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암이 암으로 성장되기까지는 15년의 세월이 필요로한다고 한다. 오늘 발견된 암은 최소 15년 동안

내 생활이 이를 만들어 왔다는 얘기다, 지금 오늘 일어난 부도가 실패가 도산이 파경이절교가 원수가

오늘지금 이 시간에 단 한번에 순간적으로 몰아 닥친그런 폭풍우가 아니다. 자그마한 실수, 어줍짢은

하찮은 잘못된 선택, 쬐금 잘못된 생각 이런 것들이 쌓이고 쌓여서 어느 날 피할 수 없는 실패 부도 파경

절교 도산 낙방이라는 엄청난 결과를 가져 온다. 이런 사소한 잘못이나 실수는 생활에 아무런 영향을

미치지 아니하니까 아무 거리낌 없이 날마다 잘못된 선택, 옳찮은 생각, 빗나간 선택, 불건전한 행동,

부정적인 사고와행동 등을 매일 같이 반복을 하고 있다. 이런 사소한 실수가 별로 대수롭지 않다고 생각

하기때문에 늘 무의식적으로, 습관적으로, 일상적으로아무런 부담없이 반복하고 있다. 그렇게 하루 또

하루를 물에 떠내려가는 죽은 고기처럼 허비하고 있다.

지난 한 분기 3개월 동안에 책 한권을 안읽었다. 그래도 사는 데는 아무런 지장이 없었다. 그래서 다음

3개월에도 또 안읽는다 그렇게쪽 계속되어진다. 책 읽는다는 것이 아무런 의미가 없다고 생각하기

때문이다. 그러니 황폐한 영혼은, 헐벗은 정신은 나날이 늪으로 수렁으로 어둠으로 만족없는 불행으로

더 깊숙히 가라앉을 뿐이다. 패스트 푸드를 때마다 즐기는 사람. ㅎ습연으로 담배 연기 속에 생활하는

사람, 알콜로 세월을 낚는폭탄주에 발목 잡힌 사람, 밤마다 포르노에 엑스타시를 만끽하는 사람, 날마다

나쁜 생각 악한 마음으로분주한 사람, 이와 같은 순간적인 쾌락이 쌓이고 모이고 하나의 결과로 어느 날

나타나자신에게 피할수 없이 틀림없이 열려지는 펼쳐지는 주어진 보상의 미래는 문제 투성이의 결단코

피할 수 없는 처절한 고통이다. 이런 잘못된 것들이 즉각적으로 우리의 주의를 환기시키는 어떤 결과를

즉각적으로 나타내지아니하니까 대수롭잖게 아무 것도 아닌 것처럼 그렇게 반복하고반복한다. 어린얘가

부모님이 주의하는 데도 뜨거운 불에 손을 데고 나면 다시는 손을 안덴다.

우리가 자그마한 실수를 할 때하늘이 우리 머리 위로 떨어진다면 두번 다시는 그런 실수는 않을 것이다.

이런실수나 잘못이 인간에게주는 최대의 헌신봉사는 그 여파가 아주 미묘하다는 것이다.에러를 반복하고,

나쁜 것 악한 것 추한 것을 계속 생각하고, 옳지 못한 비난비판의 소리에 늘 귀를 기울이고, 틀린 선택을

날마다 자행하면서 오늘도 어제처럼 그렇게 반복하고 있지는 않으신가요. 아무런 손해도 없고 하늘도 내

머리 위에 안 떨어지니까 안전하다 하겠지요. 실수나 잘못은 우리네 부모님처럼 고함을 지르지도 경고도

하지아니합니다. 그러기에 우리네 삶과 생과 인생을이끌어 가는 원칙철학을 정제하기 위해서는 하루

하루를 엄숙한 자세로 진지하게 살피어 자신을 강제해야만 한다

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. We do not fail overnight. Failure is the inevitable result of

an accumulation of poor thinking and poor choices. To put it more simply, failure is nothing more than

a few errors in judgment repeated every day.
Now why would someone make an error in judgment and then be so foolish as to repeat it every day?

