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Free Success Ebook: “The Law of Success – Lesson Twelve: Concentration” by Napoleon Hill

Richard Catalina, Jr. — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:01:44 +0000

Concentration, in the sense in which it is here used, means the ability, through fixed habit and practice, to keep your mind on one subject until you have thoroughly familiarized yourself with that subject and mastered it. It means the ability to control your attention and focus it on a given problem until you have solved it. It means the ability to throw off the effects of habits which you wish to discard, and the power to build new habits that are more to your liking. It means complete self-mastery.

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Welcome back, class . . . Professor Hill is ready to instruct . . .

Today's addition to The Success Manual Free Download Library and The Napoleon Hill Success Library is Lesson Twelve: Concentration from The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons, and it is a great follow-up to Lesson Eleven: Accurate Thought.

Concentration equates with Power. When we fully Concentrate our Mind and Being on anything, we enagage in laser-like focus to the exclusion of all that which is irrelevant and unnecessary to achieve what we Desire.

Yet, Concentration, like any Power, takes practice, practice, practice. Put the time in the gym and do your homework, and you can hone your ability to Concentrate with accuracy and precision.

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Lesson Twelve is a must read and implement Lesson in the Sixteen Lessons and is the natural, logical step to Lesson Eleven. For once we strengthen our abilities to Think accurately, we must then learn to engage in Accurate Thought with Concentrated precision.

Be sure to download today's Lesson and get going right away.

Until next time, dear Friend . . .

Peace Out, and - Namasté!

To your Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Success,

Richard

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Free Success Ebook: “The Law of Success – Lesson Seven: Enthusiasm” by Napoleon Hill

Richard Catalina, Jr. — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 15:12:06 +0000

Success attracts Success! There is no escape from this great universal law; therefore, if you wish to attract Success make sure that you look the part of Success, whether your calling is that of day laborer or merchant prince. - Napoleon Hill, "The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons," Lesson Seven: Enthusiasm

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Welcome back, class!

Today's Success Session and addition to The Success Manual Free Download Library and The Napoleon Hill Success Library by Professor Hill is Lesson Seven: Enthusiasm.

"Tuckerman Ravine from Lionhead." A dramatic view into the vast openess of Tuckerman Ravine as seen from atop Lionhead of the Presidential Range of the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Tuckerman Ravine is a glacial cirque sloping eastward on the southeast face of Mt. Washington. Although it draws hikers throughout the year, and skiers throughout the winter, it is best known for the many "spring skiers" who ascend it on foot and ski down the steep slope from early April through late May. Photo by Steve Chase on February 17, 2006. Copyright © Mount Washington Observatory MWOBS at www.mountwashington.org. Thanks, Crew!

The entire topic of Enthusiasm is particularly appropriate now. We have completed one calendar year and have begun a new one. Many have taken to outlining and defining their Goals for 2011. Others have engaged in the timeless excercise of making "Resolutions." Either way, hitting the ground running - with ENTHUSIASM - is the most powerful method of implementing your Quality Changes for this year.

Consider the following exerpts from Lesson Seven:

Enthusiasm is a state of mind that inspires and arouses one to put action into the task at hand. It does more than this – it is contagious, and vitally affects not only the enthusiast, but all with whom he comes in contact.

Enthusiasm bears the same relationship to a human being that steam does to the locomotive – it is the vital moving force that impels action. The greatest leaders of men are those who know how to inspire enthusiasm in their followers. Enthusiasm is the most important factor entering into salesmanship. It is, by far, the most vital factor that enters into public speaking.

Mix enthusiasm with your work and it will not seem hard or monotonous. Enthusiasm will so energize your entire body that you can get along with less than half the usual amount of sleep and at the same time it will enable you to perform from two to three times as much work as you usually perform in a given period, without fatigue.

Enthusiasm is not merely a figure of speech; it is a vital force that you can harness and use with profit. Without it you would resemble an electric battery without electricity.

Enthusiasm is the vital force with which you recharge your body and develop a dynamic personality. Some people are blessed with natural enthusiasm, while others must acquire it. The procedure through which it may be developed is simple. It begins by the doing of the work or rendering of the service which one likes best. If you should be so situated that you cannot conveniently engage in the work which you like best, for the time being, then you can proceed along another line very effectively by adopting a definite chief aim that contemplates your engaging in that particular work at some future time.

Lack of capital and many other circumstances over which you have no immediate control may force you to engage in work which you do not like, but no one can stop you from determining in your own mind what your definite chief aim in life shall be, nor can anyone stop you from planning ways and means for translating this aim into reality, nor can anyone stop you from mixing enthusiasm with your plans.

When your own mind is vibrating at a high rate, because it has been stimulated with enthusiasm, that vibration registers in the minds of all within its radius, and especially in the minds of those with whom you come in close contact.

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Now that the holiday break is over, it's time to gear up, step up and move up. Enthusiasm is the order of the day!

Class dismissed.

Until next time . . . .

Peace Out, and - Namasté!

To your Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Success,

Richard

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Free Success Ebook: “The Law of Success – Lesson Three: Self-Confidence” by Napoleon Hill

Richard Catalina, Jr. — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:07:22 +0000

"You should be cautioned to learn the difference between Self-confidence, which is based upon sound knowledge of what you know and what you can do, and egotism, which is only based upon what you wish you knew or could do. Learn the difference between these two terms or you will make yourself boresome, ridiculous and annoying to people of culture and understanding. Self-confidence is something which should never be proclaimed or announced except through intelligent performance of constructive deeds." - Napoleon Hil, "The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons," Lesson Three: Self-Confidence

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Welcome back for the next lesson of Napoleon Hill's "The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons." Today's lecture, Lesson Three, is on Self-Confidence - a requisite for attaining Success.

As a quick refresher, Lesson One of The Law of Success Course was on the subject of Master Mind. In Lesson Two of The Law of Success, Professor Hill addressed the objective of A Definite Chief Aim. Today, Lesson Three covers the subjects of Fear and Self-Confidence.

"Observing the Undercast." A crew member of the Mount Washington Weather Observatory observes the undercast surrounding the Presidential Range of the White Mountains of New Hampshire on a cold February day. In the center of the photograph, the Lakes of the Clouds hut can be seen sitting atop the ridge. Photo from February 2010. Copyright © Mount Washington Observatory MWOBS at www.mountwashington.org.

Fear kills ambition and snuffs our attempts to Succeed and achieve our Goals. Fear stops our progress dead in its tracks. In fact, the greatest Success Teachers and Masters cite Fear more than any other reason why we fail to attain Success, change our lives and reach our Goals.

Fear may be overt and obvious, or it may be subtle and insidious. Either way, Fear must be defeated.

The greatest weapon for overtaking Fear and removing it from your path is Self-Confidence. We are in luck, for Napoleon Hill is a great teacher on the subject of Self-Confidence.

Today's addition to The Success Manual Free Download Library - and also to The Napoleon Hill Free Success Library - comes a little early, as I planned to upload each Lesson on a weekly basis. However, more goodies are planned, so we bumped Lesson Three up several days. I trust you will not mind!

Until next time . . . .

Peace Out, and - Namasté!

To your Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Success,

Richard

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Free Success Ebook: “The Magic of Believing” by Claude Bristol

Richard Catalina, Jr. — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:07:49 +0000

"The science of thought is as old as man himself. The wise men of all ages have known it and used it. The only thing I have done is to put the subject in modern language and bring to the reader’s attention what some of today’s outstanding minds are doing to substantiate the great truths that have come down through the centuries . . . You have often heard it said that you can if you believe you can. An old Latin proverb says, 'Believe that you have it, and you have it.' Belief is the motivating force that enables you to achieve your goal." - Claude Bristol, "The Magic of Believing" (1948)

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Well, it is late on a Friday afternoon after a most challenging week. Fortunately, we have just enough time to upload and make available an outstanding, rare addition to The Success Manual Free Download Library: "The Magic of Believing" by Clause Bristol. This Success Manual is simply excellent.

Belief IS a fundamental element to achieving Success and attaining Prosperity. In order to Succeed, you MUST believe that you can. If you lack that Belief, you most certainly will not achieve your Goal, Succeed or attain the Prosperity you Desire. Belief is FAITH, and Faith is BELIEF. It all starts within and must be Impressed before it can be Expressed and Realized.

"Lakes of the Clouds Hut." A magnificent view of the Lakes of the Clouds Hut sitting atop the ridge of the Presidential Range just to the south of the summit of Mount Washington in the White Mountains, NH. Unfortunately, we don't know whom to credit this great photo, but it is part of the amazing Photo Journal archives at the MWOBS web site at www.mountwashington.org/photos/. Be sure to stop by the Observatory's web site - they do a tremendous job working atop the granite rock pile.

This is not hocus-pocus. Anytime you Succeeded at any level in the past, it always initiated with the Belief that you could, and would, Succeed. Otherwise, you would not even have tried.

The stronger your Belief, the greater your level of Success. "The size of your Success will be in direct proportion to the size of your Belief."

As soon as you truly Believe in yourself, your Purpose and your Goal, you are immediately Empowered to Achieve. Despite the title of Mr. Bristol's book, there is nothing magical about Belief. It is Power in itself.

Start right now by downloading "The Magic of Believing" by Claude Bristol.

Have a great weekend!

Until next time . . . .

Peace Out, and - Namasté!

To your Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Success,

The Success Manual Team

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Success Strategy: The Ten (10) Steps to Universal Problem Solving

Richard Catalina, Jr. — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 19:43:28 +0000

We must understand that the undesirable events, conditions and circumstances, which we refer to as "problems," are EXTERNAL to us; the identification of those events, conditions and circumstances as a “problem,” on the other hand, is INTERNAL – a product of our thinking, beliefs and conditioned habits. The latter is a creature of our Mind; the former is simply a set of facts without any inherent meaning – they just are. The only meaning of those external events, conditions and circumstances is the meaning that we ascribe to these facts internally in our Mind.

