Control Of Consciousness Determines The Quality Of

Repression Is Not The Way To Virtue. When People Restrain Themselves Out Of Fear, Their Lives Are By Necessity Diminished. Only Through Freely Chosen Discipline Can Life Be Enjoyed And Still Kept Within The Bounds Of Reason.

A Paycheck Is A Sufficient Impetus To Motivate Some Employees To Do The Minimum Amount To Get By, And For Others, The Challenge Of Getting Ahead In The Organization Provides A Satisfactory Focus For A While. But These Incentives Alone Are Rarely Strong Enough To Inspire Workers To Give Their Best To Their Work. For This A Vision Is Needed, An Overarching Goal That Gives Meaning To The Job, So That An Individual Can Forget Himself In The Task And Experience Flow Without Doubts Or Regrets. The Most Important Component Of Such A Vision Is An Ingredient We Call Soul.

A Person Can Make Himself Happy, Or Miserable, Regardless Of What Is Actually Happening 'outside,' Just By Changing The Contents Of Consciousness.

It Does Not Seem To Be True That Work Necessarily Needs To Be Unpleasant. It May Always Have To Be Hard, Or At Least Harder Than Doing Nothing At All. But There Is Ample Evidence That Work Can Be Enjoyable, And That Indeed, It Is Often The Most Enjoyable Part Of Life.

For Better Or Worse, Our Future Will Be Determined In Large Part By Our Dreams And By The Struggle To Make Them Real.