HOW CHAMPIONS ARE MADE

Have you noticed that we usually do what we want to do?

On the day following a disaster drill, an employee made this comment
in the Long Beach (California) Veteran's Administration Hospital. No
kidding. The employee said, "We emptied the place in six minutes and
that was pretty good, until quitting time at 4:30 when everybody got
out of the building in three minutes."

English thinker and politician John Burns said, "The tragedy of (most
people) is the poverty of their desires." The poverty of desire may
still be the greatest kind of poverty we face worldwide. Most of us
could do, have or even be practically anything if we simply wanted it
enough.

Consider Robert Louis Stevenson. He conceived the story of Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde one night when he couldn't sleep. Though bedridden with
advanced tuberculosis, he wrote the whole book in three days, rarely
pausing. Then, dissatisfied with the first draft, he tore it up and
rewrote it in three more days! It was an unbelievable feat - he set
down 64,000 words in six days; more than 10,000 words a day. Just
1,000 words a day for an accomplished writer of fiction is considered
average.

I've heard it said: "Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are
made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a
vision."

What we will accomplish is limited only by our desire. And without it,
we will forever live in poverty, regardless of how much we own.

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Steve Goodier Publisher@LifeSupportSystem.com is a professional
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