Willpower To Excel

by
Tulsi Das
OVERVIEW
 Problem
 Cause

 Solution

 Application
PROBLEM
History has demonstrated that the
most notable winners usually
encountered heart-breaking obstacles
before they triumphed. They won
because they refused to become
discouraged by their efforts.
B C FORBES
WALT DISNEY...

THOMAS EDISON...“ I haven't failed ten thou-

sand times. I have successfully discovered ten
thousand ways that didn't work."
BEETHOVEN
FAILURE IS THE PATH OF LEAST
PERSISTENCE
The reason some men don’t go very far in
life is that they sidestep opportunity and
shake hands with temptations.

A failure isn’t a failure unless you fail to

learn a lesson from it. Wisdom is learned
more from failures than from successes.
CAUSE
Obstacles to Success
 Lacking Abilities
People do not lack strength;
they lack will.
 Temptation
 The road to success is dotted with
many tempting parking places.
 It is not the great temptations that

ruin us; it is the little ones.

 Discouragement

Success means … going from

failure to failure without loss of
enthusiasm.
 Circumstances

No one can make you feel inferior

without your permission.
 Bad Habits
fects one’s destiny:-

Sow a thought ...Reap an action

Sow an action ...Reap a habit
Sow a habit ...Reap a character
Sow a character ...Reap a destiny
SOLUTION
Secret of Will Power
 Strengthened Intelligence by Power of
Precise Choice
 Tendency to succumb to short-run im-
pulses at the expense of long-run inter-
est
 You can’t see the flaw in the bridge until
it falls down, or the flaw in the charac-
ter of the man until he meets with
temptation
APPLICATION
5 EMPOWERING STEPS
1. ACHIEVABLE GOALS

Set goals by baby steps. Set them

well within your reach. “Every one
has a Will to Win but very few have the
Will to prepare to Win“
5 EMPOWERING STEPS

2. CONSISTENCY

A resolution is always stronger

at its birth than at any subsequent
period.

Commitment

Discipline
 Commitment
 Most of the time our will power suffers
from the generator trouble.
 It gives you a head start
 It sustains the fuel of will power
 It suggests a strong feeling of confidence
 Discipline
 Most unhappiness and personal distress
in the world are because of failures to
control tempers, appetites, passions,
and impulses.
 It leads to more freedom
 It helps focus and avoids distraction.
 It prevents you from regret
5 EMPOWERING STEPS
3. ASSOCIATION
Associate yourself with people of good
character if you esteem your reputation,
for it is better to be alone than to be in
bad company.

A man is known by the company he

keeps.
4. DETERMINATION

Those who are on this path are resolute

in purpose, and their aim is one. O beloved
child of the Kurus, the intelligence of
those who are irresolute is many-
branched. (BG 2.41)

Arjuna as Gudakesa
5. SHARPEN your SAW

Woodcutters…
Pencil…
KEEP HOPE ALIVE!
 Pilots-Always struggling to be on course
APPLICATION

1. ACHIEVABLE GOALS
2. CONSISTENCY
3. ASSOCIATION
4. DETERMINATION
5. SHARPEN
THANK YOU
VERY
MUCH