PATHWAY TO PROSPERITY
Pathway to Prosperity
Desire and Prosperity
The real pathway to prosperity is when you believe with all of your heart that you will do what you were destined to do. You use all your faith. Your dharma, the sanskrit word for purpose of your life.
When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, and with high emotions a prosperous picture, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit. A habit is formed by repetition of the same behavior for 28 days.
It does not matter how improbable or how far away the realization of your image may seem. Or how dark the prospects may be. We visualize or imagine them as best we can. As vividly as is possible, utilizing your senses of smell, feel, sight, or sound. Hold tenaciously to them and vigorously struggle to attain them. Then they will become actualized, manifested and realized in your reality.
Your Secret Power
But a desire, a longing without endeavor, your faith or belief released, a yearning abandoned or held indifferently will vanish without realization. This controversial book “Your Secret Power” expounds on Napoleon Hill’s classic “Think and Grow Rich” chapter eleven. Taking you step by step how to transmute sexual energy into your goals and desires.
It is only when desire is crystallized into resolve that it is effective. Think and say only that which you wish to become true. Be positive or be quiet.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the outline of the image itself; the real substance, not merely a mental image. What we believe is coming to us is the tremendous creative igniter. Your whole thought must be set in the direction of your desire, goal or purpose.
Whatever comes to us in life, we create it first in our mind. What the mind expects, tends to be realized. Check out the program “Unleash the Power of Your Mind”.
Success, Happiness, Prosperity
No one has a right to remain where they will be constantly subjected to the cramping, ambition-blinding influences and disgust of poverty. Self-respect demands that one should get out of such an environment.
It is their duty to put oneself in a position of dignity and independence where they will not be liable at any moment to be a burden to his friends or society in case of sickness or other emergencies, or where those depending on them may suffer.
Prosperity begins in the mind and is impossible with a mental attitude which is hostile to it. We cannot attract opulence mentally by a poverty-stricken attitude which is driving away what we long for.
We must think positive before we can have to it. Are your thoughts sabotaging your future? Are you Verbalizing Defeat, and Expecting Victory?
Our circumstances in life, our financial condition, our poverty or our wealth, our friends or lack of them, our condition of harmony or discord, are all very largely the offspring of our thoughts.
Success comes through a perfectly scientific mental process. The man who becomes prosperous believes that he is going to be prosperous. He has faith in his ability to make money.
He does not start out with his mind filled with doubts and fears, and all the time talk poverty and think poverty, walk like a pauper and dress like a pauper. He turns his face towards the thing he is striving for and is determined to get, and will not admit its opposite picture in his mind.
The man who expects prosperity is constantly creating money in his mind, building his financial structure mentally. There must be a mental picture of the prosperity first; the building around it is comparatively easy.
To be prosperous we must put ourselves in the prosperous attitude. We must think opulently, we must feel opulent in thought. We must exhale confidence and assurance in our very bearing and manner. Our mental attitude towards the thing we are striving for and the intelligent effort we put forth to realize it, will measure our attainment.
The person who would succeed must think success, must think upward. They must think progressively, creatively, constructively, inventively, and, above all, optimistically.
The mental attitude which we hold toward our work or our aim has everything to do with what we accomplish.
Many positive minds become negative by influences which destroy their self-confidence. They gradually lose faith in themselves. Control what influences you allow to come into your life, such as news media and negative tv shows. Focus on the positive, cancel out the negative thoughts. Cancel that stinkin thinkin.
The whole philosophy of efficiency and happiness consist in the vigorous, consistent affirmation of the thing we are trying to be, and trying to do.
Expect Prosperity
Faith is an optimist because it sees the way out. Doubt is a pessimist, cannot see the way ahead and fears because not conscious of being able to cope with the uncertain.
Faith is the divine messenger sent to guide man, blinded by doubt and sin.
Your own estimate of yourself, of your ability, your standing, the weight you carry, and of the figure you cut in the world, will be out-pictured in your appearance and in your manner.
