The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale
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Since I've mentioned this audio file in my previous post. Here I provide the link to listen to it, with an introduction by Earl's Wife:
The Strangest Scecret Audio
Script taken and edited from: In5d.com
Now let’s take another ship, just like the first, only let’s not put a crew on it, or a captain at the helm. Let’s give it no aiming point, no goal, and no destination. We just start the engines and let it go.
Someone once said the human race is fixed. Not to prevent the strong from winning, but to prevent the weak from losing.
And he also said, “We need only in cold blood act as if the thing in question were real, and it will become infallibly real by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real. It will become so knit with habit and emotion that our interests in it will be those which characterize belief.”
George Bernard Shaw said: “People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.”
It is not going to be easy, but if you will give it a good try, it will completely change your life for the better.
There are two things that may be said about everyone:
1) Each of us wants something, and
2) Each of us is afraid of something.
You are then in that rare and successful category of people who know where they are going. Out of every 100 people, you belong to the top five. Don't concern yourself too much with how you are going to achieve your goal. Leave that completely to a power greater than yourself. All you have to know is where you are going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.
Remember these words from the sermon on the mount, and remember them well.
Keep them constantly before you this month of your test.
In fact it is so simple, that in our seemingly complicated world, it's difficult for an adult to understand that all he needs is a purpose ... and faith.
Worry brings fear, and fear is crippling. The only thing that can cause you to worry during your test is trying to do it all yourself. Know that all you have to do is hold your goal before you; everything else will take care of itself.
How many men and women do you know, or do you suppose there are today, who take the same attitude toward life?
There are millions.
Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn himself.
An outstanding medical doctor recently pointed out six steps that will help you realize success.
Do what the experts since the dawn of recorded history have told you must do: pay the price by becoming the person you want to become.
It's not nearly as difficult as living unsuccessfully.
Take this 30 day test, then repeat it ... then repeat it again.
Each time it will become more a part of you until you'll wonder how you could have ever have lived any other way. Live this new way and the floodgates of abundance will open and pour over you more riches than you may have dreamed existed.
Money?
Yes, lots of it.
But what's more important, you'll have peace ... you'll be in that wonderful minority who lead calm, cheerful, successful lives.
Start today.
You have nothing to lose - but you have a life to win.
Since I've mentioned this audio file in my previous post. Here I provide the link to listen to it, with an introduction by Earl's Wife:
The Strangest Scecret Audio
Script taken and edited from: In5d.com
I’d like you tell you about the strangest secret in the world. Not long ago, Albert Schweitzer, the Dr. and Nobel Prize was
being interviewed in London and the reporter asked him, “Doctor,
what’s wrong with men today?” The great doctor was silent a moment,
and then he said, “Men simply don’t think.”
It’s about this that I want to talk with you. We live today in a golden
age. This is an era that that man has looked forward, dreamed of and
worked toward for thousands of years. But since it’s here, we pretty
well take it for granted. We in America are particularly fortunate
to live in the richest land that ever existed on the face of the
earth, a land of abundant opportunity for everyone. But, do you know
what happens?
Let’s take 100 men who start even at the age of 25. Do you
have any idea what will happen to those men by the time they are 65?
These 100 men who all start even at the age of 25 believe they’re
going to be successful. If you asked any one of these men if he
wanted to be a success, he’d tell you that he did, and you’d notice
that he was eager toward life; that there was a certain sparkle to
his eye, an erectness to his carriage, and life seemed like a pretty
interesting adventure to him. But by the time they’re 65, one will be
rich, four will be financially independent, five will still be
working, 54 will be broke.
Now, think a moment. Out of
the 100, only five make the grade. Why do so many fail? What has
happened to the sparkle that was there when they were 25? What’s
become of the dreams, the hopes, the plans? And why is there such a
large disparity between what these men intended to do, and what they
actually accomplished?
