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REPROGRAMMING | Program Your Mind EPISODE 08 [Compilation 03/2023] – Reset Your Thinking · Motivational Podcast

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Speaker 1: My hope is that anyone who listens will be helped
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Speaker 1: in reaching their goal in life. Is there a force,
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Speaker 1: a factor, a power, a science, call it what you will,
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Speaker 1: a something which a few people understand and use to
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Speaker 1: overcome their difficulties and achieve outstanding success. I firmly believe
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Speaker 1: that there is. I am presenting it in the language
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Speaker 1: of a businessman who believes that sincere thinking and plain
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Speaker 1: speaking will get any message across to the people. I
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Speaker 1: realize I have run across something that is workable, but
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Speaker 1: I don't consider it as anything mystical, except in the
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Speaker 1: sense that it is unknown to the majority of people
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Speaker 1: and is little understood by the average person. I have
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Speaker 1: read literally thousands of books on modern psychology, metaphysics, ancient magic, voodooism, yogism, theosophy,
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Speaker 1: Christian science, Unity, truth, new thought, and many other dealings.
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Speaker 1: Many of these books were nonsensical, others strange, and many
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Speaker 1: very profound. Gradually I discovered that there is a golden
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Speaker 1: thread that runs through all the teachings and makes them
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Speaker 1: work for those who sincerely accept and apply them. That
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Speaker 1: thread can be named in a single word, belief. It
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Speaker 1: is the same element or factor belief which causes people
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Speaker 1: to be cured through mental healing, enables others to climb
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Speaker 1: the ladder of success, and gets phenomenal results for all
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Speaker 1: who accept it. Why belief as a miracle worker is
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Speaker 1: something that cannot be satisfactorily explained, but have no doubt
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Speaker 1: about it. There's genuine magic in believing. As a matter
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Speaker 1: of fact, the idea that I could, with my thinking
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Speaker 1: and believing, develop a fortune never entered my mind. It
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter to what end this science is used, it
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Speaker 1: will be effective in achieving the object of your desires.
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Speaker 2: A glance around you.
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Speaker 1: If you are in a furnished room, your eyes tell
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Speaker 1: you that you are looking at a number of inanimate objects.
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Speaker 1: That's true so far as visual perception is concerned, But
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Speaker 1: in reality, you are actually looking at thoughts or ideas
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Speaker 1: which have come into materialization through the creative work of
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Speaker 1: some human being. It was a thought first that created
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Speaker 1: the furniture, fashioned the window glass, and gave form to
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Speaker 1: the draperies and coverings. The automobile, the skyscraper, the great
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Speaker 1: planes that sweeped the stratosphere, the sewing machine, the tiny pin,
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Speaker 1: a thousand and one things, yes, millions of objects. Where
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Speaker 1: did they come from originally only one source, from that
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Speaker 1: strange force thought.
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Speaker 2: As we look further, we realized that these.
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Speaker 1: Achievements, and in fact, all our possessions, came as a
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Speaker 1: result of creative thinking. Thought is the original source of
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Speaker 1: all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries, inventions,
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Speaker 1: and of all achievements. With that in mind, it becomes
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Speaker 1: easy to understand that a man's thoughts make or break him,
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Speaker 1: and Shakespeare's.
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Speaker 2: Words become more intelligible.
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Speaker 1: There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it.
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Speaker 3: So.
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Speaker 1: Many people feel that success comes with hard work. However,
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Speaker 1: I would like to point out that hard work alone
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Speaker 1: will not bring success. The world is filled with people
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Speaker 1: who have worked hard but have little to show for it.
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Speaker 1: Something more than hard work is necessary. It is creative
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Speaker 1: thinking and firm belief in your ability to execute your ideas.
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Speaker 1: The successful people in history have succeeded through their thinking.
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Speaker 1: Their hands were merely helpers to their brains. Another important
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Speaker 1: point is that one essential to success is that your
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Speaker 1: desire be an all obsessing one, Your thoughts and aims
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Speaker 1: be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letter.
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Speaker 1: It may be riches or fame, or position or knowledge
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Speaker 1: that you want for Each person has his own idea
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Speaker 1: of what success means to him, but whatever you consider
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Speaker 1: it to be, you can have it, provided you are
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Speaker 1: willing to make the objective the burning desire of your life.
