1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:06,080 Speaker 1: Lesson seventeen and eighteen of the power of concentration Lesson seventeen. 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:12,919 Ideals developed by concentration through our paltry, stir and strife 3 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:17,079 close the wished ideal and longing molds in clay what 4 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:22,879 life carves in the marble. Reel Lowell. We often hear 5 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:27,120 people spoken of as idealists. The fact is we are 6 00:00:27,199 --> 00:00:31,160 all idealists to a certain extent, and upon the ideals 7 00:00:31,199 --> 00:00:35,159 we picture depends our ultimate success. You must have the 8 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:38,119 mental image if you are to produce the material thing. 9 00:00:39,119 --> 00:00:42,640 Everything is first created in the mind. When you control 10 00:00:42,719 --> 00:00:46,920 your thoughts, you become a creator. You receive divine ideas 11 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:50,679 and shapen to your individual needs. All things of this 12 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:53,280 world are to you just what you think they are. 13 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:58,560 Your happiness and success depend upon your ideals. You are 14 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:03,679 responsible for every can you go through, either consciously or unconsciously. 15 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:08,719 The next step you take determines the succeeding step. Remember 16 00:01:08,799 --> 00:01:13,000 this it is a valuable lesson. By concentrating on each 17 00:01:13,079 --> 00:01:15,680 step as you go along, you can save a lot 18 00:01:15,719 --> 00:01:18,400 of waste steps and will be able to choose a 19 00:01:18,439 --> 00:01:23,200 straight path instead of a roundabout road. Concentrate your ideals 20 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:28,079 and they will become material actualities. Through concentration, we work 21 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:32,280 out our ideals in physical life. Your future depends upon 22 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:36,200 the ideals you are forming now. Your past ideals are 23 00:01:36,239 --> 00:01:40,159 determining your present. Therefore, if you want a bright future, 24 00:01:40,599 --> 00:01:44,159 you must begin to prepare for it today. If persons 25 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:47,879 could only realize that they can only injure themselves, that 26 00:01:47,959 --> 00:01:51,879 when they are apparently injuring others, they are really injuring themselves, 27 00:01:52,439 --> 00:01:55,760 what a different world this would be. We say a 28 00:01:55,799 --> 00:01:59,040 man is as changeable as the weather. What is meant 29 00:01:59,239 --> 00:02:03,000 is his ideal change. Every time you change your ideal, 30 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:06,959 you think differently. You become like a rudderless boat on 31 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:11,360 an ocean. Therefore, realize the importance of holding to your 32 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:15,719 ideal until it becomes a reality. You get up in 33 00:02:15,759 --> 00:02:18,759 the morning, determine that nothing will make you lose your temper. 34 00:02:19,439 --> 00:02:22,080 This is your ideal of a person of real strength 35 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:26,479 and poise. Something takes place that upsets you completely, and 36 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:29,800 you lose your temper for the time being. You forget 37 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:33,000 your ideal. If you had just thought a second of 38 00:02:33,039 --> 00:02:36,080 what a well poised person implies, you would not have 39 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:40,199 become angry. You lose your poise when you forget your ideal. 40 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:44,080 Each time we allow our ideals to be shattered, we 41 00:02:44,199 --> 00:02:48,400 also weaken our will power. Holding to your ideals develops 42 00:02:48,439 --> 00:02:53,479 will power. Don't forget this. Why do so many men fail? 43 00:02:54,199 --> 00:02:57,120 Because they don't hold to their ideal until it becomes 44 00:02:57,159 --> 00:03:00,759 a mental habit. When they concentrate on it to the 45 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:04,919 exclusion of all other things, it becomes a reality. I 46 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,199 am that which I think myself to be. Ideals are 47 00:03:08,199 --> 00:03:11,879 reflected to us from the unseen spirit. The laws of 48 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:15,840 matter and spirit are not the same. One can be broken, 49 00:03:16,039 --> 00:03:19,719 but not the other. To the extent that ideals are kept, 50 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:24,120 is your future assured. It was never intended that man 51 00:03:24,159 --> 00:03:28,319 should suffer. He has brought it upon himself by disobeying 52 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:32,520 the laws of nature. He knows them, so cannot plead ignorance. 