Three Skills of Success: What You Need to Win at the Game of Life

There are three traits that a person must possess to be successful in the game of life. If one does not have these three abilities one will make little or no progress. Fortunately for us any lacking quality can be evolved, and if one does not possess these three qualifications then your first job is to create them.

The three skills you must have are; ardent desire, iron will and alert conscious intelligence. So now you must know why these three qualifications are absolutely essential to success and the purpose they serve.

Desire is nature's power; it is the propulsive force that moves everything forward in its evolution. It is desire that creates the motive to take action. For example it is desire that drives the animal into the activities that evolve its physical body and sharpen its intelligence. If it had no desire it would lie inert and perish. It is the animal's desire for food, for drink, and for association with its kind; impel it to action, and the result is the evolution of strength, skill and intelligence in proportion to the intensity of its desires.

Once one has a desire you will seek to gratify it, you will accept risks and tribulations in so much as you seek to achieve your desire. If you do not succeed at first you will continue to try using different means until you succeed in achieving your desire. Driven forward by desire you will develop other qualities, such as strength, courage, patience, endurance, and intelligence.

If you have desires but they are the wrong kind then you must transmute them into a desirable desire. For example if one is prone to gambling because of the love of the excitement, then that person should transmute that desire for excitement from gambling to a field where the work is exciting such as EMS, emergency room technician, or even a race car driver. Trying to stop a desire is near impossible, so you must learn to transmute those desires from destructive to creative, from harmful to helpful, and from negative to positive.

Then there is the iron will; this is nothing less than your ability to stay the course, to finish what you start and make things happen as you choose. You must develop you iron will from the simple practice of sticking to your choices. There are those who change their mind every time the wind blows, you must develop the ability to stand by your decisions. A person with a weak will can't ever hope to succeed, to become a master of anything requires determination, perseverance, and persistence; a weakling will not go very far. If through logical argument you discover a choice is incorrect then freely change that choice, but if no logical evidence can be brought against the decision then you must stick with it regardless of emotions or opinions. As you develop your iron will you will be able to apply it not just to your choices but to your work ethic as well.

The final ability you must evolve is conscious intelligence. It is one thing to be able to think, it is another to come to a conclusion by connecting thoughts. You must be able to not only think for yourself, but to be able to do it because you want to. The universe is going to teach you many lessons in your life, if you do not take an active role in this learning then the lesson will be forced upon you, often in the form of misery. Instead seek to solve the puzzle of the problem, solve the source and not the symptoms.

You will find that these three qualities will be used by yourself so that you may be of use to others. It is the service to others that will bring about your success, whether that service is direct or indirect is completely up to you. If you develop a medical procedure used by others to cure a patient, or you use medical procedures to treat patients directly you are still of service to others, it is only a matter of what you are led to accomplish. Either way you are of use and service to others and that is why we are all here to help others so we may all evolve into better beings.

Always keep in mind that as you acquire these three qualifications you are moving towards a freer, richer, and more joyful life. It is how you live that people will remember you by; so live well.

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