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Speaker 1: By using the dynamic force of believing, you can set
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Speaker 1: all your inner forces in motion, They, in turn will
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Speaker 1: help you reach your goal. The first thing to determine
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Speaker 1: is precisely what you want. Starting in with the general
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Speaker 1: idea that you merely want to be a success, as
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Speaker 1: most people do, is too indefinite. You have a mental
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Speaker 1: pattern clearly drawn in your mind. Ask yourself, where am
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Speaker 1: I headed? What is my goal? Have I visualized just
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Speaker 1: what I really want? If success is to be measured
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Speaker 1: in terms of wealth, can you fix the amount in figures?
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Speaker 1: If in terms of achievement, can you specify it definitely?
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Speaker 1: I ask these questions for in their answers are the
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Speaker 1: factors which will determine your whole life from now on.
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Speaker 1: Most people have a general idea that they would like
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Speaker 1: to be a success, but beyond that everything is vague.
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Speaker 1: You must know where you are headed, and you must
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Speaker 1: keep a fixed.
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Speaker 2: Goal in your view. Only then will.
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Speaker 1: You get what you are after you begin with desire,
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Speaker 1: if you ever hope to achieve anything or gain more than.
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Speaker 2: You have now.
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Speaker 1: However, as we shall see, there is more to it
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Speaker 1: than mere desire. It has been said that thought attracts
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Speaker 1: that upon which it is directed. Thought attracts that upon
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Speaker 1: which it is directed. Our fearful thoughts are just as creative,
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Speaker 1: or just as magnetic and attracting troubles to us, as
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Speaker 1: are the constructive and positive ones and attracting positive results. So,
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Speaker 1: no matter what the character of the thought, it does
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Speaker 1: create after its kind. When this sinks into a man's consciousness,
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Speaker 1: he gets some inkling of the awe inspiring power which
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Speaker 1: is his to use. I cling to the theory that
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Speaker 1: while thoughts do create and exercise control far beyond any
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Speaker 1: limits yet known to man, they create only according to
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Speaker 1: their pier intensity, emotional quality, depth of feeling, or vibratory plane.
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Speaker 1: In other words, comparable to the wavelength and wattage of
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Speaker 1: a radio station. Thoughts have a creative or controlling force
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Speaker 1: in the exact ratio of their constancy, intensity and power.
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Speaker 1: All persons living in high altitudes have felt and sometimes
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Speaker 1: observed the electric spark resulting from walking across the room,
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Speaker 1: then touching some metallic substance that, of course, is a
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Speaker 1: form of static electricity generated by friction. It gives you
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Speaker 1: an idea of how one kind of electricity can be
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Speaker 1: developed through the body. The Sigmund Freud, the famous Austrian psychoanalyst,
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Speaker 1: brought the world's attention to the hypothesis that there was
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Speaker 1: a powerful force within us, an unilluminated part of the mind,
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Speaker 1: separate from the conscious mind, constantly at work molding our thoughts, feelings,
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Speaker 1: and actions. Others have called this division of our mental
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Speaker 1: existence the soul. Some call it the superego, the inner power,
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Speaker 1: the super consciousness, the unconscious, the subconscious, and various other names.
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Speaker 1: It is in an organ or so called physical matter,
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Speaker 1: such as we know the brain to be. Nevertheless, it
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Speaker 1: is there, and from the beginning of recorded time man
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Speaker 1: has known that it exists. The ancients often referred to
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Speaker 1: it as the spirit. Paracelsus called it the will. Others
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Speaker 1: have called it the mind, an adjunct to the brain.
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Speaker 1: Some have referred to it as conscience, the creator of
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Speaker 1: the still small voice within. Still others called it intelligence,
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Speaker 1: and have asserted that it is a part of the
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Speaker 1: supreme intelligence to which we are all linked. No matter
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Speaker 1: what we call it, I prefer the word subconscious. It
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Speaker 1: is recognized as the essence of life, and the limits
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Speaker 1: of its powers are unknown. It never sleeps, It comes
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Speaker 1: to our support in times of great trouble. It warns
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Speaker 1: us of impending danger. Often it aids us in what
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Speaker 1: seems impossible. It guides us in many ways, and when
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Speaker 1: properly employed, performs so called miracles. Perhaps the most effective
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Speaker 1: method of bringing the subconscious into practical action is through
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Speaker 1: the process of making mental pictures using the imagination, perfecting
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Speaker 1: an image of the thing or situation as you would
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Speaker 1: have it exist in physical form. This is usually referred
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Speaker 1: to as visualization. And before this visualization can work, you
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Speaker 1: must really believe a firm and positive conviction that goes
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Speaker 1: through every fiber of your being.