When we say about 5% achieve
success, we have to define success. And here’s the definition: Success is the progressive realization of a
worthy ideal. If a man is working toward a pre-determined goal and
knows where he’s going, that man is a success. If he’s not doing
that, he’s a failure. Success is the progressive realization of a
worthy ideal.
Rolo May, the distinguished psychiatrist wrote a wonderful book called “Man’s Search for Himself.” In this book, he sais: "the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice. It is conformity."
And there you have the trouble today. It’s conformity – people
acting like everyone else without knowing why, without knowing where
they’re going.
Think of it. In America right now, there are over 14 million
people 65 years of age and over, and about 13 million of these 14 million are broke.
They’re dependent on someone else for life’s necessities.
We learn to read by the time we’re seven. We learn to make a living
by the time we’re 25. Usually, by that time, now that we’re making a
living we’re supporting a family. And yet, by the time we’re 65, we
haven’t learned how to become financially independent in the richest
land that has ever been known.
Why? We conform. And the trouble is that we’re acting like the wrong percentage group – the 95 who don’t succeed.
Why do these people conform? Well, they don’t know really.
These people believe that their lives are shaped by circumstances,
by things that happen to them, by exterior forces, they’re
outer-directed people
A
survey was made one time that covered a lot of men, working men, and
these men were asked this question: “Why do you work?” “Why do you get up in the
morning?” 19 out of 20 had no idea.
If you ask them they'll say, “Well, everyone goes to work in the morning,” and that’s
the reason they do it – because everyone else is doing it.
Now, let’s get back to our definition of success. Who succeeds?
The only person who succeeds is the person who is progressively
realizing a worthy ideal. It is the person who says, “I am going to
become this,” and then begins to work towards that goal.
I’ll tell you who the successful people are. A success is the school
teacher who is teaching school because that’s what he or she wanted to
do. A success is the woman who is a wife and mother because she
wanted to become a wife and mother and is doing a good job of it. A
success is the man who runs the corner gas station because that's what he wanted to do.
A success is
the successful salesman who wants to become a top-notch salesman and
grow and build with in his organization. A success is anyone who is
doing deliberately a pre-determined job because that’s what he
decided to do deliberately. But only 1 out of 20 does that.
That’s
why today there isn’t really any competition unless we make it four
ourselves. Instead of competing, all we have to do is create. For 20 years, I looked for the key which would determine what would happen to a human being.
Was there a key, I wanted to know, which would make the future a
promise that we could foretell to a large extent. Was there a key
that would guarantee a person’s becoming successful if he only knew
about it and knew how to use it?
Well, there is such a key. And I found it.
Have you ever wondered why so many men work so hard and
honestly without ever achieving anything in particular, and others
don’t seem to work hard and yet seem to get everything? They have a magic touch. You’ve heard them say that about
someone. “Everything he touches turns to gold.”
Have you ever noticed
that a man who becomes successful tends to continue to become
successful?
On the other hand, have you noticed how a man
who’s a failure tends to continue to fail? It’s because of
goals. Some of us have them; some don’t. People with goals succeed
because they know where they’re going.
Think of a ship leaving a harbor and think of it with a complete
voyage mapped out and planned. The captain and crew know exactly
where it’s going and how long it will take. It has a definite goal.
9,999 times out of 10,000 it will get to where it started out to get.
Now let’s take another ship, just like the first, only let’s not put a crew on it, or a captain at the helm. Let’s give it no aiming point, no goal, and no destination. We just start the engines and let it go.
I think you’ll agree with me that if it gets out of the harbor
at all, it will either sink or wind up on some deserted beach, a
derelict. It can’t go any place because it has no destination and no
guidance.
It’s the same with a human being. Take the
salesman for example. There is no other person in the world today
with the future of a good salesman. Selling is the world’s highest
paid profession, if we’re good at it and if we know where we’re going.
Every company needs top-notch salesmen, and they reward those
men. The sky is the limit for them. But how many can you find?
Someone once said the human race is fixed. Not to prevent the strong from winning, but to prevent the weak from losing.
