A Declaration of War
"Too many people
learn to function in their dysfunction.
Declare war on your comfort zone."
- Darren Hardy
American
Author/Publisher
Have you
ever asked yourself, "When will I have enough of this?" You have struggled with bad or destructive
habits for ages. You have procrastinated
on getting your life in order for far too long.
You have carried that dream around till if feels like a burden rather
than your hope for tomorrow. How long? How long will we keep doing the same old thing
and thinking, hoping, and wishing that it will be different this time? But it is not.
The time has come for war! The time has come for you to make up your
mind and do something - something serious - about your life. As a success-minded person you are all too
aware that your life will never change until YOU change it. The time has
come to take action. The time has come
to declare war on your comfort zone.
"That is all well and
good," you say, "but I have tried this before. What will make it different now?" Excellent question. Here are a couple of facts you first have to
face: 1. You may have tried to change or
tried to do things differently, but that is not war. 2. If you are going to declare war you first
have to do the acts of war. Here are
some definite actions you must take to not only start this war, but to win it.
#1. Make the decision to win
No war should ever be entered
into with the hope of winning. It must
be entered into with the decision that you will - no matter what it takes - win
this war. You will not take failure as
an option. Once we think that we can
fail, we will fail. You must burn all
your avenues of retreat and know that there is no going back. You will win because you have no other option
but to win. Zig Ziglar put it this way,
"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare
to win, and expect to win."
#2. Understand what winning means
People in this "make me
feel good and everyone has to win" age do not have victory in their lives
because they have no understanding what it means to win. Winning is not coming to an understanding
with you enemy. Winning is not a truce
or "negotiated peace" with your enemy. Winning is the full and total destruction of
your enemy. Yes, this includes the enemy
of bad and destructive habits in our own lives.
Think of this inner war as in fact, a war. There is much to learn in the areas of
personal development from the likes of Winston Churchill, George Patten and
other great military leaders. Churchill
bravely said, "We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we
shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall
fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall
never surrender." Sound
dramatic? Remember, this is your life
you are fighting for.
#3. Never give up the war
No one is saying that this war
will be easy or happen in a moment. I do
believe it is won in that moment of decision when you decide that you will
win. However, that does not mean that
you will have no battles. I had a leader
once who decided to get the victory in a business deal we faced. He told me that he decided that we would
succeed and that was that. In his positive
way of putting it, he said, "It is all over but the fighting." We were in fact successful in the deal. Never give up on your dreams. If you are tired; keep fighting. If you are discouraged; keep fighting. If you have waited for a very long time; keep
fighting. Never stop. Never turn aside. Never quite.
#4. Do not believe it is okay to
lose
I go crazy when I hear people
tell children that it is okay to lose.
That winning is not that great.
Or that everyone is a winner. If
that were true, why play the game? Why
should we try to get good grades, do a good job or give our best. I know the idea is to teach that you respect
everyone and that you don't get prideful.
But what you are really teaching is that it is okay to lose and not to
try to win. That is deadly. You want to win. You must win.
As the great coach Vince Lombardi said, "Winning isn't everything,
it's the only thing."
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