Achieving Your New Personal Best

Denis has the basics right, but there is more.

It can also be what you think you are not, and how knowledgeable you have convinced yourself you are, that hold you back.

Perhaps we can reshape the entire statement.


What you think about yourself and your environment determines the limits of your accomplishment.

This is where we scare off the college professors. The honors they have received, and those they have taken upon themselves, blind them to this following true perspective.

We know very little, and much of what we think we know is just plain wrong.

It may have been Henry Ford (thanks Mark) that first said "If you think you can't, or you think you can, you are right."

That is why belief is so much stronger than currently accepted facts. Our educational systems are constantly setting boundaries. Only through faith and desire have individuals again and again extended those boundaries.

In the early 1950's Roger Banister announced to the world that he would run the mile in under four minutes. Everyone thought he had lost it! The sports "experts," the medical establishment, everyone! In 1954 he did it. It has been reported that within one year, over 30 people ran faster than Banister himself. When asked how it was possible for so many people to run that fast so soon, Banister said: "It was never a physical boundary, only a mental one." - source unknown


You have the ability to accomplish much more than anyone has ever let you believe - including yourself.

Find your passions - fulfill your passionate dreams by breaking mental barriers. Find your own four minute miles -- and break them all, even if it is just by a small amount the first try.

We are all surrounded by solid looking barriers that limit our achievement. Such walls were erected using substantial appearing mists of ignorance - find them, acknowledge them, and then run right through them.

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." - Ayn Rand

We know a bit more about a subject than most others - perhaps with degrees in science, business, or theology.

We might be a bit smarter than most - good grades may come easily.

Maybe we are better at sports or with tools than others.

We can find our attributes easily - and other's faults even easier.

The difference in all of us is exceedingly small - when measured against the optimal. Much like we are all about the same size - when measured against the size of the Earth we inhabit.

Today I overheard a couple of laborers talking. They were discussing Christianity in partial sentences, labored thought apparent in their conclusions. Their conclusions however were drawn from the Bible and were solid. They might not have known the proper theological terms for what they were discussing - they didn't need fancy words.

I realized these thoughtful laborers could be closer to God than myself, and have a better understanding of who they are in Jesus Christ than I do.

We are human and full of faults and errors, it is our very nature. God works with each of us as individuals, and helps us according to his plan for us.

He works on my faults according to his time table in his order. He is smarter and wiser than I am, and he loves me more than I love myself - I do not come close to his attributes - but I can follow his advice.

That is true for all of us - we all fall far short of the measure of God - in that we are all very close to each other.

We did not make God in our image - he made us in his image.

God is who he is - we can learn how to grow closer to him - he has already paid the adoption price.

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. James 4:10

It is easier to be humble if we realize how close we are to each other, and how far we are from God.

Cultivate your natural abilities

Your adult life is largely a result of events, some of which you influenced; and your responses and actions, many of which you controlled.

Determine to control more of your thoughts and you will control more of your responses. Saturate your being with a determination to accomplish specific goals and act in a specific manner toward events and you will greatly influence the rest of your life.

"I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances." - Martha Washington

What is it you desire to do, and where do you desire to do it in one, five and ten years? Your journey to what you will become starts right now with your dedication to creating yourself as the person you wish to become.

ABILITY is what you're capable of doing.
MOTIVATION determines what you do.
ATTITUDE determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz

Each effort to contain your thoughts and direct your desires will yield actions that steer you toward your personal goals. Don't try to change the whole world all at once, instead change your thoughts from this moment to the next.

Then do it again.

"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way." - Wayne Dyer

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Will YOUR life be based on what you want to use it to accomplish, or by random urges of what you want to do? - Allan R. Wallace