Success Using The Strangest Secret

Thinking is one of the most powerful stuffs we possess. Success or failure depends on how we think!

When we think positively, we get positive results; however, when we think negatively, we get negative results!

As Henry Ford once said, ‘if you think you can, you’re right; if you think you can’t, you’re also right!”

As within, so without always! That’s the unchanging universal law regardless of who we are!

As a man think in his heart, so is he.Positive thinking creates positive results.

Positive thinking effects your creative inner power within your subconscious mind positively,thus producing positive results.

Therefore, be constantly aware of what we think all day long is crucial. Earl Nightingale asserted that,”We are what we think about”.

The true secret of all successful achievement lies in how we use our own subconscious energies for succeess, health,prosperity and personal or corperate achievement

Here is an article to explore further the power of your thoughts to achieve your life goals entitled "The Strangest Secret"

----The Strangest Secret----

Know what will happen to 100 individuals who start even at the age of

25, and who believe they will be successful? By the age of 65, only

five out of 100 will make the grade! Why do so many fail? What

happened to the sparkle that was there when they were 25? What became

of their dreams, their hopes, their plans ... and why is there such a

large disparity between what these people intended to do and what they

actually accomplished? That is ... The Strangest Secret.

by Earl Nightingale

Some years ago, the late Nobel prize-winning Dr. Albert Schweitzer was

asked by a reporter, "Doctor, what's wrong with men today?" The great

doctor was silent a moment, and then he said, "Men simply don't

think!"

It's about this that I want to talk with you. We live today in a

golden age. This is an era that humanity has looked forward to,

dreamed of, and worked toward for thousands of years. We live in the

richest era that ever existed on the face of the earth ... a land of

abundant opportunity for everyone.

However, if you take 100 individuals who start even at the age of 25,

do you have any idea what will happen to those men and women by the

time they're 65? These 100 people believe they're going to be

successful. They are eager toward life, there is a certain sparkle in

their eye, an erectness to their carriage, and life seems like a

pretty interesting adventure to them.

But by the time they're 65, only one will be rich, four will be

financially independent, five will still be working, and 54 will be

broke � depending on others for life's necessities.

Only five out of 100 make the grade! Why do so many fail? What has

happened to the sparkle that was there when they were 25? What has

become of the dreams, the hopes, the plans ... and why is there such a

large disparity between what these people intended to do and what they

actually accomplished?

THE DEFINITION OF SUCCESS

First, we have to define success and here is the best definition I've

ever been able to find: "Success is the progressive realization of a

worthy ideal."

A success is the school teacher who is teaching because that's what he

or she wants to do. A success is the entrepreneur who start his own

company because that was his dream � that's what he wanted to do. A

success is the salesperson who wants to become the best salesperson in

his or her company and sets forth on the pursuit of that goal.

A success is anyone who is realizing a worthy predetermined ideal,

because that's what he or she decided to do ... deliberately. But only

one out of 20 does that! The rest are "failures."

Rollo May, the distinguished psychiatrist, wrote a wonderful book

called Man's Search for Himself, and in this book he says: "The

opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice ... it is

conformity." And there you have the reason for so many failures.

Conformity � people acting like everyone else, without knowing why or

where they are going.

We learn to read by the time we're seven. We learn to make a living by

the time we're 30. Often 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 richest land that

has ever been known. Why? We conform! Most of us are acting like the

wrong percentage group � the 95 who don't succeed.

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GOALS

Have you ever wondered why so many people work so hard and honestly

without ever achieving anything in particular, and why others don't

seem to work hard, yet seem to get everything? They seem to have the

"magic touch." You've heard people say, "Everything he touches turns

to gold." Have you ever noticed that a person who becomes successful

tends to continue to become more successful? And, on the other hand,

have you noticed how someone who's a failure tends to continue to

fail?

The difference is goals. People with goals succeed because they know

where they're going. It's that simple. Failures, on the other hand,

believe that their lives are shaped by circumstances ... by things

that happen to them ... by exterior forces.

Think of a ship with the complete voyage mapped out and planned. The

captain and crew know exactly where the ship is going and how long it

will take � it has a definite goal. And 9,999 times out of 10,000, it

will get there.

Now let's take another ship � just like the first � only let's not

put a crew on it, or a captain at the helm. Let's give it no aiming

point, no goal, and no destination. We just start the engines and let

it go. I think you'll agree that if it gets out of the harbor at all,

it will either sink or wind up on some deserted beach � a derelict. It

can't go anyplace because it has no destination and no guidance.

