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Lesson XI -
Concentrate On Courage
By Theron
Q. Dumont
Courage is the backbone of
man. The man with courage has persistence. He states what he believes
and puts it into execution. The courageous man has confidence. He draws
to himself all the moral qualities and mental forces which go to make
up a strong man. Whereas, the man without courage draws to himself all
the qualities of a weak man, vacillation, doubt, hesitancy, and
unsteadiness of purpose. You can therefore see the value of
concentration on courage. It is a most vital element of success.
The lack of courage creates financial, as well as mental and moral
difficulties. When a new problem comes, instead of looking upon it as
something to be achieved, the man or woman without courage looks for
reasons why it cannot be done and failure is naturally the almost
inevitable result. This is a subject well worthy of your study. Look
upon everything within your power as a possibility instead of as merely
a probability and you will accomplish a great deal more, because by
considering a thing as impossible, you immediately draw to yourself all
the elements that contribute to failure. Lack of courage destroys your
confidence in yourself. It destroys that forceful, resolute attitude so
important to success.
The man without courage unconsciously draws to himself all that is
contemptible, weakening, demoralizing and destructive. He then blames
his luck when he does not secure the things he weakly desires. We must
first have the courage to strongly desire something. A desire to be
fulfilled must be backed by the strength of all our mental forces. Such
a desire has enough commanding force to change all unfavorable
conditions. The man with courage commands, whether be is on the
battlefield or in business life.
What is courage? It is the Will To Do. It takes no more energy to be
courageous than to be cowardly. It is a matter of the right training in
the right way. Courage concentrates the mental forces on the task at
hand. It then directs them thoughtfully, steadily, deliberately, while
attracting all the forces of success, toward the desired end. Cowardice
on the other hand, dissipates both our mental and moral forces, thereby
inviting failure.
As we are creatures of habits, we should avoid persons that lack
courage. They are easy to discover because of their habits of fear in
attacking new problems. The man with courage is never afraid.
Start out today with the idea that there is no reason why you should
not be courageous. If any fear-thoughts come to you cast them off as
you would the deadly viper. Form the habit of never thinking of
anything unfavorable to yourself or anyone else. In dealing with
difficulties, new or old, hold ever the thought, "I am courageous."
Whenever a doubt crosses the threshold of your mind, banish it.
Remember, you as master of your mind control its every thought, and
here is a good one to often affirm, "I have courage because I desire
it; because I need it; because I use it and because I refuse to become
such a weakling as cowardice produces."
There is no justification for the loss of courage. The evils by which
you will almost certainly be overwhelmed without it are far greater
than those which courage will help you to meet and overcome. Right,
then, must be the moralist who says that the only thing to fear is fear.
Never let another's opinion affect you; he cannot tell what you are
able to do; he does not know what you can do with your forces. The
truth is you do not know yourself until you put yourself to the test.
Therefore, how can someone else know? Never let anyone else put a
valuation on you.
Almost all wonderful achievements have been accomplished after it had
been "thoroughly" demonstrated that they were impossibilities. Once we
understand the law, all things are possible. If they were
impossibilities we could not conceive them.
Just the moment you allow someone to influence you against what you
think is right, you lose that confidence in yourself that inspires
courage and carries with it all the forces which courage creates. Just
the moment you begin to swerve in your plan you begin to carry out
another's thought and not your own. You become the directed and not the
director. You forsake the courage and resolution of your own mind, and
you therefore lack the very forces that you need to sustain and carry
out your work. Instead of being self-reliant you become timid and this
invites failure. When you permit yourself to be influenced from your
plan by another, you are unable to judge as you should, because you
have allowed another's influence to deprive you of your courage and
determination without absorbing any of his in return so you are in much
the same predicament, as you would be in if you turned over all your
worldly possessions to another without getting "value received."
Concentrate on just the opposite of fear, want, poverty, sickness, etc.
Never doubt your own ability. You have plenty, if you will just use it.
A great many men are failures because they doubt their own capacity.
Instead of building up strong mental forces which would be of the
greatest use to them their fear thoughts tear them down. Fear paralyzes
energy. It keeps us from attracting the forces that go to make up
success. Fear is the worst enemy we have.
There are few people that really know that they can accomplish much.
They desire the full extent of their powers, but alas, it is only
occasionally that you find a man that is aware of the great
possibilities within him. When you believe with all your mind and heart
and soul that you can do something, you thereby develop the courage to
steadily and confidently live up to that belief. You have now gone a
long way towards accomplishing it. The chances are that there will be
obstacles, big and little, in your way, but resolute courage will
overcome them and nothing else will. Strong courage eliminates the
injurious and opposing forces by summoning their masters, the yet
stronger forces that will serve you.
Courage is yours for the asking. All you have to do is to believe in
it, claim it and use it. To succeed in business believe that it will be
successful, assert that it is successful, and work like a beaver to
make it so. Difficulties soon melt away before the courageous. One man
of courage can fire with his spirit a whole army of men, whether it is
military or industrial, because courage, like cowardice, is contagious.
The man of courage overcomes the trials and temptations of life; he
commands success; he renders sound judgment; he develops personal
influence and a forceful character and often becomes the mentor of the
community which he serves.
How to Overcome Depression and Melancholia. Both of the former are
harmful and make you unhappy. These are states that can be quickly
overcome through concentrating more closely on the higher self, for
when you do you cut off the connection with the harmful force currents.
You can also drive away moods by simply choosing and fully
concentrating on an agreeable subject. Through will power and thought
control we can accomplish anything we want to do. There is wonderful
inherent power within us all, and there is never any sufficient cause
for fear, except ignorance.
Every evil is but the product of ignorance, and everyone that possesses
the power to think has the power to overcome ignorance and evil. The
pain that we suffer from doing evil are but the lessons of experience,
and the object of the pain is to make us realize our ignorance. When we
become depressed It is evidence that our thought faculties are
combining improperly and thereby attracting the wrong force-currents.
All that it is necessary to do is to exercise the will and concentrate
upon happy subjects. I will only think of subjects worthy of my higher
self and its powers.
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