Nuggets from “As a man thinketh” by James Allen --Final Chapter

(Explanation to the final chapter of “As a man thinketh”)

Serenity


Mind is like a monkey—it wanders and keeps on wandering if one doesn’t have control over it. 

Majority of people have little or no control over this “wandering” nature of the mind and as a result lacks that precious gift it can give itself, and for what many of us are longing for—THE CALMNESS OF MIND.


If you have been suffering from lack of calmness you already have had enough experience behind you which taught you the need for peace of mind. Chances are you already may be seasoned to some extent by the “hard knocks” you may have experienced by your “sour” experiences.


From this time forward you can resolve to be a person who enjoys great control over your mind for your success and more importantly a person who has excellent “calmness” maintained deep inside himself/herself. You can, if you resolve to be, have that ever-elusive “self-control” over your temper and remain calm like an undisturbed lake irrespective of the external conditions and circumstances.


Remember you are a thought-evolved human being in whom everything is based on your thoughts and this includes your success and failures or your peace of mind or want of it. The more you understand this truth, the truth of cause and effect, the more self-control you can exercise over your thoughts to remain calm and think with crystal-clear thoughts which pave the way for your success.


A man or woman who has understood that the thoughts cause the results in their life in harmony with the kind of thoughts they think, whether good or bad, they stop complaining about life and start to work on their current situation by taking effective actions in the right directions with a calm and serene mind.


People respect a man or woman who is calm and steady amidst storms of bad situation or condition. These kinds of people are looked upon as role models and moreover they are relied upon.


When you have mastered this art of staying calm under pressure and other external “tornadoes” you can succeed in any business, any job or any endeavor, big or small, which you may pursue in your life. That is the secret of supreme men and women.


Once you have become a conqueror of your inner peace you would be the same with people at all times. You may be facing a challenge in your business or a tough client, but you wouldn’t be transferring those frustrations to your employees by venting your temper as you wouldn’t be in a bad mood at all as not a single  bad situation has dominion over you! You are a calm master who is serene at all times!!


Now you are not like most of the people who lack the power over their temper and emotion and who are devoid of “calmness of mind”. They lose their temper at the drop of a hat and find it difficult to get a grip. But not you! You are calm and composed at every moment of your waking hours and obviously when you are sleeping not releasing your grip to the evil powers of ill-tempers and bad emotions.


There are scores of popular examples of icons in all walks of life that are available which says the lost chances or opportunities, ruined lives, marred characters, etc just because of losing ones peace of mind due to deficiency in command over the mind.


Let this series of articles on “As a man thinketh” fulfills its journey today with the words of the man himself who wrote the “As a man thinketh”, JAMES ALLEN,


“Keep your hand firmly upon the helm of thought. In the bark of your soul reclines the commanding master; He does but sleep; wake Him. Self-control is strength; right thought is mastery; CALMNESS IS POWER.”


Just wake Him who is sleeping inside you dear reader and you’ll see that day of transformation the next moment!!


Great journey ahead of you!!

Wish you all the riches to come with God’s blessings


Success Messenger

Go thunk yourself Day 11 — The power of words

Go thunk yourself Day 11 — The power of words

(The ideas that have been learned from the book “Go thunk yourself” by Dr. Robert C. Worstell, are being shared. This is the Eleventh principle)

We communicate through words most of the time—whether this communication is with others or with ourselves.

Words are not just array of letters but a very powerful tool for communication. They have the great potential to affect the human beings, positively or negatively, depending upon the way they are used.

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale made a remarkable statement when he said,

“The words we speak have a direct and definite effect upon our thoughts. Thoughts create words, for words are the vehicles of ideas. But words also effect thoughts and help to condition if not to create attitudes. In fact, what often passes for thinking starts with talk. Therefore if the average conversation is scrutinized and disciplined to be sure that it contains peaceful  expressions, the result will be peaceful ideas and ultimately, therefore, a peaceful mind.”

Thoughts affect ones words and interesting enough, words also affect the thoughts. Now if could be selective (not so very much consciously as it is impossible) with words he or she uses and use the kind of words that brightens their day as opposed to the words that put them down, they  could reap the benefits of good thoughts and hence productive actions.

So how can you use WORDS to help you? By using “Affirmations”.

