WILLPOWER

The  education of the will is the object of our existence," says Emerson.                

  In respect to mere mundane relations, the development and discipline of one's will-power is of supreme moment in relation to success in life. No man can ever estimate the power of will. It is a part of the divine   nature, all of a piece with the power of creation. We speak of God's fiat "Fiat lux, Let light be." Man has his   fiat. The achievements of history have been the choices, the determinations, the creations, of the human will .                                      

   "It is impossible," says Sharman, "to look into the conditions under which the battle of life is being fought without perceiving how much really depends upon the extent to which the will-power is cultivated strengthened and made operative in right directions." Young people need to go into training for it. We live in an  age of athletic meets. Those who are determined to have athletic will-power must take for it the kind of exercise they need.                                

.Sotiri  was known to be a good runner, and without fuss or bustle he entered himself as a competitor. But it was not his speed alone, out-distancing every rival, that made the young Greek stand out from among his   ellows that day. When he left his cottage home at Amarusi, his father said to him, "Sotiri, you must only return a victor!" The light of a firm resolve shone in the young man's eye. The old father was sure that his boy would win, and so he made his way to the station, there to wait till Sotiri should come in ahead of all the rest. No one knew the old man and his three daughters as they elbowed their way through the crowd. When at last the excitement of the assembled multitude told that the critical moment had arrived, that the racers were  nearing the goal, the old father looked up through eyes that were a little dim as he realized that truly Sotiri was leading the way. He was "returning a victor." How the crowd surged about the young peasant when the race  was fairly won! Wild with excitement, they knew not how to shower upon him sufficient praise. Ladies  overwhelmed him with flowers and rings; some even gave him their watches, and one American lady bestowed upon him her jewelled smelling-bottle. The princes embraced him, and the king himself saluted him in military fashion. But the young Sotirios was seeking for other praise than theirs. Past the ranks of royalty and fair maidenhood, past the outstretched hands of his own countrymen, past the applauding crowd of foreigners, his gaze wandered till it fell upon an old man trembling with eagerness, who resolutely pushed his way through the excited, satisfied throng. Then the young face lighted, and as old Louès advanced to the innermost circle with arms outstretched to embrace his boy, the young victor said, simply: "You see, father, I have obeyed." This story narrates moulding life with willpower.
Willpower has cosmic energy which comes directly from source energy i.e.GOD!  So pray to god to have a cosmic connection,to unite with almighty.