It's the same with a human being. However, the human race is fixed,

not to prevent the strong from winning, but to prevent the weak from

losing. Society today can be likened to a convoy in time of war. The

entire society is slowed down to protect its weakest link, just as the

naval convoy has to go at the speed that will permit its slowest

vessel to remain in formation.

That's why it's so easy to make a living today. It takes no particular

brains or talent to make a living and support a family today. We have

a plateau of so-called "security." So, to succeed, all we must do is

decide how high above this plateau we want to aim.

Throughout history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers, and

prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things. It

is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous

agreement � the key to success and the key to failure is this:

WE BECOME WHAT WE THINK ABOUT

This is The Strangest Secret! Now, why do I say it's strange, and why

do I call it a secret? Actually, it isn't a secret at all. It was

first promulgated by some of the earliest wise men, and it appears

again and again throughout the Bible. But very few people have learned

it or understand it. That's why it's strange, and why for some equally

strange reason it virtually remains a secret.

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Marcus Aurelius, the great Roman Emperor, said: "A man's life is what

his thoughts make of it."

Disraeli said this: "Everything comes if a man will only wait ... a

human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and nothing can

resist a will that will stake even existence for its fulfillment."

William James said: "We need only in cold blood act as if the thing in

question were real, and it will become infallibly real by growing into

such a connection with our life that it will become real. It will

become so knit with habit and emotion that our interests in it will be

those which characterize belief." He continues, " ... only you must,

then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not

wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as

strongly."

My old friend Dr. Norman Vincent Peale put it this way: "If you think

in negative terms, you will get negative results. If you think in

positive terms, you will achieve positive results." George Bernard

Shaw said: "People are always blaming their circumstances for what

they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in

this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances

they want, and if they can't find them, make them."

Well, it's pretty apparent, isn't it? We become what we think about.

A person who is thinking about a concrete and worthwhile goal is going

to reach it, because that's what he's thinking about. Conversely, the

person who has no goal, who doesn't know where he's going, and whose

thoughts must therefore be thoughts of confusion, anxiety, fear, and

worry will thereby create a life of frustration, fear, anxiety and

worry. And if he thinks about nothing ... he becomes nothing.

AS YE SOW � SO SHALL YE REAP

The human mind is much like a farmer's land. The land gives the farmer

a choice. He may plant in that land whatever he chooses. The land

doesn't care what is planted. It's up to the farmer to make the

decision. The mind, like the land, will return what you plant, but it

doesn't care what you plant. If the farmer plants too seeds � one a

seed of corn, the other nightshade, a deadly poison, waters and takes

care of the land, what will happen?

Remember, the land doesn't care. It will return poison in just as

wonderful abundance as it will corn. So up come the two plants � one

corn, one poison as it's written in the Bible, "As ye sow, so shall ye

reap."

The human mind is far more fertile, far more incredible and mysterious

than the land, but it works the same way. It doesn't care what we

plant ... success ... or failure. A concrete, worthwhile goal ... or

confusion, misunderstanding, fear, anxiety, and so on. But what we

plant it must return to us.


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The problem is that our mind comes as standard equipment at birth.

It's free. And things that are given to us for nothing, we place

little value on. Things that we pay money for, we value.

The paradox is that exactly the reverse is true. Everything that's

really worthwhile in life came to us free � our minds, our souls, our

bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our intelligence, our

love of family and children and friends and country. All these

priceless possessions are free.

But the things that cost us money are actually very cheap and can be

replaced at any time. A good man can be completely wiped out and make

another fortune. He can do that several times. Even if our home burns

down, we can rebuild it. But the things we got for nothing, we can

never replace.

Our mind can do any kind of job we assign to it, but generally

speaking, we use it for little jobs instead of big ones. So decide

now. What is it you want? Plant your goal in your mind. It's the most

important decision you'll ever make in your entire life.

Do you want to excel at your particular job? Do you want to go places

in your company ... in your community? Do you want to get rich? All

you have got to do is plant that seed in your mind, care for it, work

steadily toward your goal, and it will become a reality.

It not only will, there's no way that it cannot. You see, that's a law

� like the laws of Sir Isaac Newton, the laws of gravity. If you get

on top of a building and jump off, you'll always go down � you'll

never go up.

And it's the same with all the other laws of nature. They always work.

They're inflexible. Think about your goal in a relaxed, positive way.

Picture yourself in your mind's eye as having already achieved this

goal. See yourself doing the things you will be doing when you have

reached your goal.

