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My life is an Excellent Adventure from using “You Are What You Think”

Thinking “Success” Eliminates Failure

YOU HAVE UNLIMITED power at your disposal, but you probably only utilize about ten percent of it.

By following simple, time-tested teachings that go back many centuries, you can learn to use some of the unused ninety per cent.

Imagine having an Aladdin’s lamp, and a genie that will do anything you ask of it. However, the genie won’t act unless it is given direction.

YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS mind is your genie. It has created everything that has ever happened to you. It is your willing servant but remember this: It doesn’t reason ! It accepts orders from your conscious mind. This is the part of your mind that you have control over.

You can choose to think about anything you want to think about.

However, once you have a thought and it goes into your subconscious your control is ended.

THE SUBCONSCIOUS will go to work and objectify it if the thought had any degree of force behind it, even though it is something you don’t want. That is why we have to be so careful about what we allow to go down into our subconscious !

Furthermore, it doesn’t care whether the thoughts come from you or from others.

If you can’t take the trouble to give it direction your subconscious will listen to others and act on their suggestions, if their suggestions are stronger.

DID YOU EVER WONDER why certain things happened to you that made you unhappy ? Or why you didn’t always get what you wanted ?

Perhaps it was because you were directing negative orders to your subconscious mind with more authority than you were giving it positive orders.

It automatically assumed that the negative orders you sent down to it in the form of thoughts were what you wanted. It doesn’t reason !

REMEMBER I REMINDED you in an earlier column that whatever you give your attention to, or let your mind dwell upon, becomes your experience in life.

As Job said, “That which I greatly feared has finally come to pass.” Naturally it did, because he let his mind dwell on whatever it was he feared !

Our subconscious mind has been bombarded with suggestions, many of them negative, from our earliest childhood.

TELL A CHILD THAT he is “no good” and will never amount to anything.

Unless he can reject that suggestion, or “screen it out,” the suggestion will go down into his subconscious, which will make sure the prophecy is fulfilled.

If you are young, you must learn of the tremendous power you have at your disposal. You have absolute control over your destiny. All you have to do is take dominion over your own mind !

SOME PEOPLE SEEM to feel that they are doomed to failure. Nobody is. You can study all the greatest words ever written by the greatest teachers.

You will never find one who said there is a limit to what anyone can do, except for the limit the person has put upon himself.

Here is an example of what can happen when a person’s mind hasn’t been preconditioned.

LAST NOVEMBER, when the new car business was at a low ebb, I met a local dealer, “How is business ?” I asked, without thinking.

To my surprise he replied it was great, although it had been very slow.

He explained that three weeks previously a young man from Tennessee came to him asking for a job. Although the man knew nothing about the automobile business and had no selling experience, the dealer decided to give him a chance.

DURING THE FIRST 20 days of the month he earned almost three times more in commissions than any of the other salesmen !

I asked for an explanation. The owner smiled and said, “I guess it was because he didn’t know any better.”

He didn’t know that people weren’t supposed to be buying cars. When someone walked into the showroom he assumed he came in to buy; and more often than not, he sold him.

THE MENTAL BARRIER having been broken, the other salesmen couldn’t help but change their attitude, with positive results.

You don’t have to be in the automobile business to use this principle to your advantage.

All you have to do is clear your subconscious mind of all the negative suggestions it has been receiving since you were a child.

REFUSE TO ACCEPT negative thoughts about yourself or your affairs. Stand guard over your mind. Don’t let undesirable thoughts in !

The subconscious mind will carry out any suggestions given if they are given with authority. It has to ! That is its natural function.

When you start to have a negative thought or make a negative statement reverse it immediately !

MAKE A GAME of it with the family. Fine anyone who finishes a statement that begins with “I can’t, I won’t,” or “I don’t like.”

The changes that will take place will amaze you ! Your children will form wonderful like-long habits.

Regardless of your age or your present circumstances, you can still become the person you always wanted to be.

THERE IS NO limit ! If the idea of success, health and happiness is established with sufficient conviction in the mind of an individual, it not only makes success possible, it makes failure impossible !