05-09-2006, 21:59
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The Strangest Secret
Anyone know what it is?
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05-10-2006, 06:07
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clue
I do, but I don't want to ruin the guessing game. Instead I'll drop a hint:
"Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal"
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05-10-2006, 06:23
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Having Heart?
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05-10-2006, 08:26
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There are no secrets!
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"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." [Samuel Adams]
Jim
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05-10-2006, 08:40
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If I told ya, it wouldn't be a secret anymore 
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"I have hung out in dangerous places a lot over the years, from combat zones to biker bars, and it is the weak, the unaware, or those looking for it, that usually find trouble.
Ain't no one getting out of this world alive. All you can do is try to have some choice in the way you go. Prepare yourself (and your affairs), and when your number is up, die on your feet fighting rather than on your knees. And make the SOBs pay dearly."
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05-10-2006, 10:56
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"You become what you think about."
Any idea why I put it in here?
(no answer required).
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05-10-2006, 20:33
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Consigliere
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Originally Posted by Warrior-Mentor
"You become what you think about."
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Damn, so I'm going to grow huge breasts, long blonde hair and become a hot chick?
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05-10-2006, 20:49
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Originally Posted by Roguish Lawyer
Damn, so I'm going to grow huge breasts, long blonde hair and become a hot chick?
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No, that would be, "You look like you shoot."
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Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn't worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about 'how hard it is;' he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn't go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.
Still want to quit?
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05-10-2006, 20:58
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Originally Posted by Warrior-Mentor
"You become what you think about."
Any idea why I put it in here?
(no answer required).
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Back when I was in training to be a CAP, when I would PT, I would try to keep an image of a flash in my mind. I didn't know a lot about SF then, so I visualized a 5th Group flash. I found I could go a little further or do a few more reps when I did.
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Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn't worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about 'how hard it is;' he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn't go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.
Still want to quit?
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05-10-2006, 21:06
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Originally Posted by NousDefionsDoc
Back when I was in training to be a CAP, when I would PT, I would try to keep an image of a flash in my mind. I didn't know a lot about SF then, so I visualized a 5th Group flash. I found I could go a little further or do a few more reps when I did.
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Imagine how much further or how many more reps you could have done if you visualized a 7th Group flash. 
TR
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05-10-2006, 21:08
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Originally Posted by The Reaper
Imagine how much further or how many more reps you could have done if you visualized a 7th Group flash.
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My education in the formative years was severly lacking Sir (Leg Father). Fortunately I was able to see the error of my ways and reform. In my defense, it was the Vietnam-era flash. 
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Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn't worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about 'how hard it is;' he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn't go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.
Still want to quit?
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05-10-2006, 22:08
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Funny, WM, I have a variant of that myself:
"We become what we pretend to be."
- Whether by emulating someone we respect
- Or by striving to be worthy of emulation by those that respect us
- Or by doggedly hanging onto a dream that nobody else believes in
If you continue to invest yourself in that one vision, sooner or later you will arrive to find yourself the person that you imagined at the start of your journey.
Thanks for all the inspirational posts.
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"If simple folk are free from care and fear, simple they will be, and we must be secret to keep them so." - JRRT
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05-11-2006, 02:28
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Visualization can be more than just a form of rehearsal.
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05-11-2006, 20:25
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I know that as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he, but Job said that the thing he so greatly feared had come upon him. Have you noticed whether people desperately afraid of failing tend to fail? I understand that desire to succeed contains the aversion to failure, but for some the definition of success seems to be only avoiding failure - in other words, the primary focus is "don't fail, don't fail". Is that focus an indicator for eventual failure?
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05-11-2006, 21:08
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It is.
Here's why...your subconscious doesn't hear the word "don't".
That's why you MUST not tell yourself "Don't Quit" ...because that's what you'll do.
Instead, tell yourself "KEEP GOING."
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