By Renee Pullman

The law of success guarantees each of us who seek self-knowledge, who work at improving themselves, who build their self-confidence a success that is unequaled by common man. The common man is the man who doesn’t strive to better themselves.

The Common Man, Failure Designed In

The common man walks through life asleep because he doesn’t know and hasn’t found a better way. His life is made up of the motions of life but like so many others he is walking down the cattle trail following in the direction of so many others who will live and die but never reach their potentials.

Some common men actually wake for a time but come to believe that they can never accomplish the things they seek to do. Emerson said,

Every artist was first an amateur.

Emerson meant you pick something up but those who will be successful will take the time to learn it and understand it. Others seek to be the best from the beginning and will soon give it up. The old adage is true, you must learn to crawl before you can walk.

The Uncommon, What Woke this Young Woman, And Prompted Her On To Fame?

Wilma Rudolph, the great Olympic star who could only walk with a leg brace after polio. Her family continued to encourage her until her desire to walk was so great that she sneaked out to practice walking and wound up a great Olympic Runner. It was not facts in her life that created her achievement. It was the power of the thoughts in her mind and her self-discoveries that compelled her to walk and later compelled her to make a contribution to sports.

Notice Wilma Rudolph was not given permission to do anything and had one of the biggest road blocks a person destined to be a world class runner could have, crippling polio. But her desire to succeed was built to such a level by her families encouragement and by herself that she has shown us the great power of our minds and spirit to overcome what would seem to be the impossible.

Activating The Law of Success Begins In Your Mind

Every great act or accomplishment always begins with an idea. Imagine, a single idea is behind every great accomplishment. Napoleon Hill who was the best known success writer of the 20th century popularized the ideas by saying: “Everything the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.” This is the challenge to you to activate that place in your mind, in your should that will allow you great success and allow you to achieve the uncommon.

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It seems that the big marketing successes of all times have been promoting opinion and outright falsehoods as truth.

Emerson is quoted as saying:

build a better mousetrap and they’ll beat a path to your door.

While Emerson has written and stated many great truths, this is not one of them.  In fact if you build a better mouse trap, the PR machines will kick in from your competitors and work at shooting you down.  The fact is if you want to promote something then you’d better have the biggest mouth.

A couple of examples, that you should eat margerine instead of butter, that high fructose corn syrup should be in everything.  Both of these “truths” have their part in the current obesity epidemic in the US.

What other half-truths are out there that you may be using to make decisons with, or products that you may be using that perhaps another choice would be better (hint: perhaps you should avoid high fructose corn syrup)?

Hype is pervasive in our society today.  Everyway we turn someone has a sign or a mesage aimed at our senses.  Repitition of ideas makes us feel comfortable about them, after time we adopt them without giving any real consideration at all.

Always understand your reasons for doing things, is it something considered, or something that has been implanted by repetition of messages that have been presented to your senses?

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There’s Only One Person Who Can Help You

Napoleon Hill writes of a man who came to see him one day.  The man’s business had failed and he left his family because he couldn’t take care of them.

The man was unkempt, but the day before he had been given one of Hill’s pamphlets and now the man had come to Hill’s office seeking help.

Hill told him that he was sorry that he could not help, but that there was a man in the building who could help and Hill would introduce the man.

Hill led the man into the next room and stood him before a curtain.  When Hill pulled the curtain back the man was looking in the mirror.  Hill explained that this was the only man on earth who could help and there he was in the mirror.  Hill goes on to tell of the mans later success (“Hills Golden Rules“).

Self Reliance

Poor Richards Almanac put it this way: “God helps them that help themselves.” The great Emerson wrote: “Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”

And so it is with all of us.  This is not to say that a hand up does not help from time to time but – any real forward movement lies in our own hands, our own actions, in our own mind as Emerson said, “self reliance“.

What keeps a person from doing the things he or she knows to do?  What keeps a person from moving forward?

