THE WILL TO SUCCEED™

I once heard the story of a great French general named La Variere who made the decision to attack, even though his troops were largely outnumbered. He was certain of victory, but he felt his men's fear and wanted to do something to cut short their protestations.

    

On a country road he stopped before an isolated chapel and declared, "I am

going inside and I will ask for God's help. Then I will come out and flip

this gold coin. If our Emperor's face appears we will win. If the other side

comes up heads, then we will lose. And so, my companions, our fate is in the hands of destiny."

    

After a few moments in the chapel, La Variere came out and flipped the coin.

Napoleon's head appeared. The soldiers shouted and acclaimed their destiny,

and the entire company's moral was lifted. Convinced that they would be

victorious, they fought with such bravery that they rapidly won the battle.

    

After the victory Vermont, one of La Variere's adjutants, said, "Oh Sir, no

one can change the course of Destiny. This unexpected victory is yet another

Proof of that."

    

"Who knows, my dear Vermont, who knows," replied the General, and he

 Showed him the coin on which Napoleon's head appeared... on both sides!

The will to succeed has pulled men out of their graves, state of comas’ and their obscurity and placed them en-route success unlimited. It can transform a failure, a mediocre into success personified.

You need to direct your life with a strong will to succeed, if you really want to enjoy some measures of success in your life time. Take responsibility for your actions. Don’t blame anybody for your failures or give credit to luck for success.

Those that are classified “successful” in our world today are those who have “a strong will to succeed”, they don’t give up easily when confronted with failures and defeats.

What would you like to achieve or become, that you feel you cannot attain because of the present economical, social, geographical conditions or whatsoever that is working against you? You don’t need to allow all these factors to stop you any more, just develop a will to succeed and certainly you will be counted among those who succeeded despite the unfavorable conditions that surround them.

In front of you lies your future, a road leading into the distance. Along the road are ambitions you wish to accomplish, desires you wish to gratify and high level success you wish to achieve – but the gap between your present state and the position where they are, is the will to succeed, without which you can be knocked down, discouraged and humiliated on your quest for success.

I had learned from years of experience with men and from books, that when a man really desires to succeed with a strong will, he’s sure going to succeed, because all the factors that seems to be working against him, will become the same factors working for him.

Remember, all those who succeeded in life did not really start great. They kept persisting despite the setbacks and difficulties they encountered. You too can become successful if only you can develop a strong will for success.

At En-route success unlimited™, we know that;

“The will of men who are put to the test can often supersede the will of destiny”

                                                                                             - Tristan Bernard

“Great souls have wills, feeble one have only wishes”

                                                                   - Chinese Proverb

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STRENGTH FROM STRUGGLES™

 One day, a small opening appeared on a cocoon. A man sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole.

Then it stopped making progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could not go any further.

So the man decided to help the butterfly; he took a pair of scissors and opened the cocoon.

The butterfly then emerged easily; but it had a withered body; it had tiny and shriveled wings.

The man continued to watch because he expected that at any moment, the wings would open enlarge and expand, to be able to support the butterfly’s body, and become firm. Neither happened!

In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a withered body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly.

What the man in his kindness and goodwill did not understand, was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening, were God’s way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings, so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.

Most often struggles are some of the basic ingredient that we need in our life to succeed.

If God allowed us to go through our life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as we could have been. Never being able to fly.

“I ask for strength and God gave me difficulties to make me strong.

I asked for Wisdom and God gave me problems to solve.

I asked for prosperity and God gave me a Brain and Brawn to work.

I asked for courage and God gave me obstacles to overcome.

I asked for love and God gave me troubled people to help.

I asked for favors and God gave me opportunities.

I received nothing I wanted but I received everything I needed.”

                                                                                   - Author Unknown.

Every form of success achieved in this life comes after a struggle. If there were no form of struggles in life, everybody might as well become successful but it is this struggle that differentiate the successful from the unsuccessful.

Les Brown once said “Many of us act as if we were born with the great expectation that life was going to be easy. Well, if someone told you life was going to be one smooth, easy ride, I’ve got a special announcement! THEY LIED!”

Smooth sail doesn’t make a skilled sailor; success comes to those who overcome some form of obstacles to be able to reach their targets.

It’s necessary to apply your brains and brawns if you must achieve success in life. No matter how easy you may see some people succeed, deep down within them, they know the form of internal and external struggle they scaled through to achieve their success.

If you don’t pass through some form of struggle to get success, the chances are that you won’t value it. Struggles develop your character, and it’s your character that determines how long you will remain successful.

Remember, an electric current will follow the line of least resistance, but the truth is that a light bulb glows precisely because there is resistance. Even the lion that is the king of the jungle will always struggle to get its meal and there after still struggle to eat it, because it will still contend with the vultures and the flies that will always be around to partake in the meal.

Come to think of it life from birth to death is a series of endless struggles. So never run away from struggles, embrace it and you will see how success comes.

En-route success unlimited™, we know that;

“The strongest trees are not those in heavily protected forest, but the trees which stand in open spaces where they are in constant struggle with wind and all the element of weather.”

-          Napoleon Hill

“Struggle is a clever device through which Nature compels humanity to develop, expand and progress. It is either an ordeal or a magnificent experience, depending on one’s attitude toward it. Success is impossible – unthinkable even without it.”

                                                                               - Napoleon Hill

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