Your reservations1 will get in your way. Our minds are insidious and the biggest impediment to success. Reservations will get in your way, even if you say, I have reservations but let’s proceed anyway. This is a prescription for failure. The true warrior knows that he or she must believe as a zealot believes. There can be no reservations!

But I don’t believe it works. But I don’t believe it does what we claim. You can end that sentence in numerous ways, but here is why having reservations like that is a problem: the majority of your communication is non-verbal, and your beliefs will betray you. Reservations are negative beliefs—negative to your success. Success is dependent on your positive beliefs. If you believed as I believed, you would do what I do. If you believed as I believe, you would embrace my suggestion. You would wonder why I hadn’t introduced it to you before, and you might even wonder if I had been holding out on you.

So you may be suffering from fear of success. Your protestations are in fact designed to protect your ego from imagined harm, threat, or challenge. The primary symptom of this syndrome is sabotage, and having a reservation is the tip of the sabotage iceberg. When you hear yourself saying I have reservations about this … recognize that you are secretly working or hoping for failure, so that you can prove yourself right! Even though this rightness is not success. It is actually failure. And yet you are unable to see this for what it really is, as that is the true nature of denial.

Got a reservation? Get rid of it. Come to believe. Become a zealot. You can believe anything you want to believe, whenever you want. Your belief does not have to have any relationship with the supposed reality or truth of the day. It’s okay to admit you are wrong or have been wrong!

You are warriors. You must believe in what you are doing without any reservation in order to succeed. The choice is yours. Believe and succeed or don’t believe and fail. So it has been written.