So, one can use “Affirmations” to help him or her in their quest for success. Affirmations are simple lines or phrases that you write on a piece of paper and repeat reading with emotions everyday.

“But in what way affirmations are connected with my success?” you may ask.

As you have been following through all these weeks on the success principles that have been laid down by Dr.Robert C.Worstell, you would by now have the VISION (your idea of an ideal life and what you want in your life) and have tremendous faith in yourself in and in your vision backed by action steps or plans.

The reason for bringing this principle of “vision” is that the affirmations, which we have just seen, are the shorter statements of your vision. In other words the affirmations are small positive statements about what you want in life or what you want to become. Your VISION put in words in a mini-version of statement(s) is your affirmations. Your affirmation reminds you about the “Big picture” or the “complete perspective” you have as your VISION.

So unless you have conceived a VISION first for yourself you cannot write down any effective and meaningful affirmations. You must know the PURPOSE and you must know where you are heading and what you WANT!!

One other important point to stress is that people don’t get expected result as they should because their affirmations are too GENERAL. You got to be specific in mentioning what you want in your life.
Affirmations are a wonderful and a powerful way to start your day. Just write down your affirmations based on your visions and read them aloud in the morning and have them in front of you all the time. This is what
 Dr.Napoleon Hill, the legendary success counselor of the last century, had to say about employing affirmations:

“AS YOU READ – SEE AND FEEL AND BELIEVE YOURSELF AS ALREADY IN POSSESSION OF THE MONEY.”


As you read your affirmations SEE (Visualize) them and believe that you ALREADY HAVE your vision materialized.

Commit the affirmations to a piece of paper:


Dr.Robert C.Worstell warns us about the inefficiency that could be felt in the attainment of results if the affirmations are not committed in writing. If you want to become what you want to, then you got to write your affirmations on a note book or on an index card and carry it with you everywhere you go and review it whenever you get a chance.

This act of reviewing your affirmations will buttress your faith and your desire which in turn would cause you to take actions in the directions you have to head!

Dr.Robert C.Worstell cited the example of what Dr.Stephen R.Covey, author of “The 7 habits of highly effective people” said about affirmations and visualization.

“In effective personal leadership, VISUALIZATION AND AFFIRMATION techniques emerge naturally out of a foundation of well thought through purposes and principles that become the center of a person’s life. THEY ARE EXTREMELY POWERFUL in re-scripting and re-programming, into writing deeply committed-to purposes and principles INTO ONE’S HEART AND MIND. ”


Affirmation is a very powerful tool which you can use for overcoming your limiting beliefs and character traits that are holding you back as affirmation directly affect the subconscious mind which is the reason why you are behaving and acting the way you do now! You can always change them if you do not like them through the power of “WORDS” – the affirmations!!

Wish you all the riches to come with God’s blessings

Success Messenger

Nuggets from “As a man thinketh” by James Allen 6th chapter PART-1

 

(Explanation to the 6th chapter of “As a man thinketh”)

Vision and ideals:

One recognizes immediately when they happen to hear the number 486, which is one of the older computers from the 1980’s era. But if the same person were to be spurred by a train of thoughts by his/her own inquisitive mind and thinks all the way from the 486 era, he/she sure was to for an astounding truth, which is that the computers have come a long way since the 1980’s and the modern computers, as an evolution, are more powerful and has umpteen features.

This is not true for the computers alone but for everything one is in contact with, such as internet, motor vehicles, building technologies, movies, medicine, etc.

All these things have been possible because of one kind of people!

They are… the DREAMERS! The daring dreamers!!

If it weren’t for the dreamers the world we are living would still be a primitive one making our lives the toughest one on the planet with us battling it to survive with the wild animals and other epidemic diseases!

There wouldn’t be posh malls, medical break-throughs, internet to connect with people around the globe, telephones and mobiles to communicate, airplanes to get to another country, trains or any other mode of fast transportation to get to another place, laser treatment for myopia, or you name it.

By dreamers, these lines are not suggesting that they are some people who live somewhere on the other end of the planet or someone in some other city or province. You may think that the dreamers who change the world could be anyone but not you. But let me remind you— you have also been mentioned in the above lines when they made a mention about “dreamers”.

So what do you have to do toward this end and make a difference in this world by your presence?

