People are always looking for and attempting to find the secret of accomplishing real true success and its related happiness. This quest for success can become an on going intense domination of their lives. Whenever a person begins to search for something that has or will have a positive impact on their life, it behooves them to clearly identify what it is they are looking for before they begin searching.

You cannot ever find that which you are looking for without first knowing precisely what it is that is the object of your search.

There are many stories written about different types of men and women throughout history who have spent their entire lives and fortunes looking for things that they have never found. How sad is that? Just imagine for a moment you spending all of your earnings and savings and all of your years of life looking for, searching for, or scouring the countryside for some sort of object that you really didn’t know for certain what it looked like. How would you ever know if you found it,…if you could not identify it?

Therein lies the problem with most people who are seriously searching for something they have never properly identified. Consider these truths of life concerning the discovery of something that you seriously claim that you want or need:

1. Before beginning the search, precisely determine what it really is that
you are looking for. Know what it looks like, feels like, and/or smells
like. Completely and accurately identify the object of your quest.

2. Determine where it is that you are going to find this desired object.

3. Develop a viable working plan that once completed will in fact enable
you to actually find the object of your search.

4. Seek out the advice and counsel of people who know more than you
know about finding and possessing the object of your search. Allow
them to teach you what to do in order to successfully complete your
mission. Learn what they know that will assist you and then follow
their guidance through to completion.

5. Decide, before beginning your search, that you will successfully do
whatever it takes in order to find that which you are searching for, and
that you will never quit the required work steps until you have found
and possessed what you are looking for.

Resolute determination on your part to complete your mission and accomplish that which you are attempting to accomplish is an absolute must if you are ever to find what you are looking for. Resolute determination on your part to keep searching no matter what the price or circumstances happen to be is what will enable you to persevere through all of the work and clear all of the obstacles out of your path. Willingness on your part to pay full price is what will be required if you truly intend achieve your objectives and accomplish what it is that you desire.

You alone are the key to unlocking all of the doors that lie between where you now stand and where you desire to end up.

HOPE is the well marked centerline on the pathway to your success.

Hope is not the same as joy when things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for great or early success, but rather it is an ability to work and continue working for something to succeed that will indeed produce a desired result.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but rather it is the certainty that some thing makes sense regardless of how it turns out.

It is this hope, above all, that gives us strength to live and to continually try new things even in conditions and circumstances that seem hopeless.
Life is too precious to permit its devaluation by living pointlessly, emptily, without meaning, without love and, finally, without hope.

Please join with me in a closing prayer to our Lord:

Precious Heavenly Father, Creator of all the Universe, please give me the strength to greet this special day and all of its challenges with hope and the certainty that I am your creation, born to succeed, designed to accomplish greatness, endowed with your eternal strength, and fully supported by your unconditional love. Please allow me to be ever mindful that through You, all things are indeed possible.
In Your Precious Name,…Amen

Peace and Love to All of You…………………Poppa Bear