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July 2009 
Determination to Achieve Your Goals
DrDeb
I believe that a healthy, happy life is a balanced life. Part of that balance involves clearly identifying goals that are within our own control or influence (e.g., quitting smoking, hitting deadlines, studying, learning to control our anger, deciding whether to read something motivating or something depressing) and those that are not (e.g., the weather, traffic, many diseases, the past, and an endless list of other things.)
Clearly contrasting what is within our control/influence from what is not can be critical when deciding where to focus our energy. Expending energy toward goals over which we have no control and no influence is a waste of energy. But when we sharply focus our powerful mind on what we bring to our own job/work, our own relationships, our own health, and our own lives, then anything is possible! The focused energy of the human mind is unstoppable! Nothing can prevail against a determined will to win:
The Will To Win
If you want a thing bad enough
To go out and fight for it,
Work day and night for it,
Give up your time and your peace and
your sleep for it
If only desire of it
Makes you quite mad enough
Never to tire of it,
Makes you hold all other things tawdry
and cheap for it
If life seems all empty and useless without it
And all that you scheme and you dream is about it,
If gladly you'll sweat for it,
Fret for it, Plan for it,
Lose all your terror of God or man for it,
If you'll simply go after that thing that you want.
With all your capacity,
Strength and sagacity,
Faith, hope and confidence, stern pertinacity,
If neither cold poverty, famished and gaunt,
Nor sickness nor pain
Of body or brain
Can turn you away from the thing that you want,
If dogged and grim you besiege and beset it,
You'll get it!
-- Berton Braley
May you feel re-energized to determinedly pursue and achieve the goals that are within your control or influence!
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