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Success Strategy: The Ten (10) Step Technique to Universal Problem Solving

How to Solve ANY Problem

Are you presently facing a “problem” that appears to have no solution? Yes? Good. This Post may be just what you need.

Throughout Life, we all face what we commonly refer to as “problems.” In fact, many individuals view Life itself as a series of problems – one after another – some large, some small, but all problems just the same. Some unfortunate Souls actually perceive Life itself as one giant “problem.” How sad!

People “struggle” with “problems.” And, that is quite unfortunate, because it really doesn’t have to be that way.

In fact, I would suggest that there are no such things as “problems,” and that there doesn’t have to be any “struggling.” “Problems,” in and of themselves, are nothing more than mere creatures of the mind; they have no existence on their own, and to the extent that we “struggle” with them, that is of our own doing.

Stay with me here . . .

Of course, if you presently face a significant challenge in your life (notice that I did not use the word “problem,” thereby already changing the meaning and significance of the undesirable and unwanted set of circumstances that most would refer to as a “problem”), you may find little comfort in such Wisdom. After all, these few simple words will likely not provide the resolution or solution you seek. It is, however, a start.

Indeed, there is a magical, surefire way to solve or eliminate ANY “problem” that may be plaguing you. Follow these Ten (10) Steps – honestly and diligently – and I assure you that you will realize one of the following three (3) outcomes: 1) You will solve your “problem,” 2) The problem will resolve itself, or 3) You will simply no longer view the “problem” as a “problem” – it will simply seek to exist.

Regardless of which of the three outcomes you experience, the result is the same: Freedom from the “problem.”

It is really quite simple and the beauty of it is that – IT WORKS! I personally use this technique consistently and it has never, ever failed me. It has been thoroughly developed, re-tooled and time-tested, and it is powerfully effective.

Step One: Every Problem Has a Solution

Every “problem” has a Solution. Not some, not most – ALL. All “problems” have Solutions and are resolvable.

In fact, there are likely many possible resolutions to a particular undesired set of facts and circumstances. More than one possible solution may even be optimal.

The First Step in resolving any “problem” is to know, understand and believe that there IS a solution, there is an answer. To realize the ultimate Solution, all that is required is that you increase your personal Level of Awareness to discover the possible Solutions and then implement the one that provides the greatest benefit towards your Desired outcome.

You MUST understand and accept this fact – that every “problem” has a Solution – as TRUE. If you do not accept this proposition as the Truth, the likelihood that you will realize the Solution is highly unlikely. Think about it: if you do not believe that there is a Solution to your dilemma, what are the chances that you will attempt to realize it? You won’t. And, your “problem” will remain unresolved and continue to fester.

The simple fact is that, at present, you simply do not see the Solution. For if you did, then the “problem” would no longer exist; it would be resolved. Simply start with the unconditional Believe and Faith that your “problem” has a solution – many solutions – and all that is needed is for you to discover it.

Step Two: De-Personalize the “Problem”

Having accepted the Truth that there is a Solution to your so-called “problem,” the next step is to “de-personalize the problem.”

What does that mean and why is it important?

What it means is that YOU are NOT your “problem” (okay, sometimes we are our own worst enemies, but you get the point). You are separate from your “problem” – it exists entirely outside of you.

Wait a minute – didn’t I just say earlier that “problems,” in and of themselves, are nothing more than mere creatures of the mind; they have no existence on their own, and to the extent that we “struggle” with them, that is of our own doing? Yes, I did. To avoid undue confusion, let’s immediately reconcile these concepts.

First, we must define what we mean when we use the term “problem.” After all, “problem” has many meanings (e.g., “Did you finish your math problems in your homework assignment?”) Essentially, what we all commonly refer to as “problems” are mere UNDESIRABLE conditions and/or circumstances. “Undesirable” to whom? The person who claims them to be a “problem.” What may be one person’s “problem” may be another persons’ joy. In other words, the nature, level and extent of a particular “problem” are in the eye of the beholder.

As such, we must understand that the undesirable events, conditions and circumstances are EXTERNAL to us; the identification of those events, conditions and circumstances as a “problem,” on the other hand, is INTERNAL – a product of our thinking, beliefs and conditioned habits. The latter is a creature of our Mind; the former is simply a set of facts without any inherent meaning – they just are. The only meaning of those external events, conditions and circumstances is the meaning that we ascribe to these facts internally in our Mind.

And that is where we need to draw the line and depersonalize the “problem.” The undesirable events, conditions and circumstances are external facts. They are not us – they just are. So, as part of the Second Step, we need to distinguish and understand that the nature of the “problem” is something outside of ourselves; how we perceive a problem, contrarily, is internal and a function of Mind – something over which we may assert control and change.

We must depersonalize the “problem” and personalize the Solution. The “problem” lies without; the Solution will be realized within.

Step Three: Open Your Creative Mind

Some “problems” may be resolved through simple, deductive reasoning (e.g., 2+2=4). Other “problems” are not that easy – there are too many intangible variables – and, therefore, more is required.

Most so-called “problems” require something more than deductive reasoning, for if it were that simple (relatively speaking, of course), then “problems” wouldn’t (or shouldn’t) linger on without resolution – assuming that one is making bona fide attempts to resolve the “problem.” So, how do we resolve “problems” that elude conscious analyzation?

The answer is to open your Creative Mind, your Subconscious, to the Infiniteness of Universe and all that is possible.

We have already accepted the fact that every “problem” has a Solution (Step One). And, we have depersonalized the “problem,” and have further accepted as Truth that the Solution must come from within (Step Two). If you don’t have the Solution now, and you have been working on resolving your “problem” for some time, from whence shall the Solution come?

When you open your Creative Mind to what is possible, you allow the answer to come to you. Let’s face it: our Conscious Mind is not always the best “problem” solver; in fact, it probably gets us into “problems” more than it gets us out of them.

The Wright Brothers had a firm belief that they could build a flying-machine. The ability to build a “flying machine” – today a fact not even questioned – has been in existence as long as the Universe, and the Wright Brothers knew that. It (the Principle of Flight) merely required that man finally achieve the requisite Level of Awareness where the principle of fixed wing flight could be realized.

Think of the Wright Brothers and their firm belief that they could build a flying-machine. People at that time thought the Wrights were crazy. Moreover, their own father, a minister, harshly admonished them, claiming that they would burn in hell merely for suggesting the idea! Yet, the ability to build a “flying machine” – today a fact not even questioned – has been in existence as long as the Universe, and the Wright Brothers knew that. It (the Principle of Flight) merely required that man finally achieve the requisite Level of Awareness where the principle of fixed wing flight could be realized. Nonetheless, the Principle of Flight, and the scientific laws governing that principle, always existed.

In fact, every law and principle of what may be possible in the future already exists here and now – simply waiting to be discovered. Think of it: a unified theory of the Universe, from the grand to the subatomic, which has eluded scientists since the time of Einstein already exists. We just don’t know it – yet. As a race (human race), our Level of Awareness requires greater Understanding.

The same holds true for the Solution to your “problem.” You just don’t know it yet and the way you will discover it is to open your Creative Mind.

Step Four: Remove Obstructions to Overcome Obstacles

So, how does one open his or her Creative Mind?

The crucial first step is to remove all Obstructions. You will not realize the proper Solution to your “problem” if your Mind is clogged with needless, destructive clutter - Obstructions.

What are “Obstructions?” Fear. Doubt. Worry. Anxiety. Negative thinking. These are all States of Mind (mental states) that not only will fail to resolve your “problem,” but will actively and affirmatively work against realizing a Solution. As long as you harbor Obstructions, the likelihood that you will solve your “problem” is very, very slim.

Obstructions such as Fear, Doubt, Worry, Anxiety and Negative Thinking literally clog the channels of your Creative Mind. You cannot think in a constructive, creative fashion when you are focused on the negative and gripped with Fear and Worry. It is simply not possible.

Moreover, Obstructions are just that: Obstructions. They block the flow of Creative Spirit through your Conscious and Subconscious Minds. If you were so ensconced with Fear and Anxiety – to the point of paralysis – do you think you would hear God whispering the answer to you? God rarely shouts, and outside of Biblical accounts, I don’t know of anyone to whom God appeared or spoke accompanied by bolts of lighting and fire.

God speaks to our Heart and the way to hear God in this fashion is to quiet the Mind. Obstructions are anything but quiet and can produce compulsive thought and action.

In Step One we accepted the uncontroverted Truth that all “problems” have Solutions. Truly knowing that – with unconditional Faith and Believe – is usually sufficient to instill a Peace of Heart that clears the Obstructions. If you find yourself still hindered by these negative States of Mind, work (but don’t struggle) to remove the blockage.

Step Five: Understand that Obstructions Are a Result of Ignorance

So, how do we remove Obstructions with Peace and without struggling? Through Understanding, Knowledge and Awareness.

We must increase our Level of Awareness, gain Knowledge and Understand the causes of Fear, Doubt, Worry, Anxiety and Negative Thinking. While tomes may be (and are) written on the subject, it is critical to UNDERSTAND that such destructive Mental States are caused by or a result of Ignorance.

Ignorance of what?

First, not knowing WHERE the answer or solution lies.

Consider. A young couple is deeply in debt and they both lost their jobs. With each passing month, they sink deeper and deeper into debt. Their levels of Fear, Doubt and Worry increase. Negative Thinking persists. They see no way out.

Therein lays the problem: They see no way out.

Suppose I had a bona fide magic crystal ball and could convince the young couple that the crystal ball really could show the future. Taken a step further, I consult my crystal ball and show them the winning multimillion dollar lottery numbers for the following week. All they would need to do is play that winning combination of numbers on the right day and they become instant winners of $50 million.

