Personal Growth

How often have you heard people blaming their surroundings for their situation. They'll blame their parents, their   employer, the weather, their children, their spouse or anybody/anything that   means they can't blame themselves  

Is'nt it interesting how 2 people from exactly the same background and parenting, can be so completely different. One may be a successful business person, and the other a lout or layabout, the chances are that the second will have a whole list of reasons why they are the way that they are. Yet the business business person, will attribute(blame) only themself for the sucess.

So, from this simple example above we can see that actually each of us makes decisions to be the way we are, to live the life that we live. And if we're not happy, then we have only ourself to blame.

The difference is our attitude, our personal power and how we use it.

With enough motivation and dedication you can achieve virtually anything. Think of all the athletes that have one Gold medals, all those that have survived horrific accidents where others perished, all those that climbed everest where others failed. They achieved because they had a big enough reason to do so. Some could argue that many had good luck. I would argue that we make our own luck. I think it was Tom Peter's who defined luck as the point at which preparation and opportunity meet.t

If you have enough motivation and will experience more pleasure doing something that the pain if you don't, you will achieve it. Think about it, anything you have done. You did it because you believed that you would have more pleasure doing it than the pain if you didn't.

You might argue that goingto the dentist for a filling gave you no pleasure. In reality however you believe that their would be less pain (i.e. more pleasure) in having the filling than a rotten tooth in the future.

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