If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.
Robert Collier
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Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.
Constant repetition carries conviction.
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.
Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing...
If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.
If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.
If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.
In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.
It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.
Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream - but create!
Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.
One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.
One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.
Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.
People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.
Pictures help you to form the mental mold...
Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.
See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.
See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.
Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.
Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.
The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.
The great successful men of the world have used their imagination... they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building-steadily building.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.
You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.
Your real self - the "I am I" - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.
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