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Taking physical action is the most powerful thing that we can do in life. It is the most powerful thing we can do to achieve our goals and at the same time the most powerful thing that we can do to avoid achieving our goals.

Physical action always brings some type of physical result. It is vitally important that our physical actions be appropriate and supportive of our personal goals. We must never act blindly or be forced into taking inappropriate actions. When we are overpowered and forced against our will to do some action we should never give in to it.

Each day our resistance must be as real as the day before even if each day we are forced to do things that are not right or things we don’t like to do. The danger lies in giving up and cooperating with no resistance and then persisting in actions that lead to our own destruction.

When we give up we persist in doing the wrong actions even when we are not forced into doing them. We will be broken! Our continued self-esteem requires that our resistance be renewed each day no matter how badly we were beaten yesterday.

If a person decides to quit smoking or any other destructive habit he or she is working against a destructive aspect of his or her inner self. The required action is the same. Never give up no matter how many times you fail. Begin each day with a new resolve and eventually you will gain physical control over the destructive habit.

We must persist in our efforts to achieve success. The personal failures do not count. Each new resolve is cumulative and deals a blow to that destructive aspect controlling our negative action. Each new resolve increases our sense of self-esteem.

It is the continued resolve to alter our behavior that will eventually win against all odds. The only way to develop self-esteem is through continued resolve to do actions that are personally right for us. Self-esteem means to feel good about who we are and what our physical actions are. Self-esteem is the knowledge that we as individuals have the right and ability to get the things that we want in life.

When we give up our self-esteem is seriously wounded and we hate ourselves for our inability to act in a proper manner. When we give up we create wounds that never heal. These wounds drain our vitality and our belief in ourselves. These wounds continued to destroy our vitality until we come back and finish whatever it was that we failed at.

In the face of crushing defeat physical reality is trying to tell us something and we should listen to it. It is not saying that we can’t win. Instead it is saying that we can’t win by continuing our present course of action. Crushing defeat tells us that we are overlooking something extremely important. We must discover what we are overlooking so that we can try again more effectively.

Crushing defeat is a useful tool in discovering actions that can be eliminated as unworkable. When one approach doesn’t work we don’t try that same approach next time. We always use what we have learned from past failures in the selection of a new course of action. We learn from our past mistakes and never repeat the same mistake twice.

The ability to persist is one of the greatest abilities that a person can have. Without the ability to persist no goals will ever be reached. Thus the most important physical action is persistence toward a desired goal.

In addition to persistence curiosity helps us achieve our goals. We should always encourage curiosity in ourselves and in others. To be curious is to be interested in our environment. This means to be more aware of the physical conditions that surround us. Through curiosity we learn about the object of our interest.

Often curiosity can get us into trouble or place us in unfamiliar or uncomfortable situations. These situations often require creative solutions and expand our options and experiences in life. Curiosity is a powerful way to work toward our goals.

Persistence is a gut level determination to achieve the desired goal at any cost. Curiosity is an emotional interest in a desired goal. It is not as strong as persistence but still a valuable tool. Personal goals in life should be those goals we are curious about and have the persistence to achieve. Curiosity has ties to joy and to the creative urge.

Risk-taking should include elements of both curiosity and persistence if it is to succeed. When we persist in actions that hold no desire for us we are killing ourselves. When we persist in actions that hold no interest for us we are killing ourselves. Our persistence must be directed toward things we desire and not toward things we don’t desire.

If we do the same physical actions today that we did yesterday we will get the same physical results tomorrow which we experience today. Only by changing our physical actions in the present moment can we hope to change the physical conditions of our future.

Only by being curious about new things will we be drawn into new physical activities. Physical activities undertaken through curiosity bring us to the life we want – if we persist in them.

Each day we should try to do something no matter how small, something that we are curious about and enjoy doing. We should create the time we need for this physical activity. Each small effort is cumulative and will lead us into the physical reality that we wish to someday experience.

Mental and spiritual work will not alter our physical environment. That type of work is passive. Mental and spiritual work will alter our awareness of our physical environment. Our awareness will change, our world will not.

Mental and spiritual work allows us to adapt to a reality that we cannot change. Physical and emotional work allows us to change our environment into the reality that we desire to experience. We must do each type of work and strive to integrate the results.

Change those physical elements within our power to change and adapt to those physical elements which we cannot change. Too often people will concentrate on spiritual and mental work without the balance of emotional and physical work. Those people never achieve the physical goals in life that they desire. They are so heavenly bound that they are no earthly good!

Others ignore spiritual and mental work and experience defeat after defeat because they are attempting something that is not physically possible to achieve. These people are living in a fantasy world that is not related to reality and it never will be.

It is important that each day some persistent physical effort is devoted to achieving a physical goal and also devoted toward the satisfaction of some curiosity and interest. This physical effort should be in addition to these those physical efforts directed toward spiritual and mental growth. If there is something that we desire to experience in life we must do it!