53 00:03:33,199 --> 00:03:36,240 Why does he break them? Because he does not pay 54 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:40,080 attention to those ideals flash to him from the infinite spirit. 55 00:03:41,319 --> 00:03:44,639 Life is but one continuous unfoldment, and you can be 56 00:03:44,719 --> 00:03:48,199 happy every step of the way or miserable as you please. 57 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:53,039 It all depends upon how we entertain those silent whisperings 58 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:56,759 that come from we know not where. We cannot hear 59 00:03:56,840 --> 00:04:00,439 them with mortal ear, but from the silence they as 60 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:03,719 if they were dreams. Not to you or me alone, 61 00:04:04,039 --> 00:04:07,759 but to everyone. In this way, the grandest thoughts come 62 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:12,000 to us to use or abuse. So search not in 63 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:16,720 treasured volumes for noble thoughts, but within, and bright and 64 00:04:16,759 --> 00:04:20,480 glowing vision will come to be realized. Now and hereafter. 65 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:26,160 You must give some hours to concentrated, consistent, persistent thought. 66 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:31,079 You must study yourself and your weaknesses. No man gets 67 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:34,040 over a fence by wishing himself on the other side. 68 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,600 He must climb. No man gets out of the rut 69 00:04:37,759 --> 00:04:42,519 of dull, tiresome, monotonous life by merely wishing himself out 70 00:04:42,519 --> 00:04:46,600 of the rut. He must climb. If you are standing 71 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:50,959 still or going backward, there is something wrong. You are 72 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:54,879 the man to find out what is wrong. Don't think 73 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:58,879 that you are neglected, or not understood, or not appreciated. 74 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:03,920 Such thoughts are the thoughts of failure. Think hard about 75 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:06,480 the fact that men who have got what you envy 76 00:05:06,879 --> 00:05:12,199 got it by working for it. Don't pity yourself criticize yourself. 77 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:14,560 You know that the only thing in the world that 78 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:18,920 you have got to count upon is yourself Lesson eighteen. 79 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:25,920 Mental control through creation. I attended a banquet of inventors recently. 80 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:29,480 Each inventor gave a short talk on something he thought 81 00:05:29,519 --> 00:05:33,439 would be accomplished in the future. Many very much needed 82 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:37,720 things were spoken of. One inventor spoke of the possibilities 83 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:42,600 of wireless telephone distance he said would shortly be annihilated. 84 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:45,199 He thought we would soon be able to talk to 85 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:49,399 the man in the submarine forty fathoms below the surface 86 00:05:49,519 --> 00:05:53,199 and a thousand miles away. When he got through, he 87 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:55,759 asked if there were any that doubted what he said. 88 00:05:56,439 --> 00:05:59,519 No one spoke up. This was not a case of 89 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:03,879 tactful politeness, as inventors like to argue, but a case 90 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:07,439 where no one present really doubted that the inventor's vision 91 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:13,959 would in the future materialize. These shrewd men, some real geniuses, 92 00:06:14,519 --> 00:06:16,959 all thought we would in time be able to talk 93 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:21,439 to those a thousand miles away without media. Now, if 94 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:24,519 we can make an instrument so wonderful that we can 95 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:28,920 send wireless messages a thousand miles, is there any reason 96 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:33,720 why we should not, through mental control, transmit messages from 97 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:37,839 one person to another. The wireless message should not be 98 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:41,600 as easy to send as the projected thought. The day 99 00:06:41,639 --> 00:06:45,160 will come when all business will employ highly developed persons 100 00:06:45,199 --> 00:06:50,079 to send out influences. These influences will be so dominating 101 00:06:50,399 --> 00:06:54,040 that employees will be partly controlled by them, and so 102 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:57,199 you will profit more and more by your mental powers 103 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:00,199 and depend on them to draw you to all fours 104 00:07:00,439 --> 00:07:04,000 of a helping nature. You will be constantly