The American economy today can be likened to a convoy in time
of war. The entire economy is slowed down to protect its weakest
link, just as the convoy had to go at the speed that will permit its
slowest vessel to remain in formation.
That’s why it’s
so easy to make a living today. It takes no particular brains or
talent to make a living and support a family today. We have a plateau
on so-called security, if that’s what person is looking for. But we
do have to decide how high above this plateau we want to aim for.
Now let’s get back to the Strangest Secret in the World, the story that I wanted to tell you today.
Why do men with goals succeed in life, and men without them
fail? Well, let me tell you something which, if you really understand
it, will alter your life immediately. If you understand completely
what I’m going to tell you from this moment on, your life will never
be the same again.
You'll suddenly find that good
luck just seems to be attracted to you, the things you want just seem
to fall in line, and from now on you won’t have the problems, the
worries, the gnawing lump of anxiety that perhaps you’ve experienced
before. Doubt and fear will now be things of the past.
Here's the key to success, and the key to failure: "We become what we think about." Let me say that again. We become what we think about.
Throughout history, the great wise men and teachers,
philosophers, and prophets have disagreed with one another on many
different things. It is only on this one point that they are in
complete and unanimous agreement.
Listen to what Marcus Aurelius, the great Roman Emperor said. He said: “A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it.”
Disraeli said this: “Everything comes if a man will only wait.
I’ve brought myself by long meditation to the conviction that a human
being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can
resist a will that will stake even existence for its fulfillment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson said this: “A man is what he thinks about all day long.”
William James said, “The greatest discovery of my generation is
that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes
of mind.”
And he also said, “We need only in cold blood act as if the thing in question were real, and it will become infallibly real by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real. It will become so knit with habit and emotion that our interests in it will be those which characterize belief.”
He also said this, “If you only care enough for a result, you will almost
certainly obtain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich. If
you wish to be learned, you will be learned. If you wish to be good,
you will be good. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and
wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other
incompatible things just as strongly.”
In the Bible you read in Mark 9-23: “If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.”
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale said this: “This
is one of the greatest laws in the universe. Fervently do I wish I
had discovered it as a very young man. It dawned upon me much later
in life, and I found it to be one of the greatest, if not my
greatest discovery, outside my relationship to God. The great law
briefly and simply stated is if you think in negative terms, you will
get negative results. If you think in positive terms, you will
achieve positive results.”
“That is the simple fact, which is of the basis of an astonishing law of prosperity
and success. In three words: Believe and Succeed.”
William Shakespeare put it this way: “Our doubts are traitors and make
us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”
George Bernard Shaw said: “People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.”
Well, it’s pretty apparent, isn’t it? And every person who
discovered this, for a while, believed that they were the first to
work it out. We become what we think about.
It stands
to reason that a person who is thinking about a concrete and
worthwhile goal is going to reach it, because that’s what he’s thinking
about. And we become what we think about.
Conversely,
the man who has no goal, who doesn’t know where he's going, and
whose thoughts must therefore be thoughts of confusion, and anxiety, and fear,
and worry becomes what he thinks about. His life becomes one of
frustration, fear, anxiety, and worry. And if he thinks about nothing,
he becomes nothing.
Now how does it work? Why do we become what we think about?
Well, I’ll tell you how it works as far as we know. To do this, I
want to talk about a situation that parallels the human mind.
Suppose a farmer has some land and it’s good, fertile land. Now,
the land gives the farmer a choice. He may plant in that land
whatever he chooses. The land doesn’t care. It’s up to the farmer to
make the decision.
Remember, we’re comparing the human
mind with the land because, the mind, like the land, doesn’t care
what you plant in it. It will return what you plant, but it doesn’t
care what you plant.
Now let’s say that the farmer has
two seeds in his hand – one is a seed of corn; the other is nightshade, a
deadly poison. He digs two little holes in the earth and he plants
both seeds; one corn, the other nightshade. He covers up the holes,
waters, and takes care of the land. And what will happen?
