Transcript of The Strangest Secret Earl Nightingale Conant 1950's Original FULL
Our favorite podcastsI'd like to tell you aboutthe strangest secret in the world.
Some years ago,
the late Nobel Prize winning doctor,Albert Schweitzer, was being interviewed
in London and a reporter asked him,Doctor, what's wrong with men today?
And the great doctor was silent a moment.
And then he said men simply don't think
it's about this that Iwant to talk with you.
We live today in a golden age.
This is an era that man has looked forward
to, dreamed of and workedtowards for thousands of years.
But since it's here,we pretty well take it for granted.
We in America are particularly fortunateto live in the richest land that ever
existed on the face of the earth, a landof abundant opportunity for everyone.
But you know what happens?
Well, let's take 100 menwho start even at the age of 25.
Do you have any idea what will happento those men by the time they're 65?
These 100 men who all start even
at the age of 25, believethey're going to be successful.
If you ask any one of these menif you wanted to be a success.
He did.He did.
And you'd notice that hewas eager toward life.
That there was a certain sparkle to hiseye, indirectness to his courage and life
seemed like a prettyinteresting adventure to him.
But by the time they're 65,
one will be richfour will be financially independent.
Five will still be working.
Fifty four, will be broke.
I think a moment out of the 100.
Only five make the grade.
Now, why do so many fail?
What has happened to the sparklethat was there when they were 25?
What's become of the dreams,their hopes, the plans?
And why is there such a large disparity
between what these men intended to doand what they actually accomplished?
When we see about five percent achievedsuccess, we have to define success.
And here's the best definitionI've ever been able to find.
Success is the progressive realizationof a worthy ideal.
If a man is working toward a predetermined
goal and knows where he's going,that man is a success.
If he's not doing that, he's a failure.
Success is the progressive realizationof a worthy ideal Rollo made.
The distinguished psychiatrist wrote
a wonderful book calledMan's Search for Himself.
And in this book, he says, the opposite ofcourage in our society is not cowardice.
It is conformity.
And there you have the troubletoday is conformity.
People acting like everyone else without
knowing why, without knowingwhere they're going.
Think of it.
In America right now,there are over 18 million people,
65 years of age and older,and most of them are broke.
They're dependent on someoneelse for life's necessities.
Now we learn to read.
But the time I was seven,we learned to make a living.
By the time we're 25,usually by that time,
we're not only making a living,we're supporting a family.
And yet, by the time we're 65,we haven't learned how to become
financially independent in the richestland that has ever been known.
Why?
We conform, and the trouble is that we'reacting like the wrong percentage group.
The 95 who don't succeed.
Why do these people conform?
Well, they really don't know.
These people believe that their lives areshaped by circumstances,
by things that happen to them, by exteriorforces, their outer directed people.
A survey was made one time that covereda lot of men, working men.
And these men were asked, why do you work?
Why do you get up in the morning?
19 out of 20 had no idea.
If you ask them, they'll say, well,everyone goes to work in the morning.
And that's the reason they do it,because everyone else is doing it.
Now, let's get back to ourdefinition of success.
Who succeeds?
The only person who succeeds
is the person who is progressivelyrealizing a worthy ideal.
Is the person who says I'm going to become
this and then beginsto work toward that goal.
I'll tell you, the successful people are.
As success as the school teacher who'steaching school because that's where he or
she wants to do success is the woman who'sa wife and mother because she wanted
to become a wife and motherand is doing a good job of it.
The success is a man who wins the cornergas station because that was his dream.
That's what he wanted to do.
The successes, the successful salesman,
he wants to become a top notch salesmanand grow and build with his organization
a success as anyone who is doingdeliberately a pre-determined job,
because that's what hedecided to do deliberately.
But only one out of 20 does that.
That's why today thereisn't really any competition unless we
make it for ourselves insteadof competing or we have to do is create.
In over 20 years, I looked for the key,
which would determine whatwould happen to a human being.
Was there a key I wanted to know
which would make the future a promisethat we could foretell to a large extent?
Was there a key that would guarantee
a person's becoming successful if you onlyknew about it and knew how to use it?
Well, there is such a key and I found it.
Have you ever wondered why so many men
worked so hard and honestly withoutever achieving anything in particular?
And others don't seem to work hardand yet seem to get everything.
They seem to have the magic touch.
You've heard them say that about someone.
Everything he touches turns to gold.
And have you ever noticed that a man
who became successful tendsto continue to become successful?
And on the other hand,
have you noticed how a man who'sa failure tends to continue to fail
because of goals?
