Great Minds!

Great financiers are learning to withdraw from the multitude more and more, that they may have more time for planning, thinking and generating the right mental moods.

Successful businessmen are constantly demonstrating the fact that it pays to keep in touch with the thought of other successful businessmen,

A single idea may be worth a million dollars, and these ideas can only to those who are peceptive, who are prepared to receive them, who are in a successful frame of mind.

Men are learning to place themselves in harmony with the Universal Mind. They are leaning the unity of all things.  They are learning the basic methods and principles of thinking, and this is changing conditions and multiplying results.

They are finding that circumstances and environment follow the trend of mental and spiritual progress.  They find that growth follows knowledge; action follows inspiration; opportunity follows perception; always the spiritual first, then the transformation into the infinite and illimitable possibilities of achievement.

As the individual is but the chanel for the differentiation of the Universal, these possibilities are neccessarily inexhaustible.

The thought process by which we absorb the Spirit of Power and hold the result in our inner consciousness until it becomes a part of out ordinary consciousness.  The method of accomplishing this result is by the persistent practice of a few fundamental principles.

Charles F Haanel

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“Watchman”

The conscious mind ought to be on duty during every waking hour.  When the “watchman” is “off guard” or when it’s calm, judgement is suspended under a variety of circumstances, then the subconscious mind is unguarded and left open to suggestion from all sources.

During the wild excitement of panic, or during the height of anger, or the impulses of the irresponsible mob, or at any other time of unrestrained passion, the conditions are most dangerous.  The subconscious mind is then open to the suggestion of fear, hatred, selfishness, greed, self-depreciation and other negative forces, derived from surrounding persons or circumstances.

The result is usually unwholesome in the extreme, with effects that may endure to distress it for a long time.  Hence, the great importance of guarding the subconscious mind from false impressions.

The subconscious mind perceives by intuition.  Hence it’s processes are rapid.  It does not wait for the slow methods of conscious reasoning.  In fact, it cannot employ them.

The subconscious mind never sleeps, never rests, any more than does your heart, or your blood.  It has been found that by plainly stating to the subconscious mind certain specific things to be accomplished, forces are set in operation that lead to the result desired.

Here then is a source of power which places us in touch with Omnipotence.  Herein is a deep principle which is well worth our most earnest study.

Charles Haanel

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Follow the Leader!

There are two types of people in the world.  One type is know as LEADERS, and the other as FOLLOWERS.  Decide at the outset whether you intend to become a leader in your choice of calling, or remain a follower.  Their difference in compensation is vast.  The follower cannot reasonably expect the compensation to which a leader is entitled, although many followers make the mistake of expecting such pay.

It is no disgrace to be a follower.  On the other hand it is no credit to remain a follower.  Most great leaders began in the capacity of followers.  They became great leaders because they were INTELLIGENT FOLLOWERS.  With few exceptions, the man who cannot follow a leader intelligently, cannot become an efficient leader.  The man who can follow a leader most efficiently, is usually the man who develops into leadership most rapidly.  An intelligent follower has many advantages, among them the OPPORTUNITY TO AQUIRE KNOWLEDGE FROM HIS LEADER.

Napoleon Hill

 

 

 

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A lesson on self improvement

Take any one of your own habits, mental or physical.  You will be able to recall the time when that habit did not exist or if it did exist it was scarcely perceptible.  And you will discover that nearly all your habits have been formed unconsciously, by daily repetitions which bore no relation to a general plan and which you practised not noticing.

You will be compelled to admit that your character as it is today is a structure, that has been built almost without the aid of an architect, higgledy-piggledy, anyhow.  But occasionally the architect did step in and design something.  Here and there among your habits, you will find one that you consciously and of deliberate purpose initiated and persevered with – doubtless owing to some happy influence.

What is the difference between that conscious habit and the unconscious habits?  None whatever as regards it’s effect on the sum of you character.  It may be the strongest of all your habits.  The only quality that differentiates it from the others is that it has a definite object (most likely a good object) and that it wholly or partially fulfils that object.

There is not a man who reads these lines but has, in this detail or that, proved in himself that the will, forcing the brain to repeat the same action again and again, can modify the shape of his character as a sculptor modifies the shape of damp clay.

“The Human Machine” by Arnold Bennett

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The Positive Mind

If you wish to change conditions you must change yourself.  Your whims, your wishes, your fancies, your ambitions may be thwarted at every step, but your innermost thoughts will find expression just as certainly as the plant springs from seed.

Suppose then we desire to change conditions, how are we to bring this about?  The answer is simple.  By the law of growth.  Cause and effect are as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of material things.

Hold in mind the condition desired.  Affirm it as an already existing fact.  This indicates the value of a powerful affirmation.  By constant repetition it becomes a part of ourselves.  We are actually changing ourselves, by making ourselves what we want to be.

Character is not a thing of chance, but it is the result of continued effort.  If you are timid, vacillating, self conscious, or if you are over-anxious or harassed by thoughts of fear or impending danger, you must remedy this. You must substitute thoughts of power, self reliance and confidence for those of fear, lack and limitation.

The easiest and most natural way to do this is to select an affirmation which seems to fit your particular case,  The positive thought will destroy the negative as certainly as light destroys darkness and the results will be just as effectual.

Charles Haanel.

 

 

 

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