Invariably, the land will return what’s planted. As it’s written in the
Bible, “As ye sow, so shall ye reap.”
Remember, the land
doesn’t care. It will return poison in just as wonderful abundance as
it will corn. So up come the two plants – one corn, one poison.
The human mind is far more fertile, far more incredible and
mysterious than the land, but it works the same way. It doesn’t care
what we plant – success, failure. A concrete, worthwhile goal or
confusion, misunderstanding, fear, anxiety, and so on. But what we
plant, it will return to us.
You see, the human mind is
the last great unexplored continent on the Earth. It contains riches
beyond our wildest dreams. It will return anything we want to plant. Now you might say: "What if that's true, why don’t people use their minds
more?
Well, I think they’ve figured out an answer to that
one too. Our mind comes as standard equipment at birth. It’s free.
And things that are given to us for nothing, we place little value
on. Things that we pay money for, we value.
The paradox is that exactly the reverse is true. Everything
that’s really worthwhile in life came to us free: our mind, our
soul, our body, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our
intelligence, our love of family and children and friends. All these priceless possessions are free.
But
the things that cost us money are actually very cheap and can be
replaced at any time. A good man can be completely wiped out and make
another fortune. He can do that several times. Even if our home burns
down, we can rebuild it. But the things we got for nothing, we can never replace.
The human mind isn't used merely because we take it for granted.
Familiarity breeds contempt. It can do any kind of job we assign to
it, but generally speaking, we use it for little jobs instead of big
important ones. Universities have proved that most of us are
operating on about ten percent of our abilities.
Decide now. What is it you want? Plant your goal in your mind. It’s
the most important decision you’ll ever make in your entire life. Do you want to be an outstanding salesman, a better worker at your particular job?
Do you want to go places in your company, in your community?All you've got to do is plant that seed in your mind, care
for it, work steadily towards your goal, and it will become a
reality. It not only will, there’s no way that it cannot.
You see, that’s a law, like the laws of Sir Isaac Newton, the laws
of gravity. If you get on top of a building and jump off, you’ll
always go down. You’ll never go up.
And it’s the same with all the other laws of nature. They always work. They’re inflexible.
Think about your goal in a relaxed, positive way. Picture
yourself in your mind’s eye as having already achieved this goal. See
yourself doing the things you will be doing when you've reached
your goal.
Ours has been called a Phenobarbitol Age, the
age of ulcers and nervous breakdowns. At a time
when medical research has raised us to a new plateau of good health
and longevity, far too many of us worry ourselves into an early grave
trying to cope with things in our own little personal ways, without
learning a few great laws that will take care of everything for us.
These things we bring on ourselves through our habitual way of
thinking. Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts. He is
where he is because that’s exactly where he really wants to be, whether he’ll admit that or not.
Each of
us must live off the fruit of his thoughts in the future, because
what you think today and tomorrow, next month and next year, will mold
your life and determine your future. You’re guided by your mind.
I remember one time I was driving through Arizona and I
saw one of those giant earth-moving machines roaring along the road
at about 35 miles an hour with what looked like 20 tons of dirt in it
– a tremendous, incredible machine – and there was a little man
perched way up on top with the wheel in his hands, guiding it.
As I drove along, I was struck by the similarity of that
machine to the human mind. Just suppose you are sitting at the
controls of such a vast source of energy. Are you going to sit back
and fold your arms and let it run itself into a ditch or are you
going to keep both hands firmly on the wheel and control and direct
this power to a specific, worthwhile purpose? It’s up to you. You’re in the driver’s seat.
You see, the very law that gives us success is a two-edged
sword. We must control our thinking. The same rule that can lead a
man to a life of success, wealth, happiness, and all the things he's ever dreamed of for themselves and his family, that very same law can
lead him into the gutter. It’s all in how he uses it – for good or
for bad. This is The Strangest Secret in the world.
Why do I say it’s strange, and why do I call it a secret?
