Willpower.
It’s one of the most powerful things that can be developed. It is the gods gift to man to go and accomplish whatever he can conceive of. With sufficient willpower there are few things in this world that will not eventually yield to you. With willpower you can taste the highest fruits no matter how long you were born. With willpower you can conquer the world. Men have done it before and will do it again. The spoils belong to the bold, to the brave, to the daring, to those that flex their will upon the world and affect it.
Yet we’re told by small spirited men in white coats that willpower is something we have limited use of, that can’t be built, that is a feeble ineffective thing because is their spiritless hearts that is what their willpower has become. However that does not mean that, that is the fate of your own willpower. Do not listen to the feeble men in white coats that design lies to limit and constrain you. Instead live your own life, build you own path, and see what reality truly is.
Willpower can be infinitely grown and can be called upon again and again. It is not like time, where once you spend it, it’s gone, never to return. Rather willpower is a muscle, a muscle of the soul, of the spirit. A muscle that is used to change and affect the world around you. Like a muscle it can get tired but like a muscle is can also grow and strengthen. However unlike a physical muscle the muscle of the will can always grow more and stays with us so long as we use, refusing to fade with age.
The Will Of Man
Is his defense against this world. Is his weapon to forge ahead and fight the many battles that lie in wait for him. With a strong will there is very little that man cannot do. Combine faith or vision, whatever you want to call it, with willpower and you have one of the most powerful combinations in this world. Combine those two with a strong work ethic and a desire for knowledge and that’s about as close to unstoppable as a human being can get. Willpower, faith, hard work, and a seeker of knowledge. The formula for what immorality a mortal can get.
The first step to forging an iron will is realizing that it’s infinite. To reject the notions of the modern world that a will is a weak feeble tool that cannot be relied upon or used to accomplish great or small things. To reject the traps, the snares, and the lies of the modern world that are designed to keep you cooped up in a cage, locked and in chains. Weak and feeble and easy to control. You must reject the chains, bonds, and cages of the body, mind, and soul. And the first is understanding the power of willpower.
Your mind is a great enabler or limiter. Beware limiting thoughts and thought patterns for they will cripple you mentally and physically just as sure as placing your arm or leg in a bear trap would physically. Believe in yourself, have faith, and you can do great and noble things. Fail to believe in yourself, believe in the trappers of the modern world, in your doubts, in all the little snags that come to wear you down, and you will accomplish nothing and go nowhere.
But only you have the choice. Choose comfortable slavery that’ll let you fit in and not go against the grain. Or take the harder path of truth and freedom, which is a road fraught with peril and dangers.
The Developing Of An Iron Will
Learn to say “no” to yourself and to others. If you don’t want to do something then say no to it, stop letting other bullies and control you through taking advantage of your niceness. Learn to say no when you mean no. This doesn’t just apply to others but to yourself as well. Learn to say no to your baser nature and instincts, learn to bring them in line. Not to snuff them out but rather to be in control so that they can function properly and in a healthy way. Learn to say no to weak aspects of yourself and yes to strong.
Learn to say no to eating the donut, no to watching porn, no to working a dead end job forever. Learn to say yes to eating that liver and eggs, yes to going to the gym, yes to learning and growing and experiencing new things. But learning to say no is the start of developing your willpower and the forging of an iron will. The next is find a place to be “inside the fire” a place where you’ll be tested and forced to suffer hardship but keep pressing on.
Athletics and camping are two natural sources of this and I highly recommend both. Both expose you to discomfort and force you to press on despite your body not wanting you too. Every time you ignore the weaker urge to give up and instead heed the stronger urge to press on, you become stronger. Not only do you become stronger but you also develop your willpower and help to forge that iron will. Every time you choose the harder right over the easier wrong you help to forge yourself an iron will.
Doing the above things over time, years, will eventually turn your weak and wobbly will into a will of iron. A will that can crash through the obstacles in your path, a will that will not be denied, a will that will leave its imprint upon the world. A will that’ll allow you to accomplish your most lofty goals and live the life that you were created to live. It is by no means an easy path but no path worth treading is.
Don’t Deny The Gift
Willpower was the gods gift to man, something for him to fight the many troubles of the world with. For a man to think his weapon useless or to fail to understand the great gift it is, is a man that’ll never live the life he wants that will in all likelihood, never amount to much. I want to spare you this fate, the fate of so many in the modern age. I want you to live with passion and purpose. To live with a backbone, a strong arm, a keen mind, a fiery heart, and an iron will. Do all that you can to develop this gift for it will serve you time and time again.
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-Charles Sledge
