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Focus and Get It Done: The Power of Unstoppable Drive · Motivation Mindset Podcast

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  Speaker 1: We go the direction we face. If you start designing
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  Speaker 1: something at the end of this direction, sure enough you
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  Speaker 1: will start going the direction you face, and we face
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  Speaker 1: the direction we designed. Direction determines destination. Destination is not
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  Speaker 1: determined by hope. It's not determined by wish. Destination is
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  Speaker 1: determined by direction. You cannot change destination overnight. But here's
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  Speaker 1: what you can change today, and overnight, you can change direction.
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  Speaker 2: We have higher faculties, and the average person has no
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  Speaker 2: knowledge of how to operate with them, how to develop them.
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  Speaker 2: We have perception, the will, raison, imagination, memory, and intuition.
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  Speaker 2: Now those mental faculties, they're not just words. They're actually
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  Speaker 2: mental faculties that we can use to take control over
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  Speaker 2: our world and to create the environment that we want.
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  Speaker 2: I think we're we're raised in ignorance. Actually, there's a
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  Speaker 2: very small percentage of the population that have a reasonably
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  Speaker 2: clear understanding of who they are and what they're capable
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  Speaker 2: of doing. But the ones that do are in the minority.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's good to remember that if we just
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  Speaker 3: go along with the crowd, we won't wind up with
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  Speaker 3: much more than the wish that we can do it
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  Speaker 3: all over again, and as far as we know, you can't.
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  Speaker 3: If we want to amount to anything as individuals, we
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  Speaker 3: need individual goals, individual thinking, individual actions, and we must
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  Speaker 3: never conform to the big group. We must love them,
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  Speaker 3: we must help them, we must serve them, because our
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  Speaker 3: whole success will depend on our ability to do these things.
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  Speaker 3: But never lose our own individuality and our identity by
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  Speaker 3: permitting ourselves to become submerged in what has historically proved
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  Speaker 3: itself to be little more than that suffocating sea of
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  Speaker 3: indirection and purposelessness. If we want to emulate, someone find
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  Speaker 3: but let's be choosy in whose steps we follow. It's
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  Speaker 3: the only life we've got.
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  Speaker 4: A better story is a story about how stories transform,
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  Speaker 4: and so those are actually perceptual frames of reference that transform.
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  Speaker 4: And then I understood that if you don't have respect
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  Speaker 4: for the transformation process above all else, then you can't
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  Speaker 4: transform your perceptual frames when necessary, and then you can't
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  Speaker 4: adapt to error, and that destroys you.
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  Speaker 5: The most important thing is your mind, Make no mistake
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  Speaker 5: about that right now. The only thing that is holding
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  Speaker 5: you back, I promise you, and whatever excuse you're telling yourself,
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  Speaker 5: it's both the only thing that's holding you back is
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  Speaker 5: the way that you think about yourself and the world.
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  Speaker 5: That's it flat. Oh, you can control is how you
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  Speaker 5: choose to look at situations.
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  Speaker 1: You can control the information.
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  Speaker 2: That you'll let in here.
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  Speaker 5: Never forget that you could have anything in this lot
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  Speaker 5: that you want if you'll willing to come get it.
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  Speaker 1: If you just make a decision, it can be sometimes
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  Speaker 1: the day that starts you on a brand new journey. Now,
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  Speaker 1: some decisions are incidental, and some are small, and some
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  Speaker 1: you know, are part of a working day. But sometimes
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  Speaker 1: decision making can be one of the most important days
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  Speaker 1: of your life. Maybe a decision you've postponed and postponed,
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  Speaker 1: and now you understand the penalty of postponing that decision.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to do something, And finally you come to
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  Speaker 1: the conclusion today as the day I now decide. And
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  Speaker 1: whether you decide on a new direction, whether you decide
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  Speaker 1: on a refinement in philosophy, whether you decide to act
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  Speaker 1: when before you haven't acted, you decide on a series
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  Speaker 1: of things that you're going to do. Deciding can be
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  Speaker 1: such an incredibly important, very exciting, inspirational day. Also, deciding
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  Speaker 1: sometimes starts the process of lifting our self esteem. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: when you look back on it, the day that you
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  Speaker 1: decided was just about as exciting as the day when
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  Speaker 1: you finally accomplished the project. That when you finally made
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  Speaker 1: the decision, you finally got the monkey off your back,
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  Speaker 1: as we say in English, you finally got through whatever
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  Speaker 1: barriers kept you from making that decision, and finally you
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  Speaker 1: made a decision. And now it seems like the sky
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  Speaker 1: is blue and the air is clear, and your mind
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  Speaker 1: is ready. The adrenaline starts to flow. Things start to
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  Speaker 1: happen to you from that moment of decision. So that
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  Speaker 1: can be an incredible source of inspiration. Now, if you
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  Speaker 1: don't follow through, it's not going to last all that long.