What do you think would happen to their Doubt, Worry, Anxiety, Fear and Negative Thinking (at least with respect to their debt and unemployment “problem”)? It would immediately vanish into thin air! Why? Because they now see their Solution!

When we see the Solutions to our “problems” – even if those answers are not immediately available – the levels of our Obstructions immediately drop, if not completely dissipate. As such, it is the Ignorance as to the Solution that gives rise to the Obstructions. We fail to see from where the Good that we Desire is going to come and that fuels our Obstructive Mental States.

If we can begin to truly and honestly Understand that there IS a Solution (or multiple solutions) to our “problem,” and all that is required is that we raise our Level of Awareness to realize the Solution, an immediate effect is that we begin to overcome the Ignorance giving rise to our Obstructions. Just knowing that there IS a solution already begins to bring Peace, which, in turn, opens our Creative Mind to receive the answer!

As long as we remained locked in the Negative, we will not see the Positive. We need to clean the House of our Minds, and like a skilled surgeon who removes blockage from diseased arteries, we must remove the Obstructions of our Creative Mind and allow Life to flow freely.

Step Six: Reframe the “Problem”

All along, I have been using the word “problem” to describe and define the undesired set of conditions and circumstances. Step Six is to “reframe” the nature of “problem,” including the very word “problem.”

We may start by no longer using the word “problem” as the definition or indicia of the undesired conditions and circumstances. The term “problem” immediately delivers a negative connotation – almost signifying a situation to which there is no Solution. That is why I have been using quotes with the word throughout this article – to establish the significance (or, more appropriately, the insignificance) of the actual word.

Instead of the word “problem,” use either the terms “Challenge” or “Obstacle.” Immediately your perspective changes towards the undesired conditions and circumstances, for both words convey a more positive meaning and both inherently suggest that there exist solutions or answers.

Think about it: who likes “problems?” In fact, we try to avoid “problems.” It is human nature to run from “problems” (who awakes in the morning thinking “Boy, I can’t wait to deal with the scourge of my problems today!”)

“Challenges,” on the other hand, are an invitation for Action! (Some definitions for the word “challenge” include: “an invitation to someone to compete or fight, especially in a sport; to invite someone to compete or fight; used in the names of competitions, especially sports competitions; to test someone's skill and abilities”). Who can turn down a legitimate Challenge – whether from someone else or ourselves?

Really, reframing the term “problem” to “Challenge” or “Obstacle” should be done as soon as one begins thinking that he or she has a “problem.” In terms of actual timing, therefore, Step Six should be tackled right along with Step One. Thinking of your undesired conditions or circumstances as a Challenge or mere Obstacle ab initio will do wonders for your Mental State and accelerate your progress in realizing your optimum Solution.

Next, it is highly important to understand – and further reframe the undesired conditions and circumstances that we now call a Challenge or Obstacle – that ALL Challenges or Obstacles are invitations to Growth. Yes, indeed! When faced with a Challenge or Obstacle, your present inability to solve or find the Solution stems from your present Level of Awareness. In Step Five, we explored how this Ignorance gives rise to fatal-thinking Obstructions and how they must be eliminated. This MUST be true, for if your present Level of Awareness was sufficient, you would already have the Solution. As such, to realize the Solution, you must Grow your current Level of Awareness.

The fact that you don’t have the Solution is evidence that you must increase your present Level of Awareness.

Understand that reasons for Growth are usually irrelevant, for Growth is inherently Good. Nature is always seeking further Expansion, Expression and Growth. By Growing – whether intellectually, Spiritually, emotionally, physically – you are fulfilling one of the greatest of our human duties. We were born to Grow and it is God’s calling that we all Grow and live to our full Potential. Face it: We were not born to spend our lives on the sofa watching television.

It is therefore critical to Understand that whatever your Challenge or Obstacle, it is an invitation to GROW. And, in some strange fashion which we may not readily comprehend, it may be a Divine mandate to do so.

When you realize the Solution to your Challenge or Obstacle, you will necessarily be at a higher Level of Awareness. And, if the nature of your Challenge or Obstacle was most difficult – perhaps oppressive – your Level of Awareness will be even higher. You may have even developed Character along the way, one of the greatest of all personality traits.

Lastly, keep in mind that all Obstacles are mere stepping stones to achieving a greater Good – a certain Goal or Success. In order to achieve any objective, you must necessarily face and overcome the Obstacles or Challenges along the way requisite to attaining that Success. (See Posts, "Success Strategy: Converting Obstacles to Stepping Stones: The Key to Victory," March 7, 2010, and "Success Key 5: Embrace Obstacles, the Stepping Stones to Success," January 23, 2010).

Step Seven: Take Action

Step Seven is simple: Take Action.

What kind of Action? Any Action.

The key here is that you need not necessarily know precisely what to do to – just begin. If you knew the precise set of Action Steps to realize the Solution, you would have already taken that course and the Obstacle resolved. What is important is that you begin solving the Obstacle by taking any Action – as long as it is not impulsive and based on irrational emotion or Obstruction.

Action is Empowering. Action increases Levels of Awareness. Action creates Opportunity.

Once you have taken that first Action step, you are on the path to finally addressing the undesired conditions and circumstances. Even if those first Action steps are just tiny steps, you are nonetheless on the way and knowledge of the simple fact is quite empowering.

It is important to note that, while the initial Action Steps may not lead you in the right direction, valuable information – in the form of feedback – is always gained. At the very least, you will discover what doesn’t work – and you may move on to Plan B. No Action taken ever results in failure; valuable information is always obtained. The key is to keep trying, keep moving, and keep taking Action. You will find the way!

Sometimes taking Action is 50% of the process towards realizing the Solution. You may think that attaining the resolution will take much time and effort, but then after taking that first Action step, you come to realize that the Challenge is not as substantial as you previously thought – perhaps it is even easy. I cannot tell you how many times that the “bark” that I feared was actually worse than the “bite.” The so-called “problem” turned out to be an easy, no-brainer and I regretted the fact that I had not taken Action earlier – it would have saved me significant time, energy and resources.

You will usually discover as you take Action that what you perceived to be insurmountable isn’t, and that solving the situation will not be the effort that you imagined. You will not come to that realization, however, unless and until Action is actually taken.

Roll up your sleeves and get started.

Step Eight: Time and the Law of Gestation

Everything has its season and the Universe works in cyclic, rhythmic fashion.

If your present Challenge is to find a way to feed your family today, the solution is not planting corn. There is the Law of Gestation: after planting, the corn seed must geminate, sprout, grow (and grow and grow and grow) and bear fruit. The fruit, the ears of corn (really a grain) must properly mature and then you must harvest it. All of this will take a certain amount of time over which you have very little control.

All seeds – including Seeds of Thought and Greatness – have a gestation period. There is a Law of Cause and Effect, but there also is the Law of Gestation, which states that the Effects of the Cause will take the time that the Universe (Nature, through our Infinite Creator) requires.

Depending on your particular Challenge or Obstacle, and the Action steps that you take – and the ultimate Solution desired – there will be the factor of time as determined by the applicable Law of Gestation. Often, we don’t know how long it may take for fruit to bear, but as long as we remain steadfast and true to realizing the Desired result, there will be fruit.

This is also another reason why it is important to be consistent – and persistent – with our Action steps. With continued Action, Persistence and Perseverance, it is possible to accelerate the process of realizing our Solution within the confines of the Law of Gestation.

For example, suppose that realizing the Solution to a particular Challenge by a particular individual necessarily must require a total of fifty (50) hours of bona fide, consistent Action (by application of the Law of Gestation). If the individual only dedicates one (1) hour per day towards that objective, it will take fifty (50) days before she finally realizes the ultimate Solution . However, by devoting two (2) hours of bona fide, consistent Action per day (instead of only one hour), she can accelerate the process and realize the ultimate Solution in half the time: twenty-five (25) days. Now, if she was really motivated and determined, in theory, she may dedicate ten (10) hours of bona fide, consistent Action per day towards overcoming her Challenge. Assuming that fatigue, Obstructions, and other inhibiting factors are kept at bay, she can further accelerate the process and realize her ultimate Solution in a mere five (5) days! So while the Law of Gestation may establish certain time constraints over which we have no or little control, we may accelerate the overall process by more continuous, consistent and persistent Action.

Another insight to understanding the Law of Gestation is a quote from Anthony Robbins: “God’s delays are not God’s denials.” In other words, God works on a different calendar and clock than we do.

Why is this so important? Because when many individuals fail to realize the Solution to their Challenge or Obstacle immediately, they simply quit. Give up. Abandon ship. When that happens, one thing is for certain: they will NOT solve the Challenge.

Quitting is “game over.” Failure.

If you do not immediately realize your Solution, keep trying, keep taking Action steps, keep working these Ten Steps. You WILL realize the solution. Chances are that the mess you are in didn’t happen overnight, so it may be unreasonable to think or expect that it may be cleaned up overnight.

Time itself may be just another aspect or feature of the Challenge that you face, so view it as such. Reframe the nature of the Challenge or Obstacle to further include the time variable. Don’t make the issue of time another, separate “problem.” Patience may be required and that virtue is yet another characteristic of Growth.

Persevere. Persist. Work it.

Step Nine: Have Faith

The importance of Faith – Faith in yourself and Faith in God – cannot be overstated.

We could write volumes on the significance of Faith to finding a Solution to your Challenge or Obstacle; time and space do not permit that here.

Napoleon Hill has stated many times, “The man who can is the man who thinks he can.”

If you already accepted the notion that every Challenge or Obstacle has a Solution (Step One), then why not accept the Faith and Belief that you will realize that Solution?

“Ya gotta believe, baby, ya gotta believe.”

If you do not Believe or have no Faith that you will realize a Solution, will you honestly pursue the Solution? If you answered this question in the affirmative, then you must fancy in chasing ghosts.