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Speaker 2: When you believe at heart and.
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Speaker 1: Soul, as the saying goes, I call it a phase
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Speaker 1: of emotion, a spiritual force.
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Speaker 2: A type of electrical vibration.
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Speaker 1: Anything you please, but that's the force that brings outstanding results.
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Speaker 1: It sets the law of attraction into operation, enables sustained
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Speaker 1: thought to correlate with its object. This belief changes the
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Speaker 1: temple of the mind or thought frequency, and like a
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Speaker 1: huge magnet, draws the subconscious forces into play, changing your
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Speaker 1: whole aura and affecting everything about you and often people
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Speaker 1: and objects at great distances.
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Speaker 2: Many times the.
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Speaker 1: Solution of our problems result from the use of the
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Speaker 1: conscious mind. But now and then, when the solution is
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Speaker 1: not forthcoming, we become I'm exhausted with continued trying.
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Speaker 2: We begin to lose.
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Speaker 1: Confidence in ourselves, and we often resign ourselves to the
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Speaker 1: idea that we have failed, that nothing can be done
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Speaker 1: about it. Here is where the subconscious mind comes in.
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Speaker 1: It helps us to renew our belief in ourselves. It
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Speaker 1: assists us to overcome our difficulty and to put us
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Speaker 1: on the road to achievement and success. Just as the
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Speaker 1: conscious mind is the source of thought, so the subconscious
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Speaker 1: is the source of power.
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Speaker 2: Also.
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Speaker 1: It is one of the greatest realities in human life.
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Speaker 2: It is rooted in.
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Speaker 1: Instinct and is aware of the most elemental desires of
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Speaker 1: the individual. Yet it is always pressing upward into conscious existence.
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Speaker 2: It is a distinct entity.
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Speaker 1: It possesses powers and functions with unique mental organization all
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Speaker 1: its own. It maintains and preserves the well being and indeed.
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Speaker 2: The very life of the body.
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Speaker 1: Unaided by the conscious mind. In times of great emergency,
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Speaker 1: it springs into immediate action, again independent of the conscious mind.
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Speaker 1: It takes supreme command, acting with incredible certitude, rapidity, accuracy,
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Speaker 1: and understanding in the saving of.
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Speaker 2: The life of the individual.
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Speaker 1: It can be summoned to help the conscious mind in
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Speaker 1: times of great personal necessity when the conscious calls upon
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Speaker 1: the subconscious to use its powers and resources to solve
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Speaker 1: a vital problem or bring to pass that which is
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Speaker 1: sought or desired by the individual. To draw upon the
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Speaker 1: resources and powers of the subconscious and awaken it into action,
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Speaker 1: you must first be sure that you are asking for
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Speaker 1: someone that is rightfully yours to have and is within
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Speaker 1: your ability to handle. The subconscious manifests itself only according
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Speaker 1: to the capabilities of the person. Then you must have
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Speaker 1: patience and absolute faith. The subconscious mind will not take
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Speaker 1: the trouble to work for those who do not believe
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Speaker 1: in it.
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Speaker 2: In conveying your need.
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Speaker 1: To the subconscious, it must be in the spirit that
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Speaker 1: the work has already been done. So why it is
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Speaker 1: necessary for you to feel and think yourself successful. It
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Speaker 1: is important for you to go one step further and
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Speaker 1: actually see yourself as already.
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Speaker 2: Successful, either in the performance of.
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Speaker 1: Some selected task or as actually occupying the position to
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Speaker 1: which you are aspiring. For the next and final step,
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Speaker 1: you must wait patiently while the subconscious is assimilating the
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Speaker 1: elements of your problem, then goes about its own way
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Speaker 1: to work.
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Speaker 2: It out for you.
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Speaker 1: The solution of your problem will be revealed to you.
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Speaker 1: The correct course of action will be indicated. You must
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Speaker 1: follow those indications immediately and unquestioningly. There must be no
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Speaker 1: hesitation on your part, no mental reservation, no deliberation. You
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Speaker 1: must receive the message from the subconscious freely, and after
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Speaker 1: understanding it, you must act on it at once.
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Speaker 2: Only by doing that will.
