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i'd like to tell you about the strangest secret in the world
some years ago the late nobel prize winning doctor albert schweitzer was
being interviewed in london for the reporter asked him
what's wrong with me and today
with a doctor or some of the moment of any subject
men simply don't think
it's about this that i want to talk with you
we learned today of a golden age this is a mirror that man is look forward to
dreamed of and work toward for thousands of years
but since it's really pretty well taken for granted
we in america are particularly fortunate to livermore riches landed ever existed
on the face of the earth eleven of abundant opportunity for everyone but
you know what happens
less than two hundred man who stalked even at the age of twenty five do you
have any idea what will happen to those men by the time is sixty five
these one hundred men or start even ready to twenty-five believe they're
going to be successful
if you ask really one of these men if you want to be a success he did he did
as you notice that
he was eager toward life if there was a certain sparkle to his eyes anywhere
close to his character
life seemed like a pretty interesting adventure to him
but by the time of sixty-five
one
will be rich
for will be financially independent
five will still be working
fifty four
will be broke
president obama out of the one hundred only five make the grade
why do so many failed
what has happened to the historical it was there when they were twenty five
what's become of the dreams their hopes the plans and why is there such a large
disparity between what these men intended to do
and what they actually accomplished
when we say about five percent of cheese success we have to define success
and here's the best definition i've ever been able to find
success is the progressive realization
aboard the ideo
if a man is working toward a predetermined goal and knows where he's
going that man is a success
but he's not doing that he's a failure
success is the progressive realization
over were the ideal
rollo may have a distinguished psychiatrist wrote a wonderful book
called mans search for himself and in this book he says
the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice
conformity
and there you have the trouble today it's conformity people acting like
everyone else without knowing why without knowing where they're going
i think of it
in america right now there are over
eighteen million people sixty five years of age and older
and most of them
are broke
dependent on someone else will assist us with it
elementary but the time was seven we're going to make a living by the time were
twenty five years ago that i went out of the making a living or supporting a
family and yet by the time was sixty five
we haven't learned how to become financially independent interruptions
slender but has ever known
weakened former
and the trouble is that we're acting like a wrong percentage group in ninety
five who don't succeed
and why do these people conform
well i really don't know these people believe that that was issued by
circumstances by things that happened to them by exterior forces their outer
directed people
a survey was made one time that covered a lot of men working on these men were
asked
why do you work
when you get up in the morning
nineteen out of twenty
had no idea
if u_s_ criminals they will
everyone goes to work in the morning and that's the reason they do it because
everyone else is doing it
let's get back to a definition of success who succeeds
the only person who succeeds
is the person who is progressively realizing that they were the ideal
is the person who says
i'm going to be cumbersome
then begins to work toward that goal
i'll tell you the successful people are a success is the school teachers
teaching school because that's what he or she wants to do
success is the woman has a wife and mother because she wanted to become a
wife and mother
and is doing a good job of it
the success is the man who runs the corner gas station because that was his
dream that's what he wanted to do
success is the successful salesman who wants to become a top notch saleswoman
growing builders organization
a success is anyone
who is doing deliberately
a predetermined job it's because that's what he decided to do
deliberately
but only one out of twenty does that
that's what to do that
isn't really any competition unless we make it for as well
instead of competing
all we have to do his creator
in over twenty years i worked for the key which would be terrible what would
happen to a human being
was tricky i wanted to know which would make the future a promise that we could
foretell to a large extent was thirty that would guarantee a person's becoming
successful if you only knew about it and you have a user welder is such a key
and i found it
have you ever wondered why so many men work so hard and honestly without ever
achieving anything in particular
and others don't seem to work on
yet seem to get everything
they seem to have a maje touch you've heard them say that about someone
everything it touches turns to gold
and i've ever known as the man who become successful tends to continue to
become successful
and on the other hand
have you noticed our man is a failure tends to continue to fail
