{"id":661,"date":"2008-06-16T08:05:38","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T12:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifetosuccess.com\/?p=661"},"modified":"2008-06-16T08:05:38","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T12:05:38","slug":"staying-the-course-without-giving-up-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifetosuccess.com\/blog\/staying-the-course-without-giving-up-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Staying the Course without Giving Up Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you are\u00a0traveling\u00a0on the path to success, you will often times find yourself very frustrated. This will happen for many reasons, but the one thing that you must do is to make sure you keep in your mind is that you and only you are the master of your destiny and that your ability to stay the course will determine your success.<\/p>\n<p>Remember to get to a point where you have never been before requires that you become someone you have never been before and this is one of the hardest things you will ever have to do.<\/p>\n<p>To grow successfully requires you to grow as a person. You can not achieve anything that is outside of your self concept without expanding your self concept to include what you are looking to accomplish.<\/p>\n<p>This requires a lot of patience, especially with yourself. If requires that you pay constant attention to what you are thinking and what you are spending your time doing.<\/p>\n<p>If you thinking and actions are not congruent with what you are looking to achieve the path to getting there will grow with lots of fear and doubt very quickly.<\/p>\n<p>But you train yourself to live in your thoughts and with your actions as if you have already achieved what you are looking to be, do or have, you have made some major steps towards living a highly successful life.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to Your LifetoSuccess,<\/p>\n<p>John Clark<\/p>\n<p>P.S. 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