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The following clip is about four minutes long. It is a man named Paul, trying out for a contest. What gave him the courage to do this? He actually tells you. Before the tryout, he says, “My dream is to spend my life doing what I feel I was born to do. ” That’s what he’s thinking: What he was about to do is something he feels he was “born to do.” That’s a powerful thought. Obviously he’s had that thought many times.

Imagine your biggest goal. Imagine the main activity of that goal. Now imagine saying to yourself, “I was born to do this!” Imagine you felt that way (if you don’t already). Would that thought and those feelings change the quality of your determination?

Success is almost never an accident. It is the result of what a person thinks. Paul is there doing what he feels he was born to do because he thinks he was born to do it. There are others in the world who have similar talents who never express them because they think they can’t. They’ve accidentally practiced thinking they can’t.

I want you to notice something else in this short film. Paul is not filled with confidence or enthusiasm or cheerfulness, or anything that is normally labeled “positive attitudes.” But he is filled with determination. And that’s enough.

Now, watch what happens:

Paul’s Tryout

Determination is a powerful force in the world. And determination can be cultivated. It’s not a matter of luck. You have the tools. If you feel defeated or demoralized, use the antivirus for your mind. If you’d like more clarity or motivation or determination, use slotrology.

Update: Since this first tryout, Paul has won the “Britain’s Got Talent” competition, appeared on the Oprah show, and come out with an album entitled, One Chance.

Amazon had this to say of him:

Britain’s Got Talent winner Paul Potts has spent most of his life feeling “insignificant.” Bullied at school for being “different,” he realized growing up that he had one true friend and that was his voice. Singing was his escape. He was able to lose himself in his own little world — the vicious words of his tormentors replaced by hauntingly beautiful lyrics and melodies that lifted his heart and spirit. It was a love, a passion, a lifeline that would follow Paul into adulthood and help him through many more periods of adversity.

Though it’s fair to say that when Paul strolled awkwardly — almost apologetically — onto the Cardiff stage for his first Britain’s Got Talent audition a week before that final, in his now infamous £35 Tesco suit, and announced to Simon and fellow judges Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan that he was going to sing opera, they never thought for one minute they were looking at their winner. Until he opened his mouth and started to sing.

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