All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. the first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is. If you're not clear about this, then write it down, and rewrite it until the words express precisely what you are after. Every disadvantage has an equivalent advantage - if you'll take the trouble to find it. Learn to do that and you'll kick the stuffing out of adversity every time.

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Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.

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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

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Keep your mind on your objective, and persist until you succeed. Study, think, and plan.

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You can develop a burning desire to succeed. How? Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don't want.

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If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

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So, you've got a problem? That's good! Why? Because repeated victories over your problems are the rungs on your ladder of success. With each victory, you grow in wisdom, stature and experience. You become a better, bigger, more successful person each time you meet a problem and tackle and conquer it with a positive mental attitude.

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Meet the most important living person! That person is you.

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So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

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