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Keep your mind open to ASEP.  Welcome it.  Believe in it.  It is the only professional organization of exercise physiologists.  No longer can business go on as usual.  No longer can exercise physiologists deny the importance of the organization.  It is one with a vision articulated on behalf of exercise physiology as a profession and on behalf of exercise physiologists as healthcare professionals.

The concerns of the students are the concerns of all ASEP members.  We are in this together, and the reason is simple: Exercise physiologists deserve financial respect and professional credibility.  These are highly important goals.  They are something to shoot for, and to keep our collective efforts focused.

Why?  Why the effort?  Why the goals?  Because they are important.  Marguleas wrote, “Never cease to pursue the opportunity to seek something different.  Don’t be satisfied with what you’re doing.  Always try to seek a way and a method to improve upon what you’re doing, even if it’s considered contrary to the traditions of an industry.”  Marguleas believes goals are important.  I think they help people become leaders.

But, of course, nothing comes easy, and time is almost always a requirement for significant change.  To know that change necessary, and to also understand the commitment is know the importance of never giving up.  Dale Carnegie said it best, “Patience and perseverance will accomplish more in this world than a brilliant dash….Don’t let anything discourage you.  Keep on.  Never give up.”

Sure, it is easy to write the sentence, and it is just as easy to believe everything is fine.  But, here, I’m talking about working hard and never giving up to realize goals.  After all, according to Levin and Crom, in an excellent book, The Leader Within You, said it best: “You are what you believe.”  Or, perhaps, stated somewhat differently, “You are what you think.”

Failure is not a possibility.