well is because of goals
some of us have goals some don't
people with gold succeed because they know where they're going to it's that
simple
think of a ship leaving harbor
and to do it with a complete voyage mapped out a blender
the captain and crew no exactly what's going on how long it will take
it has a definite goal
now nine thousand nine hundred ninety nine times out of ten thousand people
get to where it started out to get
now let's take another ship just like the first owner does not put a crew
another attempt at the helm
has given no ending point mobile no destination we just got the engines and
let it go
i think you'll agree with me that if it gets out of the harbor at all
it'll be the cinco wind up on some deserted beach a derelict
it can't go any place because it has
no destination and no guidance
and it's the same with a human being
take the salesman for example
there's no other person in the world today with the future
of a good salesman
selling is the world's highest paid profession if we're good at it and if we
know we're going
every company needs top-notch salesman
and every one of those men in the skies the limit for them
but how many can you find
someone once said the human race was fixed
not to prevent the strong from winning
but to prevent the week
from losing
the american economy today to be likened to a convoy entitled war the entire
economy has slowed down to protect its weakest link just as the convoy had to
go to speed that would permit the slow slow slow to remain in formation
that's why it's so easy to make a living today it takes no particular brains are
talent to make a living to support a family today
so we have a proposal calls for charity event or a person is looking for
but we do have to decide how
hi above this but uh... we want a way
now let's go back to the stranger secret in the world a story that i wanted to
tell you today
when two men with goals succeed in life and then without them fail
let me tell you something which if you really understand it
well alter your life immediately
if you understand completely what i'm going to tell you from this moment on
your life will never be the same again
you're suddenly find that good luck there seems to be attracted to
the things you want to see that
fall in line antimony one of the problems the worry is that
knowing a lot of anxiety that perhaps you've experienced before
doubt fear
well everything's in the past
is the key to success
the key to failure
we become
what we think about
let me say that again
we become
what we think about
throughout all history the grade wise men and teachers philosophers and
profits have disagreed with one another on many different things it's only arms
is one point
that they're incomplete and unanimous agreement
bruce morton mark israeli has agreed to a membership
a man's life is what his thoughts make of it
disraeli said theres
everything comes with a man who only wait
uh... but my cell but long meditation of a conviction of a human being with us
federal purpose must accomplish it
and that nothing can resist a will
that will stay even existence
for its fulfillment
ralph waldo emerson said theres
amanda's what he thinks about all day long
william james said
the greatest discovery of my generation
is that human beings can alter their lives
by altering their attitudes of mind
and he also said we need only in cold blood that etc
as if the thing in question were real
and it will become infallibility oh boy growing into such a connection with our
life
that it will become real
it will be consuming it with habitat demotion that are interest in it will be
those which characterize beliefs
the also said
if you only care about for a result
you almost certainly a payment
if you wish to be rich
you will be rich
if you wish to be learned
you will be rendered
if you wish to be good you'll be good
only you must end
really wish these things and wish him exclusively
and i wish you the same time together incompatible things just as strongly
in the bible you return mark nine twenty three
israel tends to believe
all things are possible
to him that believe it
welcome back to normal vincent peale put it this way
this is one of the greatest flaws in the universe
fervently do i wish i discovered it was a very young man
it dawned upon me much later in life and i found it to be one of the greatest is
not my greatest discovery outside of my relationship with god
the great wall brick we'll simply stated is that if you think in negative terms
you will get negative results
if you think in positive terms
you will achieve the positive results
that is the simple fact he went on to say
which is at the basis of an astonishing law of prosperity and success
in three words
the leave
and succeed
william shakespeare put it this way
uh... doubts that traders in the course lose the good we often might win by
fearing to attempt
george bernard shaw said
people are always running their circumstances for what they are i don't
believe in circumstances where people get on this word of the people who get
up and look for the circumstances they want
and if they can find them
make them
well it's pretty apparent is that
and every person who discovered this for a while believed that he was the first
one to work it out we become
what we think about
