Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941, an ordinary man was in a watchtower aboard the battleship Arizona. After the Japanese attack, 1000 men perished and only 100 crew members survived. This “common man” was one of them.
After the war, he worked in the radio industry in Phoenix and Chicago, and he also owned his own insurance business. In 1956 he recorded a message for his insurance sales force. Since then it has become one of the most famous recordings ever made.
It sold millions of copies and is the only Gold Record achieved within the spoken word industry. It has inspired countless people over the years and has transformed the lives of many people. This message is as valuable and relevant today as ever.
For those of you who follow, be prepared to jump to the top! This “common man” is named Earl Nightingale and here are parts of his groundbreaking recording. “When asked” what happens to men today? “Nobel Prize winner Dr. Albert Schweitzer replied,” Men just don’t think.
Let’s take 100 men, they all start out equally at the age of 25, believing that they are going to be successful. By 65, one will be rich, 4 will be financially independent, 5 will continue working and 54 will be bankrupt. If you think negatively, you will get negative results. If you think positively, you will get positive results. Only 5% achieve success.
Definition of success:
“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.” If you are working towards a goal determined by a person and you know where you are going, you are successful. The progressive realization of an ideal worthy of “”.
In the book “Man’s search for himself”, the author says: “The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice but conformity” (people acting like everyone else). At age 7 we learn to read. At 25 we learn to earn a living and support a family. At 65 we have not learned to be financially independent! We continue to depend on another person for the necessities of life!
Why?
We conform!
People believe that their lives are determined by circumstances, by external forces, by things that happen to them. In a survey, male workers were asked “Why do you work?” “Why do you get out of bed in the morning?” Nineteen out of twenty had no idea. They said everyone does it, so they did it too. So who is successful? The person who is progressively realizing a worthy ideal. The “key to success” is: “WE BECOME WHAT WE THINK”. A man’s life is what his thoughts do. Success is the school teacher who teaches in school because that is what they want to do. Success is the woman who is a wife and mother, and who wants to be and is doing well. Success is the man who runs the gas station on the corner because that is his dream and what he wants to do. The secret is to have goals. Take a ship with a Captain, a crew, a destination, and a charter, and you’ll almost always get where you want to go. Then grab an empty ship with no captain, no crew, no destination or charter and just start your engines and let it go, you will eventually sink to a reef or deserted beach for sure. It’s easy to earn a living, but it’s hard to rise above the plateau. Why do people with goals succeed and those without goals fail? The key to success and failure!
A human being can alter their lives by altering their mental attitude. Act like something is real and it will become unerringly real. If you only care enough about one result, you will almost certainly achieve it. If you want to be rich, you will be rich. If you want to learn, you will learn. If you want to be good, you will be good. But wish them exclusively and not many other things with the same force. If you think negatively, you will get negative results. If you think positively, you will get positive results. “CREATE AND BE SUCCESSFUL!”
George Bernard Shaw said, “People always blame their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. Those who get along in this world look for the circumstances they want, and if they don’t find them, they do it!” WE RETURN WHAT WE THINK!
WHY?
Compare the human mind to the excellent fertile soil that a farmer has. No matter what you plant in it, it is your choice, the farmer makes the choice! It will give you back what you sow, it does not care what you sow! You can plant success or failure, it will come back to you. A concrete goal that is worthwhile, or confusion. If your mind is full of doubts, anxiety, misunderstandings, fear, worry and confusion, then your life is filled with the same. Don’t think of anything, you become nothing. What we plant must give us back. Will return anything. Why don’t we use our minds more? Because it is given to us FREE at birth and what is FREE we give little value. We value the things we pay for. No one wants to fail, so remember that YOU will reap what you sow.
Everything worthwhile in life is FREE! Our minds, souls, bodies, hopes, dreams, intelligence, love for family, friends and country are priceless. Things that cost money are cheap and can be replaced at any time. It can be completely wiped out and still make another fortune. Even if your house burns down, we can rebuild it, but the things we got for nothing, we can never replace. The human mind is not used because we take it for granted! Familiarity breeds contempt.
