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Habits become fixed by some unknown law of nature which causes the impulses of thought to be taken over by the subconscious mind and voluntarily carried out.
Last, but by no means least, organised thinking leads to peace of mind and that form of permanent happiness which is known only to the man who keeps his mind fully occupied. No one can be either happy or successful without a planned program for the use of his time. Planned programs are based on organised thinking.
There is no escape from the fact that the formation of a Master Mind alliance is one of the most important major steps one must take in order to organise his thinking, evidence of which may be found in the fact that all successful people are allied, in one way or another, with others whose knowledge they use freely.
You have the right idea. Organised Thought must be followed by expression, through organised plans of action! One does not grow mentally or spiritually by passive thought alone. Growth is the result of thought expressed through voluntarily developed and definitely controlled habits of action.
Where will I get the capital? Who will help me?” And I shall reply that men who accomplish anything worthy of mention always begin before everything they need is in hand.
As I listen to what you say, Mr. Carnegie, I am impressed more and more with the thought that success is more a matter of right mental attitude than it is education.
And here is how he expresses his action consciousness: When he makes a sale, he induces the buyer to give him a list of other prospective buyers of insurance. He also often manages to get his clients to go with him in person and introduce him to their friends. I think his superior sales record rests almost, if not entirely, upon this one action feat. You see, he forms his clients into an endless chain of cooperative effort, and has, in effect, a large group of men assisting him in selling without having them on his payroll.
In a similar manner, every successful man comes under the influence of some other person who fires his imagination with an idea that becomes obsessional with him. Sometimes the source of this outside inspiration is attained by remote control, through the reading of a book. But always there is a turning point in every successful person’s life which marks the place at which he came under the influence of another mind that inspired him with higher aims and nobler purposes.
Yes, and you might add that if you know a great deal about your enemies you stand a fair chance of being able to convert them into friends.
Persistence is nothing but an indomitable will, plus a definite motive to inspire action.
The alliance of two or more minds, working in perfect harmony for the attainment of a definite purpose, has the effect of stimulating the mind of each person in the alliance, and results in providing the members of the alliance, or some individual in the group, with a source of knowledge that sometimes cannot be traced to the accumulated knowledge of any of the individuals.
that the same law of nature which changes harmless chemical elements into deadly poison, by the mere act of combining them, changes also the vibrations of thought, when mixed in certain combinations, to an antagonising influence.
Through its operation, things that are suited to one another, in the great scheme of life, have a natural tendency to get together.
He has conditioned his brain to attract to himself only such people and material things as he desires.
Attention, one’s mental attitude has become predominantly positive; many of the self-imposed limitations of doubt
and discouragement and lack of self-reliance have disappeared; one moves with definiteness in all he does; he has no room left in his mind for thoughts of failure; he is so busily engaged in carrying out the object of his major purpose that he has no time to hesitate or procrastinate; moreover, he has no desire to do so.
He is no longer held back by indecision and doubt.
He no longer dissipates his energies, either by the overindulgence of his positive emotions or by giving expression to his negative emotions.
Long before this point will have been reached, the master of this philosophy will have stopped ‘guessing’, and he will have formed the habit of building plans based on known facts, or reasonable hypotheses of facts.
but he will have acquired the habit of going back into his memory and profiting by all his previous defeats.