now stands to reason with the person who's thinking about a concrete and
worthwhile goal is going to reject because that's what he's thinking about
and we become what we think about
conversely
the man who has no go doesn't know what is going on
whose thoughts must therefore be thought of confusion and anxiety and fear and
worry
because what he thinks about
is life becomes one of frustration and fear and anxiety and worry
and that he thinks about nothing
he becomes nothing
how does it work
why do we become what we think about
well i'll tell you how it works as far as we know
now to do this i want to tell you about a situation that parallels the human
mind
suppose a farmer had some land and it's good for the record
now though and gives the former choice
he made clear in atlanta whatever he chooses goal and doesn't care it's up to
the former to make a decision
and remember we're comparing the human mind with the land because all my life
the land
doesn't care what you plan to that
it will return what you brent
but it doesn't care what you print
i must say that the farmer has two seats in his hand want to see the corner
the others make sure the deadly poison
feedings too little holes in the area for the parents both teams one corn the
other night should
he shows up on all those waters and takes care of the land
and what will happen
invariably when we return we'll splendid
uncertain about the book as you so
so shall you reap
i remember the land doesn't care
and return cordesman just as wonderful abundance as it will work or not
corporate complaints
one corn one poison
now the human mind is far more fertile for more incredible a mysterious immoral
and but it works the same way
it doesn't care what we parted
success
a concrete worthwhile goal
or confusion
misunderstanding feared anxiety and so on
but what we play it
it must returned to us
is he the human mind is the last great unexplored continent owners it contains
riches beyond our wildest dreams into a return anything
we want to point
now you might say well if that's true why don't people use their minds more
well i think that figured out earlier today i want to
all mine comes as standard equipment at birth it's free and things of a given to
us for nothing replace one of our new york things that we pay money for we
value
the paradox is that exactly the reverse is true
everything that really work or in life
came to us free
hormones are sold our bodies our hopes our dreams our ambitions are intelligent
i love of family and children and friends in the country
all these priceless possessions
are free
but the things that cost us money are actually very cheap and can be replaced
at any time
a good men to be completely wiped out in the camera fortune
into that several times
even of our home burns down we can rebuild it
but the things we got from laughing
we can never replace
the human mind is a news because we take it for granted familiarity breeds
contempt
it to do any kind of job we'll send you a but generally speaking we use of the
little jobs are still a big important group
universities to prove that most of us are operating about
ten percent or worse of our abilities
so decide now
what is it you want
prank your goal in your mind
it's the most important decision you ever make in your entire life
what is it you want
you want to be an outstanding salesman
a better worker at your particular job
your little places in your company in your community
you want to get rich
on you gotta do is quintet cd in your mind
care for it
work steadily toward your goal
and it will become a reality
it not only will
there's no way that it cannot
that's all i like the laws of
sir isaac newton the laws of gravity that you get on top of the building and
jump off your always go down you'll never grow up and it's the same with all
the other laws of nature
they always worked inflexible
think about your goal relaxed
positive way
put yourself in your mind's eye as having already achieved this goal
see yourself doing the things you will be doing
when you reach your goal
i was in college
phenobarbital age the age of ulcers and nervous breakdowns and chemical risers
at a time when
medical researchers raises when you plan to have good health and longevity far
too many of us worry ourselves into a really great at it
cope with things that are all little
personal ways
without doing a few great laws will take care of everything for us
these things we bring on ourselves to our
habitual way of thinking
everyone of us is the sum total of his own thoughts
he is query is
because that's exactly where he really wants to be whether you'll admit that or
not
each of us must live off of fruit of the stocks in the future
because what you think today and tomorrow next month the next year
well motorized and determine your future
your guided
by your mind
i remember one time i was driving to eastern arizona and i saw one of those
giant earth-moving machines roaring along the road about thirty five miles
an hour with what look like
thirty tons of dirt in that
a tremendous incredible machine
and there was a little man pushed way you're going to help within one year in
his hands getting it
and as i drove along i was struck by the similarity of that machine of the human
mind
just suppose you're sitting at the controls of such a vast source of energy
