Twenty-four little hours – With the sun and the showers, where there used to be rain.

OK it’s an old song and you probably know the lyrics. The song is about how someone else has changed her life for the better: It’s Looove; and that great “new love” feeling has set her heart on fire. She’s walking on cloud nine and flying through the universe on a breeze…

Of course we all actually realise that that sort of thing is only temporary…At least I hope we all do: While it’s a great feeling and good for overall emotional and physical health, it only lasts as long as it lasts; then it’s gone, and reality bites again: The bills continue to come in, the problems that were there before are still there, and have got worse through neglect – And now freedom’s limited too: There’s someone else in her life, and there is life outside the bedroom:-

What has it all accomplished? The answer is, on average, sweet Fanny Adams at the end of the day: that’s not to say that being in love is bad for anyone, but a beter song IMO would be “Sisters Are Doing it For Themselves” – Without the unintentional double entendre’ it is a fact that what someone else does for one is, in most cases, only temporary; whereas when one accomplishes acheivments on their own behalf, one has not only a feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment, but also one can make the accomplishment last a lifetime and build upon that/those accomplishment/s with further accomplishments. When one has stacked accomplishment upon accomplishment upon accomplishment one has a wall: The Wall of Success, and nobody can demolish it fully no matter how hard they try. It becomes one’s personal sheild against the negativities of life.

This is true not only in a physical sense: In a personal psychological sense the same holds true; but the psychological is the forerunner of the physical: When one has a wall of Positive Mental Attitude (‘Good ol’ PMA!) built from blocks of positivity, confidence, happiness, and productive efficient proactive thinking; one then has what it takes to screen out the crap that life pushes at everyone – No the crap doesn’t bounce off or take evasive action: The crap hits as hard as ever; but since the wall of PMA is more positive than the crap is negative then the wall dissolves the crap because the positive personality of the person in question; and let’s hope that person is you, deals with it and neutralises it.

What happens when a mind full of positivity and ingenuity, of creativity and abundant goodness communicates with or works with anything? The positivity and the goodness comes out too and dissolves crap; making the objects or situations it’s working with cleaner, brighter, and more positive; more desirable. A mind full of crap, on the other hand, has the opposite effect. If the wall of PMA isn’t there the crap gets in unchallenged. There is a saying that is very true, but for a different reason than originally intended: “Shit sticks” – If crap gets into one’s mind, life, being, it’ll stay there and it’s difficult to clean it out afterward; so powerful is the negative. Negativity can be empowered very easily: Positivity also but only by means of PMA. Negativity appears to be the default pattern – Positivity takes that little bit of extra effort.

Once one’s thinking pattern and one’s entire world view are positive then one has inner contentment: That is the first step by means of which one can start to self-motivatedly build the wall of acheivement. Nobody’s going to do it for you mind: Even if they try it’ll only be temporary. As soon as they take a break or turn their back the wall comes tumbling down and the crap sees a line of attack and bam! The only person who can make ‘you’ a success is you by means of your own acheivement; and that’ll only happen through a combination of, not just all aspects of PMA, but also determination, motivation, self-discipline, persistance, and continuity.

The ladder of success has many rungs; and surprisingly most of those rungs are made of failure: Every step of failure is a positive step of experience, and is a step closer to success. That can be paraphrased as “If at first you don’t succeed; try, try again”; remembering of course that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly in exactly the same way and expecting different results”. Therefore “If at first you don’t succeed; try, try again using a different method to acheive the same ends. I cite the example of Thomas Alva Edison, a 19th century American inventor, who, along with a couple of associates set out on a quest to bring light to everyone – Literally: Between 1850 and 1892, (Yes that is 42 years: Your calculation was correct.) he, Joseph Swan, Charles Brush, and others, developed, by trying and testing many methods, sometimes in competition and sometimes in collaberation with one another, the electric light bulb. I can just imagine that failure must have followed failure after failure in the case of each of them; but by sheer persistance and determination they succeeded, and their invention is still in use worldwide to a certain extent at the time of writing this article some 116 years after the initial project’s completion. See http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/lightbulb.htm

Maybe you won’t be remembered in 116 years time, and maybe you won’t invent anything as major as Edison and Co did: Then again perhaps you will; but not if you give up and allow the crap in.

That’s all: Lecture over. What are you waiting for? Get out there; do it, and win! Start building your internal wall of PMA at the very least, and as you become stronger as a person and gain in self-confidence you might like to try your hand at laying a few physical blocks of success as foundations for the forthcoming Wall of Acheivement? Set its completion as your goal, divide up the ensuing process into sub-goals, make a chart and plot your progress why not? – Only the losers will laugh at you; and at the end of the day they’ll still be losers so who cares? Today could be your lucky day; and what a difference a day would make then eh?!

Are you still here? -Well I suppose you deserve a break after reading all this lot: Treat yourself to a coffee or whatever you prefer, and pretend it’s on me. Thanks for reading; now make something out of it that you can use to further yourself.

©KKomp 2008