So far, I have gotten through Volume 1 of the Laws of Success. 308 pages. That’s enough to be a book in itself.
You might be asking, okay you’ve been reviewing this book and giving us some gems from each chapter, but what are you doing with this information? What have you taken from it and applied to your life so far? Well, here goes, {my comments are in the brackets.}
Who said it couldn’t be done? And what great victory has he to his credit which qualifies him to judge others accurately?
Who told you it couldn’t be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word “impossible” so freely? {Instead of accepting criticism, I am asking, what has the critic done lately? I am “critiquing” the critic. Were those words were spoken by someone who has done nothing with their life?}
This philosophy can be used by anyone to create their own success and realize their dreams.
There is nothing impossible with enough time. {I am taking these statements as truth for me and using it as the basis for my self-development for the rest of 2011 and 2012}
There is always plenty of capital available to those who can create practical plans for using it.
Never, in the history of the world, has there been such abundant opportunity as there is now for people like me who are willing to serve before trying to collect.
There are opportunities on every corner but they exist only for those who have ready money or who can command money because they have formed the habit of savings. {This is as true today as it was when Hill wrote this. I believe it, I act like it, and I am planning my next year on it}
Everything begins in the mind
My imagination can be cultivated, developed, extended, and broadened by use. {I am deliberately taking 15 minutes a day to imagine my life as I want it to be. As I have been doing this, my life is starting to change.}
The normal condition of the chemistry of my mind is the result of heredity and the nature of the thoughts which have dominated my mind.
My mind is continually changing to the extent that my philosophy and general habits of thought change the chemistry of my mind.
I can voluntarily change the chemistry of my mind so that it will attract or repel all with whom it comes in contact. {This is powerful! I can program my mind anyway I want! This is what I am focusing on for the next year}
Through the principle of autosuggestion, a deeply rooted desire saturates my entire body and mind with the nature of the desire and literally transforms my mind into a powerful magnet that attracts the object of the desire
Any idea I firmly fix in my subconscious mind, by repeated affirmations, automatically becomes a blueprint in directing my efforts forward to the attainment of the objective.
Any statement I repeatedly make to myself, or any desire I deeply plant in my mind through repeated statement, will eventually seek expression through my physical, outward, bodily efforts. {This is how I am re-programming my mind}
Any desire I persistently hold in my mind will eventually seek expression through some practical means of realizing it. {What I think about, I bring about}
Through the law of habit I fix my definite chief aim in my mind until it becomes firmly and permanently planted there.
This gives me a prosperity consciousness.
I prepare myself to receive and use my prosperity wisely. {Re-programming my mind}
I throw off the accumulated effects of a thousand generations of fear with autosuggestion
Once I master fear, I can continue on to successful achievement in practically any undertaking {reprogram my mind}
Knowledge becomes power only to the extent I organize it, classify it, and put it into action!
A good encyclopedia contains most of the known facts of the world.
But they are as useless a sand dune until organized and expressed in terms of action. {After re-programming my mind, this is my second objective: to use what I learn! Must work on this. My greatest shortcoming. I am great at accumulating knowledge, must work on implementation!}
Anyone can start but as a thoroughbred, I finish! {Re-program my mind, take action on my knowledge, finish what I start: my three objectives for 2012!}
I can always become the person I would have liked to be. {By focusing on my 3 objectives for 2012, I will be closer at the end of 2012 to who I want to be}
I believe that God provides me everything I need with which to succeed if I perform faithful and honest service.
I believe in prayer and I never close my eyes in sleep without praying for divine guidance
I believe that success is the result of intelligent effort and does not depend upon luck or sharp practices or double-crossing friends, fellow men, or my employer.
I believe I get out of life exactly what I put into it; therefore, I am careful to conduct myself toward others as I would want them to act toward me.
I render the best service of which I am capable because I have pledged myself to succeed in life and I know that success is always the result of conscientious and efficient effort.
I forgive those who offend me because I realize that I shall sometimes offend others and I will need their forgiveness. {quote of the day}
Day by day in every way, I am becoming more successful. {Quote of the day}
I think before I speak. My words can plant success or failure in someone’s life. {Okay, thinking before I speak is #4 on my list for 2012}
I take advantage of the law of increasing returns which ensures me a return in money far out of proportion to the service I render. (Already practiced this one, just keeping it on the list}
Savings conserves what I earn in a systematic manner
The habit of saving places me in the way of a greater opportunity and gives me vision, self-confidence, imagination, enthusiasm, initiative and leadership to actually increase my earning capacity. {I have always saved money “for” something: new set of tires, property taxes, vacation. You get the picture, I saved to spend. I did very little saving to invest in comparison to my saving to spend. That has changed. I now have a “saving to invest” fund and it will grow in 2012.}
I save a definite percentage of all I earn
As my earnings increase, my savings increase
I demand increased earning power from myself. {I have never “demanded” this of myself before. 2012 is going to be interesting!}
I have the habit of thinking and talking prosperity and abundance. {I have been “half-heartedly” working on this for many years, but for 2012 I am SERIOUSLY working on this!}
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Jesus fulfilled His destiny at the cross so I can fulfill mine today.
He opened the door for me and I am walking through it.
Until we meet, I am looking to the eastern sky and walking through the open door!
