Friday, October 7, 2011

The Course in Mastery Day 6: The Unlimited Power of Belief

Day 6 of a 30 day challenge designed to help you gain balance in your life. Today, Tom Wood and Dr. Janet Lapp explain the impact that faith has on your level of success.



Tom Wood

1. Story of Wilma Rudolph
1.1 Wilma Rudolph was born prematurely at 4.5 lbs. , the 20th of 21 other brothers and sisters, and caught infantile paralysis (caused by the polio virus) as a very young child. She recovered, but wore a brace on her left leg and foot which had become twisted as a result. By the time she was twelve years old, she had also survived scarlet fever, whooping cough, chickenpox, and measles. Her family drove her regularly from Clarksville, Tennessee to Nashville, Tennessee for treatments to straighten her twisted leg. She also had to have a leg brace on for three years(6 to 9).
1.2 Wilma Glodean Rudolph (June 23, 1940 – November 12, 1994) was an American athlete. Rudolph was considered the fastest woman in the world in the 1960s and competed in two Olympic Games, in 1956 and in 1960.
2. You can transform your life by mastering your beliefs
3. The power of belief changes everything.
4. The most powerful mindset if the belief we have about ourselves and what we can accomplish.
5. Belief is not just a concept its a science.
6. Belief is a physical thing that happens in your brain.
7. Turn an opinion into a belief, and turn that belief into conviction.
8. A belief gets its strength from the evidence that supports it.
9. You got to find more experiences and interpret those experiences in a way that supports your beliefs.
10. Pay attention to the associations and informations that comes in your life.



Dr. Janet Lapp

Since 1985, Dr. Janet Lapp and the Center for Leadership Development have been guiding high performing organizations through change.










1. Story about W Mitchell
1.1 W Mitchell (b. April 11, 1943) is an American motivational speaker and businessman. He is a former member of the United States Marine Corps, burn victim, paraplegic, and a former small-town mayor.
1.2 Made a list of things to accomplish
1.3 There were ten thousand things that I can do before these accidents, and now there are nine thousand things that I can do. I choose to fouces on the nine thousand things that I can do and not on the one thousand things that I can't do.
2. Success is an interior job, and has nothing to do with what you look like, how much education you have, or where you live. It has to do with attitude.
3. Passion comes from within
4. Keep the focus
5. Embrace change, be open to change


OJ Lopez
1. Find a place that can nurture my beliefs
2. Make a list of things to accomplish
2.1 Be an architect
2.2 Be a motivational speaker
2.3 Be a pilot
2.4 Travel 150 countries
2.5 Travel in space
2.6 Be a billionaire
2.7 Have six pack abs


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