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Going
extra mile for success
“You
need to ensure that in every critical aspect of your life
you go the extra mile.”
—Philip
G Rochford
Know
yourself
What principles do you follow to deliver what you want in
life? The first consideration is to know what you want. This
is not as easy as it sounds. Most people merely exist. Are
you one of them? Do you simply get up each morning and follow
the same routine and then feel that you are getting nowhere?
If you want success, take every critical aspect of your life
and go the extra mile in each area. Going the extra mile involves
your contributing more than what you are expected to deliver,
and your giving more value than you receive for your efforts.
Your life is generated from thinking. The power to think ranks
very high in importance in your life’s journey. Thinking
is the first link in the process of making things happen in
life. Thinking creates action. Action creates habits. Habits
determine your future.
You have an impulse or desire and this builds into a view
or opinion that results in your action or inaction. The outcome
of your action, repeated often enough, becomes a habit. It
may be a good or bad habit. Habits that keep being repeated
over and over manifest a way of life, manifest the expression
of your future life.
You go the extra mile in your thinking when you go beyond
your normal limits of thinking to new possibilities of thought.
Some elements to help you go the extra mile in your thinking
are:
n Grow into your dreams. Pursue them relentlessly and let
no obstacles frustrate you.
n Have a sense of delight for your dreams and do not feel
pressured.
n Be flexible and not wedded to the outcome of your expectations.
n Let your emotional intelligence be in balance. Handle your
emotions and those of the people around you intelligently.
n Honour your uniqueness and understand that no one else may
think exactly as you do.
n Open your mind and heart to the wisdom of the ages. There
is so much more to learn.
Relationships
Thinking is internal to you. When your thinking is expressed,
your persona comes into contact with another person. This
is where the conflict starts.
People are so different that at almost every point there is
a difference in their views and their interpretations of words
and situations. Hence, whenever there is conflict in the world,
there are human beings in opposition to each other. There
is misunderstanding. There is the insistence of one person
that another must conform to his or her way of thinking and
understanding situations.
So how can you go that extra mile in relationships?
Your first point must be to accept that you do not know everything.
You can be wrong in your opinion and views. You are fallible.
Accepting this will open for you that the other person may
be right or have a point to be considered.
The second point in going the extra mile in relationships
is that you must permit others to be themselves and not box
them into a mould that you feel they should be. This is a
hard option but a necessary one. Others must be permitted
to exercise their own choices and personal preferences. You
must accept them without judging them.
Of course, it is your choice not to associate with them, or
limit your interaction with them.
Uniqueness of spirit
You cannot normally see your spirit. Also, you cannot touch
your spirit. You are not even sure how your spirit operates.
You take it on faith that your life force emanates from your
spirit. You are not sure whether you are a spiritual being
having a physical experience or a physical being having a
spiritual experience.
One thing is certain. When your body ceases to function, usually
referred to as death, your spirit separates from your body
or vice versa.
Observe nature and you will see diversity is its hallmark.
This suggests that your spirit differs from the spirit of
other people. There is thus spiritual uniqueness in each person
just as there is physical uniqueness.
This probably accounts for the multiplicity of religions and
divisiveness even within individual religions. This confusion
of religious administration provides the basis for many people
simply ignoring their spiritual life.
How can you walk the extra mile in your spirituality?
The obvious approach is to go deeper into whatever religious
doctrine you subscribe. You certainly are not following your
spiritual or religious tenets 100 per cent. Select the ones
that you are violating the most and greatly sharpen your observance
of them.
Your divine capacity
There is a divine capacity within you to attract all that
you want to be. To become aware of and be controlled by your
highest self requires a sensitive awareness of body and spirit.
You need to gain access to a higher level to grow through
the spiritual stages of adult development. It does not matter
whether you believe in religion or not, you have the divine
spark of the Creator within you.
There are different administrations of the spirit but this
divine spirit is available to all through the majesty of the
Creator. Thus, there are spiritual laws that apply no matter
your belief system. Just as the sun shines on the just and
unjust, no matter how they feel about the sun, spiritual laws
similarly apply without being a respecter of people.
Spiritual pathways
There are some pathways that are universal and will help you
to the extra mile in your spiritual quest. These are as follows:
Become sensitively aware that you are more than your body.
Express gratitude for your many blessings.
Sow bountifully and you will reap bountifully.
Practise love and forgiveness.
Be open to your spiritual guidance.
Do and expect the best but accept the undeniable outcome.
You have the power to go the extra mile for success. Use that
power to unleash your greatness.
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