Some of us have goals.Some don't.
People with goals succeed becausethey know where they're going.
It's that simple.
Think of a ship leaving a harbor and think
of it with a complete voyagemapped out and planned.
The captain and crew know exactly whereit's going and how long it'll take.
It has a definite goal
and nine thousand nine hundred ninetynine times out of ten thousand.
It will get to whereit started out to get.
That must take anothership just like the first.
Only let's not put a crew on itor a captain at the helm.
Let's give it no aiming point,no goal, no destination.
We just start the engines and let it go.
I think you'll agree with me that ifit gets out of the harbor at all.
It will either sink or wind upon some deserted beach, a derelict.
It can't go anyplace because it hasno destination and no guidance.
And it's the same with a human being.
Take a salesman, for example.
There's no other person in the worldtoday with the future of a good salesman.
Selling is the world'shighest paid profession.
If we're good at it and ifwe know where we're going.
Every company needs top notchsalesmen and they reward those men.
The sky's the limit for them.
But how many can you find?
Someone once said the human race is fixed
not to prevent the strong from winning,but to prevent the weak from losing.
The American economy today can belikened to a convoy in time of war.
The entire economy is slowed downto protect its weakest link.
Just as the convoy had to go at the speed
that would permit the slowestvessel to remain information.
That's why it's so easyto make a living today.
It takes no particular brains or talent tomake a living and support a family today.
So we have a plateau of so-called
security, if that's whata person is looking for.
But we do have to decide how highabove this plateau we went away.
Now, let's get back to the strangest
secret in the world, a storythat I wanted to tell you today.
Why do men with goals succeedin life and men without them fail?
Well, let me tell you something, which,
if you really understand it,will alter your life immediately.
If you understand completely what I'm
going to tell you from this moment on,your life will never be the same again.
You'll suddenly find it.Good luck.
There seems to be attracted tothe things you want.
Just seem to fall in line.
And from now on, you won't havethe problems, the worries.
Knowing a lump of anxiety that perhapsyou've experienced before.
Doubt.Fear.
Well, there'll be things of the past.
Here's the key to success.
And the key to failure.
We become what we think about.
Well, let me say that again.
We become what we think about.
Throughout all history,the great wise men and teachers,
philosophers and prophets have disagreedwith one another on many different things.
It's only on this one point that theyare in complete and unanimous agreement.
Listen to what Marcus Aurelius,the great Roman emperor, said.
A man's life is what histhoughts make of it.
The Israelis said this.
Everything comes of a man will only wait.
I brought myself by long meditationwith the conviction that a human being
with a central purpose must accomplish itand that nothing can resist a will
that will stake even existencefor its fulfillment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson said this A manis what he thinks about all day long.
William James said The greatest discoveryof my generation is that human beings can
alter their livesby altering their attitudes of mind.
And he also said,we need only in cold blood.
Act as if the thing in question were realand it will become infallibly real
by growing into such a connectionwith our life that it will become clear.
It will become so neat with habit
and emotion that our interest in it willbe those which characterise belief.
The author said
if you only care enough for a result,you will almost certainly attain it.
If you wish to be rich, you will be rich.
If you wish to be learned,you will be learned.
If you wish to be good, you will be good.
Only you must and really wish these thingsand wish them exclusively and not wish
at the same time 100 otherincompatible things just as strongly.
In the Bible, you read in Mark, 923
is our chance to believe all thingsare possible to him that believe.
My old friend, Dr.Norman Vincent Peale, put it this way.
This is one of the greatestlaws in the universe fervently.
Do I wish I had discoveredit as a very young man.
It dawned upon me much later in life,and I found it to be one of the greatest,
if not my greatest discoveryoutside of my relationship to God.
The great law, briefly and simply stated,
is that if you think in negative terms,you will get negative results.
If you think in positive terms,you will achieve positive results.
That is the simple fact.
He went on to say, which is that the basisof an astonishing law of prosperity
and success in three words,believe and succeed.
William Shakespeare put it this way.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose
the good we often mightwin by fearing to attempt.
George Bernard Shaw said people are always
blaming their circumstancesfor what they are.
I don't believe in circumstances
that people who get on in this world orthe people who get up and look
for the circumstances they wantand if they can find them, make them.
Well, that is pretty apparent, isn't it?
And every person who discovered this
for a while believed that he wasthe first one to work it out.
We become what we think about.
Now, it stands to reason that a personwho is thinking about a concrete
and worthwhile goal is going to reach itbecause that's what he's thinking about.