Step Ten: The Attitude of Gratitude

Finally, as Step Ten, despite the nature, level and extent of your Challenge or Obstacle, remain Grateful for all that you have. Seek the Good in your Life and by doing so, the significance of the Challenge or Obstacle will diminish.

Relinquish resentment. Drop jealousy and envy. Adopt the Attitude of Gratitude.

Studies have shown that patients with the most severe illnesses fair best in treatment when they are grateful for the Good in their lives – despite the illness – and they reject negative attitudes such as resentment, anger, jealously or envy. Such mental states are nothing more than Obstructions, discussed in Steps Four and Five. They not only block your Creative Mind, but they stain your Spirit and become a focal point of your concentration. This eventually leads to self-absorbed self-pity – and there is no way you will overcome your Challenge or Obstacle if you are engaged in that game.

Be grateful. Rejoice in the Good all around you! If you focus on the Good, more Good will come; contrarily, if you focus on the Negative, then you will receive more of the Negative. This is the Law of Attraction, pure and simple.

If you have trouble seeing the Good and finding Gratitude, grab a notebook and pen and find a quiet, comfortable place to sit by yourself for an hour or so and begin writing all that for which you are grateful. It may take a little time to get started, but once the juices start flowing, you will be astounded at how much you have written – how much there is in your life for which you should be Grateful. By the time this exercise is done, you will feel profoundly different and view your Challenge or Obstacle in an entirely different light.

When I feel overwhelmed by a Challenge or Obstacle and see myself starting to slide in a negative fashion, I work my “Gratitudes” by stopping whatever I am doing and spending some time with my children. An hour of building blocks, reading or just playing with them – and seeing the unconditional Love and excitement of Life in their eyes – has an amazing impact. Problem? What Problem?

Adopting the Attitude of Gratitude with honesty and sincerity is the quickest way to jump start out of a “stuck” position. It works – every time. But, you need to actually work it, and if that requires some quiet time in isolation with your thoughts and a notebook, then do it.

Conclusion

That’s it. The Ten Steps to Universal Problem Solving. With continued practice and patience, you will find these Ten Steps will work Miracles in your Life.

Believe.

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Richard Catalina, Jr. — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:46:21 +0000

"This book could have extended easily over 350 pages, but it has been deliberately shortened to make it as easy and possible for you to read, understand and use. Will you try It? Thousands of bettered lives will testify to the fact that It Works. Test them now on what you want most this minute." - R. H. Jarrett, "It Works"

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Today's entry in The Success Manual Free Download Library is a true "manual." The book, "It Works," by R. H. Jarrett, could have, as the author states, easily extended over 350 pages. That is true. Many similarly-based works in our Free Download Library are hundreds and hundreds of pages in length.

It Works is a basic, bare-b0nes instructional manual of the three-step process to obtaining what you honestly, sincerely Desire - including Success and Prosperity. In sum, Jarrett reduces the process of visualization and mental idealization, including the seeding of the subconscious mind with the object of Desire, to its most simple essence. The method outlined in It Works, called "The Plan" by Jarrett, could not be any easier to follow. And, as proven over the decades, it DOES work!

"Bathed in Light" by Jim Salge, November 12, 2008. Some pictures do not require an explanation, and this is one of them. White Mountains, New Hampshire.

Any Successful athlete will candidly admit that he or she uses this very process to attain victory and achieve outstanding results. The most Successful individuals utilize this same mental visualization process to attain the Success that they Desire. I have personally used this mental process over and over again - sometimes unknowingly - to achieve Goals, obtain Desires and attain Success. Yes, it does work.

Visualization, or "Image Making," as we have written here before (See Success Key No. 1: Image Making and Success Key No. 2: Image Making: Autosuggestion) is very, very Powerful and is the foundation for setting Goals and achieving Results. On the road to Success and Prosperity, it is the necessary first step. Learn it, use it properly and you are well on your way.

Since It Works is a succinctly crafted Success Manual, not only are we making available as a Free Download, but the entire work by Jarrett is reproduced in its entirety immediately following the Download Section, below, for those of you who would like to read it here and now.

Get going. It Works.

Until next time . . . .

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It Works

R. H. Jarrett

A concise, definite, resultful
plan with rules, explanations
and suggestions for bettering
your conditions in life.

If You Know What You Want, You Can Have It

What Is the Real Secret of Obtaining Desireable Possessions?

Are some people born under a lucky star or other charm which enables them to have all that which seems so desirable, and if not, what is the cause of the difference in conditions under which men live?

Many years ago, feeling that there must be a logical answer to this question, I decided to find out, if possible, what it was. I found the answer to my own satisfaction, and for years, have given the information to others who have used it successfully.

From a scientific, psychological or theological viewpoint, some of the following statements may be interpreted as incorrect, but nevertheless, the plan has brought the results desired to those who have followed the simple instructions, and it is my sincere belief that I am now presenting it in a way which will bring happiness and possessions to many more.
“IF wishes were horses, beggars would ride,” is the attitude taken by the average man and woman in regard to possessions. They are not aware of a power so near that it is overlooked; so simple in operation that it is difficult to conceive; and so sure in results that it is not made use of consciously, or recognized as the cause of failure or success.

“GEE, I wish that were mine,” is the outburst of Jimmy, the office boy, as a new and red roadster goes by; and Florence, the telephone operator, expresses the same thought regarding a ring in the jeweler’s window; while poor old Jones, the bookkeeper, during the Sunday stroll, replies to his wife, “Yes, dear, it would be nice to have a home like that, but it is out of the question. We will have to continue to rent.” Landem, the salesman, protests that he does all the work, gets the short end of the money and will some day quit his job and find a real one, and President Bondum, in his private sanctorum, voices a bitter tirade against the annual attack of hay-fever.

At home it is much the same. Last evening, father declared that daughter Mabel was headed straight for disaster, and today, mother’s allowance problem and other trying affairs fade into insignificance as she exclaims, “This is the last straw. Robert’s school teacher wants to see me this afternoon. His reports are terrible, I know, but I’m late for Bridge now She’ll have to wait until tomorrow.” So goes the endless stream of expressions like these from millions of people in all classes who give no thought to what they really want, and who are getting all they are entitled to or expect.

If you are one of these millions of thoughtless talkers or wishers and would like a decided change from your present condition, you can have it; but first of all you must know what you want and this is no easy task. When you can train your objective mind (the mind you use every day) to decide definitely upon the things or conditions you desire, you will have taken your first big step in accomplishing or securing what you know you want.

To get what you want is no more mysterious or uncertain than the radio waves all around you. Tune in correctly and you get a perfect result, but to do this, it is, of course, necessary to know something of your equipment and have a plan of operation.

You have within you a mighty power, anxious and willing to serve you, a power capable of giving you that which you earnestly desire. This power is described by Thomas Jay Hudson, Ph.D., LL.D., author of “The Law of Psychic Phenomena,” as your subjective mind. Other learned writers use different names and terms, but all agree that it is omnipotent. Therefore, I call this Power “Emmanuel” (God in us).

Regardless of the name of this Great Power, or the conscious admission of a God, the Power is capable and willing to carry to a complete and perfect conclusion every earnest desire of your objective mind, but you must be really earnest about what you want.

Occasional wishing or half-hearted wanting does not form a perfect connection or communication with your omnipotent power. You must be in earnest, sincerely and truthfully desiring certain conditions or things – mental physical or spiritual.

Your objective mind and will are so vacillating that you usually only WISH for things and the wonderful, capable power within you does not function.

Most wishes are simply vocal expressions. Jimmy, the office boy, gave no thought of possessing the red roadster. Landem, the salesman, was not thinking of any other job or even thinking at all. President Bondum knew he had hay fever and was expecting it. Father’s business was quite likely successful, and mother no doubt brought home first prize from the Bridge party that day, but they had no fixed idea of what they really wanted their children to accomplish and were actually helping to bring about the unhappy conditions which existed.

If you are in earnest about changing your present condition, here is a concise, definite, resultful plan, with rules, explanations and suggestions.

The Plan

Write down on paper in order of their importance the things and conditions you really want. Do not be afraid of wanting too much. Go the limit in writing down your wants. Change the list daily, adding to or taking from it, until you have it about right. Do not be discouraged on account of changes, as this is natural. There will always be changes and additions with accomplishments and increasing desires.

Three Positive Rules of Accomplishment

Read the list of what you want three times each day: morning noon and night.
Think of what you want as often as possible.
Do not talk to any one about your plan except to the Greater Power within you which will unfold to your Objective Mind the method of accomplishment.

It is obvious that you cannot acquire faith at the start. Some of your desires, from all practical reasoning, may seem positively unattainable, but, nevertheless, write them down on your list in their proper place of importance to you.

There is no need to analyze how this Power within you is going to accomplish your desires. Such a procedure is as unnecessary as trying to figure out why a grain of corn packed in fertile soil shoots up to a green stalk, blossoms and produces an ear of corn containing hundreds of grains, each capable of doing what the one grain did. If you will follow this definite plan and carry out the three simple rules, the method of accomplishment will unfold quite as mysteriously as the ear of corn appears on the stalk, and in most cases much sooner than you expect.

When new desires, deserving position at or about the top of your list, come to you, then you may rest assured you are progressing correctly.

Removing from your list items which at first you thought you wanted, is another sure indication of progress.

It is natural to be skeptical and have doubts, distrust and questionings, but when these thoughts arise, get out your list. Read it over; or if you have it memorized, talk to your inner self about your desires until the doubts that interfere with your progress are gone. Remember, nothing can prevent your having that which you earnestly desire. Others have these things. Why not you?