Actually,
it isn’t a secret at all. It was first promulgated by some of the
earliest wise men, and it appears again and again throughout the
Bible. But very few people who learned it, understand it. That’s why
it’s strange, and why for some equally strange reason it virtually
remains a secret.
I believe that you could go out and walk
down the main street of your town and ask one person after another
what the secret of success is and you probably wouldn’t run into one
person in a month who could tell you.
This information
is enormously valuable to us if we really understand it and apply it.
It’s valuable to us not only for our own lives, but the lives of
those around us, our families, employees, associates, and friends.
Life should be an exciting adventure. It should never be a
bore. A man should live fully, be alive. He should be glad to get out
of bed in the morning. He should be doing a job he likes to do
because he does it well.
One time I heard Grove
Patterson make a speech, the great late editor-in-chief of the Toledo Daily Blade. And as he concluded his speech he said something that I’ve
never forgotten. He said something like this: “My years in the newspaper business have
convinced me of several things. Among them, that people are basically
good, and that we came from someplace and we are going someplace. So
we should make our time here an exciting adventure. The architect of
the universe didn’t build a stairway leading nowhere. And the greatest
teacher of all, the carpenter from the Plains of Galilee gave
us the secret time and time again: As ye believe, so shall it be done
– unto you.”
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I've explained the Strangest Secret in the World, and how it works.
Now I'd like to explain how you can prove to yourself the enormous returns possible in your own life by putting the secret to a practical test.
Now I'd like to explain how you can prove to yourself the enormous returns possible in your own life by putting the secret to a practical test.
I want you to make a test that will last 30 days.
It is not going to be easy, but if you will give it a good try, it will completely change your life for the better.
Back in the 17th Century, Sir Isacc Newton, the English mathematician
and natural philosopher gave us the natural laws of physics, which
apply as much to human beings as they do to the movement of bodies in
the universe. And one of these laws is that: "For every action, there is an
equal and opposite reaction".
Simply stated as it applies to you and me, it means we can achieve nothing without paying the price.
The results of your 30 day experiment will be in direct proportion to the effort you put forth.
To be a doctor, you must pay the price of long years of difficult study.
To be successful in selling, and remember each of us succeeds in life to the extent of our ability to sell, selling our families on our ideas, selling education in schools, selling our children on the advantages of living a good and honest life, selling our associates and employees on the importance of being exceptional people. Too of course, the profession of selling itself.
To be a doctor, you must pay the price of long years of difficult study.
To be successful in selling, and remember each of us succeeds in life to the extent of our ability to sell, selling our families on our ideas, selling education in schools, selling our children on the advantages of living a good and honest life, selling our associates and employees on the importance of being exceptional people. Too of course, the profession of selling itself.
But to be successful in selling our way of the good life, we must be willing to pay the price.
What is that price? Well it's many things.
What is that price? Well it's many things.
First, it is understanding emotionally as well as intellectually that
we literally become what we think about, that we must control our
thoughts if we are to control our lives. It's understanding fully that:
"As ye sow, so shall ye reap."
Secondly, it's cutting away all fetters from the mind and permitting it to soar as it was divinely designed to do. It is the realization that your limitations are self imposed, and the opportunities for you today are enormous beyond belief. It's rising above narrow minded pettyness and prejudice.
Thirdly, it is using all your courage to force yourself to think positively on your own problem, to set a definite and clearly defined goal for yourself, to let your marvelous mind think about your goal from all possible angles, to let your imagination speculate freely upon many different possible solutions, to refuse to believe there are any circumstances sufficiently strong to defeat you in the accomplishment of your purpose, to act promptly and decisively when your course is clear and to keep
constantly aware of the fact that you are at this moment standing in the
middle of your own "Acres of Diamonds" as Russel Conwell used to point out.
Fourth, save at least ten percent of what you earn. It's also remembering that no matter what your present job, it has enormous possiblities, if you are willing to pay the price. Now lets just go over the important points in the price each of us must pay to achieve the wonderful life that can be ours.
It is of course worth any price.