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Speaker 1: You make your subconscious serve you and continue to respond
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Speaker 1: whenever you call upon it. One day you will find
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Speaker 1: yourself in the position you sought through the aid of
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Speaker 1: the subconscious and doing the work you envision for yourself. Then,
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Speaker 1: when you look back, you will see how the things
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Speaker 1: you were called upon to do all formed a logical
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Speaker 1: line of events, the last one of which was your
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Speaker 1: final arriving the reward of your sincerest hopes and desires,
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Speaker 1: your own triumphant personal success to become the person.
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Speaker 2: That you would like to be.
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Speaker 1: You create a mental picture of your newly conceived self,
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Speaker 1: and if you continue to hold it, the day will
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Speaker 1: come when you are in reality that person. Shakespeare said,
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Speaker 1: assume the virtue if you have it not. After studying
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Speaker 1: the various mystical religions and different teachings and systems of
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Speaker 1: mind stuff, one is impressed with the fact that they
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Speaker 1: all have the same basic modus operendi, and that is
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Speaker 1: through repetition. This brings us to the law of suggestion,
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Speaker 1: through which all forces operating within its limits are capable
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Speaker 1: of producing nominal results. It is the power of suggestion
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Speaker 1: and auto suggestion your own to yourself or hetero suggestion
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Speaker 1: coming to you from outside sources that starts the machinery
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Speaker 1: into operation or causes the subconscious mind to begin its
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Speaker 1: creative work. And right here is where the affirmations and
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Speaker 1: repetitions play their part. It's the repetition of the same chant,
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Speaker 1: the same incantation, the same affirmations that lead to belief,
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Speaker 1: and once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin
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Speaker 1: to happen. In the depression years, we saw this same
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Speaker 1: suggestive force working overtime day after day We heard the
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Speaker 1: expression times are hard, bil business is poor, the banks
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Speaker 1: are failing, prosperity hasn't a chance, and wild stories about
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Speaker 1: business failures on every hand. Until they became the national chant,
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Speaker 1: millions believed that prosperous days would never return. Hundred just
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Speaker 1: thousands of strong willed men went down under the constant hammering,
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Speaker 1: the continuous tap tapping of the same fear vibratory thoughts.
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Speaker 1: Money always sensitive, runs to cover when fear suggestions begin
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Speaker 1: to circulate, and business failures and.
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Speaker 2: Unemployment follow quickly.
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Speaker 1: We heard thousands of stories of bank failures, huge concerns
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Speaker 1: going to the war, and people believed them readily and
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Speaker 1: acted accordingly. Success or failure in business is caused more
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Speaker 1: by mental attitude rather than by mental capacity cities. Let's
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Speaker 1: consider charms, talismans, amulets, good luck pieces, four leaf clovers,
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Speaker 1: old horseshoes or rabbit's foot, and countless other trinkets which
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Speaker 1: thousands of people believe in by themselves. They are inanimate,
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Speaker 1: harmless objects without power, but people breathe life into them
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Speaker 1: by thinking they do have power, even though the power
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Speaker 1: isn't in them per se. The power comes only with
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Speaker 1: the believing, which alone makes them effective in assuming the
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Speaker 1: virtue you are assuming via your imagination. But here we
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Speaker 1: must make a distinction between daydreaming and a true mental picture,
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Speaker 1: or proper use of the imagination. When you employ your
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Speaker 1: imagination properly, you see yourself doing a thing and you
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Speaker 1: go ahead and do it. It's the doing the thing you
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Speaker 1: have pictured to yourself that brings it into actual existence.
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Speaker 1: In this connection, think about the use of the magnifying glass.
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Speaker 1: When properly focused, it will gather the light from the
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Speaker 1: sun and concentrate it so that the heat will burn
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Speaker 1: a hole in the object on which the rays are focused.
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Speaker 1: It must be held steady before the heat power is developed.
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Speaker 1: And so it is with the holding of the image
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Speaker 1: or the mental picture. However, it is very difficult for
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Speaker 1: the average person to concentrate for any length of time,
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Speaker 1: to say nothing of holding onto a mental picture for
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Speaker 1: any great period. You are constantly being swayed by what
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Speaker 1: you read and hear, and as a result, the coordinating
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Speaker 1: part of this creative force turns to gathering together all
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Speaker 1: these scattered elements in a focused mass, instead of devoting
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Speaker 1: itself to making a clear and dynamic picture of your desire.