And we become what we think about.
Conversely, the man who has no goal,who doesn't know where he's going
and who's thoughts,must therefore be facing confusion
and anxiety and fear and worry becomeswhat he thinks about
his life becomes one of frustrationand fear and anxiety and worry.
And if he thinks about nothing,he becomes nothing.
How does it work?
Why do we become what we think about?
Well, I'll tell you how it worksas far as we know how to do this.
I want to tell you about a situationthat parallels the human mind.
Suppose a farmer has some landand it's good, fertile land.
Now the land gives the farmer a choice.
He may plant in that landwhatever he chooses.
The land doesn't care.
It's up to the farmerto make the decision.
Now, remember, we're comparing the humanmind with the land because the mind,
like the land, doesn'tcare what you plant in it.
It will return what you plant,but it doesn't care what you plant.
Now, let's say that the farmerhas two seeds in his hand.
One is a seed of corn.
The other is nightshade, a deadly poison.
He digs two little holes in the earth
and he plants both seeds,one corn, the other nightshade.
He covers up the holes,waters and takes care of the land.
And what will happen?
Invariably, the land will return wasplanted as it's written in the Bible.
As you so so shall you reap.
I remember the land doesn't care.
It returned poison in just aswonderful abundance as it will corn.
So up come the two plants.
One corn, one poison.
Now the human mind is far more fertile,
far more incredibleand mysterious than the land.
But it works the same way.
It doesn't care what we plant.
Success, failure,
a concrete worthwhile goal or confusion,misunderstanding, fear, anxiety and so on.
But what we plant, it must return to us
is the human mind is the last greatunexplored continent on earth.
It contains riches beyondour wildest dreams.
It will return anything we want to plant.
You might say, well, if that's true,why don't people use their minds more?
Well, I think they figured out an answer
that went through our mind comesas standard equipment at birth.
It's free and things that aregiven to us for nothing.
We place little value on thingsthat we pay money for, we value.
The paradox is that exactlythe reverse is true.
Everything that's reallyworthwhile in life.
Kimber's free our minds, our souls,
our bodies, our hopes, our dreams,our ambitions, our intelligence,
our love of family and childrenand friends and country.
All these priceless possessions are free,
but the things that cost us money areactually very cheap and can be replaced
with anytime a good man can becompletely wiped out to make a fortune.
You can do that several times.
Even if our home burns down,we can rebuild it.
But the things we got for nothingwe can never replace.
The human mind isn't usedbecause we take it for granted.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
It can do any kind of job we assign to it,but generally speaking,
we use it for little jobsinstead of big important ones.
Universities approve that.
Most of us are operating at about 10percent or less of our abilities.
So decide now, what is it you want?
Plant your goal in your mind.
It's the most important decisionyou ever make in your entire life.
What is it you want?
You want to be an outstanding salesman,a better worker at your particular job.
You want to go places in yourcompany, in your community.
Do you want to get rich?
All you gotta do is plantthat seed in your mind.
Care for it.Work steadily toward your goal.
And it will become a reality.
It not only will, there isno way that it cannot see.
That's a law like the lawsof Sir Isaac Newton, the laws of gravity.
If you get on top of a buildingand jump off, you'll always go down.
You will never go up.
And it's the same with allthe other laws of nature.
They always work.They're inflexible.
Think about your goalin a relaxed, positive way.
Put yourself in your mind's eye ashaving already achieved this goal.
See yourself doing the things you willbe doing when you've reached your goal.
As has been Calvi Phenobarbital age,
the age of Oates's and nervousbreakdowns and tranquilizers.
At a time when medical research has raisedus to a new plateau of good health among
Jabri, far too many of us worry ourselvesinto an early grave,
trying to cope with things in our ownlittle personal ways without learning
a few great laws that will takecare of everything for us.
These things we bring on ourselvesthrough our habitual way of thinking.
Every one of us is the sumtotal of his own thoughts.
He is where he is because that's exactly
where he really wants to be,whether he'll admit that or not.
Each of us must live off the fruitof his thoughts in the future.
Because what you think today and tomorrow,
next month or next year will moldyour life and determine your future.
You're guided by your mind.
I remember one time I was driving through
eastern Arizona and I saw one of thosegiant earthmoving machines roaring along
the road at about 35 miles an hour withwhat looked like 30 tons of dirt in it.
A tremendous, incredible machine.
And there was a little man perched way up
on top with the wheelin his hands guiding it.
And as I drove along,
I was struck by the similarityof that machine with the human mind.
