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The moment you permit your mind to dwell with dissatisfaction upon things as they are, you begin to lose ground.
To permit your mind to dwell upon the inferior is to become inferior and to surround yourself with inferior things.
On the other hand, to fix your attention on the best is to surround yourself with the best, and to become the best.
Certainly truth in this. Surround yourself with the best people and you'll rise to their standards.
The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best; therefore it tends to become the best; it takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best.
It is necessary, then, to cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you; and to give thanks continuously.
Think of the riches the world is coming into, instead of the poverty it is growing out of;
Your thought makes all things, animate and inanimate, work to bring you what you want;
Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now.
Do not wait for a change of environment, before you act; get a change of environment by action.
You can so act upon the environment in which you are now, as to cause yourself to be transferred to a better environment.
man must pass from the competitive to the creative mind; he must form a clear mental picture of the things he wants, and hold this picture in his thoughts with the fixed purpose to get what he wants, and the unwavering faith that he does get what he wants,
It is really not the 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.
The cause of failure is doing too many things in an inefficient manner, and not doing enough things in an efficient manner.
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.
Do not boast or brag of your success, or talk about it unnecessarily; true faith is never boastful.
Wherever you find a boastful person, you find one who is secretly doubtful and afraid.
