What is the starting point of success, happiness, and reaching your life’s fullest potential?

Well there are many motivation basics including desire, a positive expectancy, courage, and others.

But the starting point, the very foundation is having a positive self awareness.

Self awareness is being aware of your current situation in life, as well as the potential that you have at your disposal.

People who achieve great things in life are eager to learn, and they have the desire to continue forward in development, growth, and the pursuit of what means the most to them.

I want to share some very inspiring words of truth from a book entitled the psychology of winning by Dr. Denis Waitley.

It illustrates how important self awareness is to a life of success and happiness.

winners know who they are, what they believe, the role in life that they are presently filling, their great personal potential-and the future roles and goals which will mark fulfillment of that potential.

They have learned these things, and are constantly adding to their knowledge, through experience, insight, feedback, and judgment.

As a result they can continuously not only “play from strength” in the game of life, but also avoid errors and correct weaknesses.

Their judgments are characterized by extreme honesty. They don’t kid others and they don’t kid themselves.

Losers say, “who knows what I could do if I only had a chance.”

Winners say, “I know who I am, where I’m coming from and where I am going.”

Make this moment the moment of truth about yourself.

You have been selling yourself short all your life. You have the opportunity to experience more environmental, physical and mental/spiritual abundance than you could use in 10 lifetimes.

Open up your lenses to the possibilities and alternatives available in your life. Change your attitude and your lifestyle and your many environments will change automatically.

Understand your own uniqueness. Appreciate the differences in others. Relax and learn to respond positively to stress. Change for the better that which can be changed. Remove from your present those negative influences that cannot be changed.

Adapt and adjust to those negative influences that cannot be changed or removed.



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