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There are three insights that I want to focus in order to grasp the idea of buying into beliefs that are worthwhile.

Believe In your Potential

Your Potential is a picture of what you can become. Thomas Edison stated; “If we do all of the things that we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.” Too often we see what is our current reality without looking to what could be. For example, Joe Namath was a skinny kid who did not do his homework and was always hanging with the wrong crowd. Beginning his NFL career, he was viewed as a player with bad knees. However he saw himself as a champion!

If you could see yourself in terms of true potential, you would not recognize yourself!

Too many people fall short of their real potential. Author John Powell states the average person only reaches 10% of their potential, sees only 10% of the beauty around them, hear on 10% of the music all around them, smells only 10% of the fragrance around them, and tastes only 10% of the deliciousness of being alive.

Cartoonist Charles Schultz offers this comparison; “Life is like a 10 speed bicycle. Most of have gears we never use.”

Charles Schwab states; “When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.”

Believe In Yourself

It is one thing to believe that you possess remarkable potential. It is another thing to have enough faith in yourself that you think you can fulfill it. Many people are agnostics when it comes to believing in yourself. THis keeps you from becoming all that you can become. It has been discovered there is a greater correlation between self-confidence and achievement than there is between IQ and achievement.

Hanging on the wall of Arnold Palmer’s office was this credo: “If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don’t. If you’d like to win but think you can’t it is certain you won’t. Life’s battles don’t always go to the strongest or fastest, but soon or late, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.”

Believe In Your Mission

Belief in what you are doing will lift you above your talent. William James states there is one thing that will guarantee the successful conclusion of a doubtful undertaking – FAITH in the beginning that you can do it!

• Belief in your mission will empower you. Having confidence in what you are doing gives you the power to achieve it.
• Belief in your mission will encourage you. What often allows people to keep moving in negative environments is a strong belief that I can accomplish this mission.
• Belief in your mission will enlarge you. As you collect micro-wins you will find yourself doing the seemingly impossible. You grow to new heights!

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