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November Thirtieth Success Secret – James Allen

November 30, 2020 — Leave a comment

THERE is an infinite patience in nature which it is profitable to contemplate. A comet may take a thousand years to complete its orbit; the sea may occupy ten thousand years in wearing away the land; the complete evolution of the human race may occupy millions of years. This should make us ashamed of our hurry, fussiness, discontent, disappointments, and ridiculous self-importance over trifling things of an hour or a day. Patience is conducive to the highest greatness, the most far-reaching usefulness, and the profoundest peace. Without it, life will lose much of its power and influence, and its joy win be largely destroyed.

“So with well-ordered strenuousness Raise thou thy structure of Success.”

He who fills with useful pursuits the minutes as they come and go grows old in honor and wisdom, and prosperity abides with him.

~ James Allen, Daily Meditations

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November Twenty Ninth Success Secret – Napoleon Hill

November 29, 2020 — Leave a comment

Self Confidence Formula. 

Positive thought impulses, written down, memorized, read aloud, repeated until they become a part of the working equipment of the subconscious faculty of your mind.

  1. I know that I have the ability to achieve my definite purpose in life. Therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment and I here and now promise to render such action.
  2. The dominating thoughts of my mind will eventually reproduce themselves in outward physical action and gradually transform themselves into physical reality. Therefore, I will concentrate my thoughts for 30 minutes daily upon the task of thinking of the person that I intend to become. Thereby creating in my mind a clear mental picture.
  3. I know through the theory of autosuggestion, any desire that I persistently hold in my mind will eventually seek some expression through some practical means of obtaining the object or position I desire.
  4. I have clearly written down a description of my definite chief aim and I will never stop trying until I develop sufficient self-confidence for its attainment.
  5. I realize that no wealth or position can long endure unless built upon truth and justice. I will engage in no transaction that will not benefit all whom it effects. I will succeed by attracting to myself the forces that I wish to use and the cooperation of other people. I will induce others to serve me because of my willingness to serve them. I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness and cynicism by developing love for all humanity for I know that a negative attitude toward others will never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me because I will believe in them and in myself.

I will sign my name to this formula commit to memory and repeat it aloud once a day in full faith that it will gradually influence my thoughts and actions so I will become a self-reliant and successful person.

~ Napoleon Hill, Think & Grow Rich (1937)

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November Twenty Eighth Success Secret – Lau Tzu

November 28, 2020 — Leave a comment

The five colors can blind one’s eyes.
The five tones can deafen one’s ears.
The five flavors can dull one’s taste buds.
The pursuit of pleasures can derange one’s mind.
The hard-to-get valuables can distort one’s behavior.
Therefore, a saint cultivates himself with virtues and does not indulge himself in sensory pleasures.
He rejects those outer temptations and chooses this True Nature.

~ Lau Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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November Twenty Seventh Success Secret – David J. Schwartz

November 27, 2020 — Leave a comment

Use These Tools and Think Creatively.

  1. Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
  2. Don’t let tradition paralyze your mind. Be receptive to new ideas. Be experimental. Try new approaches. Be progressive in everything you do.
  3. Ask yourself daily, “How can I do better?” There is no limit to self-improvement. When you ask yourself, “How can I do better?” sound answers will appear. Try it and see.
  4. Ask yourself, “How can I do more?” Capacity is a state of mind. Asking yourself this question puts your mind to work to find intelligent short-cuts.
  5. Practice asking and listening. Ask and listen and you’ll obtain raw material for reaching sound decisions.
  6. Stretch you mind. Get Stimulated. Associate with people who can help you to think of new ideas, new ways of doing things. Mix with people of different occupational and social interests.

~ David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big, (1959)

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November Twenty Sixth Success Secret – James Allen

November 26, 2020 — Leave a comment

As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of a man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them. This applies equally to those acts called “spontaneous” and “unpremeditated” as to those, which are deliberately executed.

Act is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and bitter fruitage of his own husbandry.

Thought in the mind hath made us,
What we are.
By thought was wrought and built.

If a man’s mind
Hath evil thoughts, pain comes on him as comes
The wheel the ox behind….

‘If one endure
In purity of thought,
joy follows him
As his own shadow–sure.

~ James Allen – As A Man Thinketh (1903)

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November Twenty Fifth Success Secret – Baltasar Gracian

November 25, 2020 — Leave a comment

Nature and art: The material and the workmanship. There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art: It redeems the bad and perfects the good. Because nature commonly forsakes us at her best, take refuge in art. The best in nature is raw without art, and the excellent is lacking if it lacks culture. Without cultivation everyone is a clown and needs polish, fine attributes notwithstanding.

~ Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)

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November Twenty Fourth Success Secret – G. Campbell Morgan

November 24, 2020 — Leave a comment

Who shall tell what lies beyond the handing of the Kingdom to God? Did you ever dream that there must come in the endless and illimitable time—which is not time, but eternity—a moment of weariness, a sense of monotony? Nay, think also of endless space. The sensitized film reveals stars which no astronomer has ever examined. Reach the furthest limit thus marked, and space is still before you. God is there, as here, limitless and unexhausted; and where He is, is love. All the things of which we have spoken are but the passing of His breath. While God and Love live on, there never can come weariness to the children of His love. “And every one hath this hope set on Him, purifieth himself, as He is pure.”

~ G. Campbell Morgan, God’s Methods With Man (1898)

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November Twenty Third Success Secret – The Buddha

November 23, 2020 — Leave a comment

We are what we think.

All that we are arises with our thoughts.

With our thoughts we make the world.

Speak or act with an impure mind

And trouble will follow you

As the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart.

We are what we think.

All that we are arises with our thoughts.

With our thoughts we make the world.

Speak or act with a pure mind

And happiness will follow you

As your shadow, unbreakable.

How can a troubled mind

Understand the way?

Your worst enemy cannot harm you

As much as your own thoughts, unguarded.

But once mastered,

No one can help you as much,

Not even your father or your mother.

~ The Buddha, Dhammapada

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November Twenty Second Success Secret – Thomas Edison

November 22, 2020 — Leave a comment

Failure is really a matter of conceit.

People don’t work hard because,

In their conceit, they imagine they’ll succeed

Without ever making an effort.

Most people believe that they’ll

Wake up some day and find themselves rich.

Actually, they’ve got it half right,

Because eventually they do wake up.

~ Thomas Edison

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November Twenty First Success Secret – Dale Carnegie

November 21, 2020 — Leave a comment

“So I banish about ninety per cent of my worries by taking these four steps:

  1. Writing down precisely what I am worry about.
  2. Writing down what I can do about it.
  3. Decide what to do.
  4. Starting immediately to carry out that decision.”

~ Dale Carnegie, How To Stop Worrying And Start Living (1944)

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