YOU must use your thought as directed in
previous chapters, and begin to do what you can do where you are; and you must
do ALL that you can do where you are.
You can advance only be being larger
than your present place; and no man is larger than his present place who leaves
undone any of the work pertaining to that place.
The world is advanced only by those who
more than fill their present places.
If no man quite filled his present
place, you can see that there must be a going backward in everything. Those who
do not quite fill their present places are dead weight upon society,
government, commerce, and industry; they must be carried along by others at a
great expense. The progress of the world is retarded only by those who do not
fill the places they are holding; they belong to a former age and a lower stage
or plane of life, and their tendency is toward degeneration. No society could advance
if every man was smaller than his place; social evolution is guided by the law
of physical and mental evolution. In the animal world, evolution is caused by
excess of life.
When an organism has more life than can
be expressed in the functions of its own plane, it develops the organs of a
higher plane, and a new species is originated.
There never would have been new species
had there not been organisms which more than filled their places. The law is
exactly the same for you; your getting rich depends upon your applying this
principle to your own affairs.
Every day is either a successful day or
a day of failure; and it is the successful days which get you what you want. If
every day is a failure, you can never get rich; while if every day is a
success, you cannot fail to get rich.
If there is something that may be done
today, and you do not do it, you have failed in so far as that thing is
concerned; and the consequences may be more disastrous than you imagine.
You cannot foresee the results of even the
most trivial act; you do not know the workings of all the forces that have been
set moving in your behalf. Much may be depending on your doing some simple act;
it may be the very thing which is to open the door of opportunity to very great
possibilities. You can never know all the combinations which Supreme
Intelligence is making for you in the world of things and of things and of
human affairs; your neglect or failure to do some small thing may cause a long
delay in getting what you want.
Do, every day, ALL that can be done that
day.
There is, however, a limitation or
qualification of the above that you must take into account.
You are not to overwork, nor to rush
blindly into your business in the effort to do the greatest possible number of
things in the shortest possible time.
You are not to try to do tomorrow's work
today, nor to do a week's work in a day.
It is really not he number of things you
do, but the EFFICIENCY of each separate action that counts.
Every act is, in itself, either a
success or a failure.
Every act is, in itself, either
effective or inefficient.
Every inefficient act is a failure, and
if you spend your life in doing inefficient acts, your whole life will be a
failure.
The more things you do, the worse for
you, if all your acts are inefficient ones.
On the other hand, every efficient act
is a success in itself, and if every act of your life is an efficient one, your
whole life MUST be a success.
The cause of failure is doing too many
things in an inefficient manner, and not doing enough things in an efficient
manner.
You will see that it is a self-evident
proposition that if you do not do any inefficient acts, and if you do a
sufficient number of efficient acts, you will become rich. If, now, it is
possible for you to make each act an efficient one, you see again that the
getting of riches is reduced to an exact science, like mathematics.
The matter turns, then, on the questions
whether you can make each separate act a success in itself. And this you can
certainly do.
You can make each act a success, because
ALL Power is working with you; and ALL Power cannot fail.
Power is at your service; and to make
each act efficient you have only to put power into it.
Every action is either strong or weak;
and when everyone is strong, you are acting in the Certain Way which will make
you rich.
Every act can be made strong and
efficient by holding your vision while you are doing it, and putting the whole
power of your FAITH and PURPOSE into it.
It is at this point that the people fail
who separate mental power from personal action. They use the power of mind in
one place and at one time, and they act in another pace and at another time. So
their acts are not successful in themselves; too many of them are inefficient.
But if ALL Power goes into every act, no matter how commonplace, every act will
be a success in itself; and as in the nature of things every success opens the
way to other successes, your progress toward what you want, and the progress of
what you want toward you, will become increasingly rapid.
Remember that successful action is
cumulative in its results. Since the desire for more life is inherent in all
things, when a man begins to move toward larger life more things attach
themselves to him, and the influence of his desire is multiplied.
Do, every day, all that you can do that
day, and do each act in an efficient manner.
In saying that you must hold your vision
while you are doing each act, however trivial or commonplace, I do not mean to
say that it is necessary at all times to see the vision distinctly to its
smallest details. It should be the work of your leisure hours to use your
imagination on the details of your vision, and to contemplate them until they
are firmly fixed upon memory. If you wish speedy results, spend practically all
your spare time in this practice.
By continuous contemplation you will get
the picture of what you want, even to the smallest details, so firmly fixed
upon your mind, and so completely transferred to the mind of Formless
Substance, that in your working hours you need only to mentally refer to the
picture to stimulate your faith and purpose, and cause your best effort to be
put forth. Contemplate your picture in your leisure hours until your
consciousness is so full of it that you can grasp it instantly. You will become
so enthused with its bright promises that the mere thought of it will call
forth the strongest energies of your whole being.
Let us again repeat our syllabus, and by
slightly changing the closing statements bring it to the point we have now
reached.
There is a thinking stuff from which all
things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and
fills the interspaces of the universe.
A thought, in this substance, Produces
the thing that is imaged by the thought.
Man can form things in his thought, and,
by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he
thinks about to be created.
In order to do this, man must pass from
the competitive to the creative mind; he must form a clear mental picture of
the things he wants, and do, with faith and purpose, all that can be done each
day, doing each separate thing in an efficient manner.
In the next post, ‘Gettinginto the Right Business’.
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