Do you agree with these words from Rob White?Rob White wrote:We're often told that if we are to achieve our ambitions, we must find the right "how-to book," with the right recipe for success, or the right seminar with the right prescription for winning. Yet for so many, no matter how diligently they follow the recipe or prescription, be it for meaningful relationships, better health, more wealth, or higher spiritual fulfillment--it just doesn't seem to work. What happened?
What they didn't understand was that there is no power in a recipe or prescription; the power is in them. Or more aptly stated: "You are that power." Hence, you must work on yourself first if you're to apply a recipe or prescription and have it work effectively. No formula can do for you what you must do for yourself.
I agree wholeheartedly.
One area that I think epitomizes it is in dieting and weight loss. Many people will research, share, or come up with it all sorts of complex diets. Sometimes it seems like everyday there is new fad diet. Many people will say they have tried many diets that didn't work. But the simply reality is that almost any of the countless fad diets all work... if one sticks to it. Generally speaking, all weight loss diets work if you stick to it.
I believe the trick to success on such things--and by extension on most things--is not in finding the right recipe, prescription, or diet plan, but in doing the work needed to more fully manifest self-discipline (a.k.a. spiritual freedom). Or as Rob White so wisely puts it, "No formula can do for you what you must do for yourself."
What do you think?