"Success is active.  Action dispels fear.  If you sit still, fear has the time to paralyze your abilities and efforts, ultimately causing you to fail.  Continue to move toward your goals with great diligence and great courage!"  -  Myles W. Miller, "The Power of Conquering Fear"

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Success Strategy: The Power of Conquering FEAR!

We all know the devasting effects Fear can impart on any worthy Ideal, Goal or Success endeavor.  Fear, born of ignorance and lack of awareness, will stop you dead in your tracks if you are not equipped to whip it and whip it good.  Indeed, Fear also known as "The Terror Barrier."

In order to attain Success and achieve Goals, inhibiting Fear MUST be eliminated from your conscious and subconscious mind.

Today's Success Strategy post comes from a good friend who has written a book entitled, "The Power of Conquering Fear."  Myles W. Miller has been studying human achievement and how to overcome and conquer Fear to attain Success and achieve Goals for many years.  Recently, I read one of his articles and loved it so much, I BEGGED for permission to reproduce it here.  He finally said yes  - today (after making me twitch a bit) - and I could not wait to share it with you.

Originally published in 2004, The Power of Conquering Fear is a powerful, compelling book.  Following the article, below, is contact information on Myles, along with a link to Amazon to purchase his book (no commissions here).

I am proud to publish this article on behalf of Myles - he is the Success Manual's very first Guest Contributor!  Thanks, Myles!

Until next time . . . .

Peace Out, and - Namasté!

To your Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Success,

The Success Manual Team

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The Power of Conquering Fear by Myles W. Miller

“You must do the thing that you fear until the fear of that thing becomes no more.” - Brian Tracy

One day, not too long ago, I was in the middle of a 5 day fast.  I was looking for spiritual answers to some situations that I was facing.  On the third day, I got hit with the truth:  my attention that my life and motives had been based on fear.  I had feared that people would not love me if I stood up for myself.  I had feared that people would not understand me when I needed them to.  I had feared that failure would always overtake my efforts in life no matter how well I performed.  Ultimately, I feared being a complete and total failure in life.

It was very shocking for me to come to this realization.  I had always felt that I had a natural zest for life, but there was always a “glass ceiling” that I just could not seem to break through.  I could always “see” what I could be, but actually becoming that person often eluded me.  Fear is a great paralyzer.  It lulls one into believing that gloom and doom are always “inevitable.” Fear causes great people to accept mediocrity.  It also causes death and destruction to lives and dreams of most people.  Where there is overwhelming procrastination, there is fear.  Where there is great anger, there is fear.  Where there is extreme hatred, there is fear.  Where there is complacency, there is fear.  Where there was failure, ultimately, fear was there.

That brought me back to something else that I never consciously realized; that fear is a mind-set.  Thus, anything that is set in your mind got there from a thought or set of thoughts.  However, thoughts can be corrected by consciously choosing to think better thoughts.  If you constantly fear that you are going to be “sick,” you are going to be “sick.” So to correct your “sickness” before it happens, start consciously choosing “healthy” thoughts.

This ideology holds true in most walks of life.  Henry Ford, world-renowned industrialist and automotive pioneer, once stated, “Whether you think that you can or you can’t, you’re right.”  Ford often successfully overcame fear.  You see, he only had a sixth grade education.  By most standards, he would have been considered illiterate and ignorant.  Mr. Ford was so “ignorant,” that he committed himself to the “outrageous” dream of building automobiles with little formal education.  Ford was so “ignorant,” that he pioneered the “V” shaped engine, something that his “smart” engineers said “couldn’t” be done.  In essence, Ford was so “ignorant,” until he forgot to “fear” things that most people with his set of “limitations” were supposed to. 

I’m pretty sure that there is somebody out there right now driving their family vehicle to a job that is murdering their dreams of greatness.  These people are probably 1000 times “smarter” than Henry Ford was.  So “smart” that they think “security” is going to come by working for someone else the rest of their lives.  I sincerely believe and teach people to be bold in their journey through life.  Boldness breaks the bondage of fear.  Boldness is defined as the willingness to face risk fearlessly. 

What do you have dreams of doing or being?  What is holding you back?  For the first question, I know some people will answer things becoming a singer, writing a book, starting a new business, buying a new car, and etc.  However, for the second question, I know that tons of fear-based excuses will come up.  Things like, “I’m too old,” “I’m too young,” “I’m a woman,” “I’m Black,” “I don’t have a lot of money,” and the like.  In this article, I have been spiritually led to tell you the truth.  Your boldness will lead you to the result of question one, and defeat the untruths of question two.  World-renowned writer, speaker, and pastor, Joyce Meyer, describes fear as “False Evidence Appearing Real.”  The truth of the matter is that success knows no such boundaries as race, sex, age, gender, creed, or religious preference.  Thus there is no reason for fear to keep you in bondage anymore.  The following are five steps to unleashing your power over F.E.A.R.

5 Steps to Unleashing Your Power over Fear

• Become “ignorant” to fear
• Don’t let fear have time to think
• Always speak faith and belief
• Create and maintain a positive outlook of yourself
• Continue to execute the thing(s) that you fear until fear disappears

Become “Ignorant” to Fear:

Fear appears in many different forms.  It can come from negative self (i.e.  “I can’t do this,” “I’m not good at this,” etc.).  It can come from negative media forecasts (i.e., bad predictions of the economy, bad weather reports, reports of murder, etc.).  Remember the story of Henry Ford?  He could have been nothing in this lifetime because of what he could not do, but his fears took a back seat to his ability to ignore any ideas that were not in congruence with his dream.  Therefore, you must mute the voice of fear by limiting (or completely eliminating) your contact with fear-causing entities.

Don’t Let Fear Have Time to Think:

Thoughts are powerful.  A single thought can be responsible for life or death in this world.  And anything that you think about long enough will find its way into the physical realm.  Therefore, if you were to spend time thinking about the things that you want out of life (I mean conscious concentrate), you begin to see them.  Conversely, the same is true for the things that you don’t want in life.  Commit your time to faith and believing, not fear and doubt.

Always Speak Faith and Belief:

To frame your own world free of debilitating fear, always think, act, and speak positively in faith and belief.  Be bold and say things as you want them to be in your life.  If it is a new house you want, say it! If it is a new car you want, say it! If it is a successful family life you want, say it! If it is a better job that you want, say it!

Create and Maintain a Positive Outlook of Yourself:

I have a motto that goes like this: “If I know who and what I am, no one can tell me who and what I am not!” No matter what the world has decided to think about me, I have decided to think great thoughts about myself.  Therefore, I am free of world’s often limiting belief system.  I don’t worry about things like weather reports, poor economic forecasts, what celebrity just went to jail, and who does not believe in my dreams, because if God is for me, who or what can be against me (Romans 8:31)? Decide who and what you are right now and do not be moved negativity.

Continue to Execute the Thing(s) That You Fear Until Fear Disappears:

Success is active.  Action dispels fear.  If you sit still, fear has the time to paralyze your abilities and efforts, ultimately causing you to fail.  Continue to move toward your goals with great diligence and great courage!

Good luck and may Success embrace you!

© 2004 Myles W.  Miller for Lion Heart Enterprises

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Contributor Information

Born in Detroit, MI in 1978, Myles W. Miller, President and CEO of Lion Heart Enterprises, is known to his friends and family as a hard-working, loving, kind, compassionate, creative, and inspirational young man. He is a dynamic teacher and personal coach, a compelling and prolific writer, a charismatic and transformational motivational speaker, a phenomenal talk show host, and just an all around good guy.

Myles is a Self-Help expert on Selfgrowth.com and can be heard on his radio shows, "Creating a Championship Standard of Living," and "The 4th Quarter Comeback Show" at http://bit.ly/MylesTalkRadio.

He can be contacted directly at myleswmiller@gmail.com or via phone at (678) 389-9542. 

The Power of Conquering Fear may be purchased at Amazon.com by clicking this direct link!

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The Secret, you ask?  It is this: In order to attain that which you Desire, you MUST assume the proper STATE OF MIND in order to receive it.  The emphasis here is the three words “STATE OF MIND.”  State of Mind is EVERYTHING.  Period.  It is the fundamental foundation to living the Life that you Desire.  That is what Napoleon Hill meant: Learn to control your State of Mind, and you learn to control your Destiny.  That is the Secret.

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Success Key: State of Mind – The MOST Powerful Success Strategy

[Ed. Note: Today’s Post is on the lengthy side.  However, it is our firm belief that this may be our most important Post – ever.  Read it.  Read all of it.]

In our last issue of The Success Beacon Newsletter, I discussed Napoleon Hill’s “Money-Making Secret” of Think and Grow Rich.  Specifically, in the Preface, Napoleon Hill makes continued mention of the “Money-Making Secret” that appears throughout the book at least once in every chapter, and he further states that the secret is mentioned no fewer than 100 times throughout the book.  However, Hill intentionally does not specifically disclose the Secret, stating the following:

“The secret to which I refer has been mentioned no fewer than a hundred times, throughout this book.  It has not been directly named, for it seems to work more successfully when it is merely uncovered and left in sight, where those who are ready, and searching for it, may pick it up.  That is why Mr. Carnegie tossed it to me so quietly, without giving me its specific name.

“If you are ready to put it to use, you will recognize this secret at least once in every chapter.  I wish I might feel privileged to tell you how you will know if you are ready, but that would deprive you of much of the benefit you will receive when you make the discovery in your own way.

“A peculiar thing about this secret is that those who once acquire it and use it, find themselves literally swept on to success, with but little effort, and they never again submit to failure!

“The secret to which I refer cannot be had without a price, although the price is far less than its value.  It cannot be had at any price by those who are not intentionally searching for it.  It cannot be given away, it cannot be purchased for money, for the reason that it comes in two parts.  One part is already in possession of those who are ready for it.”

I stated in the Newsletter that I had discovered the Secret and asked our readers if they knew it as well and invited email on the subject.  I received numerous responses, but interestingly, everyone had a different answer!  And, they were all different from what I had concluded as Mr. Hill’s “secret” Secret.

As a result, I went back to Think and Grow Rich and undertook a hard re-examination of Hill’s work.  I am convinced, more than ever, I have the SECRET.

And, I agree with Napoleon Hill as to the significance of the Secret: If you cannot master the Success Power Strategy embodied in this Secret, you will NOT Succeed.  It is that Powerful.

The Secret – at first glance – appears quite simple.  That is because it is simple.  It may also appear obvious.  Well, it is obvious.  The challenge – and Key (as all challenges are nothing more than Keys in disguise) – is that while the Secret may be simple and obvious, it is by no means easy to implement and perfect in our lives, which is why, I believe, that we tend to overlook this Secret and its significance.  It requires hard mental work – the type that most people shirk away.

I firmly believe that if we do not, or cannot, successfully incorporate the Secret into our lives, our chances of obtaining our Desires – whether they be financial, emotional, spiritual, physical – are greatly diminished.  In fact, almost non-existent.

The spectacular Nebula IRAS 05437+2502 defies Imagination. Yet, we can create our world by assuming a State of Mind that allows our Creator to work to and through us.

The SECRET, you ask?  It is this:

In order to attain that which you Desire, you MUST assume the proper STATE OF MIND in order to receive it.

The emphasis here is the three words “STATE OF MIND.”  State of Mind is EVERYTHING.  Period.  It is the fundamental foundation to living the Life that you Desire.

If you go back and read Think and Grow Rich (click here for the FREE Success Manual Strategist 2010 Edition) with this Secret in Mind, the Secret will literally begin to materialize in the pages throughout the book.  It permeates Hills’ work, even though he never expressly states that “State of Mind” is the Secret.  Let’s look at some of the evidence.

First, the concept of “The Man Who Can is the Man Who Thinks He Can” is brought out in more than one instance in Think and Grow Rich.  In other words, if you BELIEVE that you can do something, than you CAN do it.  But, what is “Belief,” other than a State of Mind?

Further, Hill makes the following important statement: “Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people.”  In other words, according to Hill, if you don’t affirmatively guard what enters your Mind, you are leaving the gate open for the negative thinking and influence of others to enter your Mind, thereby creating a Negative STATE OF MIND.  What is the likelihood of attaining a Goal or achieving Success if you are consistently and habitually in a Negative State of Mind?  Zero?  Probably.

And, Hill is right – this is the most common weakness of all human beings.  Most “negative influence” by others is very subtle; we may not even notice it.  The fact remains, however, that we MUST always stand guard as the Gatekeeper of our Mind and maintain TOTAL CONTROL of our Mind, our Thoughts and our Feelings.

Don’t ever – ever, ever, ever – allow ANYONE to control YOUR Thoughts, Emotions and Behavior.  You – and ONLY you – assume, establish and control YOUR State of Mind.  If you are under the impression that external events, circumstances or people are “making” you feel and/or think a certain way, i.e., the events, circumstances or people are causing or establishing YOUR State of Mind, it is ONLY because YOU are allowing that to happen.  Stop it – IMMEDIATELY!  Regardless of what is transpiring in the external world, i.e., the events, circumstances and behavior of people, you are the ONLY one responsible for YOUR State of Mind.  The events, circumstances and people of the external world have absolutely NO CONTROL over your State of Mind.