Just suppose you're sitting at thecontrols of such a vast source of energy.
Are you going to sit back and fold yourarms and let it run itself into a ditch?
Or are you gonna keep both hands firmly
on the wheel and control and direct thispower to a specific worthwhile purpose?
It's up to you.You're in the driver's seat.
You see the very law that givesus success as a two edged sword.
We must control our thinking.
The same rule can lead a man to a lifeof success, wealth,
happiness and all the things he everdreamed of himself in his family.
That very same walkand leading into the gutter.
It's all in how he usesit for good or for bad.
This is the strangest secret in the world.
Why do I see it strangeand why do I go to the secret?
Actually, it isn't a secret at all.
It was first promulgated by some
of the earliest wise men and it appearsagain and again throughout the Bible.
But very few people have learned it.I understand it.
That's why it's strange.
And why is I'm equally strange reasonit virtually remains a secret.
I believe that you could go out and walkdown the main street of your town and ask
one man after another whatthe secret of success is.
And you probably wouldn't run into one man
in a month who could tell you that thisinformation is enormously valuable to us.
If we really understand it and apply it,
it's valuable to us not only for our ownlives, with the lives of those around us,
our families, employees,associates and friends.
Life should be an exciting adventure.
It should never be a bore.
A man should live fully, be alive.
He should be glad to getout of bed in the morning.
He should be doing a job he likesto do because he does it well.
One time I heard Grove Patterson,
the great late editor in chiefof the Toledo Daily Blade, make a speech.
And as he concluded his speech,he said something I've never forgotten.
He said My years in the newspaper business
have convinced me of several thingsamong them, that people are basically good
and that we came from someplaceand we're going someplace.
So we should make our timehere an exciting adventure.
The architect of the universedidn't build a stairway leading nowhere.
And the greatest teacher of all.
The carpenter from the Plains of Galilee,
who gave us the secret time and timeagain, as we believe so shall it be done?
And to you.
I have explained the strangest secret inthe world and how it works on this side.
I want to explain how you can proveyourself the enormous returns possible
in your own life by puttingthe secret to a practical test.
I want you to make a testthat will last 30 days.
It isn't going to be easy,but if you'll give it a good try,
it will completely changeyour life for the better.
Back in the 17th century,
Sir Isaac Newton,the English mathematician and natural
philosopher, gave us the natural lawsof physics, which apply as much to human
beings as they do the movementof bodies in the universe.
In one of these laws
is that for every action,there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Simply stated, as it applies to you
and me, it means we can achieve nothingwithout paying the price.
The results of your 30 day experiment will
be in direct proportion to the effortyou put forth to be a doctor.
You must pay the price of long years
of difficult studyto be successful in selling.
And remember that each of us succeedsto the extent of his ability to sell.
Selling our families and our ideas.
Selling education in schools.
Selling our children on the advantagesof living the good and honest life.
Selling our associates and employees
on the importance of beingexceptional people.
To, of course,the profession of selling itself.
But to be successful in selling our way
to the good life, we must bewilling to pay the price.
And what is that price?
Well, with many things.
First, it's understanding emotionally aswell as intellectually that we literally
become what we think aboutthat we must control.
Our thoughts were to control our lives.
It's understanding fully that asthese so so shall you reap.
Second is cutting away all figures
from the mind and permitting it to soaras it was divinely designed to do.
It's the realisation that your limitationsare self-imposed
and that the opportunities for youtoday are enormous beyond belief.
It's rising above narrow mindedpettiness and prejudice.
And third is using all your courage
to force yourself to thinkpositively on your own problem.
To set a definite and clearlydefined goal for yourself.
To let your marvelous mind think aboutyour goals from all possible angles.
To let your imagination speculate freelyupon many different possible solutions.
To refuse to believethat there are any circumstances
sufficiently strong to defeat youin the accomplishment of your purpose.
To act promptly and decisivelywhen your course is clear.
And to keep constantly aware of the fact
that you are at this moment standingin the middle of your own acres
of diamonds, as Russell Conwellused to point out.
And fourth,save at least 10 percent
of every dollar you earnis also remembering that no matter what
your present job, it hasenormous possibilities.
If you're willing to pay the price.
Now, let's just go the important pointsin the price each of us must pay
to achieve the wonderfullife that can be ours.
It is, of course, worth any price.
One you will become.
What do you think about
to remember the word imaginationand let your mind begin to soar?
Three.Courage.
Concentrate on your goal every day for.
Save 10 percent of what you earn.