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Speaker 1: Don't give any one an inkling of what you desire.
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Speaker 1: The truth is that when you talk about what you're
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Speaker 1: going to do, you scatter your forces. You lose the
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Speaker 1: close connection you have with the subconscious. Go and tell
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Speaker 1: no man still holds true. The repetition will be the
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Speaker 1: means of driving the suggestion deeply and firmly into the
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Speaker 1: subconscious mind. It has been my observation that those who
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Speaker 1: consciously use this science, as well as those who may
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Speaker 1: be using it unconsciously, are people of tremendous energies, virtually
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Speaker 1: human dynamos. They are people who not only use their
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Speaker 1: imagination and hold strong beliefs and convictions, but they are
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Speaker 1: great doers in action. And that brings me to this
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Speaker 1: most important statement. Faith without action is dead. Sooner or
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Speaker 1: later there will come in intensity that will reveal the
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Speaker 1: intensity of your thought. Emerson wrote that every man carries
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Speaker 1: in his eyes the exact indication of his rank. Remember
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Speaker 1: that your own gradation or position in life is marked
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Speaker 1: by what you carry in your eyes. So develop eyes
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Speaker 1: that say confidence. Often I have thought of this matter
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Speaker 1: of desire and suggestion in connection with the planting of
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Speaker 1: vegetable or flower seeds. Once the soil is prepared and
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Speaker 1: the tiny seeds are placed in it. It only takes
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Speaker 1: a short time until they begin to root and sprouts
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Speaker 1: begin to appear. The moment they start upward through the
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Speaker 1: soil in search of light, sunshine, and moisture. Obstacles mean
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Speaker 1: nothing to them. They will push aside small stones or
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Speaker 1: bits of wood, and if they can't do that, there
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Speaker 1: extend themselves and grow around them. As so it can
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Speaker 1: be with you and the suggestion you give to your
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Speaker 1: subconscious mind. The results will be pure or complex, depending
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Speaker 1: upon the original seed and the attention which you give it.
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Speaker 1: In other words, plant the right kind of seed and
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Speaker 1: habitually feeded with strong affirmative thought, always directed towards the
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Speaker 1: same end, it will grow into a mighty force, finding
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Speaker 1: ways and means of overcoming all obstacles. We seldom realize
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Speaker 1: how much our emotional vibrations affect others and how much
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Speaker 1: we are affected by theirs. An extremely nervous person in
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Speaker 1: a position of authority can put nearly every person associated
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Speaker 1: with them into a nervous state. It's always important to
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Speaker 1: remember that a negative person can raise havoc in an
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Speaker 1: organization or a home. The same amount of damage can
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Speaker 1: be done by a strong negative personality, a good can
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Speaker 1: be done by a positive one. When the two are
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Speaker 1: pitted together against one another, the negative frequently becomes the
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Speaker 1: more powerful. To get a better understanding of the effect
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Speaker 1: of these suggestive vibrations, you need only to read your
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Speaker 1: varying feelings. When entering different offices or homes. The atmosphere,
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Speaker 1: which is the creation of the people living there, can
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Speaker 1: be instantly detected as being upsetting, disturbing, trancore harmonious. The
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Speaker 1: vibrations set up by others affect us much more than
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Speaker 1: we realize. We take on the characteristics of those with
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Speaker 1: whom we are more or less constantly associated. If you
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Speaker 1: want to remain a positive type, avoid associating too much
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Speaker 1: with anyone who has a negative or pessimistic personality. A
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Speaker 1: person who desires riches must go where the riches are alone,
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Speaker 1: or a desert I have, and a man would probably
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Speaker 1: have a tough time eating out a living, to say
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Speaker 1: nothing of trying to amass a fortune. The right mental
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Speaker 1: attitude being properly attired, keeping your eyes straight ahead and
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Speaker 1: fixed on your goal, throwing around you the proper aura,
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Speaker 1: which is done by an act of your imagination or
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Speaker 1: an extension of your personal magnetism will.
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Speaker 2: Work, wonders.