I believe that this is what Hill meant: Learn to control your State of Mind, and you learn to control your Destiny.  That is the Secret.

Let’s see what more Think and Grow Rich has to say.

In the epilogue, the final chapter on the Six Ghosts of Fear, Hill addresses the “Fear of Poverty,” which is nothing more than a State of Mind and how one must control one’s State of Mind if one is ever to attain Riches.  The following are excerpts from this section of the chapter, which I STRONGLY URGE you to read in their entirety.  Yes, it is a bit lengthy, but IT IS THAT IMPORTANT!  As you read the excerpts, you will note certain language that ties directly in with what Hill states in the Preface about the Secret; you will also come to the conclusion, I believe, of the Power of State of Mind:

"Before you can put any portion of this philosophy [of Think and Grow Rich] into successful use, your mind must be prepared to receive it.  The preparation is not difficult.  It begins with study, analysis, and understanding of three enemies which you shall have to clear out.  These are Indecision, Doubt and Fear!

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"The remainder of this chapter describes an end which must be attained before the philosophy [of Think and Grow Rich], as a whole, can be put into practical use.  It also analyzes a condition which has, but lately, reduced huge numbers of people to poverty, and it states a truth which must be understood by all who accumulate riches, whether measured in terms of money or a state of mind of far greater value than money.  The purpose of this chapter is to turn the spotlight of attention upon the cause and the cure of the six basic fears.  Before we can master an enemy, we must know its name, its habits, and its place of abode.

"Fears are nothing more than states of mind.  One’s state of mind is subject to control and direction.

"Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in the form of an impulse of thought.  Following this statement, comes another of still greater importance, namely, man’s Thought Impulses begin immediately to translate themselves into their physical equivalent, whether those Thoughts are voluntary or involuntary.

 . . . .

"We are here laying the foundation for the presentation of a fact of great importance to the person who does not understand why some people appear to be “lucky” while others of equal or greater ability, training, experience, and brain capacity, seem destined to ride with misfortune.  This fact may be explained by the statement that every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind, and with this control, obviously, every person may open his mind to the tramp thought impulses which are being released by other brains, or close the doors tightly and admit only thought impulses of his own choice.

"Nature has endowed man with absolute control over but one thing, and that is Thought.  This fact, coupled with the additional fact that everything which man creates, begins in the form of a thought, leads one very near to the principle by which Fear may be mastered.

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"There can be no compromise between Poverty and Riches!  The two roads that lead to Poverty and Riches travel in opposite directions.  If you want Riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads toward Poverty.  (The word “Riches” is here used in its broadest sense, meaning financial, spiritual, mental and material estates).

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"Here, then, is the place to give yourself a challenge which will definitely determine how much of this philosophy you have absorbed.  Here is the point at which you can turn prophet and foretell, accurately, what the future holds in store for you.  If, after reading this chapter, you are willing to accept Poverty, you may as well make up your mind to receive Poverty.  This is one decision you cannot avoid.

"If you demand Riches, determine what form, and how much will be required to satisfy you.  You know the road that leads to riches.  You have been given a road map which, if followed, will keep you on that road.  If you neglect to make the start, or stop before you arrive, no one will be to blame, but YOU.  This responsibility is yours.  No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility if you now fail or refuse to demand riches of Life, because the acceptance calls for but one thing – incidentally, the only thing you can control – and that is a State of Mind.  A State of Mind is something that one assumes.  It cannot be purchased, it must be created.

"Fear of Poverty is a State of Mind, nothing else! "

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Decide today – right here, right now – to assume a State of Mind that demands Success and Riches and is not willing to accept Poverty or Failure in any amount or at any level.

Decide today – right here, right now – to assume a State of Mind of which YOU have total and absolute control and that YOU will not allow or permit YOUR State of Mind to be influenced or controlled by any person, event or circumstance.

Continue to reaffirm these Declarations periodically throughout the day, every day, until these principles have been engrained into your thinking.  Don’t stop, don’t give up – keep working it until it is thought habit.

It’s YOUR Mind – take responsibility for it!

We have more to come on this subject in the near future.  Do not let the fact that you have been told the Secret, as opposed to discovering it yourself, diminish the Power of the Secret.  I honestly and sincerely believe that this Secret is by far THE MOST POWERFUL SUCCESS KEY AND STRATEGY IN THE WORLD.  Use it!  Keep studying it!  Work it!

Don’t squander this information – as Napoleon Hill states, it is PRICELESS!  The State of Mind to Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Success cannot be purchased – it MUST be created!

To be continued . . . .

Peace Out, and - Namasté!

To your Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Success,

The Success Manual Team

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The 10 Commandments of SUCCESS

The Ten Commandments of Success

A while back, my good friend David Riklan of SelfGrowth.com published a great book on the top 101 "self help" experts.  In it, he listed the "10 Commandments" of self help, personal development and self improvement.  I thought it might be fun to take David's orignal list and modify it a bit to create "The 10 Commandments of SUCCESS."

I. Take Responsibility for Your Life

Dr. Phil McGraw: “Life Law: You Create Your Own Experience.  Acknowledge and Accept Responsibility for your life.”

Stephen Covey: “Taking initiative does not mean being pushy, obnoxious, or aggressive.  It does mean recognizing our responsibility to make things happen.”

Les Brown: “Accept responsibility fir your life.  Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”

Bob Proctor: “It’s your life, it’s your movie.  You can make it anything you want to.”

Denis Waitley: “There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.”

II. Take Action

Dr. Phil McGraw: “Life Rewards Action.  Make Careful Decisions.”

Anthony Robbins: “Take Massive Action.”

Napoleon Hill: “Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it.”

Dale Carnegie: “The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.  The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.”

Jack Canfield: “Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask.  Everything you want also wants you.  But you have to take action to get it.”

Napoleon Hill: “Those who reach decisions promptly and definitely know what they want and generally get it.  The leaders in every walk of life decide quickly and firmly.  That is the major reason why they are leaders.  The world has a habit of making room for those individuals whose words and actions show that they know where they are going.”

III. Have Desire

Napoleon Hill: “Desire is the starting point of all achievement.”

Muhammad Ali: “Champions aren’t made in the gyms.  Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision.”

Mario Andretti: “Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.”

Napoleon Hill: “A burning desire to be and to do is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off.  Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness or lack of ambition.”

Earl Nightingale: “The key that unlocks energy is ‘Desire.’  It’s also the key to a long and interesting life.  If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.”

IV. Set Goals

Anthony Robbins: “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”

Aristotle: “First, have a definite, clear practical ideal: a goal, an objective.  Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends wisdom, money, materials, and methods.  Third, adjust all your means to that end.”

Maxwell Maltz: “People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile.  Get yourself a goal worth working for.  Better still, get yourself a project.  Always have something ahead of you to ‘look forward to’ – to work for and hope for.”

Brian Tracy: “Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can pot their whole heart and soul into.”

Zig Ziglar: “A goal properly set is halfway reached.”

V. Create a Plan

Unknown: “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.”

Napoleon Hill: “When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.”

Mark Victor Hansen: “The majority of people meet with failure because they lack the persistence to create new plans to take the place of failed plans.”

Napoleon Hill: “Your achievement can be no greater than your plans are sound.  That may seem to be an axiomatic statement, but it is true.  And no one is ever whipped until that person quits – in his or her own mind."

VI. Pay the Price

Vince Lomardi: “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”

Napoleon Hill: “Remember, there is no such possibility as something for nothing.”

Orison Swett Marden: “Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance.  It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.”

VII. Have Persistence

Calvin Coolidge: “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.  Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.  Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.  Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.  Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”

Napoleon Hill: “Success does not respond to wishes.  Success responds only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, thought constant persistence.”

Orison Swett Marden: “‘There is genius in persistence.  It conquers all opposers.  It gives confidence.  It annihilates obstacles.  Everybody believes in a determined man.  People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.”

Napoleon Hill: “There may be no heroic connotation to the word ‘persistence,’ but the quality is to a person’s character what carbon is to steel.”

VIII. Believe

Denis Waitley: “If you believe you can, you probably can.  If you believe you won’t, you most assuredly won’t.  Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.”

Anthony Robbins: “If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything.”

Napoleon Hill: “The only limitation is that which one sets up in one’s own mind.”

Maxwell Maltz: “Realizing that our actions, feelings and behavior are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.”

Napoleon Hill: “The man who can is the man who thinks he can.”

David J. Schwartz: “The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief.  Think little goals and expect link achievements.  Think big goals and win big success.  Remember this, too: Big ideas and big plans arc often easier – certainly no more difficult – than small ideas and small plans.”

IX. Learn From Your Mistakes

Winston Churchill: “All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.”

Oprah Winfrey: “There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.”

X. Create a Clear Picture of Your Future and Visualize It

Earl Nightingale:  “Picture yourself in your mind’s eye as having already achieved this goal.  See yourself doing the things you’ll he doing when you’ve reached your goal.”

Stephen Covey: “Create a clear, mutual understanding of what needs to be accomplished, focusing on what, not how; results not methods.  Spend time.  Be patient.  Visualize the desired result.”

Unknown: “Visualization is not seeing things as they are, but seeing things as they will be.”

Robert L Schwartz: “The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer.  He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how lo make it happen.”

Some great material upon which to reflect . . .

Until next time, Peace Out and - Namaste!

To your Health, Wealth Prosperity and Success

The Success Manual Team

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To your Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Success,

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Here lies the whole secret.  You can begin to be great today in your own home, in your store or office, on the street, everywhere; you can begin to make yourself known as great; and you can do this by doing everything you do in a great way.  You must put the whole power of your great soul into every act, however small and commonplace, and so reveal to your family, your friends, and neighbors what you really are.  No one will believe you if you tell him you are a great man, but no one can doubt your greatness if you show it in your actions.  -  Wallace D. Wattles, "The Science of Being Great"

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Success Strategy: Realization

Over the course of the past few weeks, I have encountered - through study- many brilliant passages on the Success elements of Idealization and Realization.  Standing alone, those terms are a bit esoteric, perhaps meaningless.  But, in practice, they have real bite, and all Successful individuals, whether they know it or not, engage in the processes of Idealization and Realization.

Last week, we added to The Success Manual Free Download Library a great piece by Brown Landone, "How to Turn Your Desires and Idealizations into Reality."  In the post that accompanied the Download Page to that work, we focused on the concept of Idealization - what it is and why it is necessary to attaining your Goal.  We even provided what we believe is a fairly accurate portrayal of Idealization in action in every day life.  Visualizations and Affirmations are great exercises, but until your specific Idea of Success becomes an Ideal and you take the necessary Action to Realize the Ideal, your Goal will likely remain outside your grasp.

In today's post, I want to share with you two passages that are relevant to the process of Realization.  I know - sometimes we seem to make the attainment of Success or the achievement of a Goal more complicated than it really is.  How much has been written on the subject?  Only God knows for sure at this point.  However, the subject matter is really not that complicated after all, and the continuous, systematic and repetitious study of Guiding Principles, Universal Truths and God's Laws provide the polestar for overcoming erroneous, negative thinking, past conditioning and bad habits that prevent us from enjoying a happy, Healthy, Wealthy, Prosperous and Successful Life.

Today's two passages are: "Where So Many Fail" by Ernest S. Holmes from his masterpiece work, "Creative Mind and Success" (tomorrow's addition to The Success Manual Free Download Library) and "Realization" by Wallace D. Wattles from the third work, "The Science of Being Great," from his brilliant "Science" trilogy.  Both passages are below.

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Quick Notes:

First: We are wrapping up our first two products - The Wattles Prosperity Bible and The Law of Attraction Prosperity Bible - and our launch web site is nearly complete (we are in final testing).  Launch is . . . . NEXT WEEK!! All I will say now is: This is going to be great!  Stay Tuned!

Second: We are also working on a great series of articles on The Law of Attraction.  SO MUCH is misunderstood about this Law and the amount of attention and emphasis place on this Law - to the exclusion of other known Laws and Truths (including basic common sense!) - is absurd.  The Law has been twisted, contorted and convoluted in the name of profit by some and to the detriment of many who are receiving false, misleading information and pinning all of their hopes and dreams on a Principle that when relied upon and applied in a vacuum is utterly useless.  What started as a two-part article has now substantially grown.  Perhaps we even have a book - it is hard to tell with the amount of editing still required.  Stand by for further info in the future.

Enjoy a beautiful, glorious Monday, folks.

Until next time, Peace my Friend, and - Namaste!

