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♫  Turn on your speakers! CLICK TO ADVANCE SLIDES Copyright © 2010 Brian & Martha. All Rights Reserved ENTHUSIASM Adapted from a text by Norman Vincent Peale Makes The Difference!
What Enthusiasm  Can Do For You. What we so desperately need is the capacity  for exercising enthusiasm. One of the greatest human needs of our time is a weapon to fight mediocrity,  one that will teach us how to make use of zest and vitality and the creative forces buried deep within us.
Enthusiasm can truly make a difference —the difference in how your life will turn out. Individuals who achieve the most in life are invariably activated by enthusiasm. The men who do the most with their lives are those who approach human existence, its opportunities and its problems—even its rough moments—with a confident attitude and an enthusiastic point of view.  Therefore, it seems timely to stress the vital power of enthusiasm and to suggest ways to develop and maintain this powerful and precious motivating force.
Enthusiasm is the dynamic motivator that keeps one  persistently working toward his goal. Sir Edward V. Appleton, the Scottish physicist whose scientific discoveries made possible worldwide broadcasting and won him a Nobel prize, was asked for the secret of his amazing achievements.  "It was enthusiasm,"  he said.  "I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill."   For without enthusiasm, one would scarcely be willing to endure the self-discipline and endless toil so necessary in developing professional skill.
Voltaire once described a man as being like a warming oven, always heating but never cooking anything.  Commenting on this viewpoint, Harold Blake Walker points out that many people live without zest, dragging themselves through their jobs without vitality; in a word, heating just enough to get by but never really cooking. But amazing things do happen,  he points out, when a person  really catches fire and starts  the cooking process.
"Go beyond simmering, even to boiling,  and you will discover talents and powers  you never dreamed were yours." The mental and spiritual heat created by enthusiasm can burn off the apathy-failure elements in any personality and release hitherto unused, even unsuspected powerhouse qualities.  Walker puts it another way:
Overcome Apathy Indeed, one should never hesitate to be on the warm side. This emotionally empty crowd apparently has always been around and has never rated very high. As a matter of fact, in Biblical times they were referred to as  ". . . lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of My mouth."  That is a pretty rough evaluation and forthright treatment, but it describes a pretty innocuous lot.  Even though enthusiastic commitment may carry with it the risk of being wrong, still the committed person, win or lose, is the one who finds the real excitement in living. There are, of course, quite a few people in the "couldn't care less" category, who are neither hot nor cold.
"Apathy can only be overcome by enthusiasm,  and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things:  If we can help reduce the number of lethargic people and bring even a few of them into the enthusiastic class, not only will they get more out of life personally, but the world itself will be improved. The historian Arnold Toynbee said,  first, an ideal which takes the imagination by storm,  and second, a definite intelligible plan for a carrying  that ideal into practice."
"I would rather be ashes than dust.  I would rather that my spark would burn out  in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot.  Jack London, summed up the matter thus: I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow,  than a sleepy and permanent planet.  The proper function of man is to live, not to exist."
And how does one have enthusiasm in life? Actually, it is as simple as this: The person who loves becomes enthusiastic,  filled with the sparkle and the joy of life.  And then he goes on to fill it full of meaning. If you're not enthusiastic,  begin today to cultivate the love of living. Cultivate the ability to love living. Love people,  love the sky under which you live,  love beauty,  LOVE GOD.
Don't depreciate life by enumerating all  the things that are wrong with it.  Things are wrong, and something has to be done about them.  So love it while you can,  and be full of enthusiasm. But focus mentally upon all that is right.  A lifetime on earth doesn't last very long.  It is here today and gone tomorrow.

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Enthusiasm

  • 1. ♫ Turn on your speakers! CLICK TO ADVANCE SLIDES Copyright © 2010 Brian & Martha. All Rights Reserved ENTHUSIASM Adapted from a text by Norman Vincent Peale Makes The Difference!
  • 2. What Enthusiasm Can Do For You. What we so desperately need is the capacity for exercising enthusiasm. One of the greatest human needs of our time is a weapon to fight mediocrity, one that will teach us how to make use of zest and vitality and the creative forces buried deep within us.
  • 3. Enthusiasm can truly make a difference —the difference in how your life will turn out. Individuals who achieve the most in life are invariably activated by enthusiasm. The men who do the most with their lives are those who approach human existence, its opportunities and its problems—even its rough moments—with a confident attitude and an enthusiastic point of view. Therefore, it seems timely to stress the vital power of enthusiasm and to suggest ways to develop and maintain this powerful and precious motivating force.
  • 4. Enthusiasm is the dynamic motivator that keeps one persistently working toward his goal. Sir Edward V. Appleton, the Scottish physicist whose scientific discoveries made possible worldwide broadcasting and won him a Nobel prize, was asked for the secret of his amazing achievements. "It was enthusiasm," he said. "I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill." For without enthusiasm, one would scarcely be willing to endure the self-discipline and endless toil so necessary in developing professional skill.
  • 5. Voltaire once described a man as being like a warming oven, always heating but never cooking anything. Commenting on this viewpoint, Harold Blake Walker points out that many people live without zest, dragging themselves through their jobs without vitality; in a word, heating just enough to get by but never really cooking. But amazing things do happen, he points out, when a person really catches fire and starts the cooking process.
  • 6. "Go beyond simmering, even to boiling, and you will discover talents and powers you never dreamed were yours." The mental and spiritual heat created by enthusiasm can burn off the apathy-failure elements in any personality and release hitherto unused, even unsuspected powerhouse qualities. Walker puts it another way:
  • 7. Overcome Apathy Indeed, one should never hesitate to be on the warm side. This emotionally empty crowd apparently has always been around and has never rated very high. As a matter of fact, in Biblical times they were referred to as ". . . lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of My mouth." That is a pretty rough evaluation and forthright treatment, but it describes a pretty innocuous lot. Even though enthusiastic commitment may carry with it the risk of being wrong, still the committed person, win or lose, is the one who finds the real excitement in living. There are, of course, quite a few people in the "couldn't care less" category, who are neither hot nor cold.
  • 8. "Apathy can only be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: If we can help reduce the number of lethargic people and bring even a few of them into the enthusiastic class, not only will they get more out of life personally, but the world itself will be improved. The historian Arnold Toynbee said, first, an ideal which takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for a carrying that ideal into practice."
  • 9. "I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. Jack London, summed up the matter thus: I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist."
  • 10. And how does one have enthusiasm in life? Actually, it is as simple as this: The person who loves becomes enthusiastic, filled with the sparkle and the joy of life. And then he goes on to fill it full of meaning. If you're not enthusiastic, begin today to cultivate the love of living. Cultivate the ability to love living. Love people, love the sky under which you live, love beauty, LOVE GOD.
  • 11. Don't depreciate life by enumerating all the things that are wrong with it. Things are wrong, and something has to be done about them. So love it while you can, and be full of enthusiasm. But focus mentally upon all that is right. A lifetime on earth doesn't last very long. It is here today and gone tomorrow.