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Speaker 1: When man fully comprehends the great power of his mind
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Speaker 1: and earnestly puts it to work, he will have dominion
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Speaker 1: over this earth and everything on it. You yourself, have
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Speaker 1: this inner spark, but it must be fanned until the
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Speaker 1: fire is of white hot intensity, and it must be
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Speaker 1: constantly stoked, which you do by adding fuel, ideas, ideas,
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Speaker 1: more ideas, and action. I have tried to make plain
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Speaker 1: how this power through belief can be developed and to
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Speaker 1: take you up the ladder as far as you wish
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Speaker 1: to go. It is necessary, though, to point out that
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Speaker 1: it is easy to lose one's belief or faith. Thousands
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Speaker 1: have risen to great heights of success, only to stumble,
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Speaker 1: roll or fall to undreamed of depths. There are many
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Speaker 1: weakening factors and influences, all suggestive in nature, which we
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Speaker 1: in unguarded moments, allowed a slip into our subconscious minds.
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Speaker 1: These influences begin the destructive work. They can undo all
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Speaker 1: the good accomplished by our constructive forces. So step out
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Speaker 1: in front, head toward the sun, keep facing it, and
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Speaker 1: the dark shadows will not cross your path. I know
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Speaker 1: that It is difficult for the average person, who knows
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Speaker 1: nothing of the subject to accept the idea that all
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Speaker 1: is within. But surely the most materialistic person must realize that,
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Speaker 1: as far as he himself is concerned, nothing exists on
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Speaker 1: the outside plane unless he has knowledge of it, or
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Speaker 1: unless it becomes fixed in his consciousness.
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Speaker 3: It is the.
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Speaker 1: Image created in his mind that gives reality to the
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Speaker 1: world outside of him. Happiness sought by many and found
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Speaker 1: by few. Therefore, is a matter entirely within ourselves. Our
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Speaker 1: environment and the everyday happenings of life have absolutely no
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Speaker 1: effect on our happiness, except as we permit mental images
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Speaker 1: of the outside to enter our consciousness. Happiness is wholly
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Speaker 1: independent of position, wealth, or material possessions. It is a
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Speaker 1: state of mind which we ourselves have the power to control,
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Speaker 1: and that control lies with our thinking. Emerson said, what
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Speaker 1: is the hardest task in the world to think? Obviously
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Speaker 1: this is so when one considers that most of us
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Speaker 1: are victims of mass thinking and feed upon suggestions from others.
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Speaker 1: We all know that the law of cause and effect
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Speaker 1: is inviolable, Yet how many of us ever pause to
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Speaker 1: consider its workings.
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Speaker 2: The entire course.
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Speaker 1: Of a man's life has many times been changed by
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Speaker 1: a single thought, which, coming to him in a flash,
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Speaker 1: became a mighty power that altered the whole current of
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Speaker 1: human events. History is replete with the stories of strong minded,
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Speaker 1: resolutely willed individuals who, steadfastly holding to their inner convictions,
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Speaker 1: have been able to inspire their fellow man, and in
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Speaker 1: the face of tremendous and determined opposition, have literally created
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Speaker 1: out of nothing great businesses, huge empires, and new worlds.
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Speaker 1: They had no monopoly of thought power.
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Speaker 2: You and every man and woman have it. All you
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Speaker 2: have to do is use it.
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Speaker 1: You will then become the person you envisage in your imagination.
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Speaker 1: Know yourself, know your power. Just believe that there is
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Speaker 1: a genuine creative magic in believing, and magic there will be.
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Speaker 1: For belief will supply the power which will enable you
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Speaker 1: to succeed in everything you Undertake back your belief with
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Speaker 1: a resolute will, and you will become unconquerable to become
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Speaker 1: the person that you would like to be. You create
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Speaker 1: a mental picture of your newly conceived self, and if
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Speaker 1: you continue to hold it, the day will come when
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Speaker 1: you are in reality that person.
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Speaker 3: Exceptional people begin with just ambitions. We can choose to
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Speaker 3: believe in ourselves and thus to strive, to risk, to persevere,
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Speaker 3: and to achieve. We can choose to set no limits
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Speaker 3: on ourselves, to set high goals and dream big dreams.
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Speaker 3: I'm talking about a desire so fierce that it changes
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Speaker 3: a person's life. We can use those dreams to fuel
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Speaker 3: our spirits with passion. We can fall in love with
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Speaker 3: our own abilities and our own potential, then choose to
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Speaker 3: maximize those abilities. We're free to choose what we're going
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Speaker 3: to think about ourselves. No one can stop us from
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Speaker 3: chasing our dreams. You get to write your life story.