sending out 105 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:09,160 suggestions to your employees and friends. They will receive these unconsciously, 106 00:07:09,839 --> 00:07:13,399 but in case yours is the stronger personality, they will 107 00:07:13,439 --> 00:07:16,639 carry them out the same as if you had spoken them. 108 00:07:17,279 --> 00:07:21,360 This is being done even today. A finely organized company 109 00:07:21,399 --> 00:07:25,079 secures the combined effort of all its men. They may 110 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:28,000 be each doing a different kind of work, but all 111 00:07:28,079 --> 00:07:31,759 work to bring about the very best results. The whole 112 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:37,360 atmosphere is impregnated with a high standard of workmanship. Everyone 113 00:07:37,439 --> 00:07:40,439 feels he must do his best. He could not be 114 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:43,879 in such surroundings and be satisfied to do anything but 115 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:47,319 his best work. A business will exceed only to the 116 00:07:47,399 --> 00:07:51,680 extent that the efforts of all are coordinated toward one result. 117 00:07:52,399 --> 00:07:55,279 At least one person is needed to direct all toward 118 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:58,959 the desired end. The person at the head does not 119 00:07:59,079 --> 00:08:03,079 have to exactly outline to the others what steps to take, 120 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:07,319 But he must possess the mental power of control over others. 121 00:08:08,279 --> 00:08:10,959 An up to date business letter is not written in 122 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:15,319 a casual, commonplace way. Today, the writer tries to convey 123 00:08:15,439 --> 00:08:18,240 something he thinks the receiver will be interested to know. 124 00:08:19,279 --> 00:08:23,800 In this way, he awakens a responsive spirit. Sometimes just 125 00:08:23,839 --> 00:08:26,519 the addition of a word or two will change a 126 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:29,240 letter of the matter of fact style to one that 127 00:08:29,319 --> 00:08:33,480 compels a response. It is not always what is actually 128 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:36,600 in a letter, but the spirit which it breathes that 129 00:08:36,639 --> 00:08:42,159 brings the results. That intangible something that defies analysis is 130 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:45,519 the projected thought of the matter that brings back the 131 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:49,799 harvest that it claims. But we should not always claim 132 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:53,559 success for ourselves. Only if you are anxious that some 133 00:08:53,759 --> 00:08:57,559 friend or relative should succeed, think of this person as 134 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:02,399 becoming successful in the position you would like to see 135 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:06,519 him in. If he has a weakness, desire and command 136 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:10,720 that it be strengthened. Think of his shortcomings, which belong 137 00:09:10,799 --> 00:09:14,960 to his negative nature, as being replaced by positive qualities. 138 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:18,080 Take a certain part of the day to send him 139 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:22,519 thoughts of upbuilding nature. You can, in this way arouse 140 00:09:22,559 --> 00:09:26,759 his mental powers into activity, and once aroused, they will 141 00:09:26,799 --> 00:09:31,120 assert themselves and claim their own We can accomplish a 142 00:09:31,159 --> 00:09:33,600 great deal more than many of us are ready to 143 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:38,440 believe by sending to another our direct, positive and controlling 144 00:09:38,519 --> 00:09:42,960 suggestions of leadership. But whether a man is a success 145 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:46,159 or not is greatly determined by the way he acts 146 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:50,600 on the suggestions he receives. We either advance or decline. 147 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:55,200 We never stand still. Every time we accomplish something, it 148 00:09:55,279 --> 00:09:58,799 gives us ability to do greater things. The bigger the 149 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:02,720 attempt undertaken, the greater the things accomplished in the future. 