“You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.” – Napoleon Hill
You and you only must choose the prophecies that direct the life you will live.
“Control Your Own Destiny, or Someone Else Will” was the title of the best-selling book written by Jack Welch, the Former CEO of GE.
Scary title but we have to always remember that one of our greatest gifts is our freedom of choice. We all have the freedom of choice, but whether we exercise it or not is another question.
You generate enormous power when your expectations are personal, they are what you have longed for, and now they are becoming more and more a living part of your thinking, and are consequently translated into your habits of thought, your behaviour and finally your success.
Your positive expectancy is undiluted because it’s yours. The mere fact of their existence exerts a powerful force that draws people, situations and events that match your desire because you are a magnet.
Johan Goethe puts it beautifully: “The moment one definitely commits oneself then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would not otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favour all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed about would come his way!”
Steps to Controlling Your Destiny
- Know what you want – have a vision, have an image, a picture of what you want
- Know why you want it – you must stoke the fires of your desire, write about the rewards that will accrue to you and your loved ones
- Know why you believe you will have it – reiterate over and over your strengths that you bring to this challenge
Affirm and visualise what you’ve written because it will increase your self-assurance, your resolution, your sense of knowing, and determination to follow-through.
Wise Guys
“Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.” – Brian Tracy
“A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own ‘accuracy.” – Paul Watzlawick
“Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.” – Ruth Hubbard
“As within, so without.” — Hermesianax, Greek poet.