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Speaker 3: I would venture that most people are talented in something,
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Speaker 3: whether they realize it or not. It's something internal. Great
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Speaker 3: performers share a way of thinking, a set of attitudes
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Speaker 3: and attributes like optimism, confidence, persistence, and strong will. They
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Speaker 3: all want to push them to see how great they
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Speaker 3: can become. These attributes and attitudes cause champions to work
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Speaker 3: harder and smarter than other people. They help them stay
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Speaker 3: focused under pressure and to produce their best performances when
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Speaker 3: the stakes are highest. In the Book of Ecclesiastes, it
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Speaker 3: was written that the runner with the best foot speed
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Speaker 3: doesn't always win the race, and the strongest warrior doesn't
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Speaker 3: always win the battle. That knowledge persisted into the twentieth century.
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Speaker 3: Striving to be exceptional is never easy. Going after big
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Speaker 3: ideas takes sweat. It takes persistence, patience, and a bedrock
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Speaker 3: belief in yourself. I care about how a person lives
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Speaker 3: his life. I care about whether a person refuses a
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Speaker 3: place limits on himself and instead chases greatness. I had
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Speaker 3: a privileged upbringing. I mean that my childhood taught me
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Speaker 3: to be optimistic. I didn't know it then, but I
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Speaker 3: realized now that this was a precious gift. Exceptional people
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Speaker 3: I have found either start out being optimistic or learned
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Speaker 3: to be optimistic because they realized that they can't get
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Speaker 3: what they want in life without being optimistic. That's why
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Speaker 3: I say I was privileged. I didn't have to learn optimism.
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Speaker 3: It was given to me. I learned to believe that
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Speaker 3: with hard work you could be the best. That's optimism.
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Speaker 3: It may not be as natural for people growing up
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Speaker 3: today to feel optimistic as it was for me and
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Speaker 3: many others in my generation. Instead of seeing examples of
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Speaker 3: people succeeding in progressing, they can find it all too
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Speaker 3: easy to see eacus samples of people struggling. One of
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Speaker 3: the ways people learn to be optimistic is by seeking
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Speaker 3: out role models who have achieved great things. If these
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Speaker 3: role models are in some way similar to themselves, they
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Speaker 3: can help instill optimism. One classic example is the evolution
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Speaker 3: of the world record for the one mile run. Pessimism
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Speaker 3: abounded about whether a human being was even capable of
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Speaker 3: running a four minute mile. There are articles in the
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Speaker 3: press in which supposed experts opined that the human body
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Speaker 3: simply wasn't built to run a mile that fast. Then
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Speaker 3: a British medical student and elite amateur runner, Roger Banister,
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Speaker 3: took a look at the prevailing pessimism and decided it
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Speaker 3: was poppycock. Banister decided he was capable of running a
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Speaker 3: four minute mile, and he trained hard to do so.
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Speaker 3: On a rainy day in nineteen fifty four, he did it,
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Speaker 3: running a three to fifty nine point four mile. Almost immediately,
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Speaker 3: an Australian runner, John Landy, bettered Banister's record. Within a
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Speaker 3: few years, many runners broke through the once impregnable four
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Speaker 3: minute barrier. Banister had been a powerful role model, and
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Speaker 3: his success turned many runners from pessimists to optimists about
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Speaker 3: their ability to break four minutes in the mile run.
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Speaker 3: Optimism is an attitude that people can choose to have. Obviously,
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Speaker 3: I was fortunate, and then my upbringing made it easier
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Speaker 3: to be optimistic. But if it hadn't, I could have
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Speaker 3: chosen optimism. It's not easy, but it can be done.
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Speaker 3: Optimism is often an act of faith, a belief in
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Speaker 3: something that cannot be proven. Anyone can have it, find
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Speaker 3: ways to become and stay optimistic. I like anyone who's
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Speaker 3: performing to have an optimistic attitude, because performances go best
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Speaker 3: when the performer trusts their skills and lets the performance flow.