It is of course worth any price.
One: | You will become what you think about. | ||
Two: | Remember the word imagination and let your mind soar. | ||
Three: | Courage. Concentrate on your goal every day. | ||
Four: | Save ten percent of what you earn. | ||
Five: | Action - Ideas are worthless unless we act on them. |
Next, I'll outline the 30 day test I want you to make, keeping in
mind that you have nothing to lose by making this test, and everything
you could possibly want to gain.
There are two things that may be said about everyone:
1) Each of us wants something, and
2) Each of us is afraid of something.
For the next 30 days, follow each of these steps every day until you have achieved your goal.
First, write on a card what it is you want more that anything else.
It may be more money. Perhaps you'd like to double your income or make a specific amount of money.
It may be a beautiful home.
It may be success at your job.
It may be a particular position in life.
It could be a more harmonious family.
Each of us wants something.
It may be more money. Perhaps you'd like to double your income or make a specific amount of money.
It may be a beautiful home.
It may be success at your job.
It may be a particular position in life.
It could be a more harmonious family.
Each of us wants something.
Write down on your card specifically what it is you want.
Make sure it's a single goal and clearly defined.
You needn't show it to anyone, but carry it with you so that you can look at it several times a day.
Think about it in a cheerful, relaxed, positive way each morning when you get up,
and immediately you have something to work for - something to get out of bed for, something to live for.
Look at it at every chance you get during the day and just before going to bed at night.
As you look at it, remember that you must become what you think about, and since you're thinking about your goal, you realize that soon it will be yours.
Make sure it's a single goal and clearly defined.
You needn't show it to anyone, but carry it with you so that you can look at it several times a day.
Think about it in a cheerful, relaxed, positive way each morning when you get up,
and immediately you have something to work for - something to get out of bed for, something to live for.
Look at it at every chance you get during the day and just before going to bed at night.
As you look at it, remember that you must become what you think about, and since you're thinking about your goal, you realize that soon it will be yours.
In fact, it's yours really the moment you write it down and begin to think about it. Look at the abundance all around you as you as you go about your daily business. You have as much right to this abundance as any living creature. It is yours for the asking.
Now we come to the difficult part.
Difficult because it means the formation of what is probably a brand new habit.
New habits are not easily formed. Once formed however, they will follow you for the rest of your life.
Difficult because it means the formation of what is probably a brand new habit.
New habits are not easily formed. Once formed however, they will follow you for the rest of your life.
Stop thinking about what it is you fear. Each time a
fearful or negative thought comes into your consciousness, replace it
with a mental picture of your positive and worthwhile goal. And there
will come times when you'll feel like giving up. It's easier for a human
being to think negatively than positively. That's why only five percent
are successful!
You must begin now to place yourself in that group.
For 30 days you must take control of your mind. It will think about only what you permit it to think. Each day for this 30 day test, do more than you have to do. In addition to maintaining a cheerful positive outlook, give off yourself more than you have ever done before. Do this knowing that your returns in life must be in direct proportion to what you give. The moment you decide on a goal to work toward, you're immediately a successful person.
For 30 days you must take control of your mind. It will think about only what you permit it to think. Each day for this 30 day test, do more than you have to do. In addition to maintaining a cheerful positive outlook, give off yourself more than you have ever done before. Do this knowing that your returns in life must be in direct proportion to what you give. The moment you decide on a goal to work toward, you're immediately a successful person.
You are then in that rare and successful category of people who know where they are going. Out of every 100 people, you belong to the top five. Don't concern yourself too much with how you are going to achieve your goal. Leave that completely to a power greater than yourself. All you have to know is where you are going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.
Remember these words from the sermon on the mount, and remember them well.
Keep them constantly before you this month of your test.
Ask, and it shall be given you;
seek, and you shall find;
knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
For everyone that asketh receiveth,
and he taht seeketh findeth,
and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
It's as marvelous and as simple as that.