James Allen said,

“He who cherishes a BEAUTIFUL VISION, A LOFTY IDEAL IN HIS HEART, WILL ONE DAY REALIZE IT. “

One got to have a beautiful vision of what he/she wants to in his/her life. This would be related to his/her passion—the thing that he/she would love to do and would be in bliss when the person is doing it for himself/herself or for others as a service and simultaneously changing the world as a dreamer.

Nevertheless, the significant step toward holding and fostering ones vision is that one got to be TRUE to it, COMMITTED to it and follow through, and one day your vision would be your reality, stressed James Allen.

Further secret to success is continued in the second and the final part.

Wish you all the riches to come with God’s blessings


Success Messenger

Nuggets from “As a man thinketh” by James Allen 6th chapter PART-2

 

(Explanation to the 6th chapter of “As a man thinketh”)

Vision and ideals:

The second part continues with more insight about James Allen’s wisdom.

Have high ideals:

As what you dream or what you visualize inside is the promise for your better future, it is imperative that you got to have lofty dreams, high ideals and purest thoughts that forge you ahead.

In the wise words of James Allen,

“Your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.”

You may wonder at first whether your dream was possible but… every big achievement was at first a DREAM that was nourished deep inside the dreamer’s mind, even when the world was against the dream or scoffed at it!!

The now big tree standing above the smaller ones was once a sapling

The mighty lion with its manly mane was once a cub!

The fantastic billionaire Oprah Winfrey was once a common girl!

It is exactly the same for you as well. Your dreams may seem small and unachievable now. But if you keep nurturing it, it would grow to size of a “Godzilla”. It may be just an idea inside you but time will convert it into a fortune for you and a great blessing for others, if you are true to it and believe in it like all the dreamers…

Your conditions cannot put shackles on you if you have high ideals and goals; you would break them how many times they may try to detain you!!

If your present conditions have you in bondage never think that you cannot overcome it even for a second.

Let the condition be what it is now but you go out and think of what you want to be. Think about how you want your life to be and what you want to do in spite of your discouraging, adverse conditions.

As soon as you conceive an ideal and have been reinforcing it inside by thinking about it most of the time during a day, soon you’ll get that “URGE” which pushes you into action, as action is the essence of achievements.

Your until then latent powers and resources would come to your aid and they would start to develop into a magnificent proportions.

You will start to see opportunities around you, you will no longer wanted to be in the confinements of your workplace and want to move forward for a better job or business so as to make your ideal into reality.

ONE GOOD TRUTH THAT CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE IS: You will always gravitate toward your vision that you have inside you— whether it is good or bad.

It all starts with the thoughts of yours. That’s why it is important to have good thoughts soaking your brain 24/7 irrespective of your outer circumstances.

One falls or rises depending upon the kind of thoughts he/she thinks!!

EFFORT AND RESULT:

Many men and women look at the successful ones and say that how lucky they were or how life favored them but they miss the other half of the story which really accounts for their success. These successful people sacrificed many things and have to undergo a lot of pains and disappointments before they reached the zenith of success. They did their home work. They gave before they got things.

So, it is these causes that are the reason for their seemingly lucky “Effects”.

People see the effect but many often they fail to see the cause!!

And one of those causes is that these people, all of them, had vision in them, a mark they set for themselves when they started out!! And more importantly they stayed honest to their aims!!!

Every marvelous result must have the necessary EFFORT, as there is no such thing as chance when it comes to real BIG achievements.

And all the causes have their beginnings in the “cherished ideals”.

Wish you all the riches to come with God’s blessings


Success Messenger

Are you ready?

 

A very hungry cat searches for a mouse… and he gets his mouse sooner!


What if that cat missed that mouse?


He would get another in just a short while.


What if he missed that second mouse too!?


He would get a third one for sure!


And what if… Stop… Stop!!


Okay…to put it in another words, the bottom line is, that cat is very well prepared and is very skillful as he has made himself an expert in capturing his food—Mr/Mrs Mouse!


No matter what the situation or his external surroundings may be, as he is well prepared for the occasion, he will, with out fail, will get results, be successful and will not stop until his appetite is satiated. Opportunities have made an ally with him.


But there are other cats that aren’t skillful, and wonder why they couldn’t find a mouse. They have no clue of what’s happening.


The same is true, gentleman and gentlewoman, for you too!


When the cat misses an opportunity he creates one! He has prepared himself for what is expected of him.


