HOW DO YOU RATE YOUR SUCCESS-POWER?
In writing this book I have drawn upon a vast amount of personal experience—and the
experience of others.
Here is a favorite among all the true experiences that have been told to me. It
concerns an experiment conducted with a laborer who could not read or write.
This man had worked with his muscles all his life. Now, in his early sixties, he began to
age rapidly. But, through a tricky calculation, it was "proved" to him that the records
were wrong and he actually was ten years younger than he thought.
Almost at once, this man looked younger, acted and felt younger. Where before he
had complained he couldn't work the way he used to, now he did a full day's hard
labor, every day, without excessive fatigue. There was nothing wrong with him. But he
had thought in his Creative Mind that at sixty he had to complain and slow down—just
the way all his friends did.
It has been noticed, too, that people who go blind when they are young often will look
younger, thirty years later, than sighted people of the same age. It is said this happens
because they remember their own faces as youthful faces. They don't look for
wrinkles, they don't expect to see grey hair.
In the same way, many a man expects a mediocre performance of himself. He gets it!
Here are a few of the commonest ways in which people down-grade themselves:
"I'm just too shy to get along with others." Often this means that your Creative Mind
keeps on telling you that you don't like yourself. Therefore you don't like the way you
act among other people, and would prefer to stay away from them.
But your Creative Mind can be persuaded to change its signals completely. Soon you
are going to like yourself, like other people, and enjoy sharing their good times.
"My memory is so bad, it's always embarrassing me." Strangely enough, your
essential memory cannot be bad—because your Creative Mind retains an impression
of everything you have heard, seen, read, felt or tasted since the day of your birth—
and perhaps even an impression of everything you have thought, as well.
So, when you "forget," you really mean you cannot bring into your Conscious Mind
something stored away in your Creative Mind. The mind-line is blocked. Hours or days
later you may smite your brow and exclaim, "That's it!" as the mind-line suddenly
opens.
Millions of people waste the greater part of their minds by blocking-off their own
memories. I will show you that an open mind-line not only improves your memory, but
also strengthens and alerts other mental powers. It can be worth a great deal to be
able to come up promptly with names, addresses, phone numbers, prices. Just
remember—you have a perfectly good memory. We'll get together and wake it up!
"/ can't concentrate." People who are scatter-brained sometimes fear they are mentally
defective. Except in rare cases, this is not so. More likely, your Creative Mind has
learned bad habits.
You are going to see why thoughts have such power ... how every action must begin
with a thought. And you will see that you, in your Creative Mind, decide how much
power to give to a particular thought.
First you will instruct your Creative Mind to concentrate on the concepts you want to
be the most powerful. Then your Creative Mind will instruct your Conscious Mind to
keep those concepts always in view. You'll have no further trouble in concentrating.
And it will be effortless concentration that eliminates a lot of worry and keeps your vital
energies working together to attain your goals.
