"Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted.

Only in a quiet mind
is adequate perception of the world."

-- Hans Margolius

 

YOU MUST ACT ON YOUR DREAMS TO BE SUCCESSFUL

If you want to be successful, you can start at any time.
But you must start.

Don't make the mistake of not doing anything
because you can only do a little.
Do what you can do.

It will always be your attitude
at the beginning of any difficult task which,
more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

To be aware of what you want and not go after it,
to spend years wondering if something could have materialized,
and never knowing if it could have been,
is a tragic waste of your life.
The worst thing you can do is not to try.

To reach a port, you must sail.
You must sail, not lie at anchor.
You must sail off in the direction of your dreams, not drift.

A journey of a thousand miles, begins with one step.

YOU CAN OPEN ANY DOOR WITH CONCENTRATION

The first law of success is concentration.
Bend all of your energies to one point,
and go directly to that point,
looking neither to the right nor the left.

Concentration is the magic key
that opens the door to accomplishment.
Success is the result of well directed energy.

You can, in time, become what you earnestly desire to be,
if you set your face in the direction of the things you want
and bring all your powers to bear towards its attainment.

When your physical and mental resources are focused,
your power to solve problems multiplies tremendously.
To do two things at once is to do neither.

Nothing can add more power to your life
as much as concentrating all your energies
on a limited set of targets.

The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER

As a general rule, the most successful people in life
are the ones with the best information.

People with power are people who know how to get things done.
Knowing how to do something is virtually the same as having done it.
Power is the product of understanding.

Knowledge controls access to opportunity and advancement.
There is no knowledge that is not power.

Educate yourself and you build the power to accomplish your goals.
Power gravitates to the one that knows how to do something.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

                

Follow your own path

"Life is complex. Each one of us must make his own path through life. There are
no self-help manuals, no formulas, no easy answers. The right road for one is
the wrong road for another ... The journey of life is not paved in blacktop; it
is not brightly lit, and it has no road signs. It is a rocky path through the
wilderness."

-- M. Scott Peck

We each have our own pathways to develop both personally and spiritually. They
are based on our character and past experiences. No one else can identify our
paths for us. Tune in to your inner guidance system and follow its direction.

"What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is
a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose.
He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What
this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation."

-- Joseph M. Dodge

7 (7, 16/7, 25/7, 34/7)
The Life Path 7 suggests that you entered this plane with a gift for investigation, analysis, and keen observation. You are a thinker of the first order. You evaluate situations very quickly, and with amazing accuracy. As a result, you are thorough and complete in your work, the perfectionist who expects everyone else to meet a high standard of performance, too.
A Life Path 7 person is a peaceful and affectionate soul. But you guard your connection to people carefully. It's easy for you to detect deception and recognize insincere people, and you avoid them. You aren't one to have a wide circle of friends, but once you accept someone as a friend, it's for life. It's as if you must get to know someone a lot better before you allow the wall surrounding you to be penetrated. Chances are you are a very charming and refined individual with great poise and a quick wit. Nonetheless, there is an exclusiveness about you. You probably aren't a very social person. Your reserve is often taken to be aloofness, but actually, it's not that at all. It is merely a cover up for your basic feeling of insecurity. There's no rush, It takes time for you to warm up to new friends. Clubs and organizations hold little interest for you; you are not a joiner.
You actually like being alone and away from the hustle and bustle of modern life. In many ways, you would have fit in better in much earlier times when the pace of life was less hectic. You need a good deal of quiet time to be with your own inner thoughts and dreams. You dislike crowds, noise, distractions, and confusion.
The overwhelming strength of the number 7 is reflected in the depth of thinking that is shown; you will garner knowledge from practically every source that you find. Intellectual, scientific, and studious, you don't accept a premise until you have dissected the subject and arrived at your own independent conclusion.
This is a very spiritual number and it often denotes a sort of spiritual wisdom that becomes apparent at a fairly early age. A built in inner guide providing a strong sense of intuition may set you up as being a law unto yourself. Whatever spiritual position you take, whether traditional or bizarre, you will cling to it with fervor. Once you have decided an issue, it is almost impossible to get you to revisit the question. Adaptability is not your style, and change for you is a rarity.
You rely heavily on your experiences and your intuition, rather than accepting advice from someone. Your hunches usually prove to be very accurate, and knowing this, you follow the directions they seem to guide.
In the most negative use of the 7 energies, you can become very pessimistic, lackadaisical, quarrelsome, and secretive. A Life Path 7 individual who is not living life fully and gaining through experiences, is a hard person to live with because of a serious lack of consideration for others. There is such a negative attitude. Indeed, operating on the negative side of the 7 can produce a very selfish and spoiled individual and living with one can be a challenge. This may be why some 7s actually prefer living alone. If you have any of the negative traits they are very difficult to get rid of because you tend to feel that the world really does owe you a living or that in some way you are not being fairly treated.
Fortunately, the negative 7 is not the typical 7, at least not without some mitigating positive traits. This number is one that seems to have some major shifts from highs to lows. Stability in feelings may be elusive for you.