things you were told or taught) or implicit (things you observed in the behavior of others, that may have sometimes been in conflict with the things they actually said.)
Any of these could be positive guiding forces in your life. Or they could be a negative, inhibiting force.
What’s Holding You Back?
You will need to identify just what the beliefs are that you have – beliefs that may be leading you to think and act in ways that are contrary to what is genuinely good and beneficial to you … and to those around you.
Is what you believe to be true preventing you from working toward a difficult goal?
If your goal is legal, not unethical or immoral, and does not involve causing harm to other people – yet your beliefs keep you from moving forward toward your goals – then those beliefs need to be identified and examined to see if they are valid, rational, or even at all true!
Quite often, they are not.
You’re Not Worthy?
Perhaps deep down you believe that you are actually not deserving of accomplishing your goal.
Or perhaps you believe you do not have the necessary experience, training, skills or “smarts” to accomplish the things you want.
Even if that is presently true, education, training, and experience is something you CAN do something about, by taking action to acquire them.
Entitlement
On the flip side, do your beliefs make you feel entitled to what it is that you want?
This sense of entitlement can prevent you from actually taking action to achieve your goals and desires.
For example, the otherwise positive belief that you can “do anything you want,” or that “good things will come if you just think positively” are limiting if you believe that you are somehow entitled to have something without having to put any effort of your own into it.
Does Your Belief Hurt Others?
If one of your beliefs is that other people are inherently inferior to you … that you are “better” than they are … that you are entitled to boss them around, put them down, and insult them … then you are probably not getting along very well with anyone, and are finding it difficult to get their cooperation.
There is almost no goal that you can have, that will not at some point require the participation and cooperation of others.
If you feel entitled to mis-treat people, they won’t want to be around – you much less help – and might even work hard to sabotage your efforts.
Faith in Action
Faith is not a spectator sport. Nor is Faith simply a passive emotion, something you either have or you don’t.
Faith must be both ACTIVE and APPLIED.
An Active Faith requires you to take ACTION based on what you believe.
Simply believing that it is up to some greater entity or power to provide you with everything you want, need, and desire … is NOT going to get the job done.
Prayer or “manifesting” will not cause anything to magically appear or happen.
Prayers of gratitude on the other hand will open your subconscious mind to receive GUIDANCE that will put you on the right track to achieve and attain what it is that you desire – if you ACT in accordance with that guidance.
Whether or not you believe in a Creator, the physical universe acts according to laws and principles that do not change. Everything that comes to you will come to you through natural means.
Everything You Need Is Already Here
All of the resources you need to succeed and achieve your desires are already present in this natural world.
However, … it is up to YOU to take control of your OWN MIND, and to apply the power of your mind toward the achievement of your objectives. You must deliberately ACT in order to to cause your objectives to become part of your reality.
Powers of the Mind
Your mind is a very powerful thing.
What you believe about yourself and the world will either hold you back, or it will catapult you to the pinnacle of success.
Your thoughts can literally kill you. Or they can – like Captain James Stockdale – enable you to survive unbelievable challenges and hardship.
If your beliefs are currently preventing you from obtaining and enjoying a full satisfaction in this life of yours, it is up to YOU to question what those beliefs are, identify how they are holding you back, and ultimately to re-frame those beliefs – so that your mind and the beliefs it contains work FOR you, and not against you.
Like anyone else, I have often found myself limited by what I have believed or been told or inferred what is true about the world and myself.
It’s up to you to overcome the obstacles and barriers of belief, that you put in your own way.
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