That is the difference between one who is searching for the opportunity without preparation and the one who is well prepared and could generate opportunities at will, literally!


One way to get more opportunities is to become thoroughly prepared for great things.


Many opportunities are missed out like grains of sands slipping though the fingers, just because of lack of the expected standard or the lack of one or more key elements that are needed in a field of work.


There is famous line by the philosopher Seneca: 

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

Actually there is no such thing as luck, in the strictest form. The big things or the great achievements are not attained by mere chance. They are all the result of the preparation by men and women who had toiled themselves, sacrificed many things, and learned many skills before they reached milestones.


Whenever one happens to witness any notable success he/she could be sure that the success is a result of preparation of an individual or a group!


Several big shots finally arrived where they are now, only after they understood that in order to succeed in their field they got to improve their standards or learn a new skill or improve their expertise or knowledge or improve their character, etc. Once they understood that they need to be at a certain level to succeed, they quit searching for opportunities and started to work on themselves.


What happened?


This time opportunities were searching for them!!


Hence they wound up where there are now and still are being chased by opportunities!!


Now that is the secret—when you are prepared and ready… you will start seeing many opportunities which had played “hide and seek” with you!!


Have you been thinking why some people seem to get the opportunities fall into their laps while others, whatever they do or however they do, don’t find themselves in the right place where opportunities go for a stroll?


Just consider this. The sports celebrities are literally followed by companies 24/7 for endorsements. They are booked by big teams. Producers and directors flock toward the movie stars. People long for an appointment with top-class ophthalmologists. And so is the case with other people who are “successes” in every walk of life.


Now why would people get attracted to these stars?


Because, with no exception, they all could “get the job done” and get the “result” that are needed or mostly, wanted!


They are all very well prepared for the vocation, their profession!! They once fixed in their mind what they wanted to be and did their job by preparing themselves!


They took the effort and underwent the needed training, educating themselves, changing themselves when need arouse, and sometimes had to bear many heart breaks and sufferings before they made it to the grand stadium!!


You have what they have. But to be like them, you have to be what they are—by preparation!!


Use your “haves” and transform yourselves into the necessary “be”.


Mind you dear all, you are no different and you are not left alone, for the greatest power is within you, for you and to help you at all times!!


Just give your heart to it and put your heart into your work. Make a vow that you would prepare yourself, how tough the task maybe or whatever sufferings you may have to experience!!


Why undergo such a process?


For yourself! Maybe also for your mama or papa or for your beloved ones!! Or maybe for your children!!!


Just say for one final time,


“The ordinary and mediocre me is dead and I am a new incarnation now that is going to do miraculous works and I will prepare myself so that, like those international stars I too would be pursued ardently by opportunities throughout my life. Here I go!!”


Make a plan for how you are going to prepare and what you need and start hunting! The world is yours!!

Wish you all the riches to come with God’s blessings

Success Messenger

Go thunk yourself Day 10 — Blessed if you could increase your “Faith”

 

Go thunk yourself Day 10 — Blessed if you could increase your “Faith”

(The ideas that have been learned from the book “Go thunk yourself” by Dr. Robert C. Worstell, are being shared. This is the Tenth principle)

There is only one place in the whole world where one can find and develop FAITH, which is the main essence of success and ever-increasing abundance.

And there is one person who has been especially blessed to give you the faith that you need for your success.

Unlike other people who has tried to convince this person and failed to give them the faith you can by all means convince this man to help you give you the FAITH you needed.

Right now if you are in a swimming pool with undisturbed water look him/her from the reflection you would see when you see this person.

Or you could know his/her name when you take out your passport and look  in the in the space against “NAME”.

What does FAITH has to do with you? A great deal!

From the above thoughts it is an irrefutable fact that FAITH is self-generated for others can’t help you change your mind and thoughts to change your FAITH neither you could do the same to others.

You yourself are the master of your destiny the administrator of your computer called LIFE.

If at all any virus or spy wares or any of those “destructor” invades your computer it is your duty to eliminate them. IN life we do this by monitoring our thoughts, thereby your attitudes and behaviors which vastly determine your future.

The Antivirus or any of those “Anti’s” that are against your anxieties, worries, doubt, etc is the “Faith”.

Even the scientists have FAITH as their pedestal wherein lies there great statue of research.
Without faith nothing is possible!

