Most of us spend our entire lives wondering how to tap into our potential. We lack the confidence that separates the winners from the also-rans. The problem is we don’t feel certain we can achieve our desired goals. We do not truly believe that the future will bring good tidings, that tomorrow will be better than today. If you have a sincere desire to attain a life worth living then the power of i
nspiration will reveal answers to your deepest questions. When we fail to succeed it is important to ask ourselves: what went wrong? To begin with, we must understand that our strongest desires overpower the weaker desires. When someone fails to follow-through on their goals they associate pain to actions which will help them to reach those goals, and this in turn prevents them from taking action. Knowing what you want is perhaps the most important prerequisite to success. Not only will these books show you how to get what you want but will help you understand why inducement is necessary to help you get there through word of knowledge! the bible states that, "Knowing God is the beginning of wisdom" and "Money is all routes of evil". Only if we want success (your treasure) more than anything else will we even start making progress towards our desired goals. We must have compelling reasons that will overpower our doubts, our comfort zone and our lack of confidence stemming from past failures. Otherwise we will face the common problem of balancing. Read the word of God, it quenches your quest in knowing your avenues....This means we are putting off the pain towards the future. All of this points to one singular Problem: “The pain of success.”
Unless we can succeed in overcoming the pain of achieving success it will be impossible to reach our goals in life. The only way to properly understand inspiration is to understand the nature of desire through God
There are two types of desire, the desire to gain pleasure and the desire to avoid pain. Out of the two, the strongest desire is to avoid pain. Pain is always a bigger motivator than pleasure. Understanding the power of fear is the first step to understanding motivation. The power of fear does two things for us:
1. Prevents us from taking action: This is how the authority of incentive works against us. As long as we are not certain of our potential, we hesitate to take action. Unless you are able to overcome your fear of failure, you will naturally not progress from your present circumstances.
2. Motivates you to take action: In the same way that fear of failure prevents you from taking action, it can help you to move towards your major goals. The process is one in which you keep the commitments that you make to yourself. It is something which resembles a personal contract with self. What is important to note at this point is that fear is not always debilitating, if properly harnessed it can be a positive force in your life. That’s why it’s important to make fear work for you, not against you. As long as fear works against you, you will be struggling to make progress towards your goals. Conversely fear, when properly handled, can be caused by you to achieve success (whatever that means to you). When you recognize that the power of fear can be used to your advantage you will begin using it to create positive change. When you recognize the power of fear can be used to your advantage you can begin using it to create positive change. The difference between the fear which blocks action, and the fear that motivates you to act, is the structure you build around fear and how it operates in your life. In one example fear (i.e. fear of losing money in an investment for example somebody encourages you to travel to China and bring business stock to Kariakoo and then just almost before getting committed somebody tells you that business is flooded in the entire market prospects in Dar es salaam) causes you to stand-still, preventing you from taking action. In the second example, fear (losing money from breaking a promise to yourself) compels you to act and follow through on your personal objectives. Fear is so powerful because it is urgent and pressing. The truth is that desire inspires you, while fear compels you. You either use the authority of fear or the authority of fear uses you. Success doesn’t come to you...you go to it. If you want to be successful, if you want to be an achiever, then it is essential that you become interested in what it means when someone says; “Do whatever it takes to succeed.” Now it’s important to understand that doing whatever it takes to succeed means a lot more than uttering a slogan. It means not quitting when times get tough. It means enduring great discomfort even when you don’t feel like it. It is difficult to do whatever it takes because the desire to succeed is usually not enough. If you are to do “whatever it takes” you will require the necessary incentive. If we want to be successful then we cannot depend on the power of desire alone. It’s important to use fear to sustain incentive. That’s all there is to it. If you want to achieve your desired goals, the way to succeed is to use pain instead of allowing pain to use you. In order to make failure unbearable, you will need to understand how to properly use pain and pleasure. And it’s difficult to control pain and pleasure when you have never done it before. But if you apply the strategies in this book, you will learn how this can be done. The truth is unless not acting (on your goals) becomes unbearable, you will not take action. The more discomfort you can create, the more motivation you have. Wherever it is more comfortable for you to be, is where you will choose to be. But if it becomes uncomfortable to fail, you will stay committed to your goals. With the scale of drive, you can easily determine if you have what it takes to succeed. Simply ask yourself; what happens if you don’t succeed? If the answer is nothing, then I guarantee your chance of succeeding is extremely low. You must have something to lose. Always remember in every pain there is tremendous opportunity for overwhelming gain! Use it to your advantage!”
The crest of encouragement is when the pain of failure becomes unbearable. The evidence of unbearable pain is that you are willing to do whatever it takes to succeed. Try to disturb your personal level of comfort. If you are willing, your comfort zone can be disturbed instantly by fixing certain painful consequences onto yourself for not following through on a personal commitment. Of course we don’t want to cause too much discomfort because then we link pain to growing if we do. The key then is to identify a balance between that pain which will shake you out of your comfort zone and cause you to take action, and that pain which will only immobilize you. Change brings growth, and with growth comes pain. But it’s the pain that causes me to overcome, in order to be successful in writing. I can write anything, name it! I can stay till early hours of the morning just writing and I can end up sleeping only three hours. You see? It’s important for you to understand that the pain of loss is the quickest way to prompt you. When you have something to lose if you don’t succeed then you’ll be compelled to follow through. Wanting to be successful (e.g. losing weight) more than anything is only the beginning. It’s the fear of pain that creates the influence of encouragement. The key is finding what causes you pain and what causes you pleasure. Once you discover that, you will unleash the power that is already within you now. When you are willing to do this fully, unconditionally and without reservation, then in that moment you will guarantee your success. The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. Successful people do what failures won’t. Are you willing to use the power of inclination to help you succeed? The answer to that question is usually a reflection of whether you are willing to do whatever it takes to succeed. When everything you have tried hasn’t worked, when you have read success literature over and over again only to not follow-through on it, you lose hope. You lose your willingness to try again.
