What is the relationship between faith and success?

Faith 

Faith: acceptance of principles which are not necessarily demonstrable
Faith: a strong belief in something without proof or evidence

• Faith  
• Thankfulness  
• Passion 

There will be many people who will tell you that you will never, or simply cannot, achieve your dream. They are 80% of people who once had a dream but have now settled for something less. They are the children who once stood in line at school, believing they would one day become pilots, doctors, actors, singers, ballerinas, novelists, and so on.

But their experience of life gradually ground them down and their dreams were reluctantly put away. Those dreams still live somewhere, deep down within their hearts, but they no longer believe that they are achievable. A whole assortment of well-intentioned individuals inadvertently conspired to change their minds about what was realistic for them.


First, their parents worked on them, questioning their abilities, doubting their chances and telling them that they once had the same dreams. Their parents told them they needed to grow up, be more responsible and life would work out just great.

 Then their teachers worked on them, saying that we all have such ambitions, but in the real world, you needed a trade, a job, a career - and that life had so very few of those exciting opportunities that you really wanted to know more about. They ingrained the attitude of the 'scarcity mentality' into their charges, rather than the 'abundance mentality'. They told these children that there just wasn't enough good stuff to go around.

Finally, their friends worked on them as they also settled for the jobs on offer. They questioned, what was so wrong with being a sales-person, a plumber, a secretary, or a bricklayer? The world needed these tradespeople (and so it does) and there was nothing wrong with making an honest living by providing these services.

That was how, gradually, their beliefs about the world were changed and they came to believe that it would not be possible to reach the heights they had once dreamed of, and so, they made their decision to settle for less; much less.

 After all this negative conditioning, only a few of those pilots-in-the-making believed they could still learn to fly aircraft; only a few of those singers still believed they were destined to sing for their supper. Many people had their dream strangled out of them. And when you are once again ready to pursue what is in your heart, you need to be aware that you are still not immune to this kind of negativity. There will still be many people ready to tell you why what you are now doing, or about to do, is hopeless!

The problems begin when you believe what you are being told because our ability to perform is often limited by what we believe. But with faith in our ability to deal with the obstacles in our path, we are capable of overcoming seemingly overwhelming odds. As an example of what can be accomplished when you have faith in your own ability, consider the inspiring story of Glenn Cunningham.

When he was a young boy, Glenn became trapped inside his school building when fire broke out. As a consequence, he was very badly burned and it seemed that he might die from his injuries as did his brother, Floyd. He lost the flesh from his legs and all of the toes from his left foot. The doctors recommended amputating his legs but, as he was so distressed, his parents would not agree to the procedure.

Glenn survived, though, unfortunately from his waist down, he was left completely paralyzed. However, determined to walk again, one day, he deliberately toppled his wheelchair causing him to fall to the ground. He then hauled his body across the front lawn to the fence at the edge of the garden where he painstakingly dragged himself along, post by post, all the while, trying to move his uncooperative legs.

He repeated this exercise every day, in the belief that he would one day be able to walk again, and his resolute persistence ultimately paid off as he developed the ability, first to stand upright and then, after some time, to walk without assistance. But the story does not end there because this young man continued to progress dramatically. After a while, he started to walk to school, and then he even began running; first, just to school and back, but in due course, he was able to join the school’s athletic team.


 As inconceivable as it might seem for someone so badly injured, he eventually became a top-class athlete and, at Madison Square Garden, in February 1934, that same young man who had been paralyzed, following a tragic accident that he had barely survived, broke the world record for the one-mile event.

 It is truly amazing what you can do when you believe in your own ability. That's why you need faith - a deep down, dogged belief that, regardless of the evidence, you are going to make it! You are going to achieve what you have set out to accomplish. You are going to make a difference in this life.

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