422 THE PRINCIPLES OF PERSONAL POWER
Your Definite Chief Aim can be speedily translated into reality
after you have first created it in your Imagination. If you have faith-
fully followed the instructions set down for your guidance in Lesson
Two, you are now well on the road toward success, because it would
mean that you know what it is that you want-and you have a plan for
getting what you want.
The battle for the achievement of success is half won when one
knows definitely what they want. The battle is all over except for the
"shouting," when one knows what is wanted and has made up his or
her mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
Your selection of a Definite Chief Aim calls for the use of both
Imagination and decision!The power of decision grows with its use.
A prompt decision in forcing your Imagination to create a Definite
Chief Aim renders more powerful the capacity to reach decisions in
other matters.
Adversities and temporary defeat are generally blessings in disguise,
because they force one to use both Imagination and decision. This is
why all of us usually make a better fight when our backs are to the
wall and we know there is no retreat. We then reach the decision to
fight instead of running.
COMMENTARY
Ben Nighthorse Campbell got used to people saying no, and he found imag-
inative ways around those negative answers. Campbell had a tough childhood,
in and out of foster homes. He dropped out of high school, wound up in the Air
Force, worked his way through college, and then moved to Japan to study
judo. He won a gold medal in judo in the 1963 Pan Am Games and was captain
of the U.S. Olympic team a year later in Tokyo. He returned to the United States
that year.
In Japan he had learned a jewelry-making technique that could be applied
to traditional Native American arts. Though Campbell's father had been reluctant