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your dream. Every nitpicker who doesn’t have a dream will oppose yours. Regretfully, there are ten nitpickers for every person with a dream. You will never rid yourself of them. As long as you understand that, you won’t let them hinder you. Remember that those who have no dream cannot see yours, so to them it is impossible. You can’t have what you can’t see.
• Exercise all of your effort, all of your energy, toward the dream. It’s worth it. Pay that price.
• Extract every positive principle that you can from life. Constantly be on the lookout for anything that will enhance that dream.
• Exclude negative thinkers as close friends. You’re going to have some friends who are negative thinkers, and no doubt some are members of your family. But if their negative thinking drags you down, which it will, you don’t need to spend much time with them. There are people in my family and in my wife’s family who are spirit-dampeners. We have chosen, for the sake of our kids as well as ourselves, not to spend a lot of time with them. You may need to put some distance between yourself and your negativethinking friends.
• Exceed normal expectations to make your dream come true. If you’re to reach your dream, you’ll have to do that which is beyond the normal. Dreams are not achieved by average energy.
• Exhibit an attitude that is confident. I believe that if you are outwardly confident, you will become more confident inwardly. The way we act outwardly affects what we are inwardly.
• Explore every possible avenue to reach your dream. Don’t let any detour or dead-end street stop you on your way to a dream God has given you. There are more routes up a mountain than just the east side. Go around to the south side. See what else you can do.
• Extend a helping hand to someone who had a similar dream, and both of you will climb together. Mountain climbing is not an individual sport. It’s a team sport. One holds the line for the other. As we hold the lines for others, we can all make it to the top, and our dreams can come true.
chapter 5
THE BIGGER THEY ARE, THE HARDER THEY FALL
I WANT TO BRING SOME PRINCIPLES OUT OF THE story of David and Goliath that will help us to charge the giants in our lives in a more effective way. Before you read any further, stop and think for a minute: What is your biggest problem? What giant is standing in your path?
This chapter is dedicated to enabling you to be victorious over some seemingly insurmountable barrier or difficulty in your life. Victory requires more than positive thinking; positive thinking is nothing more than a thought pattern. It requires more than enthusiasm; enthusiasm is only a feeling. It even requires more than action. Victory comes about when we think right about our problems, feel right about our problems, and then act right about our problems. We need more than just a positive mental attitude.
T HINKING R IGHT
I read an interesting article recently about Karl Wallenda, the great tightrope artist. He died a few years ago in Puerto Rico, after a seventy-five-foot fall from a tightrope. On one occasion he said, “Being on a tightrope is living. Everything else is waiting.” He lived for the thrill of the moment. Wallenda’s wife, who was also an aerialist, had some interesting observations concerning what happened before that fateful fall. She said, “All Karl thought about for three straight months prior to walking across the tightrope was falling. It was the first time he’d ever thought about that. And it seemed to me that he put all of his energies into not falling, rather than walking the tightrope.” Mrs. Wallenda added that her husband went so far as to personally supervise the installation of the tightrope, making absolutely certain that the guy wires were secure. He had always trusted his crew to do this in the past.
He walked the tightrope with the fear of falling in his mind, and his thinking created his feeling of insecurity; we
• Exercise all of your effort, all of your energy, toward the dream. It’s worth it. Pay that price.
• Extract every positive principle that you can from life. Constantly be on the lookout for anything that will enhance that dream.
• Exclude negative thinkers as close friends. You’re going to have some friends who are negative thinkers, and no doubt some are members of your family. But if their negative thinking drags you down, which it will, you don’t need to spend much time with them. There are people in my family and in my wife’s family who are spirit-dampeners. We have chosen, for the sake of our kids as well as ourselves, not to spend a lot of time with them. You may need to put some distance between yourself and your negativethinking friends.
• Exceed normal expectations to make your dream come true. If you’re to reach your dream, you’ll have to do that which is beyond the normal. Dreams are not achieved by average energy.
• Exhibit an attitude that is confident. I believe that if you are outwardly confident, you will become more confident inwardly. The way we act outwardly affects what we are inwardly.
• Explore every possible avenue to reach your dream. Don’t let any detour or dead-end street stop you on your way to a dream God has given you. There are more routes up a mountain than just the east side. Go around to the south side. See what else you can do.
• Extend a helping hand to someone who had a similar dream, and both of you will climb together. Mountain climbing is not an individual sport. It’s a team sport. One holds the line for the other. As we hold the lines for others, we can all make it to the top, and our dreams can come true.
chapter 5
THE BIGGER THEY ARE, THE HARDER THEY FALL
I WANT TO BRING SOME PRINCIPLES OUT OF THE story of David and Goliath that will help us to charge the giants in our lives in a more effective way. Before you read any further, stop and think for a minute: What is your biggest problem? What giant is standing in your path?
This chapter is dedicated to enabling you to be victorious over some seemingly insurmountable barrier or difficulty in your life. Victory requires more than positive thinking; positive thinking is nothing more than a thought pattern. It requires more than enthusiasm; enthusiasm is only a feeling. It even requires more than action. Victory comes about when we think right about our problems, feel right about our problems, and then act right about our problems. We need more than just a positive mental attitude.
T HINKING R IGHT
I read an interesting article recently about Karl Wallenda, the great tightrope artist. He died a few years ago in Puerto Rico, after a seventy-five-foot fall from a tightrope. On one occasion he said, “Being on a tightrope is living. Everything else is waiting.” He lived for the thrill of the moment. Wallenda’s wife, who was also an aerialist, had some interesting observations concerning what happened before that fateful fall. She said, “All Karl thought about for three straight months prior to walking across the tightrope was falling. It was the first time he’d ever thought about that. And it seemed to me that he put all of his energies into not falling, rather than walking the tightrope.” Mrs. Wallenda added that her husband went so far as to personally supervise the installation of the tightrope, making absolutely certain that the guy wires were secure. He had always trusted his crew to do this in the past.
He walked the tightrope with the fear of falling in his mind, and his thinking created his feeling of insecurity; we
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