In fact it is so simple, that in our seemingly complicated world, it's difficult for an adult to understand that all he needs is a purpose ... and faith.
For 30 days, do your best.
If you are a salesman, go at it as you have never done before, not in a hectic fashion, but with the calm cheerful assurance that time well spent will give you the abundance in return you deserve and want.
If you are a salesman, go at it as you have never done before, not in a hectic fashion, but with the calm cheerful assurance that time well spent will give you the abundance in return you deserve and want.
If you are a homemaker, devote your 30 day test to completely giving
of yourself without thinking about recieving anything in return, and you
will be amazed at the difference it makes in your life.
No matter what your job, do it as you've never done before for 30 days, and if
you have kept your goal before you every day for 30 days, you will
wonder and marvel at this new life you have found.
Dorothea Brande, the outstanding editor and writer, discovered it for
herself and talks about it in her fine book "Wake up and Live".
Her entire philosophy is reduced to the words: "Act as though it were impossible to fail"
She made her own test, with sincerity and faith, and her entire life was changed to one of overwhelming success.
Her entire philosophy is reduced to the words: "Act as though it were impossible to fail"
She made her own test, with sincerity and faith, and her entire life was changed to one of overwhelming success.
Now, you make your test for 30 full days.
Don't start your test until you've made up your mind to stick with it.
You see by being persistent, you are demonstrating faith.
Persistence is simply another word for faith. If you didn't have faith, you would never persist.
Don't start your test until you've made up your mind to stick with it.
You see by being persistent, you are demonstrating faith.
Persistence is simply another word for faith. If you didn't have faith, you would never persist.
If you should fail during your first 30 days, by that I mean finding
yourself overwhelmed by negative thoughts - you have to start over again
from that point and go 30 more days.
Gradually, your new habit will form, until you find yourself one of
that wonderful minority to whom virtually nothing is impossible. Don't forget the card. It is vitally important as you begin this new way of living.
On one side of the card, write your goal, whatever it may be.
On the other side, write the words we've quoted from the sermon on the mount.
On the other side, write the words we've quoted from the sermon on the mount.
"Ask, And It Shall Be Given You" "Seek, And Ye Shall Find" "Knock, And It Shall Be Opened Unto You" |
In your spare time during your test period read books that will help you. Read at least 15 minutes each day. Inspirational books like The Bible, Dorothea Brand's "Wake up and Live" if you can still find a copy,
"The Magic of Believing" by Claude Bristol, "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill, and other books that instruct and inspire.
"The Magic of Believing" by Claude Bristol, "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill, and other books that instruct and inspire.
Nothing great was ever accomplished without inspiration. See that
during these crucial first 30 days your own inspiration is kept to a
peak. Above all ... don't worry!
Worry brings fear, and fear is crippling. The only thing that can cause you to worry during your test is trying to do it all yourself. Know that all you have to do is hold your goal before you; everything else will take care of itself.
Remember also to keep calm and cheerful, don't let petty things annoy you and get you off course.
Now since making this test is difficult, some may say,
"Why should I bother?"
"Why should I bother?"
Well look at the alternative.
No one wants to be a failure.
No one really wants to be a mediocre individual.
No one wants a life constantly filled with fear and worry and frustration.
No one wants to be a failure.
No one really wants to be a mediocre individual.
No one wants a life constantly filled with fear and worry and frustration.
Therefore remember that you must reap that what you sow.
If you sow negative thoughts, your life will be filled with negative things.
If you sow positive thoughts, your life will be cheerful, successful, and positive.
If you sow negative thoughts, your life will be filled with negative things.
If you sow positive thoughts, your life will be cheerful, successful, and positive.
Gradually you will have a tendency to forget what you''ve learned on this record. Play it often.
Keep reminding yourself of what you must do to form this new habit.
Gather your whole family about and listen to what has been said here at regular intervals. Most people will tell you that they want to make money, without understanding the law.
The only people who make money work in a mint. The rest of us must earn money.
Keep reminding yourself of what you must do to form this new habit.
