The Law of Iron Will

 The key element of preparation for success in your business is your understanding and utilization of the Law of Iron Will. The Law of Iron Will requires that once you make a decision, you must be unwavering in carrying it out, despite whatever obstacles or apparent impossibilities confront you. You cannot second-guess yourself because other people and/or institutions have issues with what you have decided to accomplish. The Law of Iron Will allows you to commit your decisions to God and resolutely carry them out, no matter what the odds of your success may be according to the well-established and revered pundits of the day.

Every truly successful person has had to take a stand on ground that was not confirmed or believed in by others. Every significant breakthrough in science, education, and industry has come as the result of single-minded, steadfast opposition to the conventional wisdom of naysayers who oppose change and cling to the presumed safety of the status quo.

The key to the Law of Iron Will is your definiteness of purpose. By focusing on the definite object that your decision represents and concentrating on that object while waking and sleeping, you develop the toughness of mind, tenacity of spirit, and tautness of emotions to withstand, counter, and overcome all the objections and negative assaults of the do-nothings and under-achievers who don’t have the courage and drive that you do.

The Law of Iron Will supports and cradles you during the difficult and oftentimes lonely struggle to bring to fruition the new product, service, or application that you have created through utilizing your imagination and the concomitant skills and abilities that you have developed along the way.

The Law of Iron Will is the full body, mind, spirit, and emotions armor that not only protects you in the thick of all aspects of battle but also allows you to simply stand your ground, unmoved and unshaken by the negative forces arrayed against you.

Finally, you can’t continue to think about success in the abstract: you must speak its definition to yourself every day. “Success is maximizing my personal growth and development, the highest and best use of myself, the resources I receive, and the resources I create, with the intent to become all that God has created me to be.”

Thus, success is a competitive activity in which you engage only yourself and no other person. You are not in competition with anyone else, because no one is willing to give more than you give, care more than you care, or provide the service you provide above and beyond what you are compensated. You are the only person who can keep you from attaining the success that is uniquely yours. Your success is measurable both in quantitative and qualitative terms by examining your own life in the light of the Law of Iron Will.