That question usually comes down to 1. beliefs, there is a belief that the thing is impossible, OK for someone else but impossible for me; and 2. lack of a compelling reason – there is no vision or purpose to pull you forward nor is there a sufficient monster coming up from behind to force you to move.

So most of us just sit there.  Jim Rohn (or is it Les Brown?) talks about an old dog lying on a nail poking up out of the wood floor of the front porch.   The dog is whining but just lays there.  The nail is annoying but just doesn’t hurt enough to get the dog to move.

Greet The Future Each Morning

What reasons do you have to move forward with your dreams and plans?   What compelling vision of success can you make so you can see the outcome of those plans, a vision so compelling that you are drawn happily into the future?

“See the vision and make it plain on tables that he may run who reads it…”  That’s how the Bible puts it in the book of Habakkuk, it’s a little different context, but the idea is the same.

Write down your vision of the future, nurture that vision until you take off running towards it everyday.  You see your mind is the only thing that will get you off your ass.

You can’t beat yourself into doing anything that is truly worthwhile.  But a compelling vision that you repeat to yourself, consistently and often enough, is a vision that you will come to believe.  It’s a vision that will shine a light on how you are going to accomplish it.  It’s a vision that will cause you to jump out of bed everyday and run to greet it.

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Get Excited Now!!! and Create the Life you Really Want

When you think of your future, does it get you excited? Does it keep you up at night daydreaming of the endless possibilities? When you think of your future, is it better or worse than things are now? And, if it’s better what does that mean to you?

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The Power of Visualization! | Suzanne McKenna Life, Career

A wonderful quote from Neville Goddard sums up how important visualization and your imagination is in the change process. To attempt to change circumstances. … As you are inside the goal adjust the qualities of the picture, sounds and the feelings in order to make the goal the most real and compelling for you. – Imagine stepping out of the picture but leave your body in the picture, as if you are looking at a Polaroid snapshot of you attaining the goal. …

Today is Sunday, a day of renewal, a day of beginnings and a day for a fresh look at The Science of Getting Rich.

There is no limit to the supply of Formless Stuff, or Original Substance. The universe is made out of it; but it was not all used in making the universe. The spaces in, through, and between the forms of the visible universe are permeated and filled with the Original Substance; with the formless Stuff; with the raw material of all things. Ten thousand times as much as has been made might still be made, and even then we should not have exhausted the supply of universal raw material.

If you watch the news regularly, if you are out of work, or under-employed it is easy to see a world of lack around you.  It is easy to see the circumstances and let them control what you are thinking.  To let the circumstance spiral your state of mind down.

Emerson says: “God enters by a private door into every individual.”

Wattles teaches that the supply is limitless.  He is not alone in this teaching, if you are Christian or Jew your Bible says: “Before you call I will answer…”  That says your answer is here, you just need receive it.  If you are Muslim your Holy book says: “Which of your Lords blessings would you deny…”  I’ve always found that profound.  I have no experience with Hindu or other religions scriptures but I am certain that they too contain this timeless truth, that your needs are taken care of.

Let me switch for a moment.  Masard Emoto* had got advice from his mother after he nearly drowned in the ocean when he was a young boy, he flailed had around and was sinking and taking water in before his rescue:

…she gave me some advice based on her ability to swim and float in water: “you can float if you just give in,” she said.  She said if I let the water lift me instead of trying to resist it, it would pick me up and carry me.

Emoto talks about this advise coming back to him as he tries to gently flow in the direction he wants his life to take.

Emoto’s mother’s advise is good to think about in challenging times.  When you are in a constant state of struggle and resistance and fighting the circumstances then you are in the same act of resistance that Emoto was in as he was drowning.  You must come from that into a state of trusting.  Trusting that you will be lifted, that you will be carried to safty by the currents of life.

