Make the Conditions Serve You

"To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment, who make all conditions serve them, and who think strongly, attempt fearlessly, and accomplish masterfully." James Allen.

I underlined this passage of As A Man Thinketh when I first read this book 6 years ago. Purpose. When we know what we want and we won't take no for an answer, we can turn the components of any situation around to serve us—bow down, literally. I've experienced it! There's such a drastic difference between our actions when we have direction and when we're lost. And our being either directionless or somewhere-bound has a distinct affect on the people around us. Have you ever talked to someone who knows where they're going in life and they're not annoying about it? Somehow that desire seeps inside of us and makes us actually want to figure out where we're going too. Maybe we don't want to get left behind. Maybe we've just forgotten what it's like to be excited about life and needed someone to remind us how it goes.