From Obstacles to Stepping Stones: The Key to Victory
The person who thinks he can will speedily develop the power that can. This is a demonstrable law of the mind. Persistently think you can do what you want to do, and it will not be long before you find yourself actually doing that thing. There is no miracle about it; the law works that way. The principle involved is that if the “I can” attitude is adopted, the mind will proceed to direct all energies into those faculties which are employed in doing that which it is desired to accomplish, and steadily build them up until they become large enough and strong enough actually to perform what previously appeared to be impossible. - Raymond Holliwell, "Working with the Law"
Success Strategy: Converting Obstacles to Stepping Stones: The Key to Victory
Several weeks ago we posted a Success Key entitled "Success KEY: Embrace Obstacles, the Stepping Stones to Success." Since then, I have found numerous references to this concept in various Success Manuals, including some of the Master Classics of all time. Significantly, the use of this principle - using the obstacles that we face in seeking to attain a goal as our "stepping stones" to our Success is consistent throughout these various writings.
And so, it is with pleasure that we present to you the excerpts from these Master Success Classics as a followup to our earlier Success Key to reinforce the fundamental principle that obstacles are indeed our means to victory. As such, they MUST not be avoided; they MUST be embraced and conquered, with the full knowledge that the victory in overcoming each obstacle provides the platform, the next rung in the ladder, by which we may reach even further towards our goal.
Enjoy.
To your Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Success
The Success Manual Team
Observing the Sunrise from the Summit of Mount Washington, Presidential Range of the White Mountains, New Hampshire, on Saturday, March 6, 2010. Photo by Steve Welsh.
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Mount Washington image with permission from the Mount Washington Observatory. Thanks, Crew!
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Robert Collier, "The Secret of the Ages"
The man who waits for favorable conditions and favorable circumstances will find that success in any field is never a walkover. It is the man who wins in spite of circumstances, in spite of adverse conditions, the man who wins when other people say he cannot, the man who does the “impossible,” the man who rides over obstacles, who gets on in this world. And why? Because the very struggle to overcome the obstacles in his way develops the power that carries him step by step to his goal.
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Raymond Holliwell, "Working with the Law"
The person who thinks he can will speedily develop the power that can. This is a demonstrable law of the mind. Persistently think you can do what you want to do, and it will not be long before you find yourself actually doing that thing. There is no miracle about it; the law works that way. The principle involved is that if the “I can” attitude is adopted, the mind will proceed to direct all energies into those faculties which are employed in doing that which it is desired to accomplish, and steadily build them up until they become large enough and strong enough actually to perform what previously appeared to be impossible.
When Napoleon sought to conquer Italy he was faced with an apparently insurmountable obstacle, the towering Alps. They were considered by the people who live around them to be absolutely unscalable, but the words “I can’t” were not in Napoleon’s mind. He, being determined to conquer, persistently said to himself, “I can.” His descent on the other side of the mountains so surprised the people in that country that they were practically conquered without opposition. The shock of his doing what was deemed impossible took away their power of opposition. Thus, his greatest obstacle proved his sure means to victory. So, it is with all difficulties. Obstacles viewed from a higher point of view are invariably stepping stones to success.
Napoleon's greatest obstacle proved his sure means to victory. So, it is with all difficulties. Obstacles viewed from a higher point of view are invariably stepping stones to success.
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Christian Larson, "Your Forces and How to Use Them"
We thus realize that if enthusiasm is directed upon the possibilities that originally inspired that enthusiasm, we will not only continue to be enthused, but we will in that very manner, cause the mind to move forward steadily and develop steadily, so that in time it will gain sufficient power to actually work out those possibilities upon which attention has been directed. In this connection, we must also remember that we can grow and advance only as we pass into the new. It is new life, new thought, new states of consciousness that are demanded if we are to take any steps at all in advance, and as enthusiasm tends directly to inspire the mind to move towards the new, we see how important it is to continue, not only to live in the spirit of enthusiasm, but to direct that spirit upon the goal in view. It is invariably the enthusiastic mind that moves forward, that does things, and that secures results.
It is invariably the enthusiastic mind that moves forward, that does things, and that secures results.
