Determination is the Most Powerful Word in the English Language

The older we get, the more time seems to get away from us.

If you remember when you were young, time went so slowly. Summers were forever, getting to Christmas was such an unbearably long time and it seemed as if you would never grow up. We always wanted to be older than we were and sometimes we even pretended to be older.

Now, time and our lives seem to whiz by at nano-speed. We look up dreading Mondays and then wonder where the week went when Friday rolls around. We reach our birthday and wonder what we did with that year of our life that just passed and is behind us.

Are you just going to let those years roll by and then live with a litany of regrets? Are you going to be sitting in a rocking chair thinking about all the things you could have done and wonder why you didn’t?

Think about this: Who are the people that you’ve admired in your life? It might be an ordinary person that you know–someone in your neighborhood or an acquaintance at church. It might be someone famous like Joan of Arc, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King, or Nelson Mandala–those historical giants that have left a great legacy with their work and efforts. Each and every one of those individuals was just like you AT SOME POINT. They were young and had big dreams of something, a passion, that they wanted to accomplish. They each could have allowed jobs, family, health, aging parents, setbacks, or money problems to derail the creation and development of their vision. But, they didn’t.

We all have issues that are gauntlets that slow us down, but we shouldn’t let those hurdles short-circuit our hopes and dreams. And they won’t, but only if we erect a spirit of determination without ourselves.

What makes them different from you? They had the DETERMINATION to accomplish something that was so important and so overriding to all their personal life issues that they persisted and as a result, were successful.
Determination is the most powerful word in the English language if we understand its real meaning: de (turn away from), termination(the end)

Each one of us is the same as these famous people. We all have the potential to be great. We all have the qualities deep within us to accomplish our most cherished dreams.

All it takes is the GAS of determination to propel us to that treasured destination.
Turn away from the end today, be determined!