“Your subconscious mind works continuously, while you are awake, and while you sleep.” — Napoleon Hill Your subconscious never rests and is always on duty because it controls your heartbeat, blood circulation, and digestion. It controls all the vital processes and functions of your body and knows the answers to all your problems. What happens on your subconscious level influences what happens on your conscious level. In other words, what goes on

“Will your will get you up that mountain?” courtesy of Jasen Miller “Will is character in action.” ~ William McDougall Willpower was, as I recall, never really a problem for Popeye. When low on verve, he’d tip open a can of spinach and quicker than you can say, “What on earth did he see in Olive Oyl anyway?”, he’d renewed his vital drive and was back fighting villains (namely Bluto).

In the ’80s, the Italian journalist and author Tiziano Terzani, after many years of reporting across Asia, holed himself up in a cabin in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. “For a month I had no one to talk to except my dog Baoli,” he wrote in his travelogue A Fortune Teller Told Me. Terzani passed the time with books, observing nature, “listening to the winds in the trees, watching butterflies, enjoying silence.”