The Omnipotent power within you does not enter into any controversial argument. It is waiting and willing to serve when you are ready, but your objective mind is so susceptible to suggestion that it is almost impossible to make any satisfactory progress when surrounded by skeptics. Therefore, choose your friends carefully and associate with people who now have some of the things you really want, but do not discuss your method of accomplishment with them.

Put down on your list of wants such material things as money, home, automobile, or whatever it may be, but do not stop there. Be more definite. If you want an automobile, decide what kind style, price, color, and all the other details, including when you want it, If you want a home, plan the structure, grounds and furnishings. Decide on location and cost. If you want money, write down the amount. If you want to break a record in your business, put it down. It may be a sales record. If so, write out the total, the date required, then the number of items you must sell to make it, also list your prospects and put after each name the sum expected. This may seem very foolish at first, but you can never realize your desires if you do not know positively and in detail what you want and when you want it. If you cannot decide this, you are not in earnest. You must be definite, and when you are, results will be surprising and almost unbelievable.

A natural and ancient enemy will no doubt appear when you get your first taste of accomplishment. This enemy is Discredit, in form of such thoughts as: “it can’t be possible; it just happened to be. What a remarkable coincidence!”

When such thoughts occur give thanks and assert credit to your Omnipotent Power for the accomplishment. By doing this, you gain assurance and more accomplishment, and in time, prove to yourself that there is a law, which actually works – at all times – when you are in tune with it.

Sincere and earnest thanks cannot be given without gratitude and it is impossible to be thankful and grateful without being happy. Therefore, when you are thanking your greatest and best friend, your Omnipotent Power, for the gifts received, do so with all your soul, and let it be reflected in your face. The Power and what it does in beyond understanding. Do not try to understand it, but accept the accomplishment with thankfulness, happiness, and strengthened faith.

Caution

It is possible to want and obtain that which will make you miserable; that which will wreck the happiness of others; that which will cause sickness and death; that which will rob you of eternal life. You can have what you want, but you must take all that goes with it: so in planning your wants, plan that which you are sure will give to you and your fellow man the greatest good here on earth; thus paving the way to that future hope beyond the pale of human understanding.

This method of securing what you want applies to everything you are capable of desiring and the scope being so great, it is suggested that your first list consists only of those things with which you are quite familiar, such as an amount of money or accomplishment, of the possession of material things. Such desires are more easily and quickly obtained than the discontinuance of fixed habits, the welfare of others, and the healing of mental or bodily ills.

Accomplish the lesser things first. Then take the next step, and when that is accomplished, you will seek the higher and really important objectives in life, but long before you reach this stage of your progress, many worthwhile desires will find their place on your list. One will be to help others as you have been helped. Great is the reward to those who help and give without thought of self as it is impossible to be unselfish without gain.

In Conclusion

A short while ago, Dr. Emil Coue came to this country and showed thousands of people how to help themselves. Thousands of others spoofed at the idea, refused his assistance and are today where they were before his visit.

So with the statements and plan presented to you, now you can reject or accept. You can remain as you are or have anything you want. The choice is yours, but God grant that you may find in this short volume the inspiration to choose aright, follow the plan and thereby obtain, as so many others have, all things, whatever they may be, that you desire.

Read the entire book over again, and again, AND THEN AGAIN. Memorize the three simple rules.

Test them now on what you want most this minute.

This book could have extended easily over 350 pages, but it has been deliberately shortened to make it as easy and possible for you to read, understand and use. Will you try It? Thousands of bettered lives will testify to the fact that It Works.

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Success Passage: The Power of Principle Over Precedent and the Law of Attraction

Richard Catalina, Jr. — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:24:02 +0000

Everyone visualizes, whether he knows it or not. Visualizing is the great secret of success. The conscious use of this great power attracts to you multiplied resources, intensifies your wisdom, and enables you to make use of advantages which you formerly failed to recognize. - Genevieve Behrend, "Your Invisible Power"

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Success Passage: The Power of Principle Over Precedent and the Law of Attraction

Yesterday, we added the Classic Success Manual The Law and the Word by Thomas Troward to The Success Manual Free Download Library. In the accompanying post, we mentioned that Genevieve Behrend, a New Thought author in her own right, was the only personal student of Judge Troward. Given the heady writing of Judge Troward, Ms. Behrend's writings - which are de facto Troward teachings - are refreshingly less difficult to read and understand.

Your Invisible Power is probably Ms. Behrend's most popular book and is included in The Success Manual Free Download Library. I have found certain passages in this work by Ms. Behrend as truly capturing the sum and substance of Troward, most notably, the concept of "Principle Over Precedent." In sum, Principle Over Precedent means that the past has absolutely no bearing, no relevance on what you can accomplish today and tomorrow UNLESS you allow it. You have the POWER to take Action today, make Decisions (real Decisions) and implement sincere, lasting and positive change in your Life.

Galaxy NGC 2683, an island universe within the Universe. Expand your thinking, understanding and awareness through the Power of Principle Over Precedent.

Following below are those Success Passages from Your Invisible Power which I have highlighted, underscored and written many notes on in my personal copy of Ms. Behrend's book. In these Success Passages, Genevieve Behrend focuses on Visualization, the Law of Attraction and the Power of Principle Over Precedent.

I think you will agree this is good stuff.

Until next time . . . .

Peace Out, and - Namasté!

To your Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Success,

The Success Manual Team

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Success Passage: Principle Over Precedent and the Law of Attraction

Excerpts from Your Invisible Power by Genevieve Behrend

The exercise of the visualizing faculty keeps your mind in order, and attracts to you the things you need to make life more enjoyable in an orderly way. If you train yourself in the practice of deliberately picturing your desire and carefully examining your picture, you will soon find that your thoughts and desires proceed in a more orderly procession than ever before. Having reached a state of ordered mentality, you are no longer in a constant state of mental hurry. Hurry is Fear, and consequently destructive.

In other words, when your understanding grasps the power to visualize your heart’s desire and hold it with your will, it attracts to you all things requisite to the fulfillment of that picture by the harmonious vibrations of the law of attraction. You realize that since Order is Heaven’s first law, and visualization places things in their natural order, then it must be a heavenly thing to visualize.

Everyone visualizes, whether he knows it or not. Visualizing is the great secret of success. The conscious use of this great power attracts to you multiplied resources, intensifies your wisdom, and enables you to make use of advantages which you formerly failed to recognize.

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We now fly through the air, not because anyone has been able to change the laws of Nature, but because the inventor of the flying machine learned how to apply Nature’s laws and, by making orderly use of them, produced the desired result. So far as the natural forces are concerned, nothing has changed since the beginning. There were no airplanes in “the Year One,” because those of that generation could not conceive the idea as a practical, working possibility. “It has not yet been done,” was the argument, “and it cannot be done.” Yet the laws and materials for practical flying machines existed then as now.

Troward tells us that the great lesson he learned from the airplane and wireless telegraphy is the triumph of principle over precedent, the working out of an idea to its logical conclusion in spite of accumulated contrary testimony of all past experience.

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With such an example before you, you must realize that there are still greater secrets to be disclosed. Also, “That you hold the key within yourself, with which to unlock the secret chamber that contains your heart’s desire. All that is necessary in order that you may use this key and make your life exactly what you wish it to be, is a careful inquiry into the unseen causes which stand back of every external and visible condition. Then bring these unseen causes into harmony with your conception, and you will find that you can make practical working realities of possibilities which at present seem but fantastic dreams.”

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In visualizing, or making a mental picture, you are not endeavoring to change the laws of Nature. You are fulfilling them. Your object in visualizing is to bring things into regular order, both mentally and physically. When you realize that this method of employing the Creative Power brings your desires, one after another, into practical, material accomplishment, your confidence in the mysterious but unfailing law of attraction, which has its central power station in the very heart of your word-picture, becomes supreme. Nothing can shake it. You never feel that it is necessary to take anything from anybody else. You have learned that asking and seeking have, as their correlatives, receiving and finding.

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When you first begin to visualize seriously, you may feel, as many others do, that someone else may be forming the same picture you are, and that, naturally, would not suit your purpose. Do not give yourself any concern about this. Simply try to realize that your picture is an orderly exercise of the Universal Creative Power specifically applied. Then you may be sure that no one can work in opposition to you. The universal law of harmony prevents that. Endeavor to bear in mind that your mental picture is Universal Mind specifically exercising its inherent powers of initiative and selection.

God, or Universal Mind, made man for the special purpose of differentiating Himself through him.

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Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the same power which gave it birth – yourself.

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We all possess more power and greater possibilities than we realize, and visualizing is one of the greatest of these powers, it brings other Possibilities to our observation.

Your personal advance in evolution depends on your right use of the power of visualizing, and your use of it depends on whether you recognize that you, yourself, are a particular center through and in which the Originating Spirit is finding ever new expression for potentialities already existing within Itself. This is evolution; the continual unfolding of existing through outwardly invisible things.

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The seventh and great thing to remember in visualizing is that you are making a mental picture for the purpose of determining the quality you are giving to the previously undifferentiated substance and energy, rather than to arrange the specific circumstances for its manifestation. That is the work of Creative Power itself. It will build its own forms of expression quite naturally, if you will allow it, and save you a great deal of needless anxiety. What you really want is expansion in a certain direction, whether of health, wealth or what not, and so long as you get it – as you surely will, if you confidently hold to your picture – what does it matter whether it reaches by some channel which you thought you could count upon, or through some other of whose existence you had no idea. You are concentrating energy of a particular kind for a particular purpose. Keep this in mind and let specific details take care of themselves, and never mention what you are doing to anyone.

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Never forget that every physical thing, whether for you or against you, was a sustained thought before it was a thing.

Thought, as thought, is neither good nor bad; it is Creative Action and always takes physical form. Therefore, the thoughts you dwell upon become the things you possess or do not possess.