To your Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Success,

The Success Manual Team

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Realization

Wallace D. Wattles

 IF YOU were to stop with the close of the last chapter, however, you would never become great; you would be indeed a mere dreamer of dreams, a castle-builder.  Too many do stop there; they do not understand the necessity for present action in realizing the vision and bringing the thought-form into manifestation.  Two things are necessary.  First, the making of the thought form, and, second, the actual appropriation to yourself of all that goes into and around the thought-form.  We have discussed the first, now we will proceed to give directions for the second.  When you have made your thought-form, you are already, in your interior, what you want to be; next you must become externally what you want to be.  You are already great within, but you are not yet doing the great things without.  You cannot begin, on the instant, to do the great things; you cannot be before the world the great actor, or lawyer, or musician, or personality you know yourself to be; no one will intrust great things to you as yet for you have not made yourself known.  But you can always begin to do small things in a great way.

Here lies the whole secret.  You can begin to be great today in your own home, in your store or office, on the street, everywhere; you can begin to make yourself known as great; and you can do this by doing everything you do in a great way.  You must put the whole power of your great soul into every act, however small and commonplace, and so reveal to your family, your friends, and neighbors what you really are.  Do not brag or boast of yourself; do not go about telling people what a great personage you are; simply live in a great way.  No one will believe you if you tell him you are a great man, but no one can doubt your greatness if you show it in your actions.  In your domestic circle be so just, so generous, so courteous, and kindly that your family, your wife, husband, children, brothers, and sisters shall know that you are a great and noble soul.  In all your relations with men be great, just, generous, courteous, and kindly.  The great are never otherwise.  This for your attitude.

Next, and most important, you must have absolute faith in your own perceptions of truth.  Never act in haste or hurry; be deliberate in everything; wait until you feel that you know the true way.  And when you do feel that you know the true way, be guided by your own faith though all the world shall disagree with you.  If you do not believe what God tells you in little things, you will never draw upon his wisdom and knowledge in larger things.  When you feel deeply that a certain act is the right act, do it and have perfect faith that the consequences will be good.  When you are deeply impressed that a certain thing is true, no matter what the appearances to the contrary may be, accept that thing as true and act accordingly.  The one way to develop a perception of truth in large things is to trust absolutely to your present perception of truth in small things.  Remember that you are seeking to develop this very power or faculty - the perception of truth; you are learning to read the thoughts of God.  Nothing is great and nothing is small in the sight of Omnipotence; he holds the sun in its place, but he also notes a sparrow’s fall and numbers the hairs of your head.  God is as much interested in the little matters of everyday life as he is in the affairs of nations.  You can perceive truth about family and neighborhood affairs as well as about matters of statecraft.  And the way to begin is to have perfect faith in the truth in these small matters, as it is revealed to you from day to day.  When you feel deeply impelled to take a course which seems contrary to all reason and worldly judgment, take that course.  Listen to the suggestions and advice of others, but always do what you feel deeply in the within to be the true thing to do.  Rely with absolute faith, at all times, on your own perception of truth; but be sure that you listen to God – that you do not act in haste, fear, or anxiety.

Rely upon your perception of truth in all facts and circumstances of life.  If you deeply feel that a certain man will be in a certain place on a certain day, go there with perfect faith to meet him; he will be there, no matter how unlikely it may seem.  If you feel sure that certain people are making certain combinations, or doing certain things, act in the faith that they are doing those things.  If you feel sure of the truth of any circumstance or happening, near or distant, past, present, or to come, trust in your perception.  You may make occasional mistakes at first because of your imperfect understanding of the within; but you will soon be guided almost invariably right.  Soon your family and friends will begin to defer, more and more, to your judgment and to be guided by you.  Soon your neighbors and townsmen will be coming to you for counsel and advice; soon you will be recognized as one who is great in small things, and you will be called upon more and more to take charge of larger things.  All that is necessary is to be guided absolutely, in all things, by your inner light, your perception of truth.  Obey your soul, have perfect faith in yourself.  Never think of yourself with doubt or distrust, or as one who makes mistakes.  “If I judge, my judgment is just, for I seek not honor from men, but from the Father only.”

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Why So Many Fail

Ernest S. Holmes

 The ordinary individual, sitting down to give a treatment to his business, unconsciously does just the thing that he should have avoided; and then he wonders why he did not get the desired results.  Most people simply sit and wish for, or long for, something.  They may even have a great desire or hope.  They may even go so far as to believe that their desire is going to happen.  All this is good as far as it goes, but it does not go far enough.  What we must do is to provide that already-having-received attitude.  This may seem hard at first but we can easily see that it is necessary; and as it is the only way that mind works, this is what we must do.

Power is, and mind is, and life is; but they have to flow through us in order to express in our lives.  We are dealing with law; and nature must be obeyed before it will work for us.  Just realize that this law is as natural a law as any other of God’s laws, and use it with the same intelligence that you would use the law of electricity; then you will get the desired results.  We provide the thought form around which the divine energies play and to which they attract the conditions necessary for the fulfillment of the though.

When we give a treatment this is all that we have to do, but before we can do even this we have to clear our minds of all fear, of every sense of separation from the Divine Mind.  Law is; but we must enforce it, or use it, in our own lives.  Nothing can happen to us that is not first an accepted belief in our own consciousness.  We may not always be aware of what is going on within, but practice will enable us to control our thought more and more so that we shall be able to think what we want to think, regardless of what may seem to be the case.

Each person has within himself the capacity of knowing and making use of the law but it must be consciously developed.  This is done by practice, and by willingness to learn and to utilize whatever we know so far as we have gone.

The individual who has the most power is the one who has the greatest realization of the Divine Presence, and to whom this means the most as an active principle of his life.

We all need more backbone and less wishbone.  There is something which waits only our recognition to spring into being, bringing with it all the power in the universe.

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Debt is a contradiction of the universal equilibrium, and there is no such thing as lack of equilibrium in all the universe.  Therefore, in Spirit and in Truth, there is no debt.  However, men hold on to a thought of debt, and this thought is responsible for a great deal of sorrow and hardship . . .    Debts exist in the mind, and in the mind is the proper place to begin liquidating them.  These thought entities must be abolished in mind before their outer manifestations will pass away and stay away.  -  Charles Fillmore, "Prosperity"

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Success Key No. 23.  A New Prosperity Paradigm: God Will Pay Your Debts

This past week we added to our Success Manual Download Library an excellent Success Manual, "Prosperity" by Charles Fillmore.  In our post for that download, we included Lesson Six from the 12-Lesson work and I promised to post Lesson Eight the next day.  However, having also just completed Ralph Waldo Trine's beautiful work, "In Tune with the Infinite" (for our soon-to-be-released five-volume Bonus Set, THE LAW OF ATTRACTION PROSPERITY BIBLE), I felt it necessary to post a most compelling and timely chapter from that book, "The Law of Prosperity," and thus, that was the subject of yesterday's post.

Confused?  Me, too - it was a long, hard week.  But, I am now making good on my word by posting yet another compelling, timely and extremely relevent piece from Fillmore's "Prosperity" - Lesson Eight, "God Will Pay Your Debts."

Charles Fillmore, author of "Prosperity," "Teach Us to Pray" and "Christian Healing: The Science of Being," among many powerful Success and Prosperity Manuals.

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I don't need to tell you anything about debt.  You are likely either in debt, personally, or concerned about the debt of the various levels of government in this country (U.S.), or have read about the alarming debt of other countries.  Debt, and significant amounts of it, are everywhere and permeate budgets from households to businesses to governments of every level - municipal, state, federal and international.  Even if you don't carry personal debt, the alarming levels of global debt likely affect you in some capacity.  Debt is everywhere and a quick perusal of the New York Times online will reveal scores of articles, letters and Op-Ed pieces on debt.  The effects of debt are inescapable and "debt consciousness" is worldwide.  Debt has a profound, negative impact wherever it exists and allowed to fester.  The external world without, according to media and other accounts, is in "debt crises."

Debt has a profound, negative impact wherever it exists and allowed to fester.  The external world without, according to media and other accounts, is in "debt crises."  All of this talk and worry of debt - regardless of the source or the nature, level and extent of the debt at issue - is a powerful impetus to creating (if we allow it) "Debt Consciousness."

All of this talk and worry of debt - regardless of the source or the nature, level and extent of the debt at issue - is a powerful impetus to creating (if we allow it) "Debt Consciousness."

"Debt consciousness" is highly toxic.  First, it is impossible for Debt Consciousness and Prosperity Consciousness to co-exist. You cannot develop and maintain a healthy Prosperity Consciousness if you are focused on debt.  Debt, by its nature, is characterized and defined by concepts of lack and limitation - the exact opposite of what defines Prosperity Consciousness: Prosperity, Abundance and Wealth.  If self-inflicted precepts of lack and limitation impede your stream of consciousness, you will not be able to develop Prosperity Consciousness.  It is simply not possible to live in such a house divided. Debt Consciousness and Prosperity Consciousness are polar opposites.

You cannot develop and maintain a healthy Prosperity Consciousness if you are focused on debt.  Debt, by its nature, is characterized and defined by concepts of lack and limitation - the exact opposite of what defines Prosperity Consciousness: Prosperity, Abundance and Wealth.  Debt Consciousness and Prosperity Consciousness are polar opposites.

Yet, Prosperity Consciousness is KEY to achieving Success and attaining honest and lasting Wealth. 

The good news is that it IS possible to build Prosperity Consciousness even if you have debt issues that require resolution.  Pivotal to achieving Prosperity Consciousness when the world without is awash in red, and admittedly not an easy task, is to keep your debt challenges IN the external world, i.e., the world without, not let those obstacles become the focus of your internal attention, and maintain your focal point on Prosperity and Abundance.  In other words, keep the debt challenge outside the door to your mind, while you execute proper financial housekeeping on the inside.  While perhaps not the easiest of tasks, like any worthwhile objective, it can be accomplished with diligence, vigilance, concentrated effort and committment.  Moreover, and of major significance, Prosperity Consciousness MUST be properly attained if one is to escape debt with finality.

Prosperity Consciousness MUST be properly attained if one is to escape debt with finality.  Otherwise, debt will continue in a self-perpetuating cycle until the necessary intervention required to reprogram the faulty conditioning to that of true Prosperity Consciousness is effectuated.  It is that simple.

Simply paying off a debt does not - by itself - rectify faulty conditioning concerning debt. That programming must be erased and replaced with proper programming that produces Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Success.  The first step in eliminating faulty conditioning that gives rise to bad financial habits is to first rise above the Debt Consciousness that produced the debt in the first instance.  If bad financial conditioning is not corrected and replaced with solid conditioning founded on concepts of Prosperity, Abundance and Wealth, be assured that debt WILL return again - and again, and again . . . until the bad programming is eradicated and replaced with right conditioning.  In his phenomenal book, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, T. Harv Ecker calls your economic conditioning your "financial blueprint," and you will ALWAYS live according to it, whether it be good or bad.  If positive financial change is what you seek, i.e., Wealth, you absolutely, positively MUST adopt and implement the right financial blueprint.  Otherwise, debt will continue in a self-perpetuating cycle until the necessary intervention required to reprogram the faulty conditioning to that of true Prosperity Consciousness is effectuated.  It is that simple.

Let's face it: debt stinks. Nobody wants to carry debt.  If you have debt, you MUST - starting right now - STOP focusing and obsessing on that debt.  It will only bring more debt, deteriorate your emotional, physical and spiritual health, and make your life miserable.  Despite the outer world circumstances of "debt," you must build an inner world of Prosperity.  The sooner you do so, the sooner you will escape Debt Consciousness and break the vicious debt cycle.

If you have debt, you MUST - starting right now - STOP focusing and obsessing on that debt.  It will only bring more debt, deteriorate your emotional, physical and spiritual health, and make your life miserable.

This may well be one of the most challenging issues in developing a solid, keenly established Prosperity Consciousness: attempting to do so while carrying personal debt.  How can one make that paradigm shift - from lack and limitation to Abundance and Prosperity - when current income seemingly is not enough to reduce and eliminate debt?

How's this for an answer: GOD WILL PAY YOUR DEBTS.

Before your write (or laugh) this one off, I urge you to read what Charles Fillmore has to say.  You don't have anything to lose, except, of course, your debt. Losing debt is a good thing.

We don't receive many comments to our posts, but on this issue, I would love to hear what you have to say on this subject.  Please leave a comment and let's open this topic up for some discussion.  Since debt is such a problem and an extremely negative emotional hot-button, your thoughts, comments, concerns and questions on this subject are greatly welcomed and appreciated.

Thank you for visiting our site.  We appreciate the support that we have been receiving and hope that the information, content and material that we work hard to make available proves to be of service to you.

As always, Peace Out, and - NAMASTE!

