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The website content emphasizes the importance of channeling emotions and passion into action to shape one's reality and achieve success.

Abstract

The article discusses the transformative power of harnessing one's feelings and passion to inspire action and create a desired reality. It suggests that being in tune with emotions allows for greater control over life's direction. The narrative highlights the journey of discovering one's passion, which then fuels projects and actions aligned with that passion, leading to the manifestation of one's vision. The article also shares stories of famous individuals like Jan Koum, Howard Schultz, and Colonel Sanders, who overcame significant challenges through perseverance and effort, ultimately achieving their visions. These examples serve to illustrate that success is often the result of long-term commitment and the ability to overcome numerous obstacles and rejections. The text concludes by encouraging readers to react to feelings of weakness or deficiency with determination and to embark on a journey of self-improvement and resilience, suggesting that even the most successful individuals have faced and triumphed over adversity.

Opinions

The author believes that passion is a driving force for action and success, and that it is essential to find physical manifestations of good ideas.
There is a strong emphasis on the idea that action, not just thought or prayer, leads to real-world change and success.
The article conveys the opinion that creating a compelling personal narrative can guide one's actions and help overcome self-doubt and past inferiorities.
The author admires the trait of perseverance and cites it as a key factor in the success stories of various celebrities, suggesting that effort and determination can lead to success despite

Empower Action from Feelings to Create Reality

Use passion and feelings to inspire action and success

How you react to what you feel creates your reality. And the more you are in touch with your feelings, the more control you will have over what’s happening in your life.

As I came to feel certainty about the direction of my life, I was more able to manifest accomplishments that expressed that direction.

Discovering Your Passion

The exact sequence may happen for you: as you discover your passion, if you have, the more you can move on to the projects that express that passion. The reality you create for yourself starts emanating from your burning desires.

Catholics teach that it is much better for everyone involved if you can find the physical manifestations of your good ideas and see them put into action. The world is saved through deeds, not thoughts or prayers.

“We can’t live in perpetual doubt, so we make up the best story possible and live as if the story were true.” Freeman Dyson

Embody Your Vision

And this is what it is like: from a strong feeling, you make up a vision of what your life is about and then take steps to embody it.

When I decided that my life was about compensating for the inferiorities and doubts of my youth, I sought ways to validate my self-worth.

The same thing can happen to you if this is your situation. Make up or follow a story that expresses your values, interests, and preferences. Then launch efforts that correspond to that story as much as possible.

As I have discovered, many obstacles make this enterprise difficult and frustrating. Success may be elusive, and failures are always possible, but if you seek to fulfill your vision, the effort is more likely to be fruitful.

Stories of Those Who Persevered

Here are some examples of hard-won success from celebrity strivers:

Jan Koum is the founder of WhatsApp, which was sold to Facebook for 19 billion dollars. He grew up impoverished in Ukraine and didn’t even have running water.

After finding his skills in Silicon Valley, he was almost hired at Facebook but got passed over in the last interview. Instead of sulking, Jan went on to create WhatsApp.

Jan is the epitome of arduous work and ceaseless striving.

Howard Schultz, the founder of Starbucks, went to over 200 banks looking for his original loan.

Not only was he desperately trying to secure a loan, but his wife was also pregnant with their first child. After a year of rejections, he was able to secure the $400,000 needed from a doctor and two other individual investors.

Today, the brand employs over 137,000 people around the world.

Colonel Sanders developed his “secret recipe” and his patented method of cooking chicken in a pressure fryer. He endured over 900 rejections before finding a restaurant to try his recipe. Sanders recognized the potential of the restaurant franchising concept, and the first KFC franchise opened in South Salt Lake, Utah. When his original restaurant closed, he devoted himself full-time to franchising his fried chicken throughout the country.

The company’s rapid expansion across the United States and overseas became overwhelming for Sanders. In 1964, then 73 years old, he sold the company to a group of investors for $2 million.

All these success stories started with a vision that became real through perseverance. I have always liked this character trait; it inspires confidence to know that long-term effort can bring success.

As a sales consultant, I was once called a software company over two years before I got to yes. But if you are familiar with the trial of lengthy effort with little reward, you know the feeling of exuberance that comes with eventual success.

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ― Confucius

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. It may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” ― Maya Angelou

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ― Thomas A. Edison

The takeaway is that if you start from weakness or deficiency, your reaction to these bad feelings will determine your destiny and reality.

You can give in and give up or use the hope of redemption to power your efforts to create a campaign to improve your self-respect.

If it is the latter choice, be prepared to persevere. Others have done so when they feel they can take positive steps and react to that feeling with concerted effort.

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