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This first concrete fruition of my study of Mental Science as expounded by Troward’s book had come by a careful following of the methods he had outlined. In this connection, therefore, I can offer to the reader no better gift than to quote Troward’s book, “The Edinburgh Lectures,” from which may be derived a complete idea of the line of action I was endeavoring to follow. In the chapter on Causes and Conditions he says:

“To get good results we must properly understand our relation to the great impersonal power we are using. It is intelligent, and we are intelligent, and the two intelligences must co-operate.

“We must not fly in the face of the law expecting it to do for us what it can only do through us; and we must therefore use our intelligence with the knowledge that it is acting as the instrument of a greater intelligence; and because we have this knowledge we may and should cease from all anxiety as to the final result.

“In actual practice we must first form the ideal conception of our object with the definite intention of impressing it upon the Universal Mind – it is this thought that takes such thought out of the region of mere casual fancies – and then affirm that our knowledge of the Law is sufficient reason for a calm expectation of a corresponding result, and that therefore all necessary conditions will come to us in due order . . .

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You may feel the necessity for improvement in your finances, and wonder how this increase is to be brought about, when there seems suddenly to come from within the idea itself, the realization that everything – even money – had its birth in thought, and your thoughts turn their course. You simply hold to the statement or affirmation that the best, and all there is, is yours. Since you are able to capture ideas from the Infinite through the instrument of your intuition, you let your mind rest upon that thought, knowing full well that this very thought will respond to itself. Your inhibition of all doubt and anxiety enables the reassuring ideas to establish themselves and attract to themselves “I can” and “I will” ideas, which gradually grow into the physical form of the desire in your mind.

In the conscious uses of the Universal Power to reproduce your desires in physical form, three facts should be borne in mind: First – All space is filled with a Creative Power. Second – This Creative Power is amenable to suggestion. Third – It can only work by deductive methods.

As Troward tells us, this last is an exceedingly important point, for it implies that the action of the ever-present Creative Power is in no way limited by precedent. It works according to the essence of the spirit of the principle. In other words, this Universal Power takes its creative direction from the word you give it. Once man realizes this great truth, the character with which this sensitive, reproductive power is invested becomes the most important of all his considerations. It is the unvarying law of Creative Life Principle that “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” If you realize the truth that the Creative Power can be to you only what you feel and think it to be, it is willing and able to meet your demands.

Troward says, “If you think your thought is Powerful, your Thought is Powerful.” “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he” is the law of life, and the Creative Power can no more change this law than an ordinary mirror can reflect back to you a different image than the object you hold before it.

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Success Strategy: Leave Your Comfort Zone Behind and Do It Afraid

Richard Catalina, Jr. — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:40:24 +0000

Why do most people fail to achieve their Goals? Why do most people fail to attain Success? Why do most people fail to acquire Wealth? There are many reasons, but one reason stands out ahead of the others. Indeed, it is obvious: The main reason most people Fail is because – they QUIT! The real reason people Quit – and, therefore, fail to Succeed – is FEAR. If you want to Grow, and thus Succeed, you MUST be willing to experience a significant and proportionate amount of discomfort, i.e., Fear. Fear and Growth go hand in hand. You cannot separate the two.

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Success Strategy: Abandon Your Comfort Zone, Face the Fear and Do It Afraid

[Publisher's Note: Recently, we featured a guest Post by Myles Miller entitled, Success Strategy: The Power of Conquering FEAR! Today's Post is a great follow-up to Myles' article, as we examine this thing called our "Comfort Zone," why we use it, how it prevents us from Advancement, Growth and Success, and how we can face down the irrational Fear that keeps us locked in the self-imposed prison of the Comfort Zone. I look forward to any Comments, so please feel free to chime in and add your two cents worth!]

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1. Why We Fail

Why do most people fail to achieve their Goals? Why do most people fail to attain Success? Why do most people fail to acquire Wealth? There are many reasons, but one reason stands out ahead of the others. Indeed, it is obvious: The main reason most people Fail is because – they QUIT!

I have said it many times before and I will note it again: If attaining Success was easy, many more would Succeed; if acquiring Wealth was easy, many more would be Wealthy. The fact of the matter is that many who wish for Success or Wealth either never really get off the ground trying in sincere effort or they simply Quit – usually shortly after beginning their quest.

Persistence, a necessary ingredient to attain Success or acquire Wealth, may be defined as “sustained effort in the face of all odds or adversity.” Of Persistence, Napoleon Hill states in his classic Success Manual, Think and Grow Rich, that it “is an essential factor in the procedure of transmuting Desire into its monetary equivalent.” (See page 312 of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (1937 Version) Success Manual Strategist Edition 2010). If one is truly Persistent, as the above definition points out, Quitting is NOT an option.

Yet, how often do we see people – ourselves included – embark on a journey to achieve Success or attain a Goal and then Fail? Thousands and thousands of times. I am not referring to temporary defeat, which even the most ardent Successful experience – as they necessarily must – in order to Succeed. ALL Success requires a certain level of temporary defeat, set backs and obstacles that must be overcome. (See Post: Success Key No. 5: Embrace Obstacles, the Stepping Stones to Success). I am referring to FAILURE. Failure (Quitting) is fundamentally different than temporary defeat.

No one really Fails unless and until one Quits.

Consider how many individuals make so-called “New Year’s Resolutions,” only to “break” the resolutions within months, weeks, days or even hours after the start of the New Year. Initially, there is great Enthusiasm – usually before the New Year begins – but because of flawed internal programming, the resolution cannot be kept. And, so, in an effort to save face, fool themselves and fool others, a litany of excuses is developed to justify Quitting. Quitting the pursuit of one’s honest and sincere Desire is never justified; you are only Quitting on yourself. Temporary defeat and even retreat, on the other hand, is sometimes necessary (or even unavoidable) as sound strategy.

But, this all still begs the question – why, then, do people Quit?

2. The Real Reason: FEAR

The real reason people Quit – and, therefore, fail to Succeed – is FEAR.

I am not referring to the natural “fight or flight” form of Fear which God instilled in the human species as an involuntary system of survival. Rather, the type of Fear to which I refer is the subtle, irrational Fear that keeps us stuck, prevents us from Growing, and thus, thwarts any meaningful attempts at attaining Achievement, Success or Prosperity.

By way of example, if you narrowly escaped a potentially fatal car accident, or awoke one night to find an intruder in your home, or jumped at the sound of an alarm because your office building was on fire, you better have Fear. For it is this type of Fear that provides your mind and body with the adrenaline, hormones, corticosteroids and other body chemicals critical to your survival. Without these nature helpers, your ability to overcome the danger you face would be lessened and your chances of survival greatly diminished. Fear, produced by these substances is a good thing. This type of Fear keeps you alive.

But there is another kind of Fear that lurks within our conscious and subconscious minds that is not natural; and, worse, in the long run, it does us harm. This form of Fear is not a product of involuntary and instantaneous gland production and it does not immediately transform us into super-human survival mode. This type of Fear is self-induced, pernicious and irrational. It works in stealth mode and its objective is simple: to keep Change and Growth at bay and keep you locked in your “Comfort Zone.” This type of Fear causes a slow, painful death.

Understanding the abnormal form of Fear is critical to Advancement, Growth, and ultimately, Success.

3. The Comfort Zone

The so-called “Comfort Zone” is a hazard to your well-being. Yes, you heard that right.

You see, your Comfort Zone loves you more than you love it. It wants you to stay, make yourself at home and never leave. And, it achieves this objective by making your internal intellectual, emotional and spiritual home nice and comfy cozy. Ironically, while natural Fear fosters survival, unnatural, abnormal Fear inhibits survival!

The latter, therefore, cannot be an expression of Nature or of our Universal Creator, for Nature always seeks further and fuller expression of itself, i.e., Growth. And, the source of this insidious form of Fear? US – we do it to ourselves.

Our Comfort Zones: The internal hiding places that imprison us and prevent us from Growth, Advancement and Success. When we venture outside of our Comfort Zone, we must expect to experience a respectful level of discomfort as we embark into unchartered territories.

It wasn’t always this way. We were all born with a God-given, natural ability to wander (and wonder) out of our personal Comfort Zone. Watch young children play and you will immediately see this as fact. They don’t know what is and what is not “dangerous,” and therefore act as little danger magnets, taking risks that take our breath away. They explore their world with reckless abandon, absorbing every experience into their little minds. They have no self-imposed limiting beliefs of themselves. They just are. They are true little Zen masters.

But, what happens as they grow and begin to form beliefs about their world – particularly on emotional issues and matters? They learn to become irrationally “afraid.”

My youngest son is almost four years old. When he was two, he was Mr. Fearless. The dark, being alone, climbing stairs and ladders – whatever – he did and he wasn’t afraid. Fast forward two years later, and he is now afraid of certain things that previously he didn’t even know existed. What happened?

His mind developed, and with it, the ability to scare himself – irrationally – through self-imposed beliefs (of course, he doesn’t know that). The dark two years ago is the same dark as today. The events themselves did not change – he changed. The way he interprets his world changed, and in accordance, his behavior followed suit. As a result, his fear of the dark now prevents him from doing (being, doing and having more) what previously was a “no brainer” (no pun intended).

As adults, we have created so many abnormal, unnatural and irrational fears in our head that the only safe haven left is our Comfort Zone. Most people “don’t want any problems” and prefer to just “punch the clock and make a living.” They just want to wait out their lives in a nice easy fashion with no risk of any kind. In other words, they never, ever venture outside of their Comfort Zone – for any reason. Bob Proctor would say “Well, why are they here?”

4. Growth and Advancement Require Abandonment of the Comfort Zone

If you are ever going to advance in life and seek to be, do and have more, you must – necessarily – leave the cozy confines of your Comfort Zone. There is no other way. Period.