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  Speaker 1: If you decide and then you know, postpone and you decide,
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  Speaker 1: but you don't still don't get to it for a
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  Speaker 1: week or a month or a year. You know, soon
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  Speaker 1: all that energy and that source of inspiration is all dissipated.
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  Speaker 1: So deciding is inspiring, but not for that long. But
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  Speaker 1: once you decide, it can be a very powerful day.
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  Speaker 1: But now, of course, now you must follow through. But
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  Speaker 1: if there's some things you've been postponing, some decisions you
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  Speaker 1: have just you know, hadn't gotten to I would ask
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  Speaker 1: you to just, you know, take out your journal and
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  Speaker 1: just go through. You know, what have I been postponing.
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  Speaker 1: It's not going to be better for my health, it's
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  Speaker 1: not going to be better for my future, it's not
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  Speaker 1: going to enhance my finances. Maybe a problem needs to
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  Speaker 1: be solved. I got to decide when I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: do it and how I'm going to proceed. I need
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  Speaker 1: to get to it. I promise you if you'll go
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  Speaker 1: through some of that list and start making those decisions,
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  Speaker 1: your inspiration will start to flow, and those could be
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  Speaker 1: very critically important, exciting days. Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: Indecision means the door is still closed. Indecision means the
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  Speaker 1: opportunity waits. Indecision means what could be is postponed or
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  Speaker 1: may ever be. You know that those are all the
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  Speaker 1: penalties of indecision. And sometimes we can't make a snap judgment.
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  Speaker 1: We can't decide immediately on something so important. But after
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  Speaker 1: a while, after a while, we must understand sometimes the
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  Speaker 1: heavy penalty of putting off our decision, making so one
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  Speaker 1: source of inspiration, deciding the price of success.
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  Speaker 6: To be a doctor, you must pay the price of
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  Speaker 6: long years of difficult study to be successful in selling,
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  Speaker 6: and remember that each of us succeeds to the extent
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  Speaker 6: of his ability to sell. Selling our families and our ideas,
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  Speaker 6: selling education in schools, selling our children on the advantages
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  Speaker 6: of living the good and honest life, Selling our associates
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  Speaker 6: and employees on the importance of being exceptional people. Also,
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  Speaker 6: of course, the profession of selling itself. To be successful
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  Speaker 6: in selling our way to the good life, we must
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  Speaker 6: be willing to pay the price. Now what is that price, Well,
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  Speaker 6: it's many things. It's understanding emotionally as well as intellectually,
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  Speaker 6: that we literally become what we think about. That we
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  Speaker 6: must control our thoughts if we're to control our lives.
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  Speaker 6: It's understanding fully that as you sow, so shall ye reap. Second,
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  Speaker 6: it's cutting away all fetters from the mind and permitting
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  Speaker 6: it to sore as it was divinely designed to do.
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  Speaker 6: It's the realization that your limitations are self imposed and
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  Speaker 6: that the opportunities for you today are enormous beyond belief.