150 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:06,320 As a business grows, the head of the business also 151 00:10:06,399 --> 00:10:09,519 has to grow. He must advance and be ever the 152 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:14,600 guiding influence. By his power to control, he inspires confidence 153 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:19,519 and those associated with him. Often employees are superior to 154 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:24,039 their employers in some qualities, and if they had studied 155 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:28,159 instead of neglected their development, they could have been employers 156 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:32,440 of more commanding influence than those whom they serve. Through 157 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:36,840 your mental power, you can generate in another enthusiasm and 158 00:10:36,919 --> 00:10:41,080 the spirit of success, which somehow furnishes an impetus to 159 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:45,960 do something worth while. In concentrated mental control, there is 160 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:50,080 a latent power more potent than physical force. The person 161 00:10:50,159 --> 00:10:53,360 becomes aware that the attitude of the mind has a 162 00:10:53,399 --> 00:10:58,279 power of controlling, directing, and governing other forces. He has 163 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:01,720 been placed in an attitude case capable of acquiring that 164 00:11:01,879 --> 00:11:06,039 which he desires. All of us, no matter how strong 165 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:09,919 we are, are affected by the mental forces of our environment. 166 00:11:10,799 --> 00:11:14,080 There is no one that can remain neutral to influences. 167 00:11:14,919 --> 00:11:17,879 The mind cannot be freed from the forces of a place. 168 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:22,120 If the environment of your place of business is not helpful, 169 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:25,200 it will be harmful. That is why a change of 170 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:28,480 position will often do a person a great deal of good. 171 00:11:29,799 --> 00:11:33,120 No person was ever intended to live alone. If you 172 00:11:33,159 --> 00:11:36,559 are shut up with only your own thoughts, you suffer 173 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:41,679 from mental starvation. The mind becomes narrow, the mental powers weaken. 174 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:46,399 Living alone often causes some of the milder forms of insanity. 175 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:49,960 If children do not play with those their own age, 176 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:53,960 but associate with only older people, they will take on 177 00:11:54,039 --> 00:11:57,480 the actions of the older people. The same is true 178 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:00,759 of older persons. If they associate with people younger than 179 00:12:00,759 --> 00:12:03,679 they are, they will take on the spirit of youth. 180 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:06,919 If you wish to retain your youth, you need the 181 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:11,440 influences of youth, like attracts like all over the world. 182 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:15,080 The thought element plays a great part in our lives. 183 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:19,600 Every business must not only command physical effort, but it 184 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:24,279 must also command thought effort. There must be coordination of thought. 185 00:12:25,159 --> 00:12:29,200 All employers should aim to secure employees that think along 186 00:12:29,279 --> 00:12:33,480 similar lines. They will work in fuller sympathy with each other. 187 00:12:34,039 --> 00:12:37,759 They will better understand each other. This enables them to 188 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:41,559 help each other, which would be utterly impossible if they 189 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:45,039 were not in sympathy with each other. It is this 190 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:49,039 that goes to make up a perfect organization, which directs 191 00:12:49,039 --> 00:12:52,919 and influences them toward the one end. Instead of each 192 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:56,399 person being a separate unit, each one is like a 193 00:12:56,440 --> 00:13:00,000 spoke in a big wheel. Each member carries his own looks, 194 00:13:00,639 --> 00:13:04,080 and he would not think of shirking. Any One working 195 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:07,200 in such an atmosphere could not help turning out his 196 00:13:07,279 --> 00:13:11,240 best work. All great leaders must be able to inspire 197 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:15,279 this co operative spirit. They first secure assistance through their 198 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:19,600 mental control. Then they make their assistance realize the value 199 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:23,600 of mental control. Soon there is a close bond between them. 200 00:13:24,039 --> 00:13:27,480 They are working toward a single purpose. They profit by 201 00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:31,320 their combined effort. The result is that they accomplish much. 202 00:13:32,399 --> 00:13:35,639 If your business is conducted in the right spirit, you 203 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:39,039 can instill your thoughts and your ideas into your employees. 