are you going to sit back and forth your arms and that it won't itself into a
ditch
are you going to keep both items for me on the hook
and controlling directors power to a specific work for a purpose
said to you
here on the driver's seat
issues of a law that there is a success is a two-edged sword we must control i
think i
the same reluctantly them into a life of success wealth happiness and all the
things we haven't remembrance of his family
that very same market leading into the gutter
it's all the values of that
for good
awful bad
this is the strangest secret
in the world
and while i see a stranger
i'd like a lot of the secret
actually it is the secret little it was first of all get aggressively arrears
wiseman
and it appears again on again throughout the bible but very few people who earned
it understand it that's why it's strange
and lovers are equally strange reason it virtually remains a secret
i believe that you could go out and walk down the main street of your comments
one minute after another with the secret of success is
and you probably wouldn't want to one man in a month from today
this information is enormously valuable to us if we really understand it and
apart
as valuable does not only phone lines
with the lives of those around us are families employees associates and
friends
flag should be an exciting adventure
it should never be able or image of the four oh eight
derived
you should be glad to get out of bed in the morning he should be doing a job the
likes to do because he does it well
on camera growth patterns from the great
late editor in chief of the toledo daily blade make a speech
as he concluded his speech he said something i've never forgotten
my years in the newspaper business of conventioneers several things
among them
the people are basically good
and that we came from someplace
and we're going someplace
so we should make our time here an exciting adventure
the architect of the universe
didn't build a stairway
leading nowhere
and the greatest teacher walked
the carpenter from the plains and generally gave us the secret time and
time again
then she believed
so shall it be done
unto you
whether explained the strangest secret of the world and how it works
and i said i want to explain how you can prove yourself the enormously terms
possible in your own life
by putting the secret to a practical test
i want to make a test of the last thirty days
it isn't going to be easy
but if you give it a good try
it will completely change your life for the better
the back of the seventeenth century
sir isaac newton english mathematician the natural philosopher gave us the
natural laws of physics which requires much to human beings as they do the
movement of bodies in the universe
and one of these laws
is that for every action
there's and equal and opposite reaction
simply stated as it applies to you and me it means we can achieve nothing
without paying the price
the results of your thirty day experiment will be in correct proportion
to the effort you put forth
to be a doctor who has paid the price of long years of difficult study
to be successful in selling them remember the jurors succeeds to the
extent of his ability to sell
selling our families and ideas
selling education in schools
selling our children on the advantages of living the good amount of stress
selling our associates of employees on the importance of being
exceptional people
too of course the
professional show yourself
but to be successful in selling our way to the good life we must be willing to
pay the price
and what does that place
well it's many things
first it's understanding emotionally as well as intellectually
that we were literally become what we think about that we must control her
thoughts that were to control our lives
it's understanding fully that
as you so so shall you reap
it's cutting away all feathers from reminder intermediate as sore as it was
defiantly designed to do
is the realization that your limitations are self-imposed and the opportunities
for you today are enormous beyond belief
it's rising above narrow minded pettiness and prejudice
answered
is using all your courage to force yourself to think positively on your own
problem
to set a definite and clearly defined goal for yourself so much a marvelous
mind think about your goal from all possible angles
to let your imagination speculate freely upon many different possible solutions
to refuse to believe
that there are any circumstances sufficiently strong to defeat you in the
accomplishment of your papers
black promptly and decisively when you're courses clear and if you
constantly aware of the fact that you are at this moment standing in the
middle of your own acres of diamonds is russell com well used to find out
and four th
save at least ten percent
of every dollar
uber
it's also remembering that no matter what your present job that has been or
responsibilities if
you're willing to pay the price
how much as well the important points in the price each of us must pay to achieve
the wonderful life it can be ours it is of course worth any press
you will become what you think about it
remember the word imagination and the chairman begin to sort
concentrated here go every day
save ten percent of what you earn
and five
ideas are worthless
unless we act on them