He can do any job we want, but we assign him small jobs, rather than big big ones. Universities have shown that most of us operate at 10% or less of our capabilities. Plant your goal in your mind (a seed) and work towards it, you cannot fail! It is a law of nature. Think about it in a positive and relaxed way. A man is the sum total of his own thoughts. He is where he is because that is exactly where he really wants to be, whether he admits it or not.
What you think today, tomorrow you will become. You are guided by your mind, it will shape your future.
Imagine in your mind that you have already achieved your goal. The law that can give us success can also give us failure. Think of your mind as a massive earthmoving vehicle moving hundreds of tons of earth, and you are perched on top driving it! Do you sit back, cross your arms and let it run into a ditch, or do you put both hands firmly on the wheel and control / direct this power to a specific worthwhile purpose?
We must control our thinking, use it for better or for worse. Life should be an exciting adventure, never boring! People are basically good. We come from somewhere and we go somewhere. The architect of the universe did not create a staircase to nowhere. You are the creator of your own life, artist and sculptor.
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. That is, we cannot achieve anything without paying the price. The 30-day trial experiment:
1- You will become what you think 2- Let your mind fly (free it) 3- Focus on your goal every day- Courage 4- Try to save 10% of your earnings 5- Action
We all want something and we are all afraid of something. Write what you want. Watch it first thing in the morning and late at night. You have the right to the natural abundance that surrounds us, it is yours just by asking for it.
The difficult part is forming a completely new habitat. Stop thinking about what you fear. Replace it with a positive mental image of your goal. Don’t give up, it’s easy to think negative. Take control of your mind.
Maintain a cheerful and positive attitude. Your earnings in life will be in direct proportion to what you give. Once you know where you are going, it puts you in that top 5% of people who are successful. Don’t worry about how you will achieve your goal. Leave that to a “power” much greater than yourself.
All you have to know is where you are going. The answers will come to you on their own at the right time. From “The Sermon on the Mount”: “Seek and you will find” “Ask and it will be given to you” “Knock and it will be opened to you” “For all who ask-receive” It’s as simple as that!
You just need a purpose and faith! For 30 days, do the best you can. Give without receiving in return. Act like it’s impossible to fail. Take your test for 30 days. If you are overwhelmed by negative thoughts, start over for another 30 days.
Little by little a new habit will form until you find yourself in that wonderful minority for whom practically nothing is impossible. Get yourself a card and write your goal on one side. On the other side the quotes from “The Sermon on the Mount”.
Remember, dreams have no deadlines!
Nothing great was ever accomplished without inspiration! Nobody wants to be a failure, you reap what you sow! Think positive thoughts! The only people who “make” money work in a mint. The rest of us EARN money, AFTER you succeed. Success is not the result of making money, making money is the result of success. You don’t sit in front of a stove and say “give me heat and then I’ll add the firewood”! We have to refuel before we can expect heat! Similarly, we have to be useful first, before we can expect money. Do not worry about the money. Be of service, build, work, dream and believe. Do this and you will find that there is no limit to the prosperity and abundance that will come to you!
Prosperity is based on a law of mutual exchange. Anyone who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn. Sometimes it won’t come from those you serve, but it will come from somewhere.
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. No man can get rich on his own unless he makes others rich! There are NO exceptions to this law. If you want more, you must be more useful to those from whom you receive this return. If you want less, you should reduce this service. This is the price you have to pay for what you want. If you think that you can enrich your life by deceiving others, you will only deceive yourself thinking that you can warn this: it is impossible. The prisons are full of people trying to create new laws for themselves. Six steps to help you achieve success: 1.Set a definite goal 2.Stop exhausting 3.Stop thinking about reasons for failing and not succeeding, think of ways you can be successful 4.Track attitudes back to your childhood, until the first time you told yourself that you could not succeed 5.Change your image by writing a description of the person you would like to be 6.Act the part of the successful person you would like to become Pay the price for becoming the person you want to become. You have nothing to lose, but you have a lifetime to gain! “” THE DEAL OF LIFE IS NOT THAT IT ENDS TOO SOON, BUT WE WAIT A LONG TO START IT. “EARL NIGHTINGALE: AN EXTRAORDINARY MAN.