The answer is because he or she does not think that it matters.
On their own, our daily acts do not seem that important. A minor oversight, a poor decision, or a wasted

hour generally doesn't result in an instant and measurable impact. More often than not, we escape from

any immediate consequences of our deeds.
If we have not bothered to read a single book in the past ninety days, this lack of discipline does not seem

to have any immediate impact on our lives. And since nothing drastic happened to us after the first ninety days,

we repeat this error in judgment for another ninety days, and on and on it goes. Why? Because it doesn't seem

to matter. And herein lies the great danger. Far worse than not reading the books is not even realizing that it matters!
Those who eat too many of the wrong foods are contributing to a future health problem, but the joy of the moment overshadows the consequence of the future. It does not seem to matter. Those who smoke too much or drink too

much go on making these poor choices year after year after year... because it doesn't seem to matter. But the pain

and regret of these errors in judgment have only been delayed for a future time. Consequences are seldom instant; instead, they accumulate until the inevitable day of reckoning finally arrives and the price must be paid for our poor choices - choices that didn't seem to matter.
Failure's most dangerous attribute is its subtlety. In the short term those little errors don't seem to make any difference. We do not seem to be failing. In fact, sometimes these accumulated errors in judgment occur throughout a period of great joy and prosperity in our lives. Since nothing terrible happens to us, since there are no instant consequences

to capture our attention, we simply drift from one day to the next, repeating the errors, thinking the wrong thoughts, listening to the wrong voices and making the wrong choices. The sky did not fall in on us yesterday; therefore the act was probably harmless. Since it seemed to have no measurable consequence, it is probably safe to repeat.

But we must become better educated than that!

If at the end of the day when we made our first error in judgment the sky had fallen in on us, we undoubtedly would have taken immediate steps to ensure that the act would never be repeated again. Like the child who places his hand on a hot burner despite his parents' warnings, we would have had an instantaneous experience accompanying our error in judgment. Unfortunately, failure does not shout out its warnings as our parents once did. This is why it is imperative to refine our philosophy in order to be able to make better choices. With a powerful, personal philosophy guiding our every step, we become more aware of our errors in judgment and more aware that each error really does matter.

Now here is the great news. Just like the formula for failure, the formula for success is easy to follow: It's a few simple disciplines practiced every day. Now here is an interesting question worth pondering: How can we change the errors in the formula for failure into the disciplines required in the formula for success? The answer is by making the future an important part of our current philosophy. Both success and failure involve future consequences, namely the inevitable rewards or unavoidable regrets resulting from past activities. If this is true, why don't more people take time to ponder the future? The answer is simple: They are so caught up in the current moment that it doesn't seem to matter.

The problems and the rewards of today are so absorbing to some human beings that they never pause long enough

to think about tomorrow. But what if we did develop a new discipline to take just a few minutes every day to look a little further down the road? We would then be able to foresee the impending consequences of our current conduct. Armed with that valuable information, we would be able to take the necessary action to change our errors into new success-oriented disciplines. In other words, by disciplining ourselves to see the future in advance, we would be able to change our thinking, amend our errors and develop new habits to replace the old.

One of the exciting things about the formula for success - a few simple disciplines practiced every day - is that the results are almost immediate. As we voluntarily change daily errors into daily disciplines, we experience positive results in a very short period of time. When we change our diet, our health improves noticeably in just a few weeks. When we start exercising, we feel a new vitality almost immediately. When we begin reading, we experience a growing awareness and a new level of self-confidence. Whatever new discipline we begin to practice daily will produce exciting results that will drive us to become even better at developing new disciplines.

The real magic of new disciplines is that they will cause us to amend our thinking. If we were to start today to read the books, keep a journal, attend the classes, listen more and observe more, then today would be the first day of a new life leading to a better future. If we were to start today to try harder, and in every way make a conscious and consistent effort to change subtle and deadly errors into constructive and rewarding disciplines, we would never again settle for a life of existence – not once we have tasted the fruits of a life of substance!