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Speaker 3: One way both teams and individuals can help themselves to
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Speaker 3: an optimistic frame of mind is visualization. Visualization is a
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Speaker 3: kind of purposeful, intense imagination. Optimism doesn't guarantee anything in sports,
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Speaker 3: It just improves your chances. So why wouldn't you be
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Speaker 3: optimistic if it were a choice you could make, and
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Speaker 3: it is a choice. I've had many clients who tell
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Speaker 3: me that while they believe some people are by nature optimistic,
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Speaker 3: they are by nature the glass half empty kind. My
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Speaker 3: reply to that is, okay, are you only going to
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Speaker 3: tackle the challenges that are easy for you. If not,
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Speaker 3: then the first thing you have to do is decide
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Speaker 3: that being optimistic is important to you, because you understand
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Speaker 3: that optimism is essential in fulfilling your dreams and attaining
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Speaker 3: your goals. Once you make that decision, you have to
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Speaker 3: start looking at things from a different perspective. Are you
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Speaker 3: going to focus on all the gloom and doom stories
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Speaker 3: in the media. Will you own your mind or let
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Speaker 3: others own it? Will you see yourself succeeding where others don't.
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Speaker 3: Are you going to generalize in a negative way from
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Speaker 3: every setback you encounter? Tone happens to everyone. Champions just
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Speaker 3: refuse to let it push them into doubtful fearful thinking.
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Speaker 3: It would indeed be illogical to persist if you thought
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Speaker 3: you didn't have a chance to succeed. That's the way
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Speaker 3: champions think after the setbacks and losses they inevitably suffer.
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Speaker 3: I understand that everyone, including champions, as occasional doubts. No
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Speaker 3: one should be upset if doubt occasionally enters his mind.
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Speaker 3: Individuals who achieve durable, frequent success are optimists. They shake
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Speaker 3: off their doubts and know in their heads and in
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Speaker 3: their hearts. Then in the long run, they are going
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Speaker 3: to be successful. They're going to have great careers. Everything
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Speaker 3: will fall into place, and wonderful things will happen to
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Speaker 3: them if they keep doing the right stuff. A confident
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Speaker 3: self image, people tend to become what they think about themselves.
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Speaker 3: There is enormous wisdom in that sentence, and there's enormous hope.
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Speaker 3: We are each the biggest influence on our own destiny.
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Speaker 3: We each have the power to construct our own self image,
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Speaker 3: and that the self image we construct will verily likely
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Speaker 3: determine what we become in life. Confidence and optimism are
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Speaker 3: closely related. The good portion of the trait we call
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Speaker 3: confidence resides in the subconscious part of the brain. Our
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Speaker 3: subconscious is very susceptible to suggestion. Your subconscious monitors all
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Speaker 3: the thoughts you have about yourself, and it does so.
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Speaker 3: You can think of your self image as an archive
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Speaker 3: of all the thoughts you've ever had about yourself. Recent
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Speaker 3: thoughts are way more influential than thoughts that occurred further
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Speaker 3: in the past. Thoughts associated with powerful emotions are more
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Speaker 3: memorable and thus more influential than thoughts to which you
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Speaker 3: attach no emotions. You understand that you are not a
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Speaker 3: helpless victim of misfortune. You don't have to be a
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Speaker 3: prisoner of a bad experience. You make sure you continually
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Speaker 3: feed useful, positive thoughts to the subconscious. That's a champion's mind.
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Speaker 3: A champion understands that it's fine to sabor an experience
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Speaker 3: when it's positive, to remember it, to celebrate it. When
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Speaker 3: an experience is negative. He understands that he can't let
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Speaker 3: himself get stuck in it. He can see no benefit
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Speaker 3: from ingraining a bad experience by reliving it or attaching
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Speaker 3: strong emotions to it. This ability is counterintuitive for a
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Speaker 3: lot of people. We're taught in school to revisit and
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Speaker 3: think about our mistakes. Our correct answers are passed over
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Speaker 3: and taken for granted. The teacher puts a big red
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Speaker 3: X next to mistakes. Some people tell me that making
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Speaker 3: this change in the way they think is hard work.
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Speaker 3: I agree, but so is training the body. If an
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Speaker 3: individual wants to be exceptional, it's part of the challenge.
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Speaker 3: Also thinking correctly will separate that individual from the average person.
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Speaker 3: Even if we try to maintain control with our conscious brains,
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Speaker 3: at the moment of truth, your subconscious had better be saying,
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Speaker 3: oh yeah, I got this, no problem. Champions understand that
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Speaker 3: they must be confident to a point that some people
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Speaker 3: might find offensive. To be clear, when I speak of
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Speaker 3: comp fidence, I exclude both arrogance and laziness. To me,
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Speaker 3: confidence doesn't mean that an individual or team fails to
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Speaker 3: prepare all of that preparation. Dedication is, to my mind,
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Speaker 3: intertwined with confidence.