Every one of us is the sum total of our own thoughts. We are where we

are because that's exactly where we really want or feel we deserve to

be � whether we'll admit that or not. Each of us must live off the

fruit of our thoughts in the future, because what you think today and

tomorrow � next month and next year � will mold your life and

determine your future. You're guided by your mind.

I remember one time I was driving through e a s t e r n Arizona and I

saw one of those giant earthmoving machines roaring along the road

with what 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

wheel in his hands, guiding it. As I drove along I was struck by the

similarity of that machine to the human mind. Just suppose you're

sitting at the controls of such a vast source of energy. Are you going

to sit back and fold your arms and let it run itself into a ditch? Or

are you going to keep both hands firmly on the wheel and control and

direct this power to a specific, worthwhile purpose? It's up to you.

You're in the driver's seat. You see, the very law that gives us

success is a doubleedged sword. We must control our thinking. The same

rule that can lead people to lives of success, wealth, happiness, and

all the things they ever dreamed of � that very same law can lead them

into the gutter. It's all in how they use it ... for good or for bad.

That is The Strangest Secret!


Do what the experts since the dawn of recorded history have told us to

do: pay the price, by becoming the person you want to become. It's not

nearly as difficult as living unsuccessfully.

The moment you decide on a goal to work toward, you're immediately a

successful person � you are then in that rare group of people who know

where they're going. Out of every hundred people, you belong to the

top five. Don't concern yourself too much with how you are going to

achieve your goal � leave that completely to a power greater than

yourself. All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers

will come to you of their own accord, and at the right time.

Start today. You have nothing to lose � but you have your whole life

to win.

30-DAYACTION IDEAS FOR PUTTING THE STRANGEST SECRET TO WORK FOR YOU

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For the next 30-days follow each of these steps every day until you

have achieved your goal.

1. Write on a card what it is you want more that anything else. It

may be more money. Perhaps you'd like to double your income or 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.

Write down on your card specifically what it is you want. Make sure

it's a single goal and clearly defined. You needn't show it to anyone,

but carry it with you so that you can look at it several times a day.

Think about it in a cheerful, relaxed, positive way each morning when

you get up, and immediately you have something to work for � something

to get out of bed for, something to live for.

Look at it every chance you get during the day and just before going

to bed at night. As you look at it, remember that you must become what

you think about, and since you're thinking about your goal, you

realize that soon it will be yours. In fact, it's really yours the

moment you write it down and begin to think about it.

2. Stop thinking about what it is you fear. Each time a fearful or

negative thought comes into your mind, replace it with a mental

picture of your positive and worthwhile goal. And there will come a

time when you'll feel like giving up. It's easier for a human being to

think negatively than positively. That's why only five percent are

successful! You must begin now to place yourself in that group.

"Act as though it were impossible to fail," as Dorothea Brande said.

No matter what your goal � if you've kept your goal before you every

day � you'll wonder and marvel at this new life you've found.

3. Your success will always be measured by the quality and quantity of

service you render. Most people will tell you that they want to make

money, without understanding this law. The only people who make money

work in a mint. The rest of us must earn money. This is what causes

those who keep looking for something for nothing, or a free ride, to

fail in life. Success is not the result of making money; earning money

is the result of success � and success is in direct proportion to our

service.


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Most people have this law backwards. It's like the man who stands in

front of the stove and says to 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 take the same attitude toward life? There are millions.

We've got to put the fuel in before we can expect heat. Likewise,

we've got to be of service first before we can expect money. Don't

concern yourself with the money. Be of service ... build ... work ...

dream ... create! Do this and you'll find there is no limit to the

prosperity and abundance that will come to you.

Don't start your test until you've made up your mind to stick with it.

If you should fail during your first 30 days � by that I mean suddenly

find yourself overwhelmed by negative thoughts � simply start over

again from that point and go 30 more days. Gradually, your new habit

will form, until you find yourself one of that wonderful minority to

whom virtually nothing is impossible.

Above all ... don't worry! Worry brings fear, and fear is crippling.

The only thing that can cause you to worry during your test is trying

to do it all yourself. Know that all you have to do is hold your goal

before you; everything else will take care of itself.

Take this 30-day test, then repeat it ... then repeat it again. Each

time it will become more a part of you until you'll wonder how you

could have ever have lived any other way. Live this new way and the

floodgates of abundance will open and pour over you more riches than

you may have dreamed existed. Money? Yes, lots of it. But what's more

important, you'll have peace ... you'll be in that wonderful minority

who lead calm, cheerful, successful lives.

Learn more about Earl Nightingale and his many timeless books and

audio programs.



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