[Vnbiz] Positive Attitude

[Tran Dinh Hoanh]

Dear CACC,

I am reading this wonderful book called "Your Best Life Now", the #1 New
York Times Bestseller by Joel Osteen.  This is a book about positive
thinking, postive attitude, positive living.  I am posting an excerpt here
to share with you.

Enjoy!

Hoanh
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"Every four years, the world's attention turns to the summer Olympic games.
For a few days, men and women from around the globe gather to compete
against the best.  Watching the summer games nowadays, it is almost
difficult to remember that only a few decades ago, track-and-field experts
pompously declared that non runner could break the four-minute-mile barrier.
Ostensibly, a human being couldn't run that far, that fast, for the length
of time.  "Experts" conducted all sorts of profound studies to show that it
was impossible to beat the four-minute barrier.  And for years, they were
right.  Nobody ever ran a mile in less than four minutes.



"But one day a young man came along who didn't believe the experts'
opinions.  He didn't dwell on the impossibilities.  He refused to let all
those negative words form a stronghold in his mind.  He began to train,
believing he was going to break that record.  Sure enough, he went out one
day and broke the four-minute-mile barrier.  He did what the experts said
couldn't be done.  His name was Roger Bannister, and he made sports history.



"Now, here is what I find so interesting about Roger Bannister story.  Within
ten years after Roger Bannister broke that record, 336 other runners had
broken the four-minute-mile record as well!  Think about that.  For hundreds
of years, as far back as statisticians kept track-and-field records, nobody
ran a mile in less than four minutes; then, within a decade, more than three
hundred people from various geographic locations were able to do it.  What
happened?



Simple.  The barrier to running a four-minute mile was in the athletes'
minds.  For all those years, runners believed what the experts were saying.
They were convinced that it was impossible to run a mile in less than four
minutes.



Here is the key point:  You will never go beyond the barriers in your own
mind.  If you think you can't do something, then you never will.  The battle
is in your mind.  If you are defeated in your mind, you've already lost the
battle.  If you don't think your dreams will ever come to pass, they never
will.  If you don't think you have what it takes to rise up and set that new
standard, it's not going to happen.  The barrier is in your mind.



That's what the Scripture calls a "stronghold."  It's a wrong thinking
pattern that keeps us imprisoned in defeat.  And that's why it is so
important that we think positive thoughts of hope, faith and victory. . ."




-- 
Tran Dinh Hoanh, LLB, JD
Attorney of Law
Washington DC
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