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Success secrets of a Master Mind

By: Pinglan

When I was a child I believed that our deepest fear was that of being inadequate. I believed failure was something disgraceful by their gossip. The means they used to frighten me uncovered regret as the worst of griefs. As an adult I have realized it is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

As a child I feared the dark and imagined silhouettes of ghosts in every shaded corner of my room. As a grown up, I consoled myself, I would no longer be frightened; would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept fear; to be alive is to be vulnerable. Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?

I remember a fairy tale from my childhood about a knight and a dragon which made me believe that courage meant lack of fear. Now I understand courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death. Being courageous is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. None but a coward claims that he is never frightened.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our environment; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. Before you can break out of that prison, you must first realize you're locked up. No man is free who is not master of himself. Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.

If we believe we have no control, we give in our real power and become like a leaf floating helplessly down a current towards what people generally refer to as destiny. Many seem to confuse bad management with destiny. When it comes to achieving something valuable there is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

They who believe in luck expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. Many opportunities are lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers. At the core of every mastermind there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses; No one to lean on or rely on; No one to blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.

If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defence. Actions have consequences and you are the only one responsible for your own actions. When you choose an action, you choose the consequences. When you desire a consequence you damned well better take the action that would create it.

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully. The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. The child counts not months but moments, and one summer is a lifetime. Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

In the adult life, ghosts continue to exist, projected as imaginary limitations of oneself. These limitations are excuses, with which persons with no purpose use as tools to build for themselves great monuments of nothing. Having more ability than will power, it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible. The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other person finds an excuse. Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material you have. It is a complete waste of time and psychic energy to imagine what you would do if things were different. They are not different. The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heart-ache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the words which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, to discover what is already there.

The key of success for each person lies in the communication between that part of the mind where conscious thought take place and the subconscious mind. The subconscious will work with whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow. And since the only real freedom a person has is the choice of what thoughts he will feed his mind, he is totally responsible for the outcomes he gets.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself; to become what he potentially is. In this lures the core of success and the essence of the Master Mind. Don’t aim for tasks equal to your powers. Aim for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle. It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Martin Bergerlind is a writer with years of experience in goal setting and time management. He is currently working on a book titled Becoming a Mastermind where he reveals the secret road map to riches used by the 100 most successful human beings ever lived. To read more about the topic please visit: MasterMind 1 MasterMind 2

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