And five action ideas are worthlessunless we act on them.
I'll try to outline the 30day test I want you to make.
Keep in mind that you have nothing to lose
by making this test and everythingyou could possibly want to gain.
There are two things that maybe said of everyone.
Each was once somethingand each of us is afraid of something.
I want you to write on a card.
What are these you wantmore than anything else?
It may be more money.
Perhaps you'd like to double your incomeor make a specific amount of money.
It may be a beautiful home.
It may be success at your job.
It may be a particular position in life.
It could be a more harmonious family.
Each of us wants something.
Write down on your cardspecifically what it is you want.
Make sure it's a singlegoal and clearly defined.
You need to show it to anyone but carry it
with you so that you can lookat it several times a day.
Think about it in a cheerful,relaxed, positive way.
Each morning when you get upand immediately something that workforce,
something to get out of bed for,something to live for.
Look at it every chance you get during
the day and just beforegoing to bed at night.
And as you look at it.
Remember that you mustbecome what you think about.
And since you're thinking about your goal,you realize that soon it will be yours.
In fact, it's yours, really.
The moment you write it downand begin to think about it.
Look at the abundance all around youas you go about your daily business.
You have as much right to this abundance
as any other living creatureis yours for the asking.
Now we come to the difficult part.
Difficult because it means the formationof what is probably a brand new habit,
the new habits and ideaswe formed once formed.
However, it will follow youfor the rest of your life.
Stop thinking about what it is you fear.
Each time a fearful or negative thoughtcomes into your consciousness,
replace it with a mental pictureof your positive and worthwhile goal.
And there are some times whereyou feel like giving up.
It's easier for a human beingto think negatively than positively.
That's why only fivepercent are successful.
You must begin to place yourselfin that group for 30 days.
You must take control of your mind.
It will think about only what you
permitted to think abouteach day for this 30 day test.
Do more than you have to do.
In addition to maintaining a cheerful,
positive outlook, give yourselfmore than you've ever done before.
Do this knowing that your returns in life
must be in direct proportionto what you give.
The moment you.A goal to work toward your immediately
a successful person,you are then in that rare and successful
category of people who knowwhere they're going.
Out of every hundred people you belong to,the top five
don't concern yourself too much with howyou're going to achieve your goal.
Leave that completely to a powergreater than yourself.
All you have to do isknow where you're going.
The answers will cometo you of their own accord.
And at the right time.
Remember these words from the Sermonon the Mount and remember them well.
Keep them constantly before you.
This month of your testask and it shall be given.
You seek and ye shall find
knock and it shall be opened unto youfor every that asks you receive.
And he will seek it.Find it.
And in that market it shall be opened.
It's as marvelous and as simple as that.
In fact, it's so simple.
In our seemingly complicated world it'sdifficult for an adult to understand it.
All he needs is a purposeand faith for 30 days.
Do your very best.
If you're a salesman, go at itas you've never done before.
Not in a hectic fashion,but with the calm and cheerful assurance
that time well spent will give youthe abundance in return you deserve.
And what if you're a homemaker?
Devote your 30 day test to completely
giving of yourself without thinkingabout receiving anything in return.
And you'd be amazed at the difference it
makes in your life, no matter what yourjob doing as you've never done it before.
For 30 days.
And if you've kept your goal before you
every day you will wonderand marvel at this new life.
You found Dorothy a brand.
The outstanding editor and writer
discovered it for herself and tellsabout it in her fine book.
Wake Up and Live.
Her entire philosophy is reduced
to the words act as thoughit were impossible to fail.
She made her own test with sincerity
and faith in her entire life waschanged to one of overwhelming success.
Now you make your test for 34 days.
Don't stand your test until you'vemade up your mind to stick with it.
You see, by being persistent,you're demonstrating faith.
Persistence is simplyanother word for faith.
If you didn't have faith,you'd never persist.
If you should fail duringyour first 30 days.
By that, I mean suddenly find yourselfoverwhelmed by negative thoughts.
You've got to start over againfrom that point and go 30 more days.
Gradually, your new habit will form.
Until you find yourself one
of that wonderful minority to whomvirtually nothing is impossible.
And don't forget the card.
It's vitally important as you begin thisnew way of living on one side of the card.
Right.
Your goal, whatever it may beon the other side.
Write the words we've quotedfrom the Sermon on the Mount.
Ask and it shall be given.
You seek an issue, find knockand it shall be opened unto you.
Nothing great was everaccomplished without inspiration.
See that during these crucial first 30
days, your own inspirationhas come to the peak.