Confidence is the very basis of all achievement. There is a tremendous power in the conviction that we can do a thing. The man who has great faith in himself is relieved from a great many uncertainties as to whether he is in his right place, from doubts as to his ability, and from fears regarding his future.
Freedom
Freedom is essential to achievement. No one can do his greatest work when his mind is cramped with worry, anxiety, fear, or uncertainty, any more than he can do his best physical work with his body in a cramped position.
Absolute freedom is imperative for the best brain work. Uncertainty and doubt are great enemies of that concentration which is the secret of all effectiveness. We are told that it is faith that doubles one’s power and multiplies one’s ability, and that without it we can do nothing.
How quickly a strong man is stripped of his power the moment he loses confidence in himself or his ability! The habit of dwelling on difficulties and magnifying them weakens the character and paralyzes the initiative in such a way as to hinder one from ever daring to undertake great things. The man who does things is the man who sees the end and defies the obstacles.
Many people never seem to come into themselves until they have received a great humiliating defeat. This seems to touch a spring deep in their nature, setting free dynamic forces which enable them to do marvels.
When a man who has got the right stuff in him has made a slip and feels that he is down and out, when he sees those that know him regarding him as a failure, calling him a “has been”, he makes a resolve to redeem himself from the disgrace and every red blood corpuscle in him helps him to make good.
Self-Encouragement by Self Suggestion
He only is beaten who admits it. How can you expect to get the maximum of efficiency when worry, fear, anxiety, discouragement, or melancholy are sapping twenty-five, fifty, or seventy-five per cent of your mental energy? You must clear the mind of its enemies. Otherwise you pay the penalty in exhausted vitality, in wasted energy.
Every time you feel fear coming into your mind, shut it out as quickly as possible and apply the antidote – fearlessness, assurance. Remember, fear is an acronym for False Evidence Appearing Real.
Picture yourself as absolutely fearless. Say to yourself, I am no coward. Cowards fear and cringe and crawl but I am a man. Fear is a child’s frailty. It is not for adults. Say to yourself “who dare be against me with God on my side”.
I positively refuse to stoop to such a degrading thing. Fear is not innate. Fear is learned. Fear is an abnormal mental process and I am normal. Fear cannot influence me, for I will not harbor it. I will not allow it to cripple me.
The man who has acquired the power of keeping his mind filled with the thoughts which uplift and encourage, the optimistic thought, the cheerful, hopeful thought, has solved one of the great riddles of life.
Truths to Remember
A troubled or angry brain cannot think clearly, vigorously, logically. Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought.
Faith is the great antidote for worry. We fear because we cannot see the way. Faith sees the way.
The man who can smile when everything seems to go against him shows that he is made of winning material, for no ordinary man can do this.
There is no place in civilization for the baneful, gloomy, or despondent person. Nobody wants to live with them. Everybody is dejected and depressed in his presence, and tries to get away from him. There is nothing more contagious than mental depression and the “blues.”
A man who is at the mercy of his disposition can never be a leader, a power among men.
You are not capable of correct judgment, of using good sense, where there is fear or doubt or despondence in your mind. Sound judgment comes from a perfectly working brain, unclouded, untroubled faculties.
Never act upon that which is suggested when you are in a state of fear and anxiety. When fear is in the mind, the mental forces are scattered and we are not capable of vigorous concentration. Calmness, poise, balance, mental serenity is absolutely essential to the most effective thinking.
The art of arts is to learn how to clear the mind of its enemies. It is a great thing to learn to focus the mind upon the beautiful instead of the ugly, the true instead of the false, upon harmony instead of discord, life instead of death, health instead of disease, and is not always easy, but it is possible to everybody. It requires only a little skillful thinking, the forming of the right thought habits.
The best way to keep out darkness is to keep the life filled with light. To keep out discord, keep it filled with harmony. Shut out error, keep the mind filled with truth, to shut out ugliness, contemplate beauty and loveliness. Get rid of all that is sour and unwholesome, contemplate all that is sweet and wholesome. Opposite thoughts cannot occupy the mind at the same time.
The world has little use for the person who has not courage enough in them to brace up and be a strong person when met with failure.