Are you tired of being pushed around by your bad habits and want to move forward to a higher goal?
……………………………. Bad Habits Are Your Worst Enemies
Bad habits are the worst enemies you can have. You are punished by those habits. They make you do things you do not want to do, and leave you to suffer the consequences. You must drop bad habits and leave them behind you as you move forward. Every day should be a transition from old habits to better habits. In this coming year make a solemn resolution to keep only those habits that are for your highest good.
The best way to get rid of your undesirable tendencies is not to think about them; do not acknowledge them. Never concede that a habit has a hold on you. “How can I be made to do what I don’t like to do?” That very thought keeps you going ahead in spite of habits that try to hold you back.
Make new determinations as to what you are going to do and what you are going to be in your future. Set a program for yourself; carry it through, and you will find how much happier you will be. Failure to keep to your schedule of improvement means you have paralyzed your will. You have no greater friend and no greater enemy than yourself. If you befriend yourself, you will find accomplishment.* There is no law of God preventing you from being what you want to be and accomplishing what you want to accomplish in the year ahead.
……………………………….Be What You Want To Be!
Nothing detrimental that happens can affect you unless you sanction it. It is your will power that is going to determine what you are able to do nothing else: not your past habits, not your past karma, not your horoscope. Consulting astrological charts gives authority and strength to your past karma. It weakens your will. God is your will. You must absolutely let no prejudice of doubt or despondency come between the power of your will and your life.
Doubt is disastrous. It paralyzes the motive power of hope and destroys the will. If will power is impaired, you have ruined your engine of accomplishment. Faith can accomplish anything; doubt can destroy everything. Under no circumstances allow yourself to become the victim of doubt. Let nothing weaken your conviction that you can be what ever you want to be. There is no one obstructing you unless it be yourself.
So many people are not only physically lazy but mentally idle as well. Constructive thought will absolutely, like a great hidden searchlight, show you the pathway to success. There is always a way to be found if you think hard enough. People who give up after a little while bedim their power of thought. In order to gain your end, you must do your utmost to use thought until it is luminous enough to reveal to you the way to your goal.
The power of suggestion is very strong. The ability to accomplish is all in the mind. Your body itself is virtually sustained by thought. Food is only incidental; the main power sustaining you is your mind, your consciousness. It is thought that brings energy into the body. When thought is neutralized, the body feels weak and begins to decay.
God’s thought is the essence of everything. It is living, it is infinite. Out of the Infinite Vastness, everything has been drawn. God pulls a thought out of His consciousness and that thought becomes a flower, and it becomes a certain kind of blossom; other thoughts become mountains, or gems, or stars.
Cast a way all negative thoughts and fears. Remember that as a child of God you are endowed with the same potentialities as the most excellent among men. As souls, none is greater than another. Attune your will to be guided by the wisdom of God as expressed in the wisdom of the sages. If your will is yoked to wisdom, you can achieve anything.
Fear inhibits progress. Whatever shall come, be prepared to face it; have the mental preparedness to go through any change without succumbing to the inertia caused by suffering. To face death itself should not daunt you. Fear of death is ridiculous, because as long as you are not dead you are alive, and when you are dead there is nothing more to worry about! From the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda.