And above all, don't worry.
Where he brings fearand fear is crippling.
The only thing that cancause you to worry.
During your test was tryingto do it all yourself.
Know that all you have to dois hold your goal before you.
Everything else will take care of itself.
Remember also to keep calm and cheerful.
Don't get petty things,annoy you and get you off course.
Since making this test isdifficult, I must say.
Why should I bother?Well, look at the alternative.
No one wants to be a failure.
No one really wants to bea mediocre individual.
No one wants a life tends to be filledwith worry and fear and frustration.
Therefore, remember that youmust reap what you sow.
If you're so negative that your lifewill be filled with negative things.
If you're so positive that your life willbe cheerful, successful and positive.
Gradually you have a tendency to forgetwhat you've heard on this recording.
Play it often.
Keep reminding yourself of what youmust do to form this new habit.
Gather your whole family around at regular
intervals and listento what's been said here.
You know, most men will tell you that they
want to make money withoutunderstanding the law.
The only people who makemoney work in a mint.
The rest of us must earn money.
This is what causes those who keep looking
for something for nothing ora free ride to fail in life.
The only way to earn money is by providing
people with services or productswhich are needed and useful.
We exchange our time and our productor service for the other man's money.
Therefore, the law is that our financial
return will be in directproportion to our service.
Success is not the result of making money.
Making money is the result of success.
And success is in directproportion to our service.
Most people have this law backwards.
They believe that you're successfulif you earn a lot of money.
The truth is that you can only earnmoney after you're successful.
It's like the story of a man who sat
in front of a stove and said, do it,give me heat and then I'll add the wood.
How many men and women do you know or do
you suppose there are today who takethe same attitude toward life?
There are millions.
We've got to put the fewin before we can expect heat.
Likewise, we've got to be of service firstbefore we can expect money.
Don't concern yourself with the money.
Be of service, build, work, dream, create,
do this and you find there's no limitto the prosperity of abundance will come
to prosperity and was foundedupon a law of mutual exchange.
Any person who contributes to prosperitymust prosper and turn himself.
Sometimes the return will not come
from those you serve,but it must come to you from someplace.
Because that's the one where every actionthere is an equal and opposite reaction.
As you go daily through your 30 day testperiod, remember that your success will
always be measured by the qualityand quantity of service you render.
And money is the yardstickfor measuring this service.
No man can get rich himselfunless he enriches others.
There are no exceptions to a law.
You can drive down any street in Americaand from your car estimate the service is
being rendered where the peopleliving on the street.
Had you ever thoughtof this yardstick before?
It's interesting.
Some, like ministers and priests and other
devoted people, measured their returnsin the realm of the spiritual.
But again, their returnsare equal to their service.
Once this was fully understood,
any thinking person can have hisown fortune if he wants more.
He must be of more service to thosefrom whom he receives his return.
If he wants less, he hasonly reduced the service.
This is the price you mustpay for what you want.
If you believe you can enrich yourself
by deluding others,you can end only by deluding yourself.
It may take some time,
but just as surely as you breathe,you will get back what you put out.
Don't ever make the mistakeof thinking you can avert this.
It's impossible.
The prisons and the streets with a lonely
walk are filled with people who triedto make new laws just for themselves.
We may avoid the laws of man for a while,
but there are greater laws that cannotbe broken and outstanding.
Medical doctor recently pointed out sixsteps that will help you realize success.
One such as our definite goalto quit running yourself down.
Three.
Stop thinking of all the reasonswhy you cannot be successful.
And instead think of allthe reasons why you can.
For Tracy, your attitudes back throughyour childhood and try to discover where
you first got the idea youcouldn't be successful.
If that's the way you've been thinking.
Five changed the image you have
of yourself by writing out a descriptionof the person you would like to be.
And six, at the part of the successfulperson you have decided to become.
The doctor who wrote those words as
a noted West Coast psychiatrist,Dr David Herot.
Think.Do what the experts since the dawn
of recorded history havetold you you must do.
Pay the price by becomingthe person you want to become.
It's not nearly as difficultas living unsuccessfully.
Make your 30 day test and repeat it,
then repeat it again and each timeit will become more a part of you.
Until you wonder how you couldever have lived any other way.
Live this new way and the floodgatesof abundance will open and pour over you
more riches than you mayhave dreamed existed.
Money is lots of it.
But what's more important, you have peace.
You'll be in that wonderful minority wholead calm, cheerful, successful lives.
Start today.
You have nothing to lose,but you have a whole life to win.
And thank you.