The ignorant
person may say, “How can you get anything by merely wanting it?” I say that
through concentration you can get anything you want. Every desire can be
gratified. But whether it is, will depend upon you concentrating to have that
desire fulfilled.
Merely
wishing for something will not bring it. Wishing you had something shows
weakness and not a belief that you will really get it. So never merely wish, as
we are not living in a “fairy age.” You use up just as much brain force in
“vain imaginings” as you do when you think of something worth while.
Be careful
of your desires, make a mental picture of what you want and set your will to
this until it materializes. Never allow yourself to drift without helm or
rudder. Know what you want to do, and strive with all your might to do it, and
you will succeed.
Feel that
you can accomplish anything you undertake. Many undertake to do things, but
feel when they start they are going to fail and usually they do. I will give an
illustration:
A man goes
to a store for an article. The clerk says, “I am sorry, we have not it.” But
the man that is determined to get the thing inquires if he doesn’t know where
he can get it. Again receiving an unsatisfactory answer, the determined buyer
consults the manager and finally he finds where the article can be brought.
That is the
whole secret of concentrating on getting what you want. And remember, your soul
is a centre of all-power, and you can accomplish what you will to. “I’ll find a
way or make one!” is the spirit that wins.
I know a man
that is now head of a large bank. He started there as a messenger boy. His
father had a button made for him with a “P” on it and put it on his coat. He
said, “Son, that ‘P’ is a reminder that some day you are to be the president of
your bank. I want you to keep this thought in your mind. Every day do something
that will put you nearer to your goal.
Each night
after supper he would say, “Son, what did you do today?” In this way the thought
was always kept in mind. He concentrated on becoming president of that bank,
and he did. His father told him never tell anyone what the “P” stand for.
A good deal
of fun was made of it by his associates. And they tried to find out what it
stood for, but they never did until he was made president and then he told the
secret.
Don’t waste
your mental powers in wishes. Don’t dissipate your energies by trying to
satisfy every whim. Concentrate on doing something really worth while. The man
that sticks to something is not the man that fails. “Power to him who power
exerts.”
Success
today depends largely on concentrating on the Interior law force, for when you
do this you awaken those thought powers of forces, which used in business,
insures permanent results.
Until you
are able to do this you have not reached your limit in the use of your forces.
This great universe is interwoven with myriads of forces. You make your own
place, and whether it is important depends on you.
Through the
Indestructible and Unconquerable Law you can in time accomplish all right
things and therefore do not be afraid to undertake whatever you really desire
to accomplish and are willing to pay for in effort.
Anything
that is right is possible. That which is necessary will inevitably take place.
If something is right, it is your duty to do it, though the whole world thinks
it to be wrong. “God and one are always a majority,” or in plain words, that
omnipotent interior law which is God, and the organism that represents you is
able to conquer the whole world if your cause is absolutely just.
Don’t say,
“I wish I was a great man.” You can do anything that is proper and you want to
do. Just say: You can. You will. You must. Just realize this and the rest is
easy. You have the latent faculties and forces to subdue anything that tries to
interfere with your plans.
Say this prayer:
“Let the
troubles and responsibilities of life come thick and fast. I am ready for them.
My soul is unconquerable. I represent the infinite law of force, or of all
power. This is God within is my all sufficient strength and ever present help
in time of trouble. The more difficulties the greater its triumphs through me.
The harder my trials, the faster I go in the development of interior reliance
is all sufficient. The right must prevail. I demand wisdom and power to know
and follow the right. My higher self is all wise. I now draw nearer to it. AMEN.”
TAKEN FROM: WINGS OF SUCCESS
