[Writerpreneur] Day 6, Lesson 0106: Your Magic of Believing Creates Your Own Success
There is a magic in simply believing. Claude M. Bristol tells you how this creates your writing and publishing success...
While it may be that you want riches or fame or position or knowledge, each person has their own idea of what success means. But whatever you consider it to be, you can have your objective, provided you are willing to make it the burning desire of your life.
For any personal success — and this is an important point — it is essential that your desire become an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aims be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without let-up.
The first thing to determine is precisely what you want. Starting in with the general idea that you merely want to be a success, as most people do, is too indefinite. You must have a mental pattern clearly drawn in your mind.
Ask yourself, where am I headed? What is my goal? Have I visualized just what I really want? If success is to be measured in terms of wealth, can you fix the amount and figures? If in terms of achievement, can you specify it definitely? I asked these questions — for in their answers are factors which will determine your whole life from now on.
Therefore it is vital that you know exactly what you want out of life. You must know where you are headed and you must keep a fixed goal in view. That, of course is the overall picture. It makes no difference whether you want a job or a better one, a new house, a place in the country, or just a new pair of shoes. You must have a fixed idea before you'll obtain what you are after.
Our fear thoughts are just as magnetic at attracting troubles to us as our constructive and positive thoughts attract positive results. So no matter what the character of the thought, it does create after its kind. When this sinks into a man's consciousness, he gets some inkling of the awe inspiring power which is his to use.
You can prove this to yourself in countless ways. You will find that thoughts, ideas, fantasies will ebb and flow through your mind. With astonishing rapidity, you are constantly being swayed by what you read, see and hear. And as a result, the coordinating part of this creative force turns to gather together all these scattered elements into a confused mass instead of devoting itself to making a clear and dynamic picture of your desire.
Don't be afraid of over-doing, or becoming extravagant with your wishes and desires because, as I said before, you can have every single thing you wish, but you must become adept at doing exactly as I tell you. Bear in mind that this whole theme is as old as the universe. The only thing I do is to give you what may be considered the practical mechanics.
As we all know, "The proof of the pudding is in the eating," and if you have any doubts as to whether or not I am giving you an exact science, try it.
The automobile will begin to take shape, you will get the new shoes, and the bricks of the mansion will fall into place as though a magical hand has touched them.