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Lesson XVIII -
Mental Control through Creation
By Theron
Q. Dumont
I attended a
banquet of inventors recently. Each inventor gave a short talk on
something he thought would be accomplished in the future. Many very
much needed things were spoken of. One inventor spoke of the
possibilities of wireless telephone. Distance, he said, would shortly
be annihilated. He thought we would soon be able to talk to the man in
the submarine forty fathoms below the surface and a thousand miles
away. When he got through he asked if there were any that doubted what
he said. No one spoke up. This was not a case of tactful politeness, as
inventors like to argue, but a case where no one present really doubted
that the inventor's vision would, in the future, materialize.
These shrewd men, some real geniuses, all thought we would in time be
able to talk to those a thousand miles away without media. Now, if we
can make an instrument so wonderful that we can send wireless messages
a thousand miles, is there any reason why we should not through mental
control transmit messages from one person to another? The wireless
message should not be as easy to send as the projected thought.
The day will come when all business will employ highly developed
persons to send out influences. These influences will be so dominating
that employees will be partly controlled by them and so you will profit
more and more by your mental powers and depend on them to draw to you
all forces of a helpful nature. You will be constantly sending out
suggestions to your employees and friends. They will receive these
unconsciously, but in case yours is the stronger personality they will
carry them out the same as if you had spoken them.
This is being done even today. A finely organized company secures the
combined effort of all its men. They may be each doing a different kind
of work, but all work to bring about the very best results. The whole
atmosphere is impregnated with a high standard of workmanship. Everyone
feels he must do his best. He could not be in such surroundings and be
satisfied to do anything but his best work.
A business will succeed only to the extent that the efforts of all are
coordinated towards one result. At least one person is needed to direct
all toward the desired end. The person at the head does not have to
exactly outline to the others what steps to take, but he must possess
the mental power of control over others.
An up-to-date business letter is not written in a casual, commonplace
way today. The writer tries to convey something he thinks the receiver
will be interested to know. In this way he awakens a responsive spirit.
Sometimes just the addition of a word or two will change a letter of
the matter-of-fact style to one that compels a response. It is not
always what is actually in a letter, but the spirit which it breathes
that brings results. That intangible something that defies analysis is
the projected thought of the master that brings back the harvest that
it claims.
But we should not always claim success for ourselves only. If you are
anxious that some friend or relative should succeed, think of this
person as becoming successful. Picture him in the position you would
like to see him in. If he has a weakness, desire and command that it be
strengthened; think of his shortcomings which belong to his negative
nature as being replaced by positive qualities. Take a certain part of
the day to send him thoughts of an up-building nature. You can in this
way arouse his mental powers into activity, and once aroused, they will
assert themselves and claim their own.
We can accomplish a great deal more than many of us are ready to
believe by sending to another our direct, positive and controlling
suggestions of leadership, but whether a man is a success or not is
greatly determined by the way he acts on the suggestions he receives.
We either advance or decline. We never stand still. Every time we
accomplish something it gives us ability to do greater things. The
bigger the attempt undertaken, the greater the things accomplished in
the future. As a business grows, the head of the business also has to
grow. He must advance and be ever the guiding influence. By his power
to control, he inspires confidence in those associated with him. Often
employees are superior to their employers in some qualities, and, if
they had studied, instead of neglected their development, they could
have been employers of more commanding influence than those whom they
serve.
Through your mental power you can generate in another enthusiasm and
the spirit of success, which somehow furnishes an impetus to do
something worth while.
In concentrated mental control, there is a latent power more potent
than physical force. The person becomes aware that the attitude of the
mind has a power of controlling, directing and governing other forces.
He has been placed in an attitude capable of acquiring that which he
desires.
All of us no matter how strong we are, are affected by the mental
forces of our environment. There is no one that can remain neutral to
influences. The mind cannot be freed from the forces of a place. If the
environment of your place of business is not helpful, it will be
harmful. That is why a change of position will often do a person a
great deal of good.
No person was ever intended to live alone. If you are shut up with only
your own thoughts you suffer from mental starvation. The mind becomes
narrow; the mental powers weaken. Living alone often causes some of the
milder forms of insanity. If children do not play with those their own
age, but associate with only older people, they will take on the
actions of the older people. The same is true of older persons if they
associate with people younger than they are. They take on the spirit of
youth. If you wish to retain your youth you need the influences of
youth. Like attracts like all over the world.
The thought element plays a great part in our lives. Every business
must not only command physical effort but it must also command thought
effort. There must be co-ordination of thought. All employers should
aim to secure employees that think along similar lines. They will work
in fuller sympathy with each other. They will better understand each
other. This enables them to help each other, which would be utterly
impossible if they were not in sympathy with each other. It is this
that goes to make up a perfect organization, which directs and
influences them toward the one end. Instead of each person being a
separate unit, each one is like a spoke in a big wheel. Each member
carries his own load, and he would not think of shirking. Anyone
working in such an atmosphere could not help turning out his best work.
All great leaders must be able to inspire this co-operative spirit.
They first secure assistance through their mental control. They then
make their assistants realize the value of mental control. Soon there
is a close bond between them; they are working toward a single purpose.
They profit by their combined effort. The result is that they
accomplish much.
If your business is conducted in the right spirit, you can instill your
thoughts and your ideas into your employees. Your methods and ideas
become theirs. They don't know it, but your mental forces are shaping
their work. They are just as certain to produce results as any physical
force in nature.
The up-to-date business man of the future is going to take pains to get
his employees to think and reason better. He will not want them to
become depressed or discouraged. There is time that instead of being
wasted he will endeavor to have them use in concentrated effort that
will be profitable to both employer and employed. There must be more of
the spirit of justice enter into the business of the future.
There is a firm I know that will not hire an employee until he has
filled out an application blank. No doubt those that fill it out think
it is foolishness, but it is not. A capable manager can look over this
application blank and pretty nearly tell if this person will fit into
his management. The main thing he wants to know is the applicant's
capacity for efficient co-operative effort. He wants persons that have
faith in themselves. He wants them to realize that when they talk of
misfortunes and become blue they are likely to communicate the same
depressing influence to others. The up-to-date manager wants to guard
against hiring employees who will obstruct his success.
You must realize that every moment spent in thinking of your
difficulties of the past, every moment spent in bad company is
attracting to you all that is bad; is attracting influences that must
be shaken off before you can advance.
Many firms prefer to hire employees that never worked before so that
they have nothing to unlearn. They are then not trained, but have no
bad business habits to overcome. They are more easily guided and grasp
the new methods more effectively because they are not contrary to what
they have already learned. They are at once started on the right road,
and as they co-operate readily they receive the mental support of the
management in learning the methods that have been perfected. This
inspires confidence in themselves and they soon become efficient and,
finally, skilled workers.
Most big business firms today employ efficiency experts. Each day or
week they are in a different department. They earn their money because
they familiarize persons with very little business experience with
plans that has taken the "expert" years of training and much money to
perfect.
The attitude we take has a great deal more to do with our success than
most of us realize. We must be able to generate those forces that are
helpful. There is a wonderful power in the thought rightly controlled
and projected and we must through concentration develop this power to
the fullest possible extent.
We are surrounded by many forces of which we know but little at
present. Our knowledge of these is to be wonderfully increased. Each
year we learn more about these psychic forces which are full of
possibilities of which we are not even dimly conscious. We must believe
in mental control, learn more about it, and use it, if we want to
command these higher powers and forces which will unquestionably direct
the lives of countless future generations.
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