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KIDS OF CHARACTER 11/30/2009
The Champion Mind inston Churchill, the courageous voice of freedom during the darkest days of World War II, once said, “Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.” Whether we are eight or eighty, worry is the great mental robber. As worry arrests the mind, it cripples our ability to master life’s roadblocks. No one escapes worrying. Few, however, form the character resolve to courageously face down the worrying mind. As a young Little Leaguer I was hit in the head with a pitch. I was not physically injured, but the worry that subsequently possessed me about getting hit again, left me afraid to stand in the Batter’s Box. I did not want to worry, but I did not know how to think and plan differently. There is a mastery principle that men and women of character use to strengthen their resolve to become the person that they seek to become. I first learned the principle in my early twenties. It goes like this: You do it better on the outside when you do it first on the inside. Those words convey the efficient mental law of advance thinking and planning. When we learn to mentally rehearse what we wish to see happen in our life, we push to the corners of our mind the worry images that can keep us from achieving any goal, including the goals of developing our character. A young child can practice this important principle. At an early age a young one can be taught to use their mind like a champion athlete preparing for an event. The champion mind discovers it is never free from worry. But, the champion mind diminishes the power of worrying by mentally rehearsing and focusing on what is wanted rather than fixating on what is feared. As a youngster in Little League I did not know this principle. In my teens, a minister taught me how to use this mastery principle. Later, I discovered how the principle could be used purposefully in every area of my life. This principle became a positive mental habit. It helped me and certainly millions of others how to harness the power of the mind to see accomplish, in advance, small and large goals.
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