Many fail to realize that to accomplish anything, it must become as natural to you as daily sustenance. If every action demands an alarm or external pressure, you will not succeed. You cannot rely on deliberate effort alone. First, embody in your mind the ideal self you wish to become, and perform daily what that ideal self would do—until one day, you awaken to find it has truly come to pass. Real change occurs only when effort becomes second nature. If you still feel you are striving, you have not yet arrived.