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  Speaker 6: It's rising above narrow minded pettiness and prejudice. Third, it's
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  Speaker 6: using all your courage to force yourself to think positively
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  Speaker 6: on your own problems. To set a definite and clearly
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  Speaker 6: defined goal for yourself. To let your marvelous mind think
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  Speaker 6: about your goal from all possible angles. To let your
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  Speaker 6: imagination speculate freely upon many different possible solutions. To refuse
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  Speaker 6: to believe that there are any circumstances sufficiently strong enough
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  Speaker 6: to defeat you in the accomplishment of your purpose. To
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  Speaker 6: act promptly and decisively when your course is clear. And
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  Speaker 6: to keep constantly aware of the fact that you are
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  Speaker 6: at this moment standing in the middle of your own
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  Speaker 6: acre of diamonds, as Russell Conwell used to point out.
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  Speaker 6: And Fourth, save at least ten percent of every dollar
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  Speaker 6: you earn. It's also remembering that, no matter what your
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  Speaker 6: present job, it has enormous possibilities if you are willing
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  Speaker 6: to pay the price. By keeping these four points in mind,
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  Speaker 6: you will become what you think about. Remember the word imagination,
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  Speaker 6: and let your mind begin to soar courageously concentrate on
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  Speaker 6: your goal. Every day, save ten percent of what you earn. Finally,
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  Speaker 6: take action. Ideas are worth us unless we act on them. Now,
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  Speaker 6: I'll try to outline the thirty day test I want
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  Speaker 6: you to take. Keep in mind that you have nothing
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  Speaker 6: to lose by taking this test, and everything you could
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  Speaker 6: possibly want to gain. There are two things that may
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  Speaker 6: be said of every one. Each of us want something,
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  Speaker 6: and each of us is afraid of something. I want
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  Speaker 6: you to write on a card what it is you
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  Speaker 6: want more than anything else. It may be more money.
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  Speaker 6: Perhaps you'd like to double your income or make a
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  Speaker 6: specific amount of money. It may be a beautiful home.
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  Speaker 6: It may be success at your job. It may be
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  Speaker 6: a particular position in life. It could be a more
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  Speaker 6: harmonious family. Abundance is yours for the asking. Each of
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  Speaker 6: us wants something, write down on your card specifically what
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  Speaker 6: it is you want. Make sure it's a single goal
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  Speaker 6: and clearly defined. You needn't show it to anyone, but
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  Speaker 6: carry it with you so that you can look at
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  Speaker 6: it several times a day. Think about it in a cheerful, relaxed,
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  Speaker 6: positive way each morning when you get up and immediately
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  Speaker 6: you have something to work for, something to get out
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  Speaker 6: of bed for, something to live for. Look at it
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  Speaker 6: every chance you get during the day and just before
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  Speaker 6: going to bed at night. And as you look at it,
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  Speaker 6: remember that you must become what you think about. And
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  Speaker 6: since your thinking about your goal. You realize that soon
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  Speaker 6: it will be yours. In fact, it's really yours the
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  Speaker 6: moment you write it down and begin to think about it.
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  Speaker 6: Look at the abundance all around you as you go
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  Speaker 6: about your daily business. You have as much right to
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  Speaker 6: this abundance as any other living creature. It's yours for
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  Speaker 6: the asking. Now we come to the difficult part. Difficult
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  Speaker 6: because it means the formation of what is probably a
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  Speaker 6: brand new habit, and new habits are not easily formed.
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  Speaker 6: Once formed, however, it will follow you for the rest
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  Speaker 6: of your life. Stop thinking about what it is you fear.