To your Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Success,

The Success Manual Team

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God Will Pay Your Debts

Charles Fillmore

“Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.”  In these words Jesus expressed an infallible law of mind, the law that one idea must be dissolved before another can take its place.  If you have in your mind any thought that someone has wronged you, you cannot let in the cleansing power of Spirit and the richness of spiritual substance until you have cast out the thought of the wrong, have forgiven it fully.  You may be wondering why you have failed to get spiritual illumination or to find the consciousness of spiritual substance.  Perhaps the reason is here: a lack of room for the true thoughts because other thoughts fill your mind.  If you are not receiving the spiritual understanding you feel you should have, you should search your mind carefully for unforgiving thoughts.  “Thoughts are things” and occupy space in the mind realm.  They have substance and form and may easily be taken as permanent by one not endowed with spiritual discernment.  They bring forth fruit according to the seed planted in the mind, but they are not enduring unless founded in Spirit.  Thoughts are alive and are endowed by the thinker with a secondary thinking power; that is, the thought entity that the I AM forms assumes an ego and begins to think on its own account.  Thoughts also think but only with the power you give to them.

Tell me what kind of thoughts you are holding about yourself and your neighbors, and I can tell you just what you may expect in the way of health, finances, and harmony in your home.  Are you suspicious of your neighbors?  You cannot love and trust in God if you hate and distrust men.  The two ideas love and hate, or trust and mistrust, simply cannot both be present in your mind at one time, and when you are entertaining one, you may be sure the other is absent.  Trust other people and use the power that you accumulate from that act to trust God.  There is magic in it: it works wonders; love and trust are dynamic, vital powers.  Are you accusing men of being thieves, and fear that they are going to take away from you something that is your own?  With such a thought generating fear and even terror in your mind and filling your consciousness with darkness, where is there room for the Father’s light of protection?  Rather build walls of love and substance around yourself.  Send out swift, invisible messengers of love and trust for your protection.  They are better guards than policemen or detectives.

Do not judge others as regards their guilt or innocence.  Consider yourself and how you stand in the sight of the Father for having thoughts about another’s guilt.  Begin your reform with yourself.  That means much to one who enjoys an understanding of mind and its laws, though it may mean little to the ordinary individual.  He who knows himself superficially, just his external personality, thinks he has reformed when he has conformed to the moral and governmental laws.  He may even be filled with his own self-righteousness and daily lift up his voice to praise God that he is not as other men are, that he has forgiven men their transgressions.  He looks on all men who do not conform to his ideas of morality and religion as being sinners and transgressors and thanks God for his own insight and keenness.  But he is not at peace.  Something seems lacking.  God does not talk to him “face to face,” because the mind, where God and man meet, is darkened by the murky thought that other men are sinners.  Our first work in any demonstration is to contact God; therefore, we must forgive all men their transgressions.  Through this forgiveness we cleanse our mind so that the Father can forgive us our own transgressions.

The world cannot be free from the bondage of debt and interest until men start to work in their minds to erase those things from consciousness.

Our forgiving “all men” includes ourselves.  You must also forgive yourself.  Let the finger of denial erase every sin or “falling short” that you have charged up against yourself.  Pay your debt by saying to that part of yourself which you think has fallen short: “Thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing befall thee.”  Then “loose him, and let him go.”  Treat sin as a mental transgression, instead of considering it as a moral deflection.  Deny in thought all tendency to the error way and hold yourself firmly to the Christ Spirit, which is your divine self.  Part company forever with “accusing conscience.”  Those who have resolved to sin no more have nothing in common with guilt.

“Shall I be in debt as long as I hold debts against others?”  We find this to be the law of mind: a thought of debt will produce debt.  So long as you believe in debt you will go into debt and accumulate the burdens that follow that thought.  Whoever has not forgiven all men their debts is likely to fall into debt himself.  Does this mean that you should give receipted bills to all those who owe you?  No.  That would not be erasing the thought of debt from your mind.  First deny in mind that any man or woman owes you anything.  If necessary, go over your list of names separately and sincerely forgive the thought of debt which you have been attaching to each person named.  More bills may be collected in this way than in any other, for many of these people will pay what they owe when you send them this forgiving thought.

Debt is a contradiction of the universal equilibrium, and there is no such thing as lack of equilibrium in all the universe.  Therefore, in Spirit and in Truth, there is no debt.  However, men hold on to a thought of debt, and this thought is responsible for a great deal of sorrow and hardship.  The true disciple realizes his supply in the consciousness of omnipresent, universally possessed abundance.  Spirit substance is impartial and owned in common, and no thought of debt can enter into it.  Debts exist in the mind, and in the mind is the proper place to begin liquidating them.  These thought entities must be abolished in mind before their outer manifestations will pass away and stay away.  The world can never be free from the bondage of financial obligations until men erase from their minds the thoughts of “mine and thine” that generates debts and interest.  Analyze the thought of debt and you will see that it involves a thought of lack.  Debt is a thought of lack with absence at both ends; the creditor thinks he lacks what is owed him and the debtor thinks he lacks what is necessary to pay it, else he would discharge the obligation rather than continue it.  There is error at both ends of the proposition and nothing in the middle.  This being true, it should be easy to dissolve the whole thought that anyone owes us or that we owe anyone anything.  We should fill our mind with thoughts of all-sufficiency, and where there is no lack there can be no debts.  Thus, we find that the way to pay our debts is by filling our mind with the substance of ideas that are the direct opposite of the thoughts of lack that caused the debts.

Ideas of abundance will more quickly and surely bring what is yours to you than any thoughts you can hold about debtors discharging their obligations to you.  See substance everywhere and affirm it, not only for yourself but for everyone else.  Especially affirm abundance for those whom you have held in the thought of owing you.  Thus you will help them pay their debts more easily than if you merely erased their names from your book of accounts receivable.  Help pay the other fellow’s debts by forgiving him his debts and declaring for him the abundance that is his already in Spirit.  The idea of abundance will also bring its fruits into your own life.  Let the law of plenty work itself out in you and in your affairs.  This is the way the Father forgives your debts: not by canceling them on His books but by erasing them from His mind.  He remembers them no more against you when you deny their reality.  The Father is the everywhere present Spirit in which all that appears has its origin.  God’s love sees you always well, happy, and abundantly provided for; but God’s wisdom demands that order and right relation exist in your mind before it may become manifest in your affairs as abundance.  His love would give you your every desire, but His wisdom ordains that you forgive your debtors before your debts are forgiven.

To remedy any state of limited finances or ill-health that has been brought about by worry one must begin by eliminating the worry that is the original cause.  One must free one’s mind from the burden of debt before the debt can be paid.  Many people have found that the statement “I owe no man anything but love” has helped them greatly to counteract this thought of debt.  As they used the words their minds were opened to an inflow of divine love and they faithfully co-operated with the divine law of forgiveness in thought, word, and deed.  They built up such a strong consciousness of the healing and enriching power of God’s love that they could live and work peacefully and profitably with their associates.  Thus renewed constantly in health, in faith, and in integrity, they were able to meet every obligation that came to them.

The statement “I owe no man anything but love” does not mean that we can disclaim owing our creditors money or try to evade the payment of obligations we have incurred.  The thing denied is the burdensome thought of debt or of lack.  The work of paying debts is an inner work having nothing to do with the debts already owed but with the wrong thoughts that produced them.  When one holds to the right ideas, burdensome debts will not be contracted.  Debts are produced by thoughts of lack, impatient desire, and covetousness.  When these thoughts are overcome, debts are overcome, forgiven, and paid in full, and we are free from them for all time.

Your thoughts should at all times be worthy of your highest self, your fellow man, and God.  The thoughts that most frequently work ill to you and your associates are thoughts of criticism and condemnation.  Free your mind of them by holding the thought “There is now no condemnation in Christ Jesus.”  Fill your mind with thoughts of divine love, justice, peace, and forgiveness.  This will pay your debts of love, which are the only debts you really owe.  Then see how quickly and easily and naturally all your outer debts will be paid and all inharmonies of mind, body, and affairs smoothed out at the same time.  Nothing will so quickly enrich your mind and free it from every thought of lack as the realization of divine love.  Divine love will quickly and perfectly free you from the burden of debt and heal you of your physical infirmities, often caused by depression, worry, and financial fear.  Love will bring your own to you, adjust all misunderstandings, and make your life and affairs healthy, happy, harmonious, and free, as they should be.  Love indeed is the “fulfillment of the law.”

The way is now open for you to pay your debts.  Surrender them to God along with all your doubts and fears.  Follow the light that is flooding into your mind.  God’s power, love, and wisdom, are here, for His kingdom is within you.  Give Him full dominion in your life and affairs.  Give Him your business, your family affairs, your finances, and let Him pay your debts.  He is even now doing it, for it is His righteous desire to free you from every burden, and He is leading you out of the burden of debt, whether of owing or being owed.  Meet every insidious thought, such as “I can’t,” “I don’t know how,” “I can’t see the way,” with the declaration “Jehovah is my shepherd; I shall not want.”  You “shall not want” the wisdom, the courage to do, or the substance to do with when you have once fully realized the scope of the vast truth that Almightiness is leading you into “green pastures . . .  beside still waters.”

In the kingdom of Truth and reality ideas are the coin of the realm.  You can use the new ideas that divine wisdom is now quickening in your mind and start this very moment to pay your debts.  Begin by thanking God for your freedom from the debt-burden thought.  This is an important step in breaking the shackles of debt.  The funds to pay all your bills may not suddenly appear in a lump sum; but as you watch and work and pray, holding yourself in the consciousness of God’s leadership and His abundance, you will notice your funds beginning to grow “here a little, there a little,” and increasing more and more rapidly as your faith increases and your anxious thoughts are stilled.  For with the increase will come added good judgment and wisdom in the management of your affairs.  Debt is soon vanquished when wisdom and good judgment are in control.

Do not yield to the temptation of “easy-payment plans.”  Any payment that drains your pay envelope before you receive it is not an “easy payment.”  Do not allow false pride to tempt you to put on a thousand-dollar front on a hundred-dollar salary.  There may be times when you are tempted to miss paying a bill in order to indulge a desire for some thing.  This easily leads one into the habit of putting off paying, which fastens the incubus of debt on people before they realize it.  It is the innocent-appearing forerunner of the debt habit and debt thought that may rob you of peace, contentment, freedom, integrity, and prosperity for years to come.  The Divine Mind within you is much stronger than this desire mind of the body.  Turn to it in a time like this, and affirm: “Jehovah is my shepherd; I shall not want” this thing until it comes to me in divine order.

Bless your creditors with the thought of abundance as you begin to accumulate the wherewithal to pay off your obligations.  Keep the faith they had in you by including them in your prayer for increase.  Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more; for through the avenues of Spirit more means will come to you and every obligation will be met.

If you are a creditor, be careful of the kind of thoughts you hold over your debtor.  Avoid the thought that he is unwilling to pay you or that he is unable to pay you.  One thought holds him in dishonesty, and the other holds him subject to lack, and either of them tends to close the door to the possibility of his paying you soon.  Think well and speak well of all those who owe you.  If you talk about them to others avoid calling them names that you would not apply to yourself.  Cultivate a genuine feeling of love for them and respect their integrity in spite of all appearances.  Declare abundant supply for them and thus help them to prosper.  Pray and work for their good as well as for your own, for yours is inseparable from theirs.  You owe your debtor quite as much as he owes you and yours is a debt of love.  Pay your debt to him and he will pay his to you.  This rule of action never fails.

Far-seeing Christians look forward to an early resumption of the economic system inaugurated by the early followers of Jesus.  They had all things in common, and no man lacked anything.  But before we can have a truly Christian community founded on a spiritual basis we must be educated into a right way of thinking about finances.  If we should all get together and divide all our possessions, it would be but a short time until those who have the prevailing financial ideas would manipulate our finances, and plethora on one hand and lack on the other would again be established.

The world cannot be free from the bondage of debt and interest until men start to work in their minds to erase those things from consciousness.  If the United States forgave the nations of Europe all their debts and wiped the slate clean, the law would not necessarily be fulfilled; for there would probably remain a thought that they still owed us and that we had made a sacrifice in canceling the obligations.  We should not feel very friendly about it and would not truly forgive them, and in that case the error thought would be carried on.  We must first forgive the error thought that they owe us money and that we would be losing money by canceling the debts.  The man who is forced to forgive a debt does not forgive it.

Above all we should fill our mind with the consciousness of that divine abundance which is so manifest everywhere in the world today.  There is as much substance as there ever was, but its free flow has been interfered with through selfishness.  We must rid our mind of the selfish acquisitiveness that is so dominant in the race thought, and in that way do our part in the great work of freeing the world from avarice.  It is the duty of every Christian metaphysician to help in the solution of this problem by affirming that the universal Spirit of supply is now becoming manifest as a distributing energy the world over; that all stored-up, hoarded, vicious thoughts are being dissolved; that all people have things in common; that no one anywhere lacks anything; and that the divine law of distribution of infinite supply that Jesus demonstrated is now being made manifest throughout the world.  “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.”

