Definiteness of Purpose develops self-reliance, personal initiative, imagination, enthusiasm, self-discipline and concentration of effort, and all of these are prerequisites for the attainment of material success. It induces one to budget time and to plan all the day-to-day endeavors so they lead toward the attainment of his Major Purpose in life. It makes one more …
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The Great Chicago Fire and The method by which DESIRE for riches can be transmuted into its financial equivalent consists of six definite, practical steps. The morning after the great Chicago fire, a group of merchants stood on State Street, looking at the smoking remains of what had been their stores. They went into a …
We live in a consumer society. We are judged and measured based on what we buy, how often we buy, and everything we have. There are countless promotional and advertising images thrust upon us daily designed to make us feel inadequate so that an imaginary heretofore unknown shortcoming in our lives can be solved by …
Whatever the mind of man conceives, man can achieve, so long as his conception does not run counter to any natural laws and is in harmony with a moral and orderly universe. One of the purposes of man’s existence here on earth seems to be to act as the receiver and distributor of the power …
PlasticityThis is the capability to change. It also implies that once a change has been made, your new form will hold until a subsequent change is made; you won’t revert to your old status. Consider the difference between modeling clay, which is malleable but holds the shape it is given, and mercury, which can take …
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Two great forces are working in the minds of all men to make them what they are. One is social heredity, and the other is physical heredity. Physical heredity is the law of nature through which the sum and substance of all characteristics, traits and physical aspects of your ancestors, through the ages, have been …
Cooperation, like love and friendship, is something you get by giving. There are many travelers on the road that leads to happiness. You will need their cooperation, they will need yours. And there will be other generations after ours. Their lot in life will depend largely on the inheritance we leave to them. We must …
Now I want to call your attention to the difference between an ordinary desire and a burning desire. I had a burning desire to force Nature to develop a set of hearing aids for my son, and I kept on the job until Nature did just that. That was so burning that it became an …
Willpower is the outgrowth of definiteness of purpose expressed through persistent action, based on personal initiative. Envious people sometimes attribute success primarily to luck. Nothing could be more wrong. As coach Darryl Royal once observed, “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” Success occurs when you have a definite purpose for your life and …
Failure and adversity have introduced many men to opportunities which they would not have recognized under more favorable circumstances. A man’s mental attitude in respect to defeat is the factor of major importance in determining whether he rides with the tides of fortune on the success side of the River of Life or is swept …
