In Og Mandino's scrolls, he mentioned reading each scroll three times everyday. This reminded me a lot of something that my mission president had us do during the mission, and has done for his entire business profession. He would read his goals that were written on a card along with affirmations. He paces the floor, while reading them aloud morning and night, and then looks at the card throughout the day.
I've heard that every successful person has been called crazy at least once in their lifetime. It's because success has a price that has to be paid before the reward. One can not receive an advance of success ; it just doesn't work that way. I believe that success is gained by way of pain, struggle and a goal that was intended to be reached. Anything else is merely a pleasant happenstance.
Goals are meant to be made, discipline to be developed, and willpower to increase. Life is an obstacle course, a school, a playground that we may learn to create, to govern and to love. It's not easy, and it will make the soul groan with strain and weariness at times; however, as Alma states of repentance in The Book of Mormon, the pain is as sweet as the joy.
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