There is a legitimate commerce that is carried on by means of what is called credit.  Credit is a convenience to be used by those who appreciate its value and are careful not to abuse it, for to do so would be to ruin it.  However, many persons are not equipped to use the credit system to advantage and are likely to abuse it.  In the first place, few individuals are familiar with the intricacies of sound credit systems and often assume obligations without being certain of their ability to meet them, especially should some unforeseen complication arise.  Frequently, an individual loses all that he invests and finds himself involved in a burden of debt in addition.  Such things are not in divine order and are largely responsible for retarding prosperity.

No one should assume an obligation unless he is prepared to meet it promptly and willingly when it comes due.

No one should assume an obligation unless he is prepared to meet it promptly and willingly when it comes due.

One who knows God as his unfailing resource can be assured of his supply when it is needed.  Then why should he plunge into debt when he is confident of his daily supply without debt?  There are no creditors or debtors in God’s kingdom.  If you are in that kingdom, you need no longer be burdened with the thought of debt either as debtor or creditor.  Under divine law there is no reaching out for things that are beyond one’s present means.  There is an ever-increasing richness of consciousness coming from the certain knowledge that God is infinite and unfailing supply.  Outer things conform to the inner pattern, and riches are attracted to the one who lives close to the unselfish heart of God.  His environment is made beautiful by the glory of the Presence, and there is satisfying and lasting prosperity in his affairs.

There is but one way to be free from debt.  That is the desire to be free, followed by the realization that debt has no legitimate place in God’s kingdom and that you are determined to erase it entirely from your mind.  As you work toward your freedom you will find it helpful to have daily periods for meditation and prayer.  Do not concentrate on debts or spoil your prayers by constantly thinking of debts.  Think of that which you want to demonstrate, not that from which you seek freedom.  When you pray, thank the Father for His care and guidance, for His provision and plenty, for His love and wisdom, for His infinite abundance and your privilege to enjoy it.

Here are a few prosperity prayers that may help establish you in the truth of plenty and erase the error thought of debt.  They are offered as suggestions for forming your own prayers but may be used as given with excellent results.

I am no longer anxious about finances; Thou art my all-sufficiency in all things.

The Spirit of honesty, promptness, efficiency, and order is now expressed in me and in all that I do.

I am free from all limitations of mortal thought about quantities and values.  The superabundance of riches of the Christ Mind are now mine, and I am prospered in all my ways.

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“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”  -  Viktor Frankl, Holocaust and concentration camp survivor, author of "Man's Search for Meaning"

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Publisher's Note: Today's post is a bit different.  A version of this essay appeared in the last issue of The Success Beacon newsletter and is also available as a whitepaper download from the Success Manual Articles Download section.  However, the importance of the message is, I believe, so important I felt it necessary to convey it yet again - and to take it up a few notches.  To all that take the time to read this critical post - I challenge you, right here, right now, to VOW never, ever again to engage in "victim consiousness" and to shift your perspective of your world to "prosperity consciousness."  The process is not easy; but it is simple.  It requies total commiment on your part, but the results will astound you.

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By the way, if you really don't understand the meaning of "victim consciousness," I strongly urge you to read on.  After years of study, I thought I knew what that term meant, but I really did not understand until it was explained to me by Bob Proctor.  After that, I hit the ground running, taking no time to ever look back.

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The Success Manual Team

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 Eliminate "Victim Consciousness" and Transform Your Life Forever!

The terms “prosperity consciousness” and “victim consciousness” – and other similar and/or analogous terms – are frequently used within the context of personal development, self improvement and achieving Success.  But, what do both terms really mean?  And, why are they so often linked together in the same discussion?

Let’s first briefly address the second question.  As we then proceed to address the first question, the relationship between the two terms will make even greater sense.

“Prosperity consciousness” and “victim consciousness” are often linked together, because they represent polar opposites of viewing our external world.  We generally tend to see our world either with prosperity consciousness or victim consciousness (or somewhere in between, perhaps), but never both simultaneously.  It is impossible to possess prosperity consciousness and victim consciousness at the same time, in as much as it is impossible to define a volume as comprising a vacuum and having dense mass simultaneously.

As such, we tend to view our world from one vantage point or the other – but not from both.

As a result, when discussing prosperity consciousness, it is difficult not to further mention victim consciousness, for if one completely lacks prosperity consciousness, then the life perspective of that individual is that of victim consciousness.

Likewise, when discussing victim consciousness – a destructive state of mind – the objective in overcoming victim consciousness is to attain prosperity consciousness – a constructive state of mind.

Victim consciousness and prosperity consciousness are merely two mutually exclusive, opposite ways that all individuals tend to view themselves, the world and their relationship with the world – including people, events and circumstances.

As such, it would be difficult to discuss either victim consciousness or prosperity consciousness without necessarily requiring discussion of the other.

But, what exactly is “victim consciousness?”  And, what exactly is “prosperity consciousness?”

Let’s stop for a second.  This is REALLY important, so let’s give this some thought.  It may change your life.  It did for me (albeit, I must work at it every day).

For quite some time, I did not understand the true meaning of victim consciousness.  And, worse yet, I was absolutely sure that it did not apply to me.

In time, as I came to understand the true meaning of victim consciousness, I came to see that I did indeed view the world with victim mentality, thereby inhibiting – if not stifling – my own spiritual, intellectual, emotional, physical and financial growth!

That is why this is so important!

My erroneous understanding of victim consciousness was a grossly exaggerated one.  I thought that victim consciousness meant a state of being wherein other individuals take advantage of us, abuse us, and/or inflict emotional or physical violence against us, and that we openly and passively allow that destructive behavior against our persons, taking no action to bring such behavior to a halt.  My understanding of victim consciousness was that it represented a very extreme state of life, usually involving abuse or violence.

Now, that may be true.  Victim consciousness certainly would cover such an awful situation.  But, victim consciousness is much, much more than that – and it is usually very subtle.  Most individuals who perceive the world with victim consciousness don’t even realize it!

Simply, victim consciousness means living in a state of being wherein we view ourselves, the world and our relationship with it from the perspective that “things happen to us.”  That, in all of its glory, is what victim consciousness means.

It doesn’t require abuse or violence.  It doesn’t require manipulation by other people.  It is not overt and aggressive.  But, it is destructive.

“Prosperity consciousness,” on the other hand, generally means living in a state of being wherein we view ourselves, the world and our relationship with it NOT from the perspective that “things happen to us,” but rather, from the perspective that that we have control in our lives.  Things do not happen to us; things happen because of us.  WE create what happens in our lives – starting with our thoughts, feelings and emotions!  From those, actions – and then RESULTS – follow!

Simply stated, therefore, we tend to see the world from one of two perspectives: 1) we have no control, and thus, our lives are at the mercy of other people, events and circumstances (victim consciousness, a destructive state of being), or 2) we are in control of our lives by virtue of having control of our thoughts, feelings, actions, behavior, and, as a consequence, of the results and experiences of our lives (prosperity consciousness, a constructive state of being).

That’s it.  If you can understand this and make the “paradigm shift” from victim to prosperity consciousness, you are making a HUGE step in your life towards the better.

Let’s look at a couple of examples of victim consciousness in action.

“She gets me so mad.”  “I hate my boss – he is making my life miserable!”  “If I don’t get that promotion, I’m going to jump off a cliff!”  “This economy is destroying my business”  “I hate the winter – it is so depressing”  “My kids are going to kill me – I can’t take it anymore!”  “It started raining during my golf game – my weekend was ruined!”

I could go on, but hopefully, you see the point.  In each example, the speaker’s life experience was being controlled by external events and circumstances.  Successful individuals NEVER think this way.  NEVER!

Let’s look at the first example: “She gets me so mad.”  How absurd!  Yet, how many think this way?

“She” isn’t “making” anyone mad.  It’s impossible!  “She” is just doing whatever she is doing – the speaker is the one who is getting mad, in a destructive reaction to whatever it is that “she” is doing.  The fact is, the speaker can choose any number of emotions or responses to whatever it is that the other individual is or is not doing.

Does the rest of the world care what “she” is doing?  Is the rest of the world getting mad?  Did “she” hold a gun to the speaker’s head and force him or her to “get mad” or she would use deadly violence?

NO!

In the book, Man’s Search for Meaning, holocaust victim and concentration camp survivor Viktor Frankl details his accounts of life in the camps run by the Nazis.  I don’t need to tell you what that may have been like, other than to say it really is beyond my imagination.

Yet, Frankl is living proof that nobody can make anybody think or feel anything if they don’t want to.  As Frankl states in Man’s Search for Meaning:

“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”

Now I may seem to be contradicting myself here.  I stated earlier that with victim consciousness, one tends to generally view the world from the perspective that “things happen to us.”  I can hear some of you already: “Are we supposed to believe that concentration camp victims brought the holocaust upon themselves?  Didn’t the Nazis do this to the Jews, i.e., it happened to them?”

You have a point.  But, let me explain.

Yes, “sh*t happens” and a concentration camp is about the worst of humanity turning upon itself.  People do commit awful acts and atrocities against their fellow brethren.  I cannot explain why and will not attempt to do so.

But, I can offer this: in every life event, we still have the ability to choose how we experience it, how we think about it, and how we think and feel in general.  As Viktor Frankl stated, NO Nazi could make him think something he didn’t want to.  No matter what they did to him, he REFUSED to become a victim in his mind and he maintained control over his mind and dignity.

When I first started studying under Bob Proctor in 2008, I recall the very first conference call lesson.  Bob was incredibly animate: “From this point forward, let no person, no event, nor circumstance in life dictate how you think and feel.”

Bob’s words hit me like a nuclear explosion.  I vowed that I would heed his advice.

And, I did.  Yet, what I discovered was that with almost 50 years of conditioning to the contrary, my paradigm would not change overnight.  But, I was determined, and change it would (one must continue maintenance, however, to avoid shifting back to the paradigm of victim consciousness).

About three or so months after that first call, I noticed one day something truly amazing.  While still an emotional person, I was not getting angry as much as or to the extent as previously.  Doubt and worry, while always trying to surface, were no longer controlling me.  I was gaining control.

My paradigm of life had shifted out of victim consciousness.  Wow.  I could literally feel the freedom.  Unlock the shackles!

Don’t get me wrong – things were not all happy and gravy.  There were (and remain) many areas of my life of which I am not satisfied and have discontent.  But, I now realize that those areas are not happening to me.  They happened or are happening because of me – because of my past thoughts, feelings, emotions, behavior and actions.  And, that is something that I can change.  Moreover, I have the control over how I think and feel about what I don’t like.

And, I have the POWER to make DECISIONS and implement CHANGE.  Very powerful!

We create the richness – or lack thereof – in our lives.  We are in control of our personal life experiences.  Tomorrow’s weather will be whatever it will be; and whatever it is, one thing is for certain: tomorrow’s weather has absolutely NO control over you.  Only YOU decide how you will respond – or react – to tomorrow’s weather.

It is your choice.  You can be a victim and have a miserable day because it rained on your golf game.  Or, you can look at the weather with prosperity consciousness and choose how you will experience the day.

It’s your movie – you can make it anyway you want.  It’s up to you.

I am going to ask you to vow – right now – that you will NEVER again let the events, circumstances and people of and in your life dictate your thoughts, feelings and emotions.  Your thoughts, feelings and emotions are YOURS.  If you let the external world control the way you think and feel, you have submitted and surrendered yourself to the whims of forces that are beyond your immediate control.  Don’t be a victim!

From firsthand personal experience, I cannot tell you how empowering it is to make this paradigm shift.  Once we realize that WE have the control, our view of life changes immediately to prosperity consciousness and we have taken the best first step towards honest, sincere and lasting Success.

I challenge you to take the 30 Day Challenge.  Make the commitment – right now – that for the next 30 days, you will make every effort to shift your paradigm from victim consciousness to prosperity consciousness.  It is not easy, but you can do it!  It is often said that it takes 22 days of continuous, consistent action to create a habit.  Well, this is one habit that you want.  If you make a bona fide effort in the 30 Day Challenge to shift from victim consciousness to prosperity consciousness, I assure you that your life will never be the same.

In fact, I GUARANTEE it!

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Take these words to heed: we are creators of the events and circumstances in our lives.  God provided us with infinite resources at our disposal; we came equipped with such capabilities as standard operating equipment at birth.  However, creating the life that we Desire occurs not just with and through our Thoughts, but also by and through our core system of Beliefs and Values, the Decisions that we make (or fail to make), and the Action(s) that we take – or fail to take – in our lives.

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Key Success Strategy: Understanding the Law of Attraction and Taking Action to Achieve Success

Critical Action Step Required

[NOTE: The following Success Strategy is Part 2 in a Series that initiated with The Success Strategist: The Law of Attraction article from March 29, 2010, wherein we posted the essay, "The Law of Attraction" by William Walker Atkinson, from his Success Manual "The Secret of Success."  Today's post is a critical follow-up to understanding the Law and implementing it properly to achieve results].

