The Magic in Believing

Why is it that some people always succeed in whatever they do and others continue to fail? How come some people drift through life trying to find the energy to go on, and others have abounding energy? Is there some magic potion that the successful have access to that the rest don’t have?

The answer is yes. The magic potion is faith. Successful people have learned to believe in themselves. They know that everyone has God given talents and that they will be successful if they find what they are. How do you find your talent? Examine the things you love to do, and do well. To make life worth living you must do what brings you joy.

To fulfill a dream, you must have a plan; it’s called a goal. Those without goals have no direction for their life and little energy. The ones struggling to fulfill a dream, have abounding energy because inspired living is energy giving.

J..C. Penny once said, “Show me a stock clerk with a goal and I will show you the future head of the company. Show me a person without a goal and I will show you a stock clerk.”

The majority earn a living by relying on what they can see, the check coming in from their employer when they work a regular job. There is nothing wrong with that except the limitations. There are only twenty-four hours in a day and trading hours for dollars can only earn a limited amount.

Those who make it big look beyond what they can see with their eyes to the unlimited possibilities of believing. We are limited in what we can do working with our hands. When we make full, use of our mind, the sky is the limit.

Before anything worthwhile can be accomplished, you must believe that you can do it. If you are going to do big things, you can’t depend on what you see. You have to rely on what you believe. Great inventions are developed in this manner. Many giant corporations were started by one man with a dream.

The faith you have determines your whole outlook on life. What you believe that you can do, gives you the confidence to try. It is difficult to attempt what you can’t see yourself doing, but you don’t know if you could succeed until you try. Nat King Cole thought he couldn’t sing. He made musical history when he tried!

With faith we can dream of doing great things. Everyone dreams but only those that plan and work to overcome the obstacles in the way, fulfill their dreams. Dreaming without planning and working will fail to produce successful results.

Faith resembles dreams in that both involve what the eyes can’t see. Often problems are solved by our sleeping mind that elude us while awake. If you can't find the answer, put it on the back burner of the subconscious mind, and discover the magic.

Your subconscious mind will work for you if you can convince it that you truly believe you are going to succeed. If you continue having doubts, it will be confused and won’t know what to do. The successful, are people who have learned to control their thoughts. They refuse to think of failure; it is not an option.

Thomas Edison taught us a great lesson about achieving success in life. He dreamed of creating the light bulb. He planned, worked and failed, or so his friends thought. He was not discouraged because he knew he hadn’t failed, but had merely found things that don’t work. Edison didn’t fail, because his motivation was not what he saw, but what he believed.

Glen Miller had a dream of what he wanted his band to sound like. He was not discouraged when he failed several times but kept trying until he succeeded. He was not inspired by what his band sounded like, but by how he believed they could sound.

The secret to success is to keep working for what you believe. Don’t be discouraged, by difficult problems and slow progress, but concentrate on your dream. Of course you must have reasonable goals; make them reachable. Have short term goals to eventually achieve the long term ones.

If you learn from your mistakes, you can make them the stepping stones to your success. People fail when they become distracted with their problems and take their eyes off their goals. Success will come when you learn to remove or go around obstacles in the way. Multitudes give up, when success is just around the next problem.