Self-confidence is the FAITH that you have in yourself.

Trust is the FAITH in others.

As said before FAITH is self-generated. You can always have more faith in your VISION. If you keep on increasing your faith in your vision you’ll find that your vision is an absolute possible that it has become more real for you to materialize. This will help you to make the process of bringing your vision into a reality faster.

Consider that you have a vision but you lack the FAITH in it. So to increase the FAITH simply act as if you have already have a tremendous FAITH in your vision and soon you will.

The technique is to start believing that you already have that which you don’t, in this case it is FAITH, and you’ll soon have FAITH pouring out of you like a fountain!

More Faith is just an alteration of your thoughts and therefore your complete outlook of a problem. The more you could bring your thoughts into alignment to be an ally for you, the more FAITH you can develop and the more success you are going to enjoy!!

Ever since you started reading the lessons in the “Go thunk yourself philosophy” you have been creating faith and developing it all along—by changing your thought patterns, by creating a vision for yourself, etc.

When you swim in water you have faith that your limb movements would keep you afloat and that’s why you take a plunge however deep the water is. Now that is faith in action.

Dr.Napolen Hill points out that FAITH is a habit which could be developed through autosuggestion which is repeating a set of thoughts to yourself until your consciously rational mind allows it to enter your subconscious mind which is unlimited and could produce anything you wish in your life.

So, when you visualize the ideal picture of your goal while repeating the affirmation with faith, you are actually even more increasing your faith that your vision could come to a pass!

Wish you all the riches to come with God’s blessings

Success Messenger

The difference between great people and others

 

It’s true that little “great” in “great people” is responsible for what they are, where they are and who they are!

Now does this mean that those seemingly great ones, or sometimes called as “genius” or “lucky ones” or “ones who have the pull” got this “great” title in their birth?

By any stretch of imagination, it… is …not… the true case!

People may have inherited wealth and other riches, may have the influence or other privileges, but these are so very few when compared to the total number of people who are the great ones, or to be more precise, who have become the “great” ones.

Even then, people who have been the “lucky” ones in their birth had to maintain their success or all the other privileges. It’s no easy task by any standard. That means, if they had not become the man/woman who could sustain their success they couldn’t have been known among us today.

Now for your information– most of them earned their entitlement “great” by their own efforts and commitments.

Great people do everything in a great way. They take great efforts and their commitments are great not to forget their character. This doesn’t refer to the talents or skills, for to succeed one doesn’t need to be wonderfully blessed with one-in-a-million talent. What this “great” refers to is that successful people do things with that “extra” tag attached to them. They execute even the smallest of tasks to the best of their potential.

The moment of transformation comes when you say to yourself that you would do things whether they are small or big, important or less important, in a great way and that you would take steps that seem miracles in the eyes of ordinary people who, as a sign of lack of self-confidence, doubt themselves.

When other salesmen or women make 100 calls the “greats” make 300 or so calls. They keep doing this over and over and over. They are not afraid of the prospect buyer as they have “great” hope in their products or services and in themselves.

When other people watch the clock in the office to go home, the “great” ones watch the opportunities that lie beyond the clock, after the regular office hours and they deliberately stay late.

When other moms inquire their children periodically about their studies, the “great” ones go their school to find whether their children are having any obstacles or how they are doing and how they could improve! They literally create a two-way communication channel with the school authorities and they don’t fear the school authorities.

When others stop at the first hurdle the “great” ones keep on marching forward with “great” effort going past hurdle after hurdle.

When others fail to honor their word, the “great” ones even go out of their way sweating “greatly” to honor their promise.

When other fellow class mates are enjoying their time in parties (more than necessary and quite frequently) the “great” ones are spending their time wisely in the libraries and with their professors.

It’s these small “extra” steps they take, that extra commitments they put, that integrity that the “great” ones have make them great, and not their birth privileges.

In turn, they seem to defy even the toughest of situations in life and the cruelest obstacles and challenges that they face.

These “baddies” after all have no other way but ally with these “great” ones after a certain time helping them to be even greater.

This moment may be that defining moment for you, for if want to join the ranks of the “greats” start being one of them and doing what they do—the “extra” things!

Your crown will find your head promptly!!

Wish you all the riches to come with God’s blessings

Success Messenger