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Much has been written over the years as to the various elements necessary to attain Success in any endeavor, particularly wealth, prosperity and financial Success.  In this regard, the “Law of Attraction” has probably received more attention than any other topic over the past few years.  Yet, few still do not truly understand the Law, how it works, and how to properly apply it to achieve the desired results.

Ice in Huntington Ravine on Mount Washington of the Presidential Range of the White Mountains, New Hampsire. Photo by David Jang on April 5, 2005.

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Let’s start by looking at some of the fundamental ingredients to achieving wealth, prosperity, abundance and Success, which have appeared consistently in many of the great classic Success Manuals that have been written over the years.

Desire, indeed, a burning Desire, has probably been designated more often than any other quality as the requisite foundation to achieving Success.  In fact, in his Master Success Manual Classic, Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill made the topic of Desire the very first chapter.  In order to attain wealth, prosperity and Success, one must have a deep, white-hot, burning Desire that permeates one’s conscious and subconscious being.  With such intense Desire, the very thought of the Goal – whatever it may be – is embedded in the forefront of the Mind, a basic tenet of the Law of Attraction.

Expectation is often next cited as the second most necessary ingredient to Success.  One must not only have a burning Desire to attain wealth, prosperity and riches, but one must also Expect the Desired result.  To merely Desire, without the complementary element of Expectation, is to simply “wish.”  In his powerful book, “Working with the Law,” Raymond Holliwell thusly states:

“It is no use to desire a thing unless you expect to get it, either in part or in full.  Desire without expectation is idle wishing or dreaming.  You simply waste much valuable mental energy doing this.”

Desire and Expectation work together, in tandem, and are the primary underlying forces that give rise to the Law of Attraction.  In “You Were Born Rich,” Master Success Thinker – and my personal coach during 2008-2009 – Bob Proctor states the following regarding the interplay between Desire and Expectation:

“Your desire is the motorpower which will move you in direction of your dream and expectation is the attractive force that will move your dream in your direction.  So see yourself moving toward the wealth you visualize and see the wealth you visualize being attracted to you.”

Desire and Expectation thus work hand in hand.  One (Desire) is the attractive force that moves you towards your Goal; the other (Expectation) is the attractive force that drives your Goal towards you.

Desire and Expectation work together, in tandem, and are the primary underlying forces that give rise to the Law of Attraction.  One (Desire) is the attractive force that moves you towards your Goal; the other (Expectation) is the attractive force that drives your Goal towards you.

In explaining the dance between Desire and Expectation, Bob Proctor likes to use fishing as an analogy.  Desire is the force in action when you cast your line out; it is done with the Desire and intent to catch the fish.  Expectation is the force that takes over when the fish hits the lure; you hook the fish and Expectation reels the fish in.  You don’t reel in a fish without the expectation that you will land it.

Yet, both forces originate within and both MUST be used consistently, positively and with Faith.

Yes, Faith.  Another critical ingredient – similar in some respects to Expectation, but quite different.  Think of Faith as the super-glue that holds Desire and Expectation together, in harmony and in congruence.  But Faith does more than merely bind Desire and Expectation.  Faith is the Great Energizer.  Faith turbocharges Desire and Expectation, creating a strong and powerful spiritual Force within.  Faith is Spirit in action.

In Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill offers the following insight as to Faith, the entire subject of Chapter 2 of that Classic:

“Faith is the head chemist of the mind.  When Faith is blended with the ‘vibration of thought,’ the subconscious mind instantly picks up the vibration, translates it into its spiritual equivalent, and transmits it to the Infinite of Intelligence, as in the case of prayer . . .  Faith is a state of mind which may be induced, or created, by affirmations or repeated instructions to the subconscious mind, through the principle of autosuggestion.”

Now, if this is all beginning to finally sound like the “Law of Attraction,” you are absolutely right.

But, we are not done.  While there are many, many nuances to the overall process of attaining wealth, prosperity and Success – and, importantly, there are many other Universal laws in play – a fourth and critically important step is required: ACTION.

Nothing happens without Action.  For if we do not take Action towards realizing our goal, particularly when Action can be taken, we will fail to realize our goal, regardless of the level and extent of our Desire, Expectation and Faith.

Nothing happens without Action, and if you are a fan of Anthony Robbins or have read, listened or otherwise come across any of his work, you know that he is all about taking Action.  For if we do not take Action towards realizing our goal, particularly when Action can be taken, we will fail to realize our goal, regardless of the level and extent of our Desire, Expectation and Faith.

Yet, it is Action that is left out of the process 95% of the time, thereby resulting in failure!  It is this final step that a vast majority of those seeking to be, do and have more fail to undertake, thereby shirking their personal responsibility in the process of shaping their lives and creating their circumstances.

While the book and movie, The Secret, was phenomenal in exposing the Law of Attraction to those who had never heard of it, The Secret did little to educate the serious Success novice as to rightly applying and implementing that Law – and the many other critical Universal Laws, including the “Law of Laws,” the Law of Cause and Effect.  Without the necessary ingredient of intense, focused and consistent Action that is congruent with concerted synergies of Desire, Expectation and Faith, the Law of Attraction will either fail to work or will work less than optimally.

The Internet, including many Social Media platforms, is awash with well-meaning (and, perhaps, some not-so-well-meaning) individuals who banter about the concept of “Law of Attraction” as though it was some type of magical mantra that requires little, if any, congruent Action on behalf of the individual seeking to invoke this Universal Law.  Yes, we do become what we think about, but to attain real, honest, sincere, lasting and immense Success, we must take huge amounts of ACTION – in a consistent manner and on a consistent basis.

To attain real, honest, sincere, lasting and immense Success, we must take huge amounts of ACTION – in a consistent manner and on a consistent basis.

How many times have you heard that “God helps those who help themselves?”  Or, that “God provides the worm to the robin, but does not place it in the robin’s beak.”  Or, that “God brings home the groceries, but He doesn’t cook the dinner.”  In each example, if Success is not realized, it is not because of a breakdown with God or His Laws; rather, failure occurs because the necessary Action was not taken.

Going back to Working with the Law, in the very chapter entitled “Law of Attraction,” Holliwell notes that you must “be reasonable and practical and do what you can to promote its [the Desired result] coming.”  Holliwell goes on to further state that:

“I have little confidence in the Lord answering the one who rocks in an easy chair and waits for the desired thing to be placed on his lap.  Somewhere it says the Lord helps them that help themselves.  Yes, action spells results.  This supplements your mental creative process and provides the channel for its expression.  Then leave the results to the Law.  As you do your part, the Law will do the rest.”

In what many consider the “granddaddy” work on the Law of Attraction, “The Science of Getting Rich” by Wallace D. Wattles, it is explained as follows:

“[M]an must not only think, but his personal action must supplement his thought . . .

“[Y]ou must so arrange your own business affairs that you may be able to receive it [riches] when it comes to you.  Your thoughts make things, animate and inanimate, work to bring you what you want; but your personal activity must be such that you can rightly receive what you want when it reaches you.

“Your pocketbook is not going to be transformed into a Fortunata’s purse, which shall be always full of money without effort on your part.

“This is the crucial point in the science of getting rich; right here, where thought and personal action must be combined.  There are very many people who, consciously or unconsciously, set the creative forces in action by the strength and persistence of their desires, but who remain poor because they do not provide for the reception of the thing they want when it comes.

“By thought, the thing you want is brought to you; by action, you receive it.

“Whatever your action is to be, it is evident that you must act NOW . . .  Put your whole mind into present action . . .  There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now.  If you are ever to begin to make ready for the reception of what you want, you must begin NOW.”

All of this, according to Wattles, is “Acting in a Certain Way.”  Today, we would simply call it “taking Action.”

I personally know individuals – some family and friends – who attempt to utilize their infinite God-given powers and abilities through the Law of Attraction by sitting in an easy chair.  Then, when the Desired results fail to manifest, they ignorantly conclude that the Law of Attraction is mythical and doesn’t exist.  Or, even worse, that God failed them.

“This is the crucial point in the science of getting rich; right here, where thought and personal action must be combined.  There are very many people who, consciously or unconsciously, set the creative forces in action by the strength and persistence of their desires, but who remain poor because they do not provide for the reception of the thing they want when it comes."  -  Wallace D. Wattles, "The Science of Getting Rich"

In such instances, unfortunately, when one seeks to assign “blame” for failure from the “within” to “without,” a subtle, yet profound, paradigm shift takes place.  In sum, the student of Success recedes back into “victim consciousness.”  That is, the individual surrenders his or her personal responsibility in life to the outer circumstances and events, thereby giving external factors and forces control – in complete contravention to the Law of Attraction!

God never fails.  The Laws of the Universe never fail.  It is we who fail.  To quote Shakespeare (who, by the way, understood the Law of Attraction): “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”

God never fails.  The Laws of the Universe never fail.  It is we who fail.  To quote Shakespeare (who, by the way, understood the Law of Attraction): “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”

When we fail to achieve Success, it is usually because of one or more of the following three reasons: 1) we do not fully understand the Laws and/or are not using them properly, 2) we failed to take the necessary Action, and/or 3) we simply gave-up or quit too early (remember, there is also the Law of Gestation; all seeds of Success take the required amount of time to germinate, grow and ultimately bear fruit – you wouldn’t plant an apple-seed and expect a bountiful harvest in a week; why would you expect an equivalent amount of personal Success in the same amount of time?  Both are under equal operation of the Law of Gestation).

Take these words to heed: we are creators of the events and circumstances in our lives.  God provided us with infinite resources at our disposal; we came equipped with such capabilities as standard operating equipment at birth.  However, creating the life that we Desire occurs not just with and through our Thoughts, but also by and through our core system of Beliefs and Values, the Decisions that we make (or fail to make), and the Action(s) that we take – or fail to take – in our lives.

Don’t be a victim of ignorance when it comes to the Law of Attraction.  Be careful what you read and hear on the Internet when it comes to the Law of Attraction, just as you would with any other important issue or matter.  Unfortunately, the Law has been twisted and contorted, and worse, it is being exploited by some seeking immoral financial gain.

Learn, understand and properly apply the Law by doing YOUR part.  You need to take Personal Action – and you MUST start NOW!

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Mount Washington image with permission from the Mount Washington Observatory.  Thanks, Crew!

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There is in Nature a great Law – the Law of Attraction – by the operations of which all things – from atoms to men – are attracted toward each other in the degree of the common affinity of common use.  The reverse of this law – which is merely another manifestation of its power – is what is called Repulsion, which is but the other pole of Attraction, and by the operations of which things tend to repel each other in the degree that they are unlike, opposing, and of no use to each other.  The Law of Attraction is Universal, on all the planes of life, from the physical to the spiritual.  Its operations are uniform and constant, and we may take the phenomena of one plane and thereby study the phenomena of another plane, for the same rule applies in each case – the same Law is in operation in the same way.

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"The Law of Attraction" by William Walker Atkinson (from "The Secret of Success")

There is in Nature a great Law – the Law of Attraction – by the operations of which all things – from atoms to men – are attracted toward each other in the degree of the common affinity of common use.  The reverse of this law – which is merely another manifestation of its power – is what is called Repulsion, which is but the other pole of Attraction, and by the operations of which things tend to repel each other in the degree that they are unlike, opposing, and of no use to each other.  The Law of Attraction is Universal, on all the planes of life, from the physical to the spiritual.  Its operations are uniform and constant, and we may take the phenomena of one plane and thereby study the phenomena of another plane, for the same rule applies in each case – the same Law is in operation in the same way.

Mount Washington of the Presidential Range of the White Mountains, New Hampshire, as viewed from Lunenburg, Vermont. Photo by John Stinehour on March 7, 2007.

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Beginning with the tiny corpuscles, electrons, or ions, of which the atoms are formed, we find manifested the Law of Attraction – certain electrons attract each other, and repel others still, thereby causing to spring into existing groups, combinations and colonies of electrons which being in agreement and harmony manifest and constitute what are called atoms, which until recently were supposed to be the primal form of matter.  Passing on the atoms themselves, we find many degrees of affinity and attraction existing between them which cause them to combine and form into molecules of which all masses of matter consists.  For instance, every drop of water is composed of countless molecules of water.  And each molecule is composed of two atoms of Hydrogen and one atom of Oxygen – the combination always being the same in every molecule of water.  Now, why do these atoms combine in just this way – with the same invariable grouping and proportion?  Not by chance, surely, for there is no such thing in Nature – there is a natural law back of every phenomenon.  And in this case it is the Law of Attraction manifesting in the case of these atoms.  And it is so in all chemical combinations – it is called Chemical Affinity.  Sometimes an attached atom will come in contact with, or in proximity to, another atom, and then bang goes the explosion of the molecule as the atom flies away from its partners and into the arms of the other atom for which it has a greater affinity.  There are marriages and divorces in the world of atoms, you will notice.

