Willpower, The Integrity of the Soul

The preface begins at 3am

Have you ever lain awake, staring at the ceiling, wondering what your life could have been?

That is the question Daniels opens with, and he does not let you off it. What, but for a deviation here or an obstacle there, would you be doing now? What was the force that brought you to where you are, and why are you not somewhere else? Circumstances, some would say. The times we live in, say others. His answer: could it be choice?

Then he goes deeper than any book in his catalogue has gone before, into the masks:

I am the man that I make out I am. I am also the man that my family believes I am. I am the man in private that I really am. I am the man that I seek to hide from you. And somewhere inside I am the man that I would really like to be. All these different men depend on one single factor: the way I adjust my conscience. Peter J. Daniels, from the preface

The book's demand follows: it is your life. Take ownership. Accept responsibility. Stop finger pointing, and develop a no let out conscience that rejects all false justification. Because taking charge, he writes, means paying more attention to your conscience than to your feelings, circumstances, opposition or opportunities.

What taking charge earns you

The courage to exercise your God given difference

Dare to dream

Before your dreams are swallowed by bad decisions, debt, neglect, or the rusty shackles of the past.

Dare to do

Being courageous is not a thought. It is an act of the will and the body.

Dare to finish the job

We honour God and ourselves when we carry out our personal, mental and verbal commitments.

Eight chapters, eight laws of the will

How the will actually works

Not motivation, not habit hacks: the deep mechanics of the faculty itself, each chapter one law.

The Will Determines the Integrity of the Soul

The mind's oldest conflict, fought on the shifting sands of needs and wants, and what settles it.

The Will Is a Lonely Companion

The Bible college students who learned that no one else can exercise it for you.

The Will Develops Its Own Power Force That Increases in Adversity

The unseen, irrefutable power that grows precisely when everything is against you.

The Will Has a Futuristic View of Events

Refuse to look forward and you are playing dice in the game of uselessness.

The Will Must Have a Magnetic Telescope Focused on a Predetermined Objective

Why willpower without a fixed object dissipates, and how to fix one.

The Will Functions by Measurements and Quantifies Progress

Figures and measurements are facts. You can try to massage them, but the will keeps honest books.

The Will Gravitates Towards Reason but Is Not Dominated by It

Reason is the language of the pragmatist, and every breakthrough in history defied it.

The Will Has a Character Compass and Ultimate Boundaries

What Daniels learned about conscience from studying those who crossed every line.

Daniels argues alongside the ages

A book in conversation with the great thinkers

This is the most philosophical volume in the collection, and Daniels summons his witnesses by name:

“We become brave by doing brave acts.”

Aristotlequoted in the preface: courage is an act of the will and the body

Demosthenes would shave off half the hair on his head when he made a commitment, a constant reminder of his pledge to finish what he started.

Demosthenesthe ancient orator's accountability device, retold by Daniels

“Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is to yourself, reputation is to your neighbour.”

Saint Augustineon the higher law this book is built around

“He who loses his conscience has nothing left worth keeping.”

Victor Cousinwith Rollo May's warning against the cowardice of conformity

From the foreword

Written by a man who watched the will at work for fifty years

“God's Spirit has fashioned this man with extraordinary intellectual and spiritual perception. Christian leaders have recognised God's unique presence with Peter Daniels, while the commercial world has acknowledged his extraordinary abilities. Decisiveness has always featured in Peter Daniels' resilient fight for truth and righteousness. I warmly commend the studious reading of this excellent book.”

Harrold Steward, MB BSAdelaide, from the foreword

About the author

He never passed a grade. He trained a will instead.

A broken home, a schooling that never took, illiteracy into his mid twenties, and recurrent business failure before the momentous transition into real estate. Everything that followed, the boardrooms, the platforms, the fifty years counselling leaders across six continents, ran on the faculty this book teaches.

From bricklayer and stonemason to international business statesman
Rebuilt from repeated failure into a real estate enterprise spanning continents
Five decades counselling leaders in business, church and government
Author of the Peter J. Daniels Collection of success classics
Founder, World Centre for Entrepreneurial Studies

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Modern psychology says willpower is overrated. Why read this?

Daniels' answer runs through every chapter: what the culture calls willpower, a burst of white knuckled effort, is not what he means at all. He treats the will as a trainable faculty anchored to conscience, measured honestly, focused on a fixed objective, and strengthened by adversity. It is closer to character engineering than to gritting your teeth, and his life is the test case.

Is this philosophy or something I can actually use?

Both, deliberately. The preface wrestles with Aristotle and Augustine, but chapter five has you fixing a magnetic telescope on a predetermined objective, chapter six has you measuring and quantifying your progress in honest figures, and chapter eight has you setting your character compass and ultimate boundaries in advance. Reflection first, then instruments.

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How long is it?

Eight concentrated chapters across 82 pages, the shortest and sharpest volume in the collection, framed by the foreword, the Romans 7 passage on the divided will, and Daniels' searching preface. An evening to read, a lifetime to apply.

One last word

Invincible, immovable, impregnable

That is the charge the book closes on: enforce your will to stand vigilant, maintain a good conscience towards all, and build a character the future generations of your family can look up to. Your future will be decided by your will. Train it.

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