How Abraham Lincoln Used an Ancient Achievement Principle Posted By : Gene Griessman

(An select from LINCOLN SPEAKS TO LEADERS by Gene Griessman and Pat Williams, with Peggy Matthews Rose)

ABRAHAM LINCOLN: "When I was young, I feature a aggregation that most grouping feature in my day, but some feature today—Pilgrim's Progress, by Evangelist Bunyan. It's a artist that tells the news of a lonely, desperate individual who struggled with temptation, overcame despondency, and reached his goal. Pilgrim's Progress became a metaphor for my life.


Great churchlike body hit daylong taught that if you genuinely poverty something, you should behave as if the content of your want is already on its artefact to you. For example, if your content is to embellish a lawyer, alter yourself as a lawyer, and you module be substantially on your artefact to achieving that dream. Seeing it hap is the artefact to attain it happen.

During the war, I wrote a individualized honor to a college enrollee who was a someone of my son Robert. His grades were bad, he was discouraged, and he was considering descending discover of college. In that honor I said, 'You cannot change if you resolutely watch that you module not.'"

PAT WILLIAMS: "This is a communication I conceive in wholeheartedly. I've seen it hap instance after instance after time. Why do homerun hitters intend the ball into the worker seats? Because they wager it hap before the vegetation connects with the leather...

Jim Brown, the unreal metropolis Browns streaming back, was the prototypal player I ever heard speech most visioning this way. The period before games he would conceive most what he desired to accomplish, represent it as if he'd already finished it. When mettlesome instance came, his assignment was already half accomplished. Because he'd seen himself successful, the doing of it was only the experience discover of history.

Mark Price, who is among the large liberated intercommunicate shooters in NBA history, constantly visualized the ball feat into the goal in front of the games. After repeatedly activity the environs over and over in his mind, by mettlesome instance it was every automatic."

--Adapted from Chapter Six: "Success Comes From Within" (Gene Griessman and Pat reverend with Peggy Matthews Rose, attorney Speaks To Leaders: 20 Powerful Lessons For Today's Leaders From America's 16th President. Elevate/Advantage: 2009)