And in the cases of the molecules, it is found that certain molecules are attracted to others of the same kind, under what is called Cohesion, and thus masses of matter are composed.  A piece of gold, silver, tin, glass, or other form of matter is composed of countless molecules held together tightly by Cohesion – and this Cohesion is merely another form of the Law of Attraction – the same that draws all things together.  And, underlying the Law of Attraction is to be found our old Principle of Desire and Will.  You may shrug your shoulders at this mention of desire and Will in connection with electrons, atoms, molecules – all forms of matter, but just wait a bit and see what the leading scientific authorities have to say on the subject.

Prof. Hakel, one of the world’s greatest scientists – a materialist who would sneer at the teachings of Mental Science – even this man, naturally prejudiced against mentalist theories, finds himself compelled to say: “The idea of chemical affinity consists in the fact that the various chemical elements perceive the qualitative differences in other elements – experience pleasure of revulsion at contact with them, and execute specific movements on this ground.”  He also positively and distinctly states that in the atoms there must be something corresponding to Desire for contact and association with other atoms, and Will to enable the atom to respond to the Desire Law is constant throughout Nature, from atom to man – physical, mental and spiritual.

The Law of Attraction is an important part in the Secret of Success, inasmuch as it tends to bring to us the things, persons and circumstances in accordance with our earnest Desire, Demand, and Will.

But what has all this to do with the Secret of Success you may ask?  Simply, that the Law of Attraction is an important part in the Secret of Success, inasmuch as it tends to bring to us the things, persons and circumstances in accordance with our earnest Desire, Demand, and Will, just as it brings together the atoms and other particles of matter.  Make yourself an atom of Living Desire and you will attract to yourself the person, things and circumstances fitting in with the accomplishment of your Desire.  You will also get into rapport with those who are working along the same lines of thought, and will be attracted to them and they to you, and you will be brought into relations with persons, things and environments likely to work out the problem of your Desires – you will get “next to” the right persons and things - all by the operation of this great natural Law of Attraction.  No Necromancy or Magic about it at all – nothing supernatural or mysterious just the operations of a great Natural Law.

You can do little by yourself in Life, be you ever so strong and able.  Life is a complex thing, and individuals are interdependent upon each other for the doings of things.  One Individual, segregated from all the other Individuals, could accomplish little or nothing along the lines of outer activity.  He must form combinations, arrangements, harmonies and agreements with others, and in accordance with environments and things, that is, he must create and use the proper environments and things, and draw to himself others with whom he must form combinations, in order to do things.  And these persons, things and environments come to him – and he to them – by reason of this great Law of Attraction.  And the way he sets into operation this great Law of Attraction is by the operation of his Desire, and along the lines of Mental Imagery.  Do you see the connection now?  So be careful to form, cultivate and manifest the right Desires – hold to them firmly, strongly and constantly, and you will set into operation this great Law, which forms an important part of the Secret of Success.

Desire-Force is the motive power leading the activities of Life.  It is the basic vital power, which animates the minds of living things and urges them forth to action. 

Desire-Force is the motive power leading the activities of Life.  It is the basic vital power, which animates the minds of living things and urges them forth to action.  Without strong Desire no one accomplishes anything worthy of the name – and the greater the desire the greater will be the amount of energy generated and manifested, everything else being equal.  That is to say, that given a dozen men of equal intellect, physical health and mental activity – equal in everything else except Desire, in short, the ones in whom the greatest Desire resides and is manifested will outstrip the others in attainment – and of these winners the one in who Desire burns like an unquenchable flame will be the one who will Master the others by the force of his primitive elementary power.

Not only does Desire give to the man that inward motive which leads to the enfoldment of the power within himself, but it does more than this; it causes to radiate from him the finer and more subtle mental and vital forces of his nature, which, flowing forth in all directions like the magnetic waves from the magnet, or the electric waves from the dynamo, influencing all who come within the field of force.  Desire-Force is a real, active, effective force of Nature, and serves to attract, draw and bring to a center that which is in line with the nature of the Desire.  The much talked of Law of Attraction, of which so much is heard in Mental Science and the New Thought, depends largely upon the force and power of Desire.  Desire-Force is at the center of the Law of Attraction.  There is a tendency in Nature to attract and draw to the center of a Desire the things which are needed to fulfill that Desire.  One’s “own will come to him” by reason of his natural force, which lies behind and underneath the entire phenomena of Mental Influence.  This being so, does it not become at once apparent why one who wishes to accomplish anything should be sure to create a strong Desire for it, and at the same time be sure to acquire the art of Visualization so as to form a clear Mental Picture of the thing Desired – a clear mold in which the materialized reality may manifest?

Have you ever come in contact with any of the great men of modern business life?  If you have seen these people in action, you will have become conscious of a subtle, mysterious something about them – their Desire-Force.

Have you ever come in contact with any of the great men of modern business life?  If you have seen these people in action, you will have become conscious of a subtle, mysterious something about them – a something that you could actually feel – a something that seemed to draw you to fit in to their schemes, plans, and desires almost by an irresistible force.  These people are all people of the strongest kind of Desire – their Desire-Force manifests strongly and affects those with whom they come in contact.  Not only this, but their Desire-Force flows from them in great waves, which occultists inform us soon manifests a circular, or whirlpool-like motion, swung round and around the center of the Desire – these men become actual cyclones of Desire into which nearly everything that comes within its sweep is affected and swept into the vortex.  Have we not evidences of this in the cases of all the great leaders of men – can we not see the operation of that mighty law of attraction which brings to them their own?  We are apt to call this Will-Power, and so it is in a way, back and under the Will in such cases is to be found the ardent, burning Desire that is the motive force of the attractive power.

This Desire-Force is a primitive, elemental thing.  It is found in the animal kingdom, and among the lower races of men, perhaps more clearly than among the higher types of men, but only because in such instances it is seen stripped of the covering, sheaths, disguises and masks that surround the more civilized forms and planes of life.  But remember this well, the same principle is manifested under and beneath the polished veneer of civilized life – the Desire-Force of the cultured leader of men is as elemental as that animating the fierce and shaggy caveman or the wild Berserker who, naked and half-mad, rushed upon overwhelming hordes of his enemy, brushing them aside like flies – that is, if you will but look beneath the polished surface.  In the old wild days Desire manifested its force on the physical plane – now it manifests on the Mental Plane – that is the only difference, the Force is the same in both cases.

While we write, there has just been produced on stage a new play that illustrates this principle.  The heroine, the daughter of an old New York family of high social standing and wealth, has a dream of her life in a former incarnation, in which she sees herself torn from the arms of her cave-dweller father by the mighty arms of a fierce savage chief, whose desire is manifested through the physical.  She awakens from her dream, and to her horror soon discovers the face of her dream-captor on a man who comes into her father’s life in New York.  This man comes from the West, forceful, resourceful and desirous, beating down all before him in the game of finance.  As of old, he places his foot not on the neck of his enemies – but on the mental-plane, this time, instead of the physical.  The same old Desire for power is strong within him – the same old masterfulness manifests itself.  This man says: “I have never quit; I have never been afraid.”  The same old Desire then flamed up in the savage now manifests in the Master of Wall Street, and between the force of its Attraction and the coupled and allied force of his Will, he repeats the performances of his previous incarnation – but on the plane of mental forces and achievement this time – mind, not muscle, being the instrument through which the Desire  manifests.

In the Secret of Success, Desire plays a prominent part.  Without a Desire for Success, there is no Success, none.  The Law of Attraction is set into motion by Desire.

We give the above example merely as an illustration of the fact that Desire is the motivating force that moves the Will into action, and which cause the varied activity of life, men and things.  Desire-Force is a real power in life, and influences not only tracts, but influences and compels other persons and things to swing in toward the center of the Desire sending forth the currents.  In the Secret of Success, Desire plays a prominent part.  Without a Desire for Success, there is no Success, none.  The Law of Attraction is set into motion by Desire.

The majority of the principles advanced in this book have been in the nature of Positive injunctions – that is, you have been urged to do certain things rather than to not do the opposite or contrary.  But here we come to a place in which the advice must be given along the negative lines – we must urge you not to do a certain thing.  We allude to that great poison of the mind and Will known as Fear.  We do not allude to physical fear – important though physical courage may be, and as regrettable as physical cowardice may be considered, still it is not a part of the purpose of this book to preach against the latter and advise a cultivation of the former quality – you will find much of that elsewhere.  Our purpose here is to combat that subtle, insidious enemy of true Self-Expression which appears in the shape and guise of mental fear, forebodings which may be considered as Negative Thought just as the other principles mentioned in this work may be considered as Positive Thought.

Fear thoughts is that condition of the mind in which everything is seen through blue glasses – in which everything seems to bring a sense of the futility of endeavor – the “I Can’t” principle of mentality, as contrasted with the “I Can and I Will” mental attitude.  It is the noxious weed in the mental garden, which tends to kill the valuable plants to be found therein.  It is the fly in the ointment – the spider in the cup of the Wine of Life.  So far as we know the first person to use the word “Fear-Thought” – which has now passed into common use – was Horace Fletcher, the well-known writer, who coined it to supplant the use of the word “Worry” in a certain sense.  He had pointed out that Anger and Worry were the two great hindrances to a well-balanced, advanced and progressive mentality, but many misunderstood him and urged that to abolish Worry meant to cease taking any consideration of the morrow – a lack of common prudence and forethought.  And so Fletcher coined the word “Fear-Thought” to express a phase of his idea of “Forethought without Worry,” and he entitled his second book on the subject, “Happiness, as found in Forethought minus Fear-Thought,” a very happy expression of a very happy idea.  Fletcher also was the first to advance the idea that Fear was not a thing-in-itself, but merely an expression of Fear- Thought – a manifestation of the state of mind known as Fear-Thought.  He and others who have written on the subject, have taught that Fear might be abolished by the practice of abolishing Fear-Thought from the mind – by driving it out of the mental chamber – and the best teachers have taught that the best way to drive out Fear (or any other undesirable mental state) was by cultivating the thought of the opposite quality of mind by compelling the mind to dwell upon the mental picture of the desirable quality, and by the appropriate auto-suggestions.  The illustration has often been stated that the way to drive darkness from a room is not to shovel it out, but to throw open the shutters and let the sunlight stream in, and that is the best way to neutralize Fear-Thought.

As long as a man keeps his nerve and confidence in himself, he is able to rise to his feet after each stumble, and face the enemy resolutely.

The mental process has aptly been spoken of as “vibrations,” a figure that has a full warrant in modern science.  Then, by raising the vibration to the Positive pitch, the negative vibrations may be counteracted.  By cultivating the qualities recommended in the other lessons of this book, Fear-Thought may be neutralized.  The poison of Fear-Thought is insidious and subtle, but it slowly creeps through the veins until it paralyzes all useful efforts and action, until the heart and brain are affected and find it difficult to throw it off.  Fear-Thought is at the bottom of the majority of failures and “going down” in life.  As long as a man keeps his nerve and confidence in himself, he is able to rise to his feet after each stumble, and face the enemy resolutely – but let him feel the effects of Fear-Thought to such an extent that he cannot throw it off and he will fail to rise and will perish miserable.  “There is nothing to fear except Fear,” has well been said.

Fear will set into motion the Law of Attraction just as well as Desire.  Just as Desire draws to one the things he pictures in his mind as the Desired Thing, so will Fear draw to him the thing pictured in his mind as the Thing Feared.  “The thing that I feared hath befallen me.”

We have spoken elsewhere about the Law of Attraction, which operates in the direction of attracting to us, that which we Desire.  But there is a reverse side to this – it is a poor rule that will not work both ways.  Fear will set into motion the Law of Attraction just as well as Desire.  Just as Desire draws to one the things he pictures in his mind as the Desired Thing, so will Fear draw to him the thing pictured in his mind as the Thing Feared.  “The thing that I feared hath befallen me.”  And the reason is very simple, and the apparent contradiction vanishes when we examine the matter.  What is the pattern upon which the Law of Attraction builds under the force of Desire?  The Mental Image, of course.  And so it is in the case of Fear – the person carries about the Mental Image or haunting picture of the Feared Thing, and the Law of Attraction brings it to him just as it brings the Desired Thing.  Did you ever stop to think that Fear was the negative pole of Desire?  The same laws work in both cases.

So avoid Fear-Thought as you would the poisonous draught that you know would cause your blood to become black and thick, and your breathing labored and difficult.  It is a vile thing, and you should not rest content until you have expelled it from your mental system.  You can get rid of it by Desire and Will, coupled with the holding of the Mental Image of Fearlessness.  Drive it up by cultivating its opposite.  Change your polarity.  Raise your mental vibrations.  Someone has said, “There is no Devil but Fear” – then send that Devil back to the place where he properly belongs, for if you entertain him hospitably he will make your heaven a hell in order that he may feel at home.  Use the mental Big Stick on him.

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  Mount Washington image with permission from the Mount Washington Observatory.  Thanks, Crew!

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Deep within your mind is a powerful sleeping genius.  It sleeps quietly waiting for the only thing that may awaken it: the exercise of Self-Confidence.  When it is once aroused, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish.  You will surprise all who knew you before your transformation took place.  You will brush aside all obstacles and sweep on to victory, backed by an invisible force which recognizes no obstacles.