auto outline the thirty-day test i want you to make you keep in mind that you
have nothing to lose by making this festive everything you could possibly
want beginning
step two things that may be said of everyone
speech was won something
impeachment specifically the something
i want you to write on a card what if you want
more than anything else
it may be more money
but you'd like to w in terminator specific amount of money
it may be a beautiful home
it may be success at your job
it may be a particular position and i think would be a more harmonious family
each of us want something right down on your card specifically what it is you
want
make sure it's a single goal and clearly defined
you need to show it to anyone but carry it with you so that you can look at it
several times a day
think about it in a cheerful relaxed positive way each morning when you get
up
and immediately have something to work for something to get out of bed for
something to live for
look at it every chance you get during the day and just before going to bed at
night
and as you look at it
remember that you must become what you think about him since you're thinking
about your gold you realize that soon it will be yours
issuers really the moment to write it down
and begin to think about it
look at the abundance all around you as you go about your daily business you
have as much right to this abundance as any other living creature is yours for
the asking
now we come to the difficult part difficult because it means the formation
of what is probably a brand new habit
and you have a tremendous reform
wants one however
it will follow you
for the rest of your life
stop thinking about what is your fear
each time a fearful of negative thoughts engineer consciousness replace it with a
mental picture of your positive and worthwhile goal
that sometimes when you feel like giving up
it's easier for a human being to think negatively them positively that's why
only five percent a successful
you must begin now to place yourself in that group
for thirty days you must take control of your mind it will think about only what
you permitted to think about
each day for this they did a test
do more than you have to do
in addition to maintaining a cheerful positive outlook
give of yourself more than you've ever done before
do this knowing that your returns in life must be indirect proportion to what
you do
the moment you decided to go to work toward your immediately a successful
person
jordandevnet
pereira successful category of people who know where they're going
out of every hundred people
you belong to the top five
don't concern yourself too much with how you're going to achieve your goal is
that completely dual power greater than yourself
all you have to do is no
where you're going
the answers will come to you
of their own accord
and at the right time
remember these words
when the sermon on the mount
and remember the mohawk
keep them constantly before you this month of your test
and it shall be given you
and you'll find it
and each of the opened unto you
for everyone net ascot received-spf
and he would seek to find it
and a number of matters
it shall be opened
is is marvelous and as simple as that
infected so simple to america
seemingly complicated world it's difficult for an adult to understand
that all he needs is a purpose
and faith
for thirty days
do your very best
if you're a salesman go at it as you've never done before an island i hate that
fashion but with a common cheerful insurance that time well spent will give
you the abundance in return you deserve and want
zero maker
devoted to debate as to completely giving of yourself without thinking
about receiving anything in return
and you'll be amazed at the difference it makes your life
no matter what your job
doing as you've never done it before for thirty days
and if you've got to go before you everyday
you wonder anymore or does he work and found that
dorothea brand outstanding editor and writer discovered it herself in terms of
our dinner find what waiting to live
our entire philosophy is reduced to the words
act as though it were impossible to fail
she made a real interest with sincerity and raise an entire life was changed one
of overwhelming success
you make do your test for thirty four days
don't stretch it just interviewed made up your mind to stick with it
casey by being persistent you're demonstrating faith
persistence is simply another word for thirty th
if you didn't have traded every person who's
if you should fare during your first thirty days
by that i mean suddenly found yourself overwhelmed by it
negative thoughts
you've got to start over again from that point and go thirty more days
gradually you and you have a grill former until you find yourself one of
its wonderful minority doing virtually nothing is impossible
and don't forget the card
it's vitally important as you begin these new way of living
on one side of the card write your goal whatever it may be
on the other side
ride the words we've quoted from the sermon on the ground
and it should be given to you
seek
initial find
and it should be opened unto you
nothing great was ever accomplished without inspiration
she the during these
crucial first thirty days your own inspiration is going to repeat
and above all
don't worry
worry brings fear and fear is crippling
