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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.

June Alpenglow. The Presidential Range radiates in the glow of a warm, rising early-June sun in the White Mountains, NH. Photo by Jeffrey Glover on June 4, 2009.

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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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