The Builder Within

Will Power vs. Won’t Power

 

Our lives are greatly enriched by our strengthening our will power and eliminating our “won’t power” as much as is humanly possible.

 

It takes will power for anything you do, no matter whether it be positive or negative. The will is in operation at all times, so it is up to us whether or not it is correctly utilized.

If we stubbornly refuse to do or to say something, it is an effort of the will which is asserted and therefore is positively negative under these conditions.

When we strongly and firmly push ourselves into a job to be done or make a strong effort to persuade someone to do [the right] something, this is using the will positively, and in whatever measure we use our will power so are the results. At least we try and in trying we cannot fail. We may not achieve all at once exactly what our minds picture for us, but eventually we must hit somewhere near the mark if we patiently keep at it and are not quitters.

You know that little drops of water wear away the hardest rock. It is also true in life. The rules are the same -- repetition, perseverance, patience, practice -- it all adds up to success in whatever field of endeavor we are trying to gain. Rome was never built in a day and success is never achieved overnight, but when it does come, we know without any doubts that it is through our own efforts, our own attitudes that this feat is accomplished. 

Our lives are greatly enriched by our strengthening our will power and eliminating our “won’t power” as much as is humanly possible.

Yes, if you believe it, it is so. You can, if you will.

 

The Tides of Life

 

There are tides in life just as there are tides in the ocean, and we are affected by them.  

 

There are tides in life just as there are tides in the ocean, and we are affected by them. The tide of life comes and goes and many times we feel, when the tide is out, that all is lost and it never can again be the same. Then the incoming tide arrives and we find we are carried along with the waves, and success in whatever achievement we enter upon is assured. 

This incoming and outgoing tide in our affairs is seldom noticed by mankind; in fact, few would believe that such a law of life exists, but it is true and it is working at all times.

When we find ourselves working at great odds against success, we should know that the tide, or vibrations of life’s good, are temporarily fluctuating at a low ebb. If we have the patience to wait out this difficulty, the tide will turn and we will be carried along on the crest of the wave to greater achievement.

This is not to say that we must sit back idly and wait to be pushed onward by vibrations outside ourselves, but merely to bide our time until we feel within us the surge of action that will free us from the darkness of negative vibrations and pull us up and out toward the greater light of love and its positive vibratory forces.

Controlling Thought

We are what we think, and we must constantly stand guard that our thoughts are always  what we wish our lives to become.

 

Outwardly we may show the world a very different face from that which we really have. In time, however, the inward state takes over and shows itself in its true colors. Not for long can one conceal the thought life that he or she habitually holds and lives with. 

It is not a pretty picture when one loses his temper and, in so doing, loses his stature with those he would most like to impress. It is a form of childishness, of weakness of will, and a showing of dissatisfaction with his world and his inability to cope with it and with the situations that come up in the life.   

Our reactions to these displays are to be disgusted and to avoid the person who so conducts himself. That, in itself, is a form of punishment that the one afflicted must be willing to bear, though, strangely enough, it is quite the opposite of the desire which first motivated the action. 

Could we but see the dark, disagreeable colors that come into the aura of the person who shows plainly the grave errors of his thought life in such fashion, we would shun this display and this controlling thought as we shun poison for, in truth, that is what it really is. 

We are what we think, and we must constantly stand guard that our thoughts are always what we wish our lives to become.