This is not to say that you do nothing, far from it.  The great faiths would have you pray.  And they would have you end the prayer in gratitude.  The stories of faith talk of inspiration and then the recipient of the inspiration acting out of it.  This is not struggle but it is being directed into the flow of life.

Jerry and Ester Hicks, and Abraham talk of going with the flow and not resiting by trying to go up stream.  But if you are constantly fighting and fighting then you are not with the flow and you are not getting the best from life.  When Esther Hicks channels Abraham they are always talking about the best for you being down stream and not where the struggle is.  When you are in harmony you will find your best.

The law of attraction is about these great truths.  Whether you accept any of the faiths mentioned or none, the truths they discuss are real.  So begin to trust, as if you were in water and could not touch bottom, trust that the water would lift you, that it will carry you.

There really is a limitless supply, begin to trust, visualize, collect ideas, take action on them in the spirit of trust.  Whatever the situation, don’t be the drowning man flailing aimlessly reaching for this, then that and never able to connect with any of it.  Trust – see the thing you want to see, hold it in the formless substance, turn it round in your mind.   Allow the ideas to come.  Take steady and thoughtful action.   Per Wattles: by thought the thing is created, by action it is received.

So consider the vision you want.  Consider what it would be like if you could be in that vision, the peace and gratitude.  The law of attraction teaches that you have just created the thing and to receive it you continue to hold the vision and the gratitude and you will get the ideas that will allow you to take the right action to receive it.   You do these things by being in the flow not by being in a constant state of turmoil and unbelief.  Believe….   See yourself and the things you want in the flow of your life.  As you trust and flow and believe these things become a part of your reality.  Your thoughts affect your environment…  this is faith.

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*The Secret Life of Water copyright 2005 by Masaru Emoto.  Emoto became well known when his work on the affects of thought and prayer on the formation of water crystals was featured in the film “What The Bleep Do We Know.”  An earlier film about some of the same ideas as “The Secret” and which put forth the ideas of Quantum Physics as an explanation of the law of attraction.

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson is one of the writers that Wattles endorses as sharing the philosophies of The Science of Getting Rich. Emerson talks of money’s effects being as beautiful as roses. And being ‘the prose of life’ means money is like ordinary speech, a way of expression. Roses decorate our lives, speech helps us connect with others and Emerson’s statement reflects the same sentiments as Wattles:

In this book, I shall not speak of riches in a figurative way; to be really rich does not mean to be satisfied or contented with a little. No man ought to be satisfied with a little if he is capable of using and enjoying more. The purpose of Nature is the advancement and unfoldment of life; and every man should have all that can contribute to the power; elegance, beauty, and richness of life; to be content with less is sinful.

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If you have the wherewithal to make the most of yourself and your life it not only makes your life more pleasant and meaningful but it lifts those around you. With sufficient means you inspire others to move forward with their lives, for your family you provide stability and will be able to provide education and the things that can help them form in a positive way. When you imbue your life and family with values, with a spirit of all things being possible then as Emerson alludes, moneys effects is as beautiful as roses.

One of the misnomers is that “money is the root of all evil.” This is attributed to the Bible and used to justify failure. In fact the Bible says, “the love of money is the root of all evil (1 Timothy 6:10).” Emerson and Wattles are not talking about the love of money but rather of money as a tool for bringing good things to life.

If you consider money as being like an ordinary expression of life then you can appreciate it like good words. Good words lift and inspire but words can also tear down. This doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t use words rather that you should use your words in a beneficial way and leave the words that tear down behind.

The whole discussion of money is not so a man may become the biggest glutton in the world, not to be the biggest consumer, not to be a Jabba the Hutt – fat and controlling, but so he may fully participate in life and produce value — to empower himself and others. Emerson in his lecture on wealth says:

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He fails to make his place good in the world, unless he not only pays his debt, but also adds something to the common wealth. Nor can he do justice to his genius, without making some larger demand on the world than a bare subsistence. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

And we’ll leave it there for now.