Think about it. If your goal is to achieve something that you have never accomplished in life, for example, a very ambitious financial Goal, you must venture into uncharted territory. You don’t have a choice. Why? Because that is where the Goal is. If there is one place where the Goal is not, it is in your Comfort Zone. If it was, guess what? You would already have it.

As Jim Rohn once stated, “If you want more of what you’ve been getting, keep doing what you’ve been doing.” If you want something different – especially if it is a big something different – then you must do things differently – very differently. In other words, you must be prepared to change and indeed change by taking the appropriate internal and external Action – Action that you have never taken before. This can be very unsettling. This is what holds people back. This is why most people Quit.

If you have sincerely set your sights on an ambitious Goal in new territory, this will require that you do things unfamiliar. Examples may include (but are certainly not limited to) meeting new people, doing new things, writing proposals, speaking to groups, researching, planning, meeting, adopting a solid work ethic, working twice as much as you do now, getting up early, going to bed late, organizing, concentrating, imposing self-discipline, acquiring self-confidence, giving up certain recreations and STOP WATCHING TELEVISION EVERY NIGHT. If you have not been doing these things and such activities are new to you, this will require you to step outside of your Comfort Zone.

WARNING: Your Comfort Zone doesn’t like these things and will use every trick in the playbook to keep you in place!

The loftier your Goal, then the greater the distance you must expect to travel from your Comfort Zone. Just as the size of your Success is in direct proportion to the size of your Belief, the size of your Success is in direct proportion to the distance you must travel from your Comfort Zone. Everyone’s Comfort Zone is different, so the roads and distances to travel are different for everyone. Regardless of your point of origin, however, be assured that higher intellectual faculties must come to bear. You must raise your creative levels higher than you have ever pushed before. This isn’t easy; the easy way is to retreat back to your Comfort Zone, plop on the sofa and turn on “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” (or whatever).

Humans, generally speaking, do not like change, particularly any change that requires us to leave our Comfort Zones. When required to do so, we act like a dog whose master has rearranged the furniture in the room. The poor creature lost its favorite comfy spots and doesn’t know what to do. Somebody messed with its Comfort Zone!

Leaving your Comfort Zone increases anxiety and doubt, both of which induce Fear – the bad kind of Fear.

5. The Bad News: Enthusiasm is NOT Enough

Simple garden variety Enthusiasm is not enough to overtake and subdue the gravitational effects of the Comfort Zone. Yes, Enthusiasm is a great attitude (state of mind), but standing alone, it is simply insufficient.

Consider again the New Year’s Resolution scenario. The vast majority of individuals who engage in the annual tradition of making such resolutions usually do so with unbridled Enthusiasm – a good thing, agreed. They get “pumped” and soundly resolve that this is the year to do (or refrain from doing, depending on your perspective) this, that and the other thing (to steal a chapter title from How to Grow Success, The Success Manual’s latest addition to The Success Manual Free Download Library). And, they mean it, they really mean it.

But, Enthusiasm is all they have in their arsenal. Being an attitude, a state of mind, Enthusiasm can come and go like the wind on a moment’s notice. Without the proper mental conditioning, Enthusiasm can dissipate faster than a sinking soufflé. I can hear it now – pssssssssss . . . .

So, what happened? Whence cometh and goeth Enthusiasm?

Doubt, worry, anxiety . . . all of the psychological trappings used by your Comfort Zone made an appearance and Enthusiasm bolted out the back door.

Often, all it takes is until the next morning before doubt creeps in: “I don’t know . . .” “I can’t do that . . .” “Who am I kidding . . .” “I’ll start tomorrow instead . . .” “Maybe I’ll start next week . . .” “Maybe next month, when the weather is warmer . . .” “Maybe next year, when . . .”

And the excuse parade is in full swing.

Nothing has changed, except the individual’s resolve. Circumstances have not changed. The individual has not changed. In fact, the individual has remained steadfastly the same. The demons of old conditioning, habit and thinking – as embodied in the resolver’s personal Comfort Zone – have exerted their gravitational pull to keep the person from experiencing the uncomfortable emotions of doubt, anxiety, and thus, Fear. In order to quell those uneasy feelings, retreat is made to the Comfort Zone. Just the thought of postponing the start date of the resolution by one month brings immediate relief. Whew!

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

As noted by Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Of what use to make heroic vows of amendment, if the same old lawbreaker is to keep them?”

Dr. Maxwell Maltz stated that “We act, behave and feel according to what we consider our Self-Image to be and we do not deviate from this pattern.” Well, the same analogy can be made with our Comfort Zone: “We act, behave and feel according to what we have established as our Comfort Zone and we do not deviate from this pattern.”

But, what are we really afraid of? The answer may be startling: Fear of GROWTH.

If you want to Grow, and thus Succeed, you MUST be willing to experience a significant and proportionate amount of discomfort, i.e., Fear. Fear and Growth go hand in hand. You cannot separate the two.

6. The Good News: You Are NOT Your Comfort Zone

Unfortunately, over time we begin to identify our Comfort Zone as ourselves. “I am shy, I could never do that.” Or, “I am not good with people.” Or, “I get tired easy and need to sleep 18 hours a day.” Not only are these self-imposed beliefs extremely limiting, but worse, we use them to define who we ARE, thereby creating a false Self-Image. And then, as Dr. Maltz points out, we do not deviate from that pattern.

The strangest aspect of this process is that we tend to complain about what we have or don’t have, but yet, we undertake no effort to deviate from the pattern of our self-imposed Self-Image, as defined by the limitations of our Comfort Zone – a Comfort Zone that we created. Where is the logic in that? Yet, this is how the vast majority of people live their lives!

The fact of the matter is that you can be, do and have anything YOU DESIRE. You are not defined by your Comfort Zone unless you allow yourself to be so defined. God certainly does not identify and define you by your self-imposed beliefs of personal lack and limitation, so why do you?

At most, your Comfort Zone is only a hiding PLACE that you use to prevent yourself from venturing out – from Growing. Like any physical place, you can leave the mental and emotional location of the Comfort Zone anytime you choose. God gave you Free Will; use it. As Bob Proctor has repeated many times, “It’s your movie, you can make it any way you want.”

So, remember these critical FACTS:

You are not your Comfort Zone.
At best, your Comfort Zone is merely a place.
Because it is a place, you can choose to leave your Comfort Zone anytime you Desire.
You will leave your Comfort Zone – and thus, experience the Growth that God intended you to experience – when your Desire to Grow, Advance and Succeed is GREATER than your Desire to remain in the cushy, comfy confines of the Comfort Zone (Fear avoidance).
Universal Law: As long as you stay in your Comfort Zone, NOTHING will ever change. Period. It’s IMPOSSIBLE.

7. Success Strategy

So, what can be done to defeat the death-pull of the Comfort Zone? How does one defeat the irrational, abnormal Fear that accompanies the journey out?

Actually, quite a bit and we can write volumes on the subject. One particular action is more powerful than any other and cognitive behavioral psychologists have been using this method for decades. But, first it is always important to examine – and understand – the “Fear Factor.”

Understand that Fear – the bad kind of Fear – is almost always the result of ignorance. Yes, that’s right – ignorance. For if you had the knowledge, understanding and requisite levels of awareness of what is to be gained, what is required, and the true levels of risk of venturing out of the Comfort Zone, there would be no hesitation to leave immediately. We hold ourselves captive through our own ignorance.

When you find yourself trapped in your Comfort Zone, ask yourself – and be real, real honest – what is the absolute worst that could happen if I pursue this new Ideal (Goal, Objective, etc.)? Seek the Truth, for it shall set you free.

Let’s use a simple example for demonstration (and a scenario that many of us have experienced in life):

Boy likes girl (Desire). Boy wants to go out with girl (Desire). As a result, boy wants to ask girl out (Aspiration). Boy thinks about asking girl out (continued Aspiration), but that would mean he actually must take Action and ask her (leaving Comfort Zone). Boy is afraid (Fear induced merely by the thought of leaving Comfort Zone). Boy doesn’t ask girl out (retreat to Comfort Zone). But, boy really, really likes girl. (Desire increases). Boy is still afraid (Fear), but realizes that if he doesn’t ask girl out (stays in Comfort Zone), he will never go out with girl (excellent observation). On the other hand, he could ask girl out and she could say “no” (worst case scenario). Or she could say “yes” (icing on the cake, for the real goal here is asking her out, although boy probably doesn’t see it that way). Rightly realizing that he has nothing to lose (overcoming ignorance and increasing level of awareness), boy asks out girl (takes Action, overcomes Fear). The boy’s Desire to go out with the girl was greater than his Desire to remain “safe” in his Comfort Zone.

So, here we have a young gentleman totally stricken and immobilized by Fear just over the thought of asking a girl out. How absurd! Yet, how many of us have actually lived this same experience. Be honest. We’ve all been there in some capacity, probably many times.

Yet, what does the worst case scenario represent in this example? Nothing more than a temporary defeat – that’s all. If she says “no,” it’s not the end of the world, not the end of his life, not the end of anything. To the extent that he takes a denial and extrapolates and interprets that as meaning anything more than the simple fact she said no, then he is doing it to himself. But that is another story for another day.

Now, let’s go back to that single most powerful Action step to overcome Fear. It was actually mentioned in our example above. Did you catch it? It is so obvious, you might have missed it.

All the boy needed to do in order to overcome this particular Fear of asking the girl out was to simply go ahead and ask her out. That’s it. Once he asks, regardless of the outcome, the Fear is gone. He stepped out of his Comfort Zone and he defeated Fear, and he accomplished this by increasing his level of awareness, overcoming his Fear-based ignorance and understanding that he had nothing to lose. There was, after all, no downside to asking her out.

And, while he may not realize it, the real goal here was taking Action and asking out the girl. Why? If she says “yes,” then he gets to have his cake and eat it too. If she says “no,” he has still conquered his Fear and the next time he wants to ask out a girl (or even the same one), it will be easier. He already ventured out of his Comfort Zone into unchartered territory. The second time out, it will not be so unfamiliar.