Gather your whole family about and listen to what has been said here at regular intervals. Most people will tell you that they want to make money, without understanding the law.
The only people who make money work in a mint. The rest of us must earn money.
This is what causes those who keep looking for something for nothing, or a free ride, to fail in life.
The only way to earn money is by providing people with services or products which are needed and useful. We exchange ourour product or service for the other person's money.
The only way to earn money is by providing people with services or products which are needed and useful. We exchange ourour product or service for the other person's money.
Therefore the law is that our financial return will be in direct proportion to our service. Success is not the result of making money. Making money is the result of success - and success is in direct proportion to our service.
Most people have this law backwards.
They believe that you are successful if you earn alot of money. The truth is that you can only earn money after you are successful. It's like the story of the man who stands in front of the stove and says to it: "Give me heat and then I'll add the wood."
They believe that you are successful if you earn alot of money. The truth is that you can only earn money after you are successful. It's like the story of the man who stands in front of the stove and says to it: "Give me heat and then I'll add the wood."
How many men and women do you know, or do you suppose there are today, who take the same attitude toward life?
There are millions.
We've got to put the fuel in before we can expect heat. Likewise, we've got to be of service first before we can expect money.
Don't concern yourself with the money.
Be of service ... build ... work ...dream ... create!
Do this and you'll find there is no limit to the prosperity and abundance that will come to you.
Be of service ... build ... work ...dream ... create!
Do this and you'll find there is no limit to the prosperity and abundance that will come to you.
Prosperity is founded upon a law of mutual exchange.
Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn himself.
Sometimes the return will not come from those you serve, but it must come to you from someplace, for that is the law.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
As you go daily through your 30 day test period, remember that your success will
always be measured by the quality and quantity of service you render,
and money is a yardstick for measuring this service. No person can get rich himself, unless he enriches others.
There are no exceptions to a law.
There are no exceptions to a law.
You can drive down any street and from your car estimate the service that is being rendered by the people living on that street.
Have you ever thought of this yardstick before? It's interesting.
Some, like ministers, priests and other devoted people measure their
returns in the realm of the spiritual, but again their returns are equal
to their service.
Once this law is fully understood, any thinking person can tell their own fortune.
If they want more, they must be of more service to those he recieves his return.
If they want less, they have only to reduce their service.
This is the price you must pay for what you want.
If they want more, they must be of more service to those he recieves his return.
If they want less, they have only to reduce their service.
This is the price you must pay for what you want.
If you believe you can enrich yourself by deluding others, you can
only end by deluding yourself. Just as surely as
you breathe, you'll get back what you put out.
Don't ever make the mistake of thinking you can avert this. It's
impossible: The prisons and the streets where the lonely walk are
filled with people who tried to make new laws just for themselves. We
may avoid the laws of men, but there are greater laws that
cannot be broken.
An outstanding medical doctor recently pointed out six steps that will help you realize success.
The doctor that wrote those words is a noted west coast psychiatrist, David Harold Fink, Md.1. Set yourself a definite goal. 2. Quit running yourself down.
3. Stop thinking of all the reasons why you cannot be successful and instead think of all the reasons why you can.
4. Trace your attitudes back through your childhood and try to discover where you first got the idea that you couldn't be a success if that is the way you've been thinking.
5. Change the image you have of yourself by writing out a description of the person you would like to be.
6. Act the part of the successful person you have decided to become.
Do what the experts since the dawn of recorded history have told you must do: pay the price by becoming the person you want to become.
It's not nearly as difficult as living unsuccessfully.
Take this 30 day test, then repeat it ... then repeat it again.
Each time it will become more a part of you until you'll wonder how you could have ever have lived any other way. Live this new way and the floodgates of abundance will open and pour over you more riches than you may have dreamed existed.
Money?
Yes, lots of it.
But what's more important, you'll have peace ... you'll be in that wonderful minority who lead calm, cheerful, successful lives.
Start today.
You have nothing to lose - but you have a life to win.
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