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Lesson III -
How to Gain What You Want Through Concentration
By Theron
Q. Dumont
The ignorant
person may say,
"How can you get anything by merely wanting it? I say that through
concentration you can get anything you want. Every desire can be
gratified. But whether it is, will depend upon you concentrating to
have that desire fulfilled. Merely wishing for something will not bring
it. Wishing you had something shows a weakness and not a belief that
you will really get it. So never merely wish, as we are not living in a
"fairy age." You use up just as much brain force in "vain imaginings"
as you do when you think of something worth while.
Be careful of your desires, make a mental picture of what you want and
set your will to this until it materializes. Never allow yourself to
drift without helm or rudder. Know what you want to do, and strive with
all your might to do it, and you will succeed.
Feel that you can accomplish anything you undertake. Many undertake to
do things, but feel when they start they are going to fail and usually
they do. I will give an illustration. A man goes to a store for an
article. The clerk says, "I am sorry, we have not it." But the man that
is determined to get that thing inquires if he doesn't know where he
can get it. Again receiving an unsatisfactory answer the determined
buyer consults the manager and finally he finds where the article can
be bought.
That is the whole secret of concentrating on getting what you want.
And, remember, your soul is a center of all-power, and you can
accomplish what you will to. "I'll find a way or make one!" is the
spirit that wins. I know a man that is now head of a large bank. He
started there as a messenger boy. His father had a button made for him
with a "P" on it and put it on his coat. He said, "Son, that 'P' is a
reminder that some day you are to be the president of your bank. I want
you to keep this thought in your mind. Every day do something that will
put you nearer your goal." Each night after supper he would say, "Son,
what did you do today?" In this way the thought was always kept in
mind. He concentrated on becoming president of that bank, and he did.
His father told him never to tell anyone what that "P" stood for. A
good deal of fun was made of it by his associates. And they tried to
find out what it stood for, but they never did until he was made
president and then he told the secret.
Don't waste your mental powers in wishes. Don't dissipate your energies
by trying to satisfy every whim. Concentrate on doing something really
worth while. The man that sticks to something is not the man that fails.
"Power to him who power exerts." --Emerson.
Success to-day depends largely on concentrating on the Interior law of
force, for when you do this you awaken those thought powers or forces,
which, when used in business, insures permanent results.
Until you are able to do this you have not reached your limit in the
use of your forces. This great universe is interwoven with myriads of
forces. You make your own place, and whether it is important depends
upon you. Through the Indestructible and Unconquerable Law you can in
time accomplish all right things and therefore do not be afraid to
undertake whatever you really desire to accomplish and are willing to
pay for in effort. Anything that is right is possible. That which is
necessary will inevitably take place. If something is right it is your
duty to do it, though the whole world thinks it to be wrong. "God and
one are always a majority," or in plain words, that omnipotent interior
law which is God, and the organism that represents you is able to
conquer the whole world if your cause is absolutely just. Don't say I
wish I was a great man. You can do anything that is proper and you want
to do. Just say: You can. You will. You must. Just realize this and the
rest is easy. You have the latent faculties and forces to subdue
anything that tries to interfere with your plans.
"Let the troubles and responsibilities of life
come thick and fast.
I am ready for them. My soul is unconquerable.
I represent the Infinite law of force, or of all power.
This God within is my all sufficient strength and ever present help in
time of trouble.
The more difficulties the greater its triumphs through me.
The harder my trials, the faster I go in the development of my inherent
strength.
Let all else fail me. This interior reliance is all sufficient.
The right must prevail.
I demand wisdom and power to know and follow the right.
My higher self is all wise. I now draw nearer to it."
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