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 How to Build Self-Confidence to Succeed

As the study of Success moved from the theoretical and the philosophical to the practical, particularly in the 19^th century with the New Thought movement, one of the many fundamental principles that has been established as a prerequisite to Succeed is that of attaining, cultivating and executing Self-Confidence.  Generally, the greater one’s Self-Confidence, the greater the Success.  How often have we heard the maxim that Success goes to “the man who thinks he can?”  That is, the person who has the Self-Confidence in his or her ability to Succeed is the one who Succeeds.

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Nelson Crag near Mt. Washington of the Presidential Range of the White Mountains, New Hampshire. Photo by Brian Post. November 2, 2000.

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A careful analysis of the most Successful individuals of the world shows that the dominating quality that they ALL possessed was Self-Confidence.  Napoleon Hill, one of the greatest Success Masters of all time, knew this principle more than anyone.  Dr. Hill studied the lives of thousands of Successful individuals and found that, without exception, each possessed a highly developed sense of Self-Confidence.  Without an esteemed Self-Confidence in one’s own ability, Success will prove elusive.  Nobody can bring you Success except yourself, and whether or not Success is attained is a function of your Self-Confidence.  Period.

As Dr. Hill noted in one of his articles, “How to Build Self-Confidence,” published well before any of his books, the one and only person in this world through whose efforts you can be supremely happy under all circumstances, and through whose labor you can accumulate all the material wealth that you can use legitimately, is yourself.

When you come into a full realization of this great truth, a new, vibrant feeling of inspiration will seize you, and you will become conscious of a tremendous amount of vitality and power which you did not know that you possessed before.  Full awareness of this truth is incredibly empowering.

First, you will accomplish more simply because you will dare to undertake more.  You will realize, possibly for the first time in your life, that YOU possess the ability to accomplish anything that YOU wish to accomplish.  You will realize how little your Success in any undertaking will depend upon others and how much it will depend upon you.  Now that is powerful.

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In the development of Self-Confidence, one of the first steps you must take is to dispel forever the feeling that you cannot accomplish anything you undertake.  Fear is the chief negative emotion that stands between you and Self-Confidence.  Eliminate fear from your thinking and sub-conscious conditioning, and you are half-way there.  Moreover, as demonstrated in our Seven Steps to Self-Confidence, below, fear not only may be scientifically eliminated, but it may be replaced with COURAGE – its polar opposite.  Talk about a paradigm shift in the way we see ourselves functioning in our world.

Deep within your mind is a powerful sleeping genius.  It sleeps quietly waiting for the only thing that may awaken it: the exercise of Self-Confidence.  When it is once aroused, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish.  You will surprise all who knew you before your transformation took place.  You will brush aside all obstacles and sweep on to victory, backed by an invisible force which recognizes no obstacles.

The purpose of the following Seven Steps to Self-Confidence is to demonstrate how you may, through application of “auto-suggestion” and concentration, place any Thought or Desire in your conscious mind and hold it there until it becomes crystallized into reality.  These principles are scientific and accurate.  They have been tested thousands of times by leading scientists of the world.  To prove their accuracy, you have only to try them out – as literally tens of thousands have done since they were first published more than eighty years ago – by memorizing the Seven Steps to Self-Confidence and implementing them into your daily life.

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The Seven Steps to Self-Confidence

Read each Step carefully and emotionalize what you read.  Accept it.  Believe it.  Feel it.  Live it.

1. I know that I have the ability to accomplish all that I undertake.  I know that to Succeed, I have only to establish this belief in myself and follow it with vigorous, aggressive action.  I will establish it.
2. I realize that my thoughts eventually reproduce themselves in material form and substance and become real in the physical state.  Therefore, I will concentrate upon the daily task of thinking of the person I intend to be and of drawing a mental picture of this person and of transforming this picture into reality.  (Here describe in detail your “Chief Aim” or the life-work you have selected.)
3. I am studying with the firm intention of mastering the fundamental principles through which I may attract to me the desirable things of life.  Through this study, I am becoming more self-reliant and more cheerful.  I am developing more sympathy for my fellow men, and I am becoming stronger, both mentally and physically.  I am learning to smile the smile that plays upon the heart as well as upon the lips.
4. I am mastering and overpowering the habit of starting something that I do not finish.  From this time forward, I will first plan all that I wish to do, making a clear mental picture of it, and then I will let nothing interfere with my plans until I have developed them into realities.  I am completely and totally committed to do whatever it takes to Succeed.
5. I have clearly mapped out and planned the work that I intend to follow for the ensuing five years.  I have set a price upon my services for each of the five years, a price that I intend to command through strict application of the principle of efficient, satisfactory service.
6. I fully realize that genuine Success will come only through strict application of the “Golden Rule” principles.  I will, therefore, engage in no transaction which does not benefit alike all who participate in it.  I will Succeed by attracting to me the forces that I wish to use.  I will induce others to serve me because of my willingness to serve them.  I will gain the friendship of my fellow men because of my kindness and my willingness to be a friend.  I will eliminate from my mind fear by developing in its place courage.  I will eliminate skepticism by developing faith.  I will eliminate hatred and cynicism by developing love for humanity.
7. I will learn to stand upon my feet and express myself in clear, concise, and simple language, and to speak with force and enthusiasm, in a matter that will carry conviction.  I will cause others to become interested in me, because I will first become interested in them.  I will eliminate selfishness and develop in its place the spirit of service.

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Pay particular attention to Step 2 of the Seven Steps to Self-Confidence.  Under this Step, you must clearly and definitely state YOUR “Chief Aim,” and by deliberately placing it in your conscious mind, you are making use of the principle of “auto-suggestion,” and by memorizing these Seven Steps and holding their contents in readiness in your memory – so you may call it into the conscious mind at any minute – and by actually calling it into your consciousness many times a day, you are making use of the Principle of Concentration.  This is absolutely vital to proper execution of the Seven Steps to Self-Confidence.

As an analogy, let us consider a digital camera.  In similar fashion, your mind may be likened to the digital sensors in that camera.  The “Chief Aim” held before your mind (Step 2) may be likened to the object of which you wish to take a picture with the camera.  When this picture (your Chief Aim) is imaged permanently to the “sensors” of your subconscious mind, you will notice that every act and every movement of your body will have a tendency toward transforming this picture into a physical reality.  This process is known by many names; we prefer to refer to it as “Image Making,” and it has been the subject of earlier posts.

Understand that almost in every situation, your mind first draws a picture of that which it wants, and then it proceeds to direct your bodily activity toward acquiring it.  Although we may not realize it, but we engage in this mental process continually throughout our lives.  Suppose you want to rearrange the furniture in a room, or possibly redecorate the room.  Without question, the first step in that process is the mental visual imagery that takes place as your mind ponders the possibilities, creating first the “castle in the air” before creating the “castle on the ground.”  This is precisely what Van Gough meant with his response when asked how he paints so magnificently: “First I dream my painting; then I paint my dream.”

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A critically important note: Keep fear away from your conscious mind as you would keep poison out of your food, for it is the one barrier that will stand between you and Self-Confidence.  Allowing fear to enter into and fester within your consciousness is a sure way to kill Self-Confidence in record time.

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After you have committed the Seven Steps to Self-Confidence to memory, make a habit of repeating the Steps ALOUD at least twice a day.  When verbalizing aloud the Steps, feel the emotion of all that you say with a deep conviction that what you say is true and that you accept it as true.  All of your thoughts have a tendency, within themselves, to produce appropriate or corresponding activities in your body, but thoughts which are followed by affirmation through spoken words will crystallize into reality in much less time than those which are not followed by mere expression in words only.  Going still further, thoughts that are followed by both spoken and written words will crystallize into physical reality in still less time than those which are inhibited and merely held in consciousness silently.  And, going still further, emotionalizing thoughts that are followed by both spoken and written words – simultaneously while holding a corresponding mental visual image – is by far the most powerful method of using the Seven Steps to build outstanding Self-Confidence.

As such, it is strongly recommend that you not only memorize the Seven Steps to Self-Confidence, but that you also you write them out in a personalized form as they apply to you, repeat them aloud at least twice a day for at least two weeks, and that when repeating the Steps, you do so with deep emotion and conviction and hold a visual image in your mind that embodies what you are verbalizing and emotionalizing.  By following these suggestions, you will have taken five decided steps toward realizing your goal:

First, you will have created it in thought.

Second, you will have caused this to produce bodily action tending toward its ultimate transformation into reality, through the muscular action of the vocal organs in speaking aloud.

Third, you will have caused this thought to actually begin the process of transformation into physical reality through the muscular action of your hand in writing it out on paper.

Fourth, you will have further moved this process towards its ultimate transformation into reality by emotionalizing the thoughts and planting them into your subconscious mind, thereby shifting your core belief system from what was fundamentally not feasible to what is an accepted truth.

And, finally, fifth, by creating a clear, distinct, mental image of yourself full of vigorous Self-Confidence, you reaffirm in your entire being that you ARE Self-Confident.

Consistently, sincerely and systematically practice these Steps as outlined above, and it is IMPOSSIBLE that you will fail to gain profound Self-Confidence.

An additional recommendation is that you stand before a mirror where you can see yourself as you repeat the words of the Seven Steps to Self-Confidence.  Look yourself squarely in the eyes as though you were some other person, and talk with vehemence.  If there is any feeling of lack of courage, shake your fist in the face of that person you see in the mirror and arouse the individual to a feeling of reaction.  Make the individual want to say something; make the individual want to do something.  Evoke deeply-charged emotion!

Soon you will actually see the lines on your face begin to change from an expression of weakness to one of strength.  You will commence to see strength and beauty in that face which you never saw before, and this wonderful transformation will be quite as noticeable to others.

You need not follow the exact wording of the Seven Steps to Self-Confidence, but select words which more appropriately express your personal Desire and “Chief Aim.”  The wording is immaterial as long as it clearly defines the picture which you intend to transform into reality.

Look upon these Seven Steps to Self-Confidence as being a blueprint or detailed description of the person you intend to be.  Record in the blueprint every emotion which you wish to feel, every act which you wish to perform, and a clear description – verbal and mental image – of yourself as you wish others to see you.  Remember that these Seven Steps to Self-Confidence is your working plan, and that in time – a very short time at that – you are going to resemble this plan in every detail.

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Let the Seven Steps become your daily prayer, if you are religiously inclined, and repeat them with as much religious fervor as you would with prayer.  If you believe in prayer – as you undoubtedly do – you cannot doubt for one moment that your Desires, as expressed through the Steps, will be fully realized.  Do you not see what a remarkable position of strength you will be placed in by repeating the Seven Steps to Self-Confidence as a prayer?  Do you not see with wonderful clearness just what the added quality of FAITH will do toward quickly and surely transforming your affirmations into physical realities?  Do you not see the power of joining, with FAITH, your prayer with the Universal Consciousness of our Creator?  Do you not see great possibilities of this method of using the power of the Infinite for the achievement of your Desires?

It makes no difference what your religion may be; this method of self-development in no way conflicts with it.  People of all religions recognize prayer as the central power around which their creeds are built.  If prayer has the endorsement of all religions, it must be worthy of employment in the achievement of legitimate ends.  Surely, the development of Self-Confidence is a legitimate and worthy end.

We may not be able to explain the wonderful phenomenon of prayer, but that should not prevent us from making every possible legitimate use of it.  To make use of it in the transformation of the written words of the Seven Steps to Self-Confidence into physical reality surely is a legitimate use, because the purpose of the Steps is the development of man, the greatest and most wonderful handiwork of God.

What could be more worthy purpose than that of freeing the human mind from the greatest of all curses, fear, and building courage in its place?

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You are now in possession of the great pass key that will unlock the door to whatever you wish yourself to be.  Consider it in the light of a purely scientific force if you choose; or, look upon it as a Divine Power, belonging to the great mass of unknown phenomena which mankind has not yet fathomed.  The result in either case will be the same, Success.

Faith is the foundation upon which civilization rests.  Nothing seems impossible when built upon Faith as the cornerstone to your self-confidence building.  Make use of it, and your building cannot fall.  You will overcome all obstacles, and tear down all resistance in accomplishing your purposes.  You will break out of the ranks of that great mass which we call “followers,” and move up into the front row of that select few which we call “leaders.”  Leadership only comes through supreme belief in Self, and you know how to develop that belief.

Remember – you can be anything that you deeply and emotionally Desire to be.  Strong, deeply seated Desire is the beginning of all human achievement – it is the seed, the germ from which all man’s accomplishments spring.

Emotionalize or vitalize your whole being with any well-fixed, definite desire, and immediately your personality becomes a magnet that will attract to you the object of that Desire.

To doubt is to remain in ignorance.

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 Mount Washington image with permission from the Mount Washington Observatory.  Thanks, Crew!

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