204 00:13:39,919 --> 00:13:43,720 Your methods and ideas become theirs. They don't know it, 205 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:47,720 but your mental forces are shaping their work. They are 206 00:13:47,879 --> 00:13:51,120 just as certain to produce results as any physical force 207 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:54,200 in nature. The up to date business man of the 208 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:57,799 future is going to take pains to get his employees 209 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:01,080 to think and reason better. He will not want them 210 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:05,320 to become depressed or discouraged. There is time that, instead 211 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:08,240 of being wasted, he will endeavor to have them use 212 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:12,399 in concentrated effort that will be profitable to both employer 213 00:14:12,559 --> 00:14:15,879 and employed. There must be more of the spirit of 214 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:20,200 justice entering into the business of the future. There is 215 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:23,320 a firm I know that will not hire an employee 216 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:27,519 until he has filled out an application blank. No doubt, 217 00:14:27,559 --> 00:14:30,080 those that fill it out think it is a foolishness, 218 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:34,279 but it is not. A capable manager can look over 219 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:38,279 this application blank and pretty nearly tell if this person 220 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:41,799 will fit into his management. The main thing he wants 221 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:46,120 to know is the applicant's capacity for efficient, co operative effort. 222 00:14:46,759 --> 00:14:50,399 He wants persons that have faith in themselves. He wants 223 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:53,720 them to realize that when they talk of misfortunes and 224 00:14:53,799 --> 00:14:57,480 become blue, they are likely to communicate the same depressing 225 00:14:57,559 --> 00:15:01,279 influence to others. The up to date manager wants to 226 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:06,919 guard against hiring employees who obstruct his success. You must 227 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:10,440 realize that every moment spent in thinking of your difficulties 228 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:14,440 of the past, every moment spent in bad company, is 229 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:18,600 attracting to you. All that is bad is attracting influences 230 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:22,639 that must be shaken off before you can advance. Many 231 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:26,600 firms prefer to hire employees that never worked before so 232 00:15:26,639 --> 00:15:30,320 that they have nothing to unlearn. They are then not trained, 233 00:15:30,639 --> 00:15:34,399 but have had no bad business habits to overcome. They 234 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:37,960 are more easily guided and grafts the new materials more 235 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:41,440 effectively because they are not contrary to what they have 236 00:15:41,519 --> 00:15:45,759 already learned. They are at once started on the right road, 237 00:15:45,879 --> 00:15:49,600 and as they cooperate readily, they receive the mental support 238 00:15:49,639 --> 00:15:53,080 of the management and learning the methods that have been perfected. 239 00:15:53,799 --> 00:15:58,039 This inspires confidence in themselves and they soon become efficient 240 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:04,039 and finally skilled workers. Most big business firms today employ 241 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:08,559 efficiency experts. Each day or week they are in a 242 00:16:08,559 --> 00:16:13,000 different department. They earn their money because they familiarize persons 243 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:17,399 with very little business experience with plans that have taken 244 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:20,919 the expert years of training and much money to perfect. 245 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:24,480 The attitude we take has a great deal more to 246 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:28,159 do with our success than most of us realize. We 247 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:31,279 must be able to generate those forces that are helpful. 248 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:35,399 There is a wonderful power in the thought rightly controlled 249 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:40,679 and projected, and we must, through concentration, develop this power 250 00:16:40,759 --> 00:16:45,080 to the fullest possible extent. We are surrounded by many 251 00:16:45,159 --> 00:16:48,679 forces of which we know but little at present. Our 252 00:16:48,759 --> 00:16:53,039 knowledge of these is to be wonderfully increased each year 253 00:16:53,159 --> 00:16:56,559 we learn more about these psychic forces, which are full 254 00:16:56,600 --> 00:16:59,960 of possibilities of which we are not even dimly comt 255 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:04,880 We must believe in mental control, learn more about it, 256 00:17:05,119 --> 00:17:07,960 and use it if we want to command these higher 257 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:12,200 powers and forces which will unquestionably direct the lives of 258 00:17:12,319 --> 00:17:14,400 countless future generations.