Development of Will Power is Everybody's Business

Everyone should develop Will Power. Whether you're the top executive of a company or a clerk; a student or a professor; man or woman; child or adult doesn't matter. You need to develop your Will Power.

Thus self-development is everybody's business. Whether we know or not, we are expressing ourselves through all our deeds/activities and thoughts. You cannot separate it from your activities.

Today self-development has increased in importance because of the following main reasons:

the competition has increased and one requires to use his full potentialities to survive
one needs his unique specialties to keep an advantage or for competence
one requires to handle more stressful conditions due to very fast and drastic changes.
So your survival, competence and happiness depends upon the level of your self-development.
"It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell."

- The Buddha, 568-488 BC

Will Power - The First Step to Achievement

"You must have faith in yourself and in your powers. This faith is developed by overcoming obstacles cultivating 'will power', 'exercising' your will. You must learn to overcome the sordid heritage of olden days in yourself and outside you. Even a trifling victory over yourself makes you much stronger." Maxim Gorky

Importance Of Will POWER

Will power is that makes all and every endeavor one undertakes an instant success. The mind that is weak or fluctuating cannot reach the goal at all. So it is important that all of us who want to be successful in our respective fields should strengthen our will power. Again, if one does not have a strong will power, others who understand this would try to exploit it to their own advantage. Those who do not have a good will power fall prey to drugs, alcohol, terrorism etc because of the influence of those who have greater will power. In short, will power is not only important for making one a success but to maintain one's character and integrity as well. Strong will power is required to keep oneself away from illegal/unethical activities or to respond against such activities. Thus it is necessary that all of us should improve our will power.

Note: You should not mistake obstinacy for will power. Will power is a manifestation of your integrity and self-development whereas obstinacy is a manifestation of your weakness.

How To Develop Your Will

All will power is not conscious. In other words, will power is both conscious and unconscious. We can improve conscious will power easily. To develop your will power, you should develop those skills and attitudes that are conducive to the development of will and at the same time remove those blockages and negative parameters that hinder the development of your will.


Believe You Can

If you believe you can, you can.

So believe you can do what you want. Believe you can achieve what you want. Believe you can become a successful person.

YES! You are actually a successful person. What is needed to make it a reality is to believe in yourself and work for it. So tell yourself that you can achieve what you want, can do what you want, and can become immensely successful.

Believe in yourself.

Believe in your ability to become a successful and happy.

Auto Suggestion

The power of Auto Suggestion is tremendous. All of us use it knowingly or unknowingly. If you can use it knowingly, you can work wonders.

By suggesting to yourself that you can achieve what you want you really can achieve that.

Here are some statements you can suggest to yourself :

I can do this and I will do this.

I am OK and I will stay OK

I will become successful

I deserve success and happiness

I am worthy and useful

You can find out similar positive statements and say it to yourself.

Just create a list like the one given above and in your bed room in front of the mirror, tell this to yourself in a confident tone. And believe what you say.

HOW TO OVERCOME YOUR FEARS

There are two steps in overcoming fears. First step is to understand the nature and characteristics of fear in general and your own fears in particular. Fear is of course a state of mind, but it is also an instinct. So, to some extend, we need fear for our own existence. When your fear crosses that limit, you become ineffective and inefficient.

The second step is to encounter your fears. Paradoxically, the most practical method to overcome your fears is to actually encounter with what you fear. This is again done in two steps - encountering the fear situation mentally (i.e, in imagination) and encountering it in real life situation.

Once such an encounter is made safely, you automatically begin to transfer the effect to at least some similar fears.

HOW TO OVERCOME YOUR LAZINESS

Actually you are not lazy at all. You know that you have been very enthusiastic about at least one or two things. Say, in watching films or Cricket match, Collecting stamps, reading books you like and so on. So actually no one is lazy(provided one has got psychotic disorder).

The main reasons for laziness are:

You are not interested in the work or the work is boring
The work is not well defined or meaningful to you
The outcome of the work or the benefits that it may bring to you are not so clear to you
You are a perfectionist or you fear criticism by others on your work.
Some tips to overcome laziness:

Love your work.
Take interest in your work. This is actually a difficult task to many.
But it is actually easy