As the Nike Company would say, “Just do it.” Or, as Paul Martinelli would say, “Do it afraid.”

Nothing is more powerful to overtake the insidiousness nature of the Comfort Zone and instill self-confidence than to march forward and face the enemy – in this case, irrational Fear – until it dissipates and completely dissolves away.

If you want to Grow, and thus Succeed, you MUST be willing to experience a significant and proportionate amount of discomfort, i.e., Fear. Fear and Growth go hand in hand. You cannot separate the two. In order to overcome Fear - DO IT AFRAID.

Sometimes, you need to “fake it until you make it,” and when it comes to the irrational Fear that prevents you from leaving your Comfort Zone, faking it is incredibly powerful. (See Success Manual POST: Key Success Strategy: Image Making – Acting “AS IF”).

Shakespeare stated, “Assume a virtue if you have it not.”

And, in The Secret of the Ages (Volume I of The Law of Attraction Prosperity Bible by Princeton Cambridge Publishing Group), Robert Collier states, “Look the part. Dress the part. Be successful in your own thought first. It won’t be long before you will be successful before the world as well.”

In his book Applied Psychology and Scientific Living, David V. Bush says “It is just as easy to think in terms of abundance, opulence and prosperity as it is to think in terms of lack, limitation and poverty.” Reframing this concept to the issue at hand, “It is just as easy to think in terms of doubt, worry, anxiety and fear as it is to think in terms of courage, self-confidence, strength and Success.”

That being the case, let’s always think in terms of courage, self-confidence, strength and Success. Assume the virtue if you have it not.

Always remember that abnormal, unnatural and irrational Fear is a product of ignorance. Come to understand the Truth of venturing outside of your Comfort Zone, and you can face and conquer the enemy. Leaving the safe confines of your Comfort Zone will almost always produce some level of discomfort, but keep in mind: No Fear, No Growth; No Growth, No Fear.

8. Take-Aways

You hold the Key. Unlock the shackles of your Comfort Zone and GROW.

Do it tired.

Do it sick.

Do it afraid.

Just do it.

No excuses.

NO FEAR!

Grow, Baby, Grow!

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Until next time . . . .

Peace Out, and - Namasté!

To your Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Success,

The Success Manual Team

And remember - DO IT AFRAID.

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Success Key: S.M.A.R.T. Goal Achievement Method – Part 5

Richard Catalina, Jr. — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 02:24:32 +0000

Whether or not your Goal is attainable is a direct function of variables that depend on YOU. Whether or not your Goal is realistic, on the other hand, does not necessarily depend on you, but rather, whether or not your Goal can be achieved in accordance with Universal Laws. Whether a Goal is realistic is simply another way of stating whether the Goal is possible as a matter of Universal or God's Laws. If it is NOT possible as a matter of Universal Law, then it is NOT realistic. All things must comply with God’s Laws. The Universe must comply with God’s Laws.

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Success Key: S.M.A.R.T. Goal Achievement Method – Part 5: REALISTIC

In our last post on the S.M.A.R.T Goal Achievement Method, we discussed the “A” element – “Attainable” – and distinguished between “Attainable” and “Realistic,” which, at first glance, seemingly mean the same thing.

As we pointed out, in this sense, Attainable means that you have (or will develop) the attitudes, abilities and definite plans for attaining your Goal. The emphasis here is on the “definite plan” portion. You cannot attain a Goal or achieve Success without Definiteness of Purpose and Definiteness of Plan.

Today, we will take up discussion of the “R” element of S.M.A.R.T: “Realistic.”

In case you don’t remember, with regard to the S.M.A.R.T Goal Achievement Method, SMART stands for:

Specific (See POST)
Measurable (See POSTS: Part 1 and Part 2)
Attainable (See POST)
Realistic
Timely

The Realistic element of SMART may be the easiest to explain and comprehend. However, it is also critically important in the SMART Goal Achievement process – as much so as the other elements – since, as they say, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

The key here, obviously, is that your Goal must be “realistic” – realistic in the sense that it can be achieved. This, as we pointed out last time, is different than the inquiry as to whether it is attainable. For whether or not your Goal is attainable is a direct function of variables that depend on YOU. Whether or not your Goal is realistic, on the other hand, does not necessarily depend on you, but rather, whether or not your Goal can be achieved in accordance with Universal Laws.

Let’s exaggerate a hypothetical fact pattern to demonstrate our point.

In this example, suppose that you have three young children and live in a home with a large backyard, but there is nothing in the backyard for the kids to play with. Your Goal is to build a tire swing on a long rope hanging from a large tree for your children to play with – just like you had when you were young. In fact, vivid images of a tire swing hanging from the sturdy limb of a 40 foot oak tree in the middle of your childhood backyard are impressed in your memory. It seems like only yesterday . . . How nice it would be for your children to experience something similar!

The Success Manual Tire Swing: How Realistic?

The problem is that there is no 40 foot oak tree in your present back yard. So, you decide to grow one. You find an acorn and plant it in the middle of the backyard in good organic garden soil and water it. In the morning – you decide – you will have your 40 foot oak tree and then you can attach a swing to it for your children. You have even drawn plans for building the swing, purchased rope and other supplies, and secured an old, but sturdy, truck tire. The weather forecast is exceptional and you have set aside the entire day for the project. You will go to bed early, get a good night’s sleep and eat a healthy breakfast in the early morning. Everything is all set.

Realistic? Of course not. As much as you Desire the result, it probably isn’t going to happen. And, it isn’t going to happen because you are not working with God’s Laws. Indeed, you are working against Universal Laws (or at least attempting to), the most obvious of which is the Law of Gestation: every seed – whether that of a biological species or an idea (in this case, both) – has a period of gestation in accordance with the Universal Law of Gestation. That acorn simply will not grow into a 40 foot oak tree overnight – no matter how strong your Desire. It is not realistic.

Whether a Goal is realistic is simply another way of stating whether the Goal is possible as a matter of Universal Law. If it is NOT possible as a matter of Universal Law, then it is NOT realistic. All things must comply with God’s Laws. The Universe must comply with God’s Laws. (As to the element of “Faith” and its impact on attempting to grow a 40 foot oak tree overnight, we’ll leave that topic for another day :-D)

Additionally, whether or not a Goal is realistic, i.e., whether it can be achieved as a matter of Universal Law, is usually not as obvious as our oak tree example. By and large, the issue is significantly more subtle, thereby requiring focused discernment.

Moreover, caution is required so as to not confuse “realistic” with “possible.” Often times, the lines blur. For example, suppose you are registered to run the New York City Marathon (26+ miles). The problem is that you have never run a marathon in your life. In fact, you have never run a race in your life and you have only been training 3 weeks and the race is tomorrow. Is it realistic for you to expect to finish the race? Is it possible for you to finish the race? What’s the difference?

The answers to each question are likely different for each person. The bottom line is that whether or not you are able to finish the race will depend on whether or not it is realistic in your specific circumstance. For some – a very, very select few I would imagine – it may be realistic. For most, I would suspect, it probably is not realistic that they will finish the race under these circumstances – unless they walk most of the course. I think we would all agree that finishing the race without any assistance for a one-year old child just learning to take her first steps is not realistic.

A goal may be realistic, but it is up to YOU to make it possible. Going back to our 40 foot oak tree, if your Goal is to have a tire swing for your grandchildren, planting an acorn today to grow a suitable tree that will be ready 25 years from now may well be realistic. Whether or not it is possible depends on a number of factors, the most basic of which is whether or not you actually take action and plant the acorn. If you do, then “possibility” is greatly enhanced.

All Goals MUST be realistic if you expect to achieve them. Ask yourself, “Can this Goal be achieved in accordance with God’s Laws?” If the answer is “yes,” then the Goal is Realistic.

Now, it’s up to you to make it possible. Possibility is a State of Mind.

Happy planting.

Peace Out, and, of course - Namasté!

To your Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Success,

The Success Manual Team

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Free Success Ebook: “The Game of Life and How to Play It” by Florence Scovel Shinn – Free Download!

Richard Catalina, Jr. — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 15:04:24 +0000

“I salute the Divinity in you.” They saluted the divinity in every man, and in the wild animals in the jungle, and they were never harmed, for they saw only God in every living thing. I said, “Salute the divinity in this man, and say, ‘I see your divine self only. I see you as God sees you – perfect – made in His image and likeness.’” No man is your enemy, no man is your friend; every man is your teacher. - Florence Scovel Shinn, "The Game of Life and How to Play It"

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Today's edition to The Success Manual Free Download Library is a real treat: The Game of Life and How to Play It by Florence Scovel Shinn, written in 1925.

Busy Summit Sunset. Numerous cloud formations and types are seen in this spectacular sunset view from the summit of Mt. Washington of the Presidential Range, White Mountains, New Hampshire. Photo by Hedda Petersen on August 12, 2009.

What makes Ms. Shinn's work appealing is her wit, charm and humor. I don't know how many times I smiled as I read this book. Filled with anecdotes and drafted with a personal, "grandmotherly" style, it is though you are sitting down for a cup of coffee with Ms. Shinn as she relates her personal pearls of wisdom.

The Game of Life and How to Play It is easy to read, for although it is a highly spiritual work, the emphasis is less on the esoteric and more on the practical. Specific examples of practical application of God's Universal Laws are provided throughout - and not just any examples, but real life examples as experienced by Ms. Shinn. The book concludes with a section of Affirmations, some of which I liked so much I added them to my personal Success Manual.

Enjoy this wonderful work and please feel free to provide comments to this site of your thoughts of The Game of Life and How to Play It.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Peace Out, and, of course - Namasté!

To your Health, Wealth, Prosperity and Success,

The Success Manual Team

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