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The will is directed by desire. Action of the will without the motive power of desire is unthinkable. A being can only will to act if there is a desire to act. Purpose and desire are one, and nothing happens without purpose or desire. Therefore when you cultivate certain desires, your will naturally flows towards the expression and manifestation of such desires. The main thing is to get clear of what you want before you can set a strong intention towards manifesting it. You can only will strongly what you really want.

The great difference between men, between the weak and the powerful, the great and the nothing, is Energy. It is invincible determination where once a purpose is fixed, ends only in victory or death. This quality will do anything that can be done in this world, and nobody can do anything without it. The idea of Persistence and Determination is identified closely with that of Will. The Will is the quality by which the individual asserts himself. All of reality creation and personal responsibility is based on use of will.
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It is not mere determination or persistency that does the work, because it will not avail to anything unless the will was there to do the cutting and shaping. This is where the double aspect of the will is manifested. The will in one phase does the work, while in another it forces the mind to hold itself up against the task. The will is the power behind determination and persistency, and it is also the force doing the work of cutting and shaping. It is action persisted intelligently that ultimately gets the task finished.

It is wonderful how even the oppositions of life seem to bow to a spirit that will not bow to them, and yield to serve a plan which they may, in their first apparent tendency, threaten to frustrate. When a firm, decisive spirit is recognized, it is curious to see how the space clears around a man and leaves him room and freedom. If you want the space and freedom to have what you want, you must create by being firm in your thoughts and actions. Do not bow to other forces when you decide what the right thing is.

The majority is afraid to let themselves feel a thing, and then to let the feeling express itself in powerful action like the steam in an engine. That feeling is what brings up the energy of motivation to do things. People rarely do things without the motivating force, and having this motivating force is the secret to achieving success in life. You must do things with feeling because action without feeling is drudgery. The way to develop that feeling is to feel what you want and then allow feeling to express as action.

Never undertake a task until you feel strongly enough to do it otherwise it will die off quickly or you will leave it hanging midway. Once you have started on a task, it is also up to you to concentrate on it so that your motivating force will continue to be generated towards it, or will be become dissipated in the air without result. The more intent you are on achieving something, the greater your confidence and desire grows. This also gives you the motivating force to do it. Concentrated direction will bring in results.

Since desire is the channel by which Will expresses itself through, be sure to map out your desire channels clearly by making the proper mental images of what you want. Make the desire channels deep and clear-cut by the force of repeated attention and autosuggestion. The word attention is derived from the Latin word “Attendere,” meaning “to stretch forth,” the original idea being that in Attention the mind was “stretched forth,” or “extended” toward the object of attention, and this is the correct idea.

You can only have more by growing and stretching yourself. That is why it takes constant mental effort to channel attention deliberately and stretch your mind towards the things that you want. Cultivate the focusing of the attention upon those things that you want. Keep the ideas before your attention as much as possible, so that the mind may take a firm grasp upon them, and make them a part of itself. By doing this you firmly impress the ideas upon the wax tablet of the mind. Stretch forth and grow more.

Cultivate an ardent desire, longing and craving demand for the materialization of the things you want. Demand that your mental pictures materialize. Demand that the details as well as the whole be manifested while making allowance for the “something better” which will surely arise to take the place of the original details as you go along. This craving demand is what channels strong desire energy for the inner consciousness to attend to and manifest the ways and means by which the things happen.

Desire firmly, confidently and earnestly. Be not halfhearted in your demands and desires. Claim and demand the whole thing, and feel confident that it will work out into material objectivity and reality. Think of it, dream of it and always long for it. You must learn to want it hard enough, in the worst possible way. You can attain and obtain many things by wanting them hard enough. The problem is most people do not want things hard enough and mistake vague cravings for earnest, longing desires and want.

Do not fear wanting something so strongly as being out of vibrational harmony with it. You must not fear desire but allow yourself to feel it fully and intensely. The way the universe works is that you only resist the manifestation when you resist the desire. Resisted desire because of fear or doubt only diminishes the strength and intensity of desire. You must be clear about what you want and desire it strongly enough. That strong feeling of desire is what enables your will to manifest strongly in shaping reality.[/hidepost]