Articles By: Denis Waitley
- This Week’s Jump-Start
- The Champion Within Article
- Seeds of Greatness
- The Winner’s Edge Coaching Tips
1. This Week’s Jump-Start
Be willing to say to yourself, “I’m on the right road. I’m doing OK. I’m succeeding.” We too frequently become adept at pointing out our flaws and identifying failures. Become equally adept at citing your achievements. Identify things you are doing now that you weren’t doing one month ago… six months ago… a year ago. What habits have changed? Chart your progress.
Doing well once or twice is relatively easy. Continuously moving ahead is tough, in part, because we so easily revert to old habits and former lifestyles. Over the long run, you need to give yourself regular feedback to monitor your performance and reinforce yourself positively. Don’t wait for an award ceremony, promotion, friend or mentor to show appreciation for your work. Take pride in your own efforts on a daily basis.
-Denis Waitley
2. The Champion Within Article
Making the Most of Today by Denis Waitley
(Excerpted from The Psychology of Motivation)
What each of us is doing this minute is the most important event in history for us. We have decided to invest our resources in THIS opportunity rather than in any other.
It is helpful to remember this when we consider the passage of time. As the years pass, I am acutely aware that the bird of time is on the wing. At my high school reunion, I saw people who claimed to be my former classmates. We all had big name tags printed in capital letters so we wouldn’t have to squint with our reading glasses on trying to associate the name with each well-traveled face. It was only yesterday that I was really enjoying high school. What had happened to the four decades in between? Where had they flown?
To the side of the bandstand, where the big-band sound of the late 1940s and 50s blared our favorite top-ten hits, there was a poster with a printed verse for all of us to see. I read the words aloud:
“There are two days in every week about which we should not worry, two days which should be kept free from fear and apprehension.
“One of these days is YESTERDAY, with its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains. Yesterday has passed forever beyond our control. All the money in the world cannot bring back yesterday. We cannot undo a single act we performed or erase a single word we said. Yesterday is gone.
“The other day we should not worry about is TOMORROW, with its possible adversities, its burdens, its large promise, and its poor performance. Tomorrow is also beyond our immediate control.
“This leaves only one day, TODAY. Anyone can fight the battles of just one day. It is only when you and I add the burdens of those two awful eternities – Yesterday and Tomorrow – that we break down.
“It is not the experience of Today that drives us mad, it is remorse and bitterness for something which happened yesterday and the dread of what tomorrow may bring. Let us therefore… Live this one full TODAY.”
Malcolm Forbes believed the important thing is “never say die until you’re dead,” and he lived that example to the hilt. It is, as we realize when we suddenly attend our high school reunion, a short journey.
But it is difficult to be depressed and active at the same time. So get active! Live TODAY.
3. Seeds of Greatness
Seeds of Optimism: The Biology of Hope
(These quotes were taken from Denis Waitley’s Excerpts from The Seeds of Greatness Treasury booklet)
Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. You may not get what you want, but in the long run you will get what you expect.
A good life is a collection of happy memories.
The good old days are here and now!
Happiness is the experience of living a life you feel is worthwhile.
To be enthused is to be infused with life!
Accept yourself as you are right now; an imperfect, changing, growing and worthy person.
You are a masterpiece of creation.
Each human being on earth has equal rights to fulfill his or her own potential.
You are an uncut gemstone of priceless value. Cut and polish your potential with knowledge, skills and service and you will be in great demand throughout your life.
View stumbling blocks as stepping stones to the stars.
Optimism creates energy and is contagious.
4. The Winner’s Edge Coaching Tips
The Virtue of Patience by Denis Waitley
While persistence is the determination to strive to achieve your ultimate goal, there is another virtue of equally great value. Persistence keeps us moving inside ourselves to see the purpose behind the purpose, but patience is the wisdom behind persistence.
Patience cautions us to focus our efforts on what we can change while accepting what we cannot. When external circumstance rains on our parade, patience is our umbrella. Rather than blaming what we cannot control, patience is the wisdom behind persistence.
It is when a goal is distant and difficult to reach that patience is an ally. Time changes everything, but with patience you can keep your desires relatively constant. If you can just hang on long enough, time will finally create the conditions in which you can succeed.
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