With movies like ‘The Secret’ and ‘What the Bleep Do We Know’, and books like ‘The Attractor Factor’ by Joe Vitale and the resurfacing of ‘The Law of Success’ by Napoleon Hill, people increasingly realize that they can have much more success in life, if only they knew ‘the secret’ that all these sources talk about.
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In taking inventory of our mental assets and liabilities, one of our greatest liabilities is that of lack of self confidence. That is mine for sure but I am taking steps to eliminate that weakness in my life and transform it into self assurance. I remember as a child, I was so timid that any time a care drove by our rural dirt road in front of the house, I would literally hide behind a tree. I played guitar and wrote music, all in the safety of my bedroom and if anyone were to hear me (and I knew it), I would immediately stop. It certainly didn’t help matters any when my mother would tell me to be quiet, she wanted to hear her soap operas on TV and would seriously tell me I was not good at it. She knew I was an artistic type but she made it clear that she prefer I pursued painting or something else that was quiet. I really was much better at music than art. That’s what I loved.
That little true story was the root of my insecurities, lack of self confidence, that had been instilled in me since I was a child. Each of us has a story like that, even if we had forgotten about it. Some authors I have read suggest we must go back to those “beginnings” and as an adult, change the way we feel about those incidences, deliberately and purposefully, in order to be healed from the negative emotions that made a deep, lasting impression on us. The problem was, HOW? How do we even know where to look for the “beginnings”? In my research, I found an answer.
Here is the self confidence formula.
Write this down, commit it to memory, say it aloud every day with FAITH (please check one of my previous articles if you don’t know how get more faith). It will gradually influence your thoughts and actions so that you will become a self-reliant and successful person.
Today’s post is not an original. It is taken directly from Napoleon Hill’s book “Think and Grow Rich”. This is one of my favorite books next to the Holy Bible. It contains many universal laws put in layman’s terms so we all can understand just how to work with those laws. Bob Proctor of the “Secret” also studies from this book and uses much of it in his courses. I encourage you to get a hold of this book and study it for yourself. You can download it at no cost at Bob’s Six Munites to Success. This excerpt is so well written, I thought it best to give it to straight from his own book, without any “intrepratation” from me.
FAITH IS A STATE OF MIND THAT MAY BE INDUCED BY AUTO-SUGGESTION
All down the ages, religionists have admonished struggling humanity to “have faith” in this, that, and other dogma or creed, but they have failed to tell people HOW to have faith. Thay have not stated that “faith is a state of mind, and that it may be induced by self suggestion.”
In a language that any normal human being can understand, we will describe all that is known about the principle through which FAITH may be developed where it does not already exist.
Have faith in yourself; Faith in the Infinite.
Before you begin, you should be reminded again that FAITH is the “eternal elixir”, which gives life, power and action to the impulse of thought.” The foregoing sentence is worth reading a second time, and a third, and a fourth. It is worth reading aloud!
FAITH is the starting point of all accumulation of riches.
FAITH is the basis of all “miracles” and all mysteries which can not be analyzed by the rules of science.
FAITH is the only known antidote for FAILURE.
FAITH is the element, the “chemical”, which when mixed with prayer gives one direct communication with Infinite Intelligence.
FAITH is the element which transforms the ordinary vibration of thought, created by the finite mind of man, into the spiritual equivalent.
FAITH is the only agency through which the cosmic force of Infinite Intelligence can be harnessed and used by man.
EVERY ONE OF THE FOREGOING STATEMENTS IS CAPABLE OF PROOF. …
It is a well known fact that one comes. finally, to BELIEVE in whatever one repeats to one’s self, whether it be true or false. If a man repeats a lie over and over, he will eventually accept the lie as truth. Moreover, he will BELIEVE it to be truth. Every man is what he is, is because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which he permits to occupy his mind. Thoughts which a man places in his own mind, and encourages with sympathy, and with which he mixes one or more of the emotions, constitute the motivating forces, which direct and control his every movement, act and deed.
Comes now a very significant statement of TRUTH:
THOUGHTS WHICH ARE MIXED WITH ANY OF THE FEELINGS OF EMOTIONS, CONSTITUTES A “MAGNETIC” FORCE WHICH ATTRACTS, FROM THE VIBRATIONS OF THE ETHER, OTHER SIMILAR OR RELATED THOUGHTS. A thought thus “magnetized” with emotion may be compared to a seed which grows and multiplies itself over and over again, until that which was originally one small seed becomes countless millions of seeds of the SAME BRAND.
Now back to my own thoughts;
Can you get the idea of just how powerful your thoughts and words are? What you think about (in your heart or subconscious) is who you are. Out of that, comes your words, which are a creative force in itself. You must take EVERY thought captive to the TRUTH…get rid of those that are not!
