Hey what's up guys? It's Kev back on Monday for some inspirational self development to help us all build, rebuild or maintain The Winner's Mentality.

I just heard a very inspiring podcast today over at Chuck Bartok's Focus Society on Talk Shoe that you may want to check out. You can go here to listen. I do want to offer a few thoughts on their consideration and discussion of Chapter 4 of the book "The Miracle Of Right Thought" by Orison Swett Marden back in 1908.

The principles I will touch on are faith, persistence and action. The author Mr. Marden used the example of a ship on the ocean in a storm or dark dense fog. Faith is like the compass in dark or foggy seas. As long as the crew or captain have their compass they can use that to guide them as they go through the sea toward their destination. The storm waves may bash and crash against the ship but if they maintain laser focus on that compass they will go straight to their destination.

I am not a sailor so I haven't been on the high seas sailing in storms. The author said he had personal experience on stormy seas. I kinda pictured the stormy ship scene in the film "Forrest Gump". I'm a movie fan and some of you may remember that scene from the film. Faith is the compass on stormy seas. It's scary and dangerous but you have to keep your hands firm on the tiller during this type of weather.

You sailors may know what a tiller is. I guess it's the wheel. At any rate the scene he described and the analogy he used were inspiring to me. Chuck then asked "When is the best time to act?" The answer is now. But you want to act quickly and decisively without being rash and impetuous. Do you have a successfully proven plan, a strategy as some type of foundation? You need the step by step plan and more importantly time lines and deadlines on when step 1 begins, step 2 and so on.

What if your plan doesn't work or you run into some problems and difficulties. If the plan has been proven you just keep following the steps. You just stop, focus and look at the actions you did or did not take and see where the holes, flaws and misjudgements and miscalculations were. You then make the proper corrections and adjustments and begin again.

It may sound a little to simplistic to some. Think about it. Success has always been simple. It just hasn't always been easy. There is a difference. Chuck said you will have one of two outcomes. You can succeed quickly and greatly or you can succeed as you correct, fine tune and adjust any imperfect and raggedy mistakes and errors. This means that failure is not an option. It sounds like a cliche but this just begins to describe the mindset of faith, a plan of action and persistence.

There were more things that they talked about but these were a few of the kernels and some of my reflective thoughts on the principles and concepts they discussed.

Thanks for the visit. It's Kev The Cash Flow DJ. I'm out. Peace!

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