the only thing that can cause you were redoing it is just trying to do it
yourself
know that all you have to do
is hold your goal before you
everything else will take care of itself
remember also to keep common cheerful told a petty things and more u_n_
get you off course
since his mistresses difficult so mostly
why should i bother
look at the alternative
no one wants to do figure no one really wants to be a mediocre individual no one
wants a lifetime story through the war in fear and frustration
therefore remember that you must leave
that which is so
if you so negative thoughts your life will be filled with negative things
if you still crazy thoughts
your life will be cheerful successful and positive
and gradually rather tendency to forget what you heard of this recording
playing often
keep reminding yourself of what you must do to form this new habit gather your
whole family around at regular intervals and listen to what's been said here
you know most men will tell you that
they want to make money without understanding the law
the only people who make money work in a moment
the rest of us must earn money
this is what causes those who keep looking for something for nothing are
free ride of their own life
the only way to burn money is by providing people
with services or products which are needed and useful
we exchange our time in our product or service for the item is money
therefore the lawyers that are permitted to return will be indirect proportion to
our service
success is not the result of making money
making money
is the result of success
and successes indirect proportion
to our service
mostly rather small backwards
they believe that
your success we're hearing a lot of money
the truth is that you can only earn money after you're successful
as like the story of the matter settings almost over the side to it
given the huge and then i read the word
how many men and women do you know ur
you suppose that today to take the same attitude toward life
there are millions
we've got to put the fee will be in
before we can expect eat
likewise we've got to be of service first
before we can expect money
don't concern yourself with the money be of service
builder work
green
create do the same time there's no limit to the prosperity of abundance will come
to you
prosperity and i was founded upon a log mutual exchange every person who
contributes to prosperity
much prosper in turn himself
sometimes returnable not come from abusive but it must come to you from
someplace
because that's the law
for every action there is a beacon on opposite reaction
as you go directly to your thirty day grace period remember that your success
will always be measured by the quality and quantity absorbers you're under
and money is a yardstick
formation in his service
no man can get rich himself
and i see images others
i don't know exceptions to a law
you can go down any street in america and from your car estimate the services
being rendered whether people living on the street
have you ever thought of the judge did before
it's interesting
some white ministers and priests and other devoted people measure they
returned to the realm of the spiritual but again their returns are equal to
their service
once this was fully understood anything conversion contenders on fortune city
once more you must be of more service for those who only refuses return
everyone's less is only to reduce the service
this is the price you must pay for what you want
if you believe you can enrich yourself by diluting others
you can end only by deluding yourself
it may take some time but just as surely as you breathe you'll get back what you
put out
don't ever make a mistake of thinking you convert this
it's impossible
the prisons in the streets with only walker filled with people who tried to
make new laws just for themselves
we may have or there was a man for a while
but they are greater laws that cannot be broken
an outstanding medical doctor lee's report about six steps will help you
realize success one
such as of a definite go
appointing yourself down
stop thinking of all the reasons why you cannot be successful in instead think of
all the reasons why you can
treasure attitudes back from your childhood
antenna discover when you first got the idea you could be successful
if that's the way you completely
change the image you have them yourself by writing out a description of the
person you would like to be
and six
at the park of the successful person you have decided to become
the doctor who wrote those words is a noted west coast of texas
doctor david hale fainter
do what the experts since the dawn of recorded history of told you you must do
pay the price by becoming the person you want to become it's not nearly as
difficult for them successfully major thirty-day testing repeated and repeated
again
and each time it will become more a part of you
until you wonder how you could ever lived in the other way
how does this mean way in the floodgates of abundance www open and pour over you
more which is that you may have dreamed existed
here's what's a bit
there was more important
you have to use
you'll be in that wonderful minority leader tom cheerful successful writers
start today
you have nothing to lose
but you have a whole life to end
there's already a return to you