The Desire of a Champion by Paul J. Meyer

We have been told that talent creates its own opportunities.

People who are successful year after year have PROVEN that
intense DESIRE creates not only its own opportunities, but
also its own talents. For these people, INTENSE, BURNING
DESIRE has been developed as a HABIT... a WAY OF LIFE... a
DELIBERATE COURSE OF DISSATISFACTION. This is the desire of a
Champion in any line of work.

INTENSE DESIRE is infinitely more than wanting or wishing...
more than compulsion or stimulation. Desire is an overwhelming
demand for change – a personal war with "things as they are"
and the willingness to make any sacrifice to bring about that
change.

EVERY REVOLUTION IN HISTORY... in thought, government, ethics,
art, religion, and science has been the result of one person's
DESIRE to change the status quo... to win a race with time,
custom, tradition, or himself.

This is the reason that DESIRE burns like a WHITE HOT FLAME in
the heart of every CHAMPION. DESIRE is the vital essence of a
champion's inner self.

WHAT IS DESIRE?

DESIRE IS THE QUALITY THAT MAKES WINNERS in every walk of
life.

• A person with activated DESIRE isn't nearly as afraid of
losing as a loser is secretly afraid of winning!

• A person with DESIRE makes commitments; other people make
promises.

• DESIRE makes a person go through a problem; other people go
around them.

• DESIRE gives a person the knowledge and judgment as to when
to say yes or no; ordinary people say maybe or perhaps at the
wrong times and for the wrong reasons.

• DESIRE gives a person the courage to say, "I'm good, but not
as good as I should be. " Ordinary people say, "I'm not as bad
as a lot of other people."

• DESIRE engenders respect for those in authority; lack of
desire breeds resentment.

• DESIRE makes individuals feel responsible for more than
their jobs; ordinary people say, "I only work here."

THERE IS A CERTAIN RESTLESSNESS, RECKLESSNESS, and
AGGRESSIVENESS about DESIRE...

An army, a nation, an organization, or a member of a sales
force becomes tired and complacent when DESIRE is lost.

And it makes no difference whether DESIRE falls to logic,
self-satisfaction, or disillusion. Without it, the future is
as barren as volcanic ash.

• It offers nothing that would surpass that which is or has
been. The principal effect of BURNING DESIRE is that it
separates those who set goals for success from those who
merely daydream about it. It eliminates the plodders, the
wanters, and the wishful thinkers.

• DESIRE brings forward people with insatiable appetites for
competition, for action, for all the world has to offer.

• There is active self-awareness in desire. It gives its
possessors the feeling that they have a mission to perform, a
destiny to meet and conquer.

• I've never known anyone with intense desire who didn't work
harder than those without it.

People who lack desire are always too busy to do needs to be
done.

Intense desire also gives you the ability to know what to
fight for... and when and where you should compromise.

When desire is lacking, nothing is worth fighting for.

BURNING DESIRE gives you a THIRST for COMPETITION.
Personally, I love competition because it forces you to
analyze yourself - to look closer at your own ability. And
every time you look, your DESIRE becomes stronger; you want to
accomplish greater things.

People don't compete enough. They either devise an alibi or
level off too soon. They're dominated by their personal
standards. They're too easily satisfied with average living
and average accomplishments.

HOW DO YOU DEVELOP A BURNING DESIRE?

You create DESIRE automatically whenever you challenge
yourself! And the way we react to a challenge determines the
destiny of our lives. WHEN DO YOU CHALLENGE YOURSELF? Every
morning with each new day!! There are so many challenges
waiting for you to accept:

1. New opportunities...
2. New prospects...
3. Beating yesterday's record...
4. Competing against yourself... and
5. Growing personally, a little more each day!

I sincerely believe that the DESIRE with which you meet a
challenge is the essential part of your soul. Without it you
lack spiritual guidance and creative expression.

Without DESIRE, you lack intuition - the still, small voice
that gives you insight to situations and people.

DESIRE IS INDEED AN UNLIMITED FORCE, but its possession
doesn't mean that you still won't have to work hard, to face
life's trials and make a few mistakes.

There is an old Russian proverb that says:

"THE SAME HAMMER THAT SHATTERS THE GLASS ALSO FORGES THE
STEEL."

The only way to merit membership into the WORLD OF SUCCESS is
to strive continually to activate, stimulate, and maintain the
kind of Desire that will make you a winner... the DESIRE OF A
CHAMPION!