- A long while ago, a great warrior faced a situation which made it necessary for him to make a decision which insured his success on the battlefield. He was about to send his armies against a powerful foe whose men outnumbered his own. He loaded his soldiers into boats, sailed to the enemy’s country, unloaded soldiers and equipment, then gave the order to burn the ships that had carried them. Addressing his men before the first battle, he said “You see the boats going up in smoke. That means that we cannot leave these shores alive unless we win! We now have no choice–we win-or we perish! They won.
- Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat. Only by so doing can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a BURNING DESIRE TO WIN, essential to success.
- Every human being who reaches the age off understanding of the purpose of money, wishes for it. Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring success.
- The method by which desire for success can be transmuted into it’s physical equivalent, consists of six definite, practical steps:
- Fix in your mind the exact amount of money you desire. It is not sufficient to say "I want plenty of money." Be definite as to the amount. (There is a psychological reason for definiteness which will be described in a subsequent chapter).
- Determine exactly what you intend to give in return for the money you desire. (There is no such reality as “something for nothing”)
- Establish a definite date when you intend to posses the money you desire.
- Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.
- Write out a clear, concise statement of the amount of money you intend to acquire, name the time limit for it’s achievement, state what you intend to give in return for the money, and describe clearly the plan through which you intend to achieve it.
- Read your written statement aloud, twice daily, once just before retiring at night, and once after arising in the morning. AS YOU READ-SEE AND FEEL AND BELIEVE YOURSELF ALREADY IN POSSESSION OF THE MONEY.
- You may complain that it is impossible for you to "see yourself in possession of money" before you actually have it. Here is where a BURNING DESIRE will come to your aid. If you truly DESIRE money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want to money, and to become so determined to have it that you CONVINCE yourself you will have it.
- Only those who become “money conscious” ever accumulate great riches. “Money consciousness” means that your mind has become so thoroughly saturated with the DESIRE for money, that one can see one's self already in possession of it.
- All who have accumulated great fortunes, first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, DESIRING, and PLANNING before they acquired money.
- You may as well know, right here, that you can never have riches in great quantities, UNLESS you can work yourself into a white heat of DESIRE for money, and actually BELIEVE you will possess it.
- You may as well know, also that every great leader, from the dawn of civilization down to the present, was a dreamer.
- If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.
- There is one quality which one must posses to win, and that is DEFINITENESS OF PURPOSE, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning DESIRE to possess it.
- The practical dreamers have always been, and always will be the pattern makers of civilization.
- We who desire to accumulate riches, should remember the real leaders of the world always have been men who harnessed, and put into practical use, the intangible, unseen forces of unborn opportunity, and have converted those forces, (or impulses of thought), into sky-scrapers, cities, factories, airplanes, automobiles, and every form of convenience that makes life more pleasant.
- Tolerance, and an open mind are practical necessities of the dreamer of today. Those who are afraid of new ideas are doomed before they start.
- In planning to acquire your share of the riches, let no one influence you to scorn the dreamer. To win the big stakes, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose dreams have given to civilization all that it has of value, the spirit which serves as the life-blood of our own country-your opportunity and mine, to develop and market our talents.
- Let us not forget, Columbus dreamed of an unknown world, staked his life on the existence of such a world, and discovered it!
- "SUCCESS REQUIRES NO APOLOGIES, FAILURE PERMITS NO ALIBIS."
- If the thing you wish to do is right, and you believe in it, go ahead and do it! Put your dreams across and never mind what “they” say if you meet with temporary defeat, for “they,” perhaps, do not know that EVERY FAILURE BRINGS WITH IT THE SEED OF AN EQUIVALENT SUCCESS.
- "The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream."
- “The oak sleeps in the acorn. The bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul, a walking angel stirs. DREAMS ARE THE SEEDLINGS OF REALITY.”
- The world is filled with an abundance of OPPORTUNITY which the dreamers of the past never knew.
- A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.
- Remember, too, that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start, and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they "arrive." The turning point in the lives of those who succeed, usually comes at the moment of some crisis, through which they are introduced to their "other selves."
- Before passing to the next chapter, kindle anew in your mind the fire of hope, faith, courage, and a working knowledge of the principles described, all else that you need will come to you, when you are READY for it.
- There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it. No one is ready for a thing, until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief.
- Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty. A great poet has correctly stated this universal truth through these lines:
- “I bargained with life for a penny, and Life would pay no more, however I begged at evening when I counted my scanty store. For Life is a just employer, he gives you what you ask, but once you have set the wages, why you must bear the task. I worked for a menial’s hire, only to learn, dismayed, that any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have willingly paid.”
- Through some strange and powerful principle of "mental chemistry" which she has never divulged, Nature wraps up in the impulse of STRONG DESIRE "that something" which recognizes no such word as impossible, and accepts no such reality as failure
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