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Don’t Think In Reverse

You will never obtain any measure of material wealth if you insist upon living your life as if you were looking back through the rear view mirror of an automobile.  Nevertheless, this seems to be a common error which many people have turned into a habit.  Remember the old adage which says, let the dead bury the dead.  Stop looking back in your life and worrying about things which have already occurred and which you can no longer alter.  Pursuing that kind of mental activity will never lead to anything worthwhile in your life.

You should understand moreover, that all of the great achievers of the past have been visionary figures.  They were men and women who projected into the future and did not belabour over the past.  They thought of what could be, rather than what already was, and then they moved themselves into action, bringing these things into fruition.

Leland Val Vandewall offers some excellent advice on this subject.
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.

If you have been guilty of allowing your sales sheets, your bank account or the x-rays the doctor takes of your body, to control the way you view your sales, financial position, or health, you will never see any marked improvement in your life in any of these areas.  However, if you let the present, physical results serve only as an indication of the images which you have been holding in the past and then proceed to look into the bright future and to build an image of the good that you desire; you will see the image materialize. 

Look up, look ahead and form the image of the life you choose to live.

-Bob Proctor

MONDAY'S LIFE BREAKING NEWS!

Success Requires No Explanations, Failure Permits No Alibis
-Napoleon Hill

A MAN NEEDS TO KNOW

A Man Needs to Know A man needs to know that he’s bad and he’s good, He can be what he hopes, he can be understood. A man needs to feel he can conquer a fall, For a man who can kneel has the strength to stand tall. A man needs to know he can share and confide, Even though he’s frightened way down deep inside. For sometimes a man must sink terribly low, Before he discovers how high he can go. A man needs to know at the end of his rope, He can handle his fears, he can build on his hope. A man must believe he can change when he must, He can learn to receive, he can learn how to trust. And why must a man feel afraid and alone, When each of us has the same fears of his own. For sometimes a man must sink terribly low, Before he discovers how high he can go. A man has to live when it’s painful to try, For a man needs to laugh and a man needs to cry. A man has a need to strive and prevail, He must learn to succeed and find out why he failed. To carry his crown and to fill-up his cup, Sometimes he drops down so that he can reach up. For sometimes a man must sink terribly low, Before he discovers how high he can go. -Walter Brennan

BELIEVE IN YOUR OWN IDEAS

Ideas and babies have a lot in common when they are new born; they require a lot of nourishment to survive.  A new idea, regardless of its size, may not be able to withstand a beating when you first give it birth. The next time you set out to do something that is completely out of the norm and the idea driving you is new, there is an important rule which should be followed.  Only share your idea with people who will encourage and support you.  Here is an added word of caution.  Contrary to popular belief, the individual who will offer the most support is not necessarily a great achiever. History records that many of our greatest achievers were not always the strongest supporters of others.  Individuals who claim, that all things are possible … you can do anything … frequently sang a different tune when the idea was not one they had originated. Here are a few examples.  In 1989 Charles H. Duell said Everything that can be invented has been invented. Duell was the Director of the United States Patent office that year. In 1927 Harry M. Warner of Warner Brothers Pictures said, Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? In 1923 Robert Milliken suggested, There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom. We gave him the Nobel Prize for physics that year. This is not an uncommon phenomenon.  Think of how often one of your one superiors shot one of your suggestions full of holes, only to find out later the same idea earned great profits for your company.  If you believe in your own ideas that is all that is required.  You don’t need the approval of others. The Wright Brothers were not swayed nor stopped by Lord Kelvin who was President of the Royal Society in 1895 when he said that, Heavier than air flying machines are impossible. And, Grover Cleveland would be shot on sight today by at least half of the population with the advice he gave in 1905.  Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. Many of these people did great things but they were often wrong when it came to others’ abilities.  Believe in yourself and your ideas and only share your ideas with those who will encourage and support you. -Bob Proctor

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" There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater
than the lack of education, greater than all your fears, and superstitions
combined. It is the power to take possession of your own mind and direct
it to whatever ends you may desire." -Andrew Carnegie

This is the very first step towards your riches; taking control of your own mind.
Think for yourself and listen to the ones who have already received their riches.
Many of them are mention in Napoleon Hill's book, Think & Grow Rich.

Hill made a life study of the most wealthy with the blessings of the first wealthy
American in his time, Andrew Carnegie.

SOWING & REAPING

Everyday situations arise in our lives which we do not understand.  We are puzzled … why did this or that happen?  Many times these situations are very positive, but on occasion they may be catastrophic. Possibly it would be wise if we studied the Laws of Life in an attempt to understand what happens to us. One of my favorite authors, Emmet Fox, wrote the following: There is no such thing as luck.  Nothing ever happens by chance.  Everything good or bad that comes into your life is there as the result of unvarying, inescapable Law.  And the operator of that Law is none other than YOURSELF.  No one else has ever done you any harm of any kind, nor ever could do so, however much it may seem that he did.  Consciously or unconsciously you have yourself at some time or other produced every condition desirable or undesirable that you find in either your bodily health or your circumstances today.  You, and you alone, ordered those goods; thinking wrongly about yourself and about life, the same sort of difficulties will continue to harass you.  For every seed must inevitably bring forth after its own kind, and THOUGHT IS THE SEED OF DESTINY. Yet there is a simple way out of trouble.  Learn how to think rightly instead of wrongly, and conditions at once begin to improve until, sooner or later, all ill-health, poverty, and in harmony must disappear.  Such is the Law.  Life need not be a battle; it can, and should, be a glorious mystical adventure; but living is a science. A science you and I can learn through study. -Bob Proctor

THE POWER OF YOUR THOUGHTS!

We are gradually awakening to the fact that we live in a Universe of Infinite Intelligence which responds to our every thought, but only those who delve into the study of the mind really know what a mighty energy is set in motion with each mental impulse.

Thought not only molds our character but is responsible for the changes in communities, the building of cities, the shaping of nations, and all the great events that take place in the world.  THOUGHT IS THE SILENT SWITCH THAT SETS IN MOTION MAN’S DESTINY.  Every invention and worthwhile discovery was first a mental concept.  Every idea that has been backed with faith and effort has become a visible reality, and all seeming material obstructions such as poverty or physical weaknesses have only served to stimulate creative action by giving birth to inward resources and bringing out inherent abilities.

A while back I spent some time with Rick Hansen.  Rick is a young man who was left paralyzed from the waste down from an automobile accident.  He told me that his physical disability turned into a good thing.  Because his disability was physical, he could see it and overcome it.  Although he was virtually unknown and without money, he pushed himself around the world in his wheelchair and raised millions of dollars for spinal cord research.

It was Rick Hansen’s thoughts which liberated him from a dull, pitiful life.  His thoughts gave him a life full of adventure; a life full of service to thousands; a life which caused millions of people to look at themselves and think of what they were doing with their lives.

Thought is a tremendous power and you can use it to improve the quality of your life.

-Bob Proctor