We have an obligation to create our own success and opportunity to help others do same and to weave ALL our individual successes into glorious, unfinished tapestry of this country's past, present, and future.  

As with signers of Declaration and all heroic men and women who have carried torch, it all begins with a dream. A vision. A goal.  

Just yesterday a very wise person told me, "If you don't have a dream and a goal that you're actively working toward, you are trading your life for nothing."  

Think of signers or of any great achiever in any field of endeavor in any country -- anyone you admire, anyone who is successful. What do they all have in common besides dreams, vision, goals, purpose? They all have something called discipline, a word that immediately frightens or repels many (perhaps most) people because when they see or hear it, they think "punishment," "deprivation."  

They resist notion of self-discipline because they think it constricts them; they prefer no rules, no plans -- just "freedom." Ironically, though, that kind of "freedom" is simply right to remain in "comfort zone" where mediocrity is king. And discipline is key that unlocks those chains.  

What discipline really means is simply this: The ability to give yourself a command and then do it -- "to see job through."  

First you need a plan (command), then action (follow-through). To do that, you need something that's bigger than yourself to motivate you -- your dream, vision, goal, and your purpose. True COMMITMENT to those things, then, means taking ACTION consistently, daily: Giving yourself a command and following through. And to follow through is a definition of word, "succeed."  

Without this commitment born of your own innermost desires, dreams and goals remain empty wishes. Vision becomes a pathetic pipedream. And purpose? There is none.  

You already have within you everything you need to achieve everything you truly want. You are more powerful than you can imagine. But only you can take action to set that power -- and yourself -- free.  

What do YOU want for your life -- for yourself, your loved ones, your community, country, world? What's your DREAM, VISION, GOAL?  

Why do you want those things? What's your PURPOSE?

What price are you willing to pay? Are you COMMITTED?

Do you have a plan? Are you taking ACTION -- DAILY action in following through on your commitment to your own vision and purpose?  

We're at halfway point of year. We're at time when we celebrate and commemorate one of world's great acts of vision, purpose and commitment.  

We are at moment of decision, and you are next in line, facing YOUR choice: Submit to chains of mediocrity and a lifetime of settling for less than you are capable of being, doing, and having -- or claim your power, break free of insidious oppression of "comfort zone," and declare your own independence and right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness as YOU define it.  

The paper is before you. The pen is in your hand.

Will you sign?

©2004 Rebecca Fine

Rebecca Fine is the founder of The Science of Getting Rich NETwork where you can download your FREE copy of the amazing 1910 forgotten classic, The Science of Getting Rich. http://www.scienceofgettingrich.net