Two other forces of great value, belonging to this group, are appreciation and gratitude. Whenever you appreciate a certain thing you become conscious of its real quality, and whenever you become conscious of the quality of anything, you begin to develop that quality in yourself. When we appreciate the worth of a person, we tend to impress the idea of that worth in our own minds, and thereby cause the same effect to be produced, in a measure, in ourselves. The same is true if we appreciate our own worth, in a sensible and constructive manner. If we appreciate what we already are, and are ambitious to become still more, we focus our minds upon the greater, and employ what we already possess as stepping stones towards the greater attainment; but when we do not appreciate ourselves, there are no stepping stones that we can use in attaining greater things. We thus realize why people that do not appreciate themselves never accomplish much, and why they finally go downgrade in nearly every instance. When we appreciate the beautiful in anything, we awaken our minds to a higher and better understanding of the beautiful. Our minds thus become, in a measure, more beautiful. The same is true with regard to any quality. Whatever we appreciate, we tend to develop in ourselves, and here we find a remarkable aid to the power of concentration, because we always concentrate attention perfectly, naturally and thoroughly upon those things that we fully appreciate. Thus we understand why it is that we tend to develop in ourselves the things that we admire in others.
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Napoleon Hill, "Learn How to Live Your Own Life"
We all know stories about famous people who turned adversity into advantage, who overcome great obstacles to become rich and famous. They are the successful people who converted stumbling blocks into stepping stones. They become the geniuses of the industry, the Henry Fords, the Thomas Edisons, the Andrew Carnegies, and the Wilbur and Orville Wrights.
But there is a far greater number of lesser-known mortals who refuse to accept defeat. They simply refuse to become one of the vast majority who do little more than eke out a living and experience mostly misery, disappointment and failure.
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Christian Larson, "The Ideal Made Real"
This is a fact that deserves the most thorough attention and will, when understood, explain fully why the average person seems powerless to rise above his surroundings. We must be on friendly terms with everything that exists in our present world if we wish to gain possession of all the building material that our present world can give, and we cannot secure too much material if we desire to build a larger life and a greater future. That which we dislike becomes detrimental to us, no matter how good it may be; nevertheless, it will always be with us because it is impossible to eliminate permanently that which we antagonize; when we run away from it in one place we shall meet it elsewhere in some other form; but that which we love will constantly serve us and help us on to greater things; when it can serve us no longer it will disappear.
To cause all things that are about us now to work together with us, we must be in perfect harmony with them; we must like them as they are, and that becomes comparatively easy when we know that it is necessary for them to be what they are in order that they may serve as our stepping stones; if they were different there would be no stepping stones, and we would have to remain where we are.
To like those things, however, that are not to our liking may seem difficult, but the question is why they are not to our liking; when we know that everything in our present world is a stepping stone to something still better it will be natural for us to like everything. Those things may not come up to our ideals, but that is not their real purpose; it is not the mission of present things to serve as ideals, their mission is to help us to reach our ideals, and they positively can do this if we will take them into friendly cooperation. When you take a drive to an ideal country place you do not dislike the horse because he is not that country place; if you are humane, you will love that horse because he is willing and able to take you where you wish to go. If you should dislike and mistreat that horse or should fail to hitch him to the vehicle, you would not reach your destination.
This, however, is the very thing that the average person does with the things of his present world; these things are the horses and the vehicles that can take us to the ideal places we desire to reach; but we must hitch them up; we must treat them right and use them. To cause all things that are about us now to work together with us, we must be in perfect harmony with them; we must like them as they are, and that becomes comparatively easy when we know that it is necessary for them to be what they are in order that they may serve as our stepping stones; if they were different there would be no stepping stones, and we would have to remain where we are. When we realize that everything that exists in our present world has the power to promote our advancement, if we properly use that power, and when we realize that it is necessary to be in harmony with all things to use the power that is within those things, we shall no longer dislike anything; we shall even make friends with adversity, because the power that is in adversity can be tamed by kindness and love; and when that power is tamed it becomes our own. These are great facts and easily demonstrated by anyone, and whoever will apply these principles will find that by liking everything that he finds, he will secure the cooperation of everything, and anyone can move forward rapidly when all things are working with him; consequently, by liking what he finds he will find what he likes.
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Napoleon Hill, "Think and Grow Rich"
Life is strange, and often imponderable! Both the successes and the failures have their roots in simple experiences. Mr. Darby’s experiences were commonplace and simple enough, yet they held the answer to his destiny in life, therefore they were as important (to him) as life itself. He profited by these two dramatic experiences, because he analyzed them, and found the lesson they taught. But what of the man who has neither the time, nor the inclination to study failure in search of knowledge that may lead to success? Where, and how is he to learn the art of converting defeat into stepping stones to opportunity?
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