英語(yǔ)美文朗讀 第492期 Concentrate on developing yourself
Many people go through life, never getting in touch with their greatness because of the lack of motivation to push themselves, or because they have not found something that they believe to be worthwhile, to challenge them. And many are talented persons, have gone unnoticed, and the world never had a chance to be exposed to their talent, because that person did not take the time to begin to express or to demonstrate, or to motivate themselves in the direction to bring that which they came into the universe to bring, many people will leave the universe without a trace, no one will know they were here, and in fact under their name we could put under they're not used up.
Will anybody know that you came this way, what contribution are you giving, what will you leave, what will be different because you came this way, that life is our gift to us, that God has given us, and how we live our lives is our gift to God, what kind of gift are you formulating? Is this a gift that you like to take back and do something else before you turn it in.
Think about that, what can we do, what are some of the keys, that we can begin to use to motivate ourselves when our batteries run low, because I don't care who you are, I don't care what you do, at some time you are going to get tired, at some time you're going to get in a rut, seem like nothing you do works out right, and sometimes it just seems like you just don't have the wherewithal or the will to do anything, that sometimes you act like you're punch-drunk you're just wading through like just during time day in and day out, looking at nondiscriminatory television, anything that's all just looking, and depressed, feeling powerless, feeling useless, and bored, what do you do, how did you get yourself out of a rut, how do you when you know you can do more than what you've been doing and you're not doing it and you're discontented where you are you get angry at yourself.
How do you get out of that rut, how do you motivate yourself, one of the things that we must do, is that we must be involved in working on achieving self mastery. You must work on yourself continuously, never be satisfied with yourself, always know that as you invest the effort and time on you, that's the greatest ability that human beings have above animals, see a dog can't be anything but a dog, tree can't be anything but a tree, human being you've got unlimited potential, you can put effort on you and by concentrating on you and developing you, you can transform your life wherever you are right now.
So you want to work on yourself, you want to read books that inspire you and motivate you, you want to listen to tapes over and over and over again, and I suggest that you listen to tapes when you first get up in the morning, you want to control the spirit of your day, when you first wake up in the morning your mind is operating at 10.5 wave cycles per second, that's when the subconscious mind is most impressionable, whatever you hear in the first 20 minutes when you wake up, that will affect the spirit of your day.
When you listen to tapes listen with relaxed belief, believing that this can happen for you, and by listening to them, listen to them over and over and over again, and you will get a breakthrough, you can listen to the same tape for months and all of a sudden you hear something you never heard before, and have a special meaning for you, or read the same book over again and you'll find some special insight you said I can't believe I didn't see that the first time.
So you want to be involved and developing yourself, most people won't do that most people won't take that kind of effort and invest that kind of energy in themselves, because they will fall prey to that conversation within, oh don't do that, you don't have time, you're too busy, you're too caught up in the rat race. Most people won't do that, well they won't take time to go to lectures, they won't take time to go to seminars they won't take time to go to classes, to improve themselves.
And as you continue to work on yourself you will begin to expand your vision of yourself, you'll begin to work towards self mastery, and you will begin to see it reflect itself in all the dimensions of your life your mental life, your physical life, your social life, in your relationships your monetary life, so concentrate on developing yourself.