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  Speaker 6: Each time a fearful or negative thought comes into your consciousness,
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  Speaker 6: replace it with a mental picture of your positive and
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  Speaker 6: worthwhile goal, and there will come a time when you
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  Speaker 6: feel like giving up. It's easier for a human being
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  Speaker 6: to think negatively than positively. That's why only five percent
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  Speaker 6: are successful. You must begin now to place yourself in
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  Speaker 6: that group. For thirty days, you must take control of
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  Speaker 6: your mind. It will think only about what you permitted
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  Speaker 6: to think about. All you have to do is know
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  Speaker 6: where you're going each day for this thirty day tess,
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  Speaker 6: do more than you have to do. In addition, to
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  Speaker 6: maintaining a cheerful, positive outlook. Give of yourself more than
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  Speaker 6: you have ever done before. Do this knowing that your
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  Speaker 6: returns in life must be in direct proportion to what
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  Speaker 6: you give. The moment you decide on a goal to
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  Speaker 6: work toward, you are immediately a successful person. You are
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  Speaker 6: then in that rare and successful category of people who
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  Speaker 6: know where they're going. Out of every hundred people, you
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  Speaker 6: belong in the top five. Don't concern yourself too much
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  Speaker 6: with how you are going to achieve your goal. Lead
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  Speaker 6: that completely to a power greater than yourself. All you
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  Speaker 6: have to do is know where you're going. The answers
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  Speaker 6: will come to you of their own accord and at
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  Speaker 6: the right time. Remember these words from the Sermon on
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  Speaker 6: the Mount, and remember them well, keep them constantly before
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  Speaker 6: you during this month of your test. Ask and it
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  Speaker 6: shall be given. You, Seek and ye shall find. Knock
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  Speaker 6: and it shall be opened unto you. For everyone that
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  Speaker 6: asketh receiveth, and he that seeketh findeth, and to him
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  Speaker 6: that knocketh it shall be open. It's as marvelous and
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  Speaker 6: as simple as that. In fact, it's so simple that
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  Speaker 6: in our seemingly complicated world, it's difficult for an adult
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  Speaker 6: to understand that all he or she needs is a
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  Speaker 6: purpose and faith. For thirty days, do your very best,
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  Speaker 6: no matter what your job. Do it as you've never
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  Speaker 6: done it before thirty days, and if you've kept your
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  Speaker 6: goal before you every day, you'll wonder and marvel at
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  Speaker 6: this new life you've found. Dorothea Brandy, the outstanding editor
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  Speaker 6: and writer, discovered it for herself and tells about it
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  Speaker 6: in her fine book Wake Up and Live. Her entire
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  Speaker 6: philosophy is reduced to the words act as though it
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  Speaker 6: were impossible to fail. She made her own test with
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  Speaker 6: sincerity and faith, and her entire life was changed to
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  Speaker 6: one of overwhelming success. Now you make your test for
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  Speaker 6: thirty full days. Don't start your test until you've made
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  Speaker 6: up your mind to stick with it. You see, by
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  Speaker 6: being persistent, you're demonstrating faith. Persistence is simply another word
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  Speaker 6: for faith. If you didn't have faith, you would never persist.
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  Speaker 6: If you should fail during your first thirty days, by that,
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  Speaker 6: I mean suddenly find yourself overwhelmed by negative thoughts, You've
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  Speaker 6: got to start over again from that point and go
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  Speaker 6: thirty more days. Gradually your new habit will form until
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  Speaker 6: you find yourself one of that wonderful minority to whom
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  Speaker 6: virtually nothing is impossible. And don't forget the card. It's
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  Speaker 6: vitally important as you begin this new way of living.
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  Speaker 6: On one side of the card, write your goal, whatever
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  Speaker 6: it may be. On the other side, write these words.
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  Speaker 6: You become what you think about. In your spare time
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  Speaker 6: during your test period, read books that will help you.
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  Speaker 6: Inspirational books like Dorothea Brand's Wake Up and Live the
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  Speaker 6: Magic of Believing by Claude Bristol, The Bible, Think and
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  Speaker 6: Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, and any other books that
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  Speaker 6: instruct and inspire. Nothing great was ever accomplished without inspiration.
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  Speaker 6: See that during these crucial first thirty days, your own
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  Speaker 6: inspiration is kept at a peak. Above all, don't worry.
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  Speaker 6: Worry brings fear, and fear is crippling. The only thing
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  Speaker 6: that can cause you to worry during your test is
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  Speaker 6: trying to do it all yourself. Know that all you
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  Speaker 6: have to do is hold your goal before you. Everything
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  Speaker 6: else will take care of itself. Remember also to keep
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  Speaker 6: calm and cheerful. Don't let petty things annoy you and
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  Speaker 6: get you off course.