Speaker 1: Partnership next to marriage. Partnership is the most important association
mental partnerships. Be careful whom you choose as your mental partners.
Get into partnership with the best thoughts, dissolve partnership with
the other kind. I can, I will, I do, I dare.
Next to marriage, a partnership arrangement is the most important
association into which a man or woman may enter. Its
consequences are far reaching and difficult to escape, and to
a very considerable extent, one is bound by the acts
of his partners. This being the case, it is of
the utmost importance that one should exercise the great diligence
and care in selecting partners. If any of my readers
were to contemplate entering into a partnership agreement with others,
he would be sure to select those who were possessed
of the most desirable qualities and those most conducive to success.
He would carefully avoid those possessed of lack of confidence, fear, worry, discouragement,
and others of the I can't class. He would seek
out the courageous, confident, I can and I will men.
He would keep away from those in whom hate, malice, jealousy, envy, bigotry,
and other traits of ignorance were strongly manifest. He would,
in short, choose those who possessed, to the greatest possible degree,
the qualities most conducive to success, and would as carefully
avoid those possessed of opposite qualities. There is no doubt
of the truth of what I have just said. Every
one of you will admit it. Now. I do not
purpose telling you about business partnerships of the ordinary kind.
You know all about those. But I will call your
attention to the fact that you are every day forming
partnerships of a most important character, and far reaching in
their effects, but of which you probably have been unaware.
When your attention is once called to the matter, many
things will seem clear to you that have heretofore appeared
quite dark, and you will be able to avoid mistakes
in the future that have been quite common in the past.
This is an important lesson, and I trust that you
will give heed to what I say. I have stated
in previous articles that your mind is a mighty magnet,
attracting to itself the thoughts emanating from the minds of others.
Like attracts like in the world of thought, and the
prevailing character of your thoughts will be manifested in the
character of thought waves drawn to you from the great
ocean of thought. Your thought mingles and colesses with thoughts
of a corresponding nature send out from the minds of others,
and both you and the other senders are strengthened in
the mental attitude by reason of the joining of forces.
You are entering into a mental partnership with those unknown thinkers,
and at tracking them to you, and you to them.
Why do birds of a feather flock together in business
and everyday life, simply because they are irresistibly drawn to
each other by the law of mental attraction. The people
with whom you are brought in contact are those of
the same mental key as yourself. You may not agree
with this statement, but a close analysis will prove it.
The pushing, hustling, wide awake man will attract to himself
thought partners of the same stamp, while the man who
is afraid is always sure to find himself surrounded by
people having the same defects. And not only is this
true in the sense that the law brings you into
actual contact with people of the same mental key, but
you are connecting yourself with hundreds of others who are
thinking along the same lines. Although you may never actually
come in physical contact with these people, you are going
into partnership with them and will share in the firms
profits and losses, just as you would in case of
an ordinary business partnership, and it is easy to foretell
upon just what side of the firm. Letger the balance
will appear. When you approach a man on business with
your mind ladened with thoughts of fear, lack of confidence, etc.
You strike a similar keynote in that man, and he
instinctively feels that he has no confidence in you or
your business. And if he is a man who is
predominant to note his courage, he will feel the in
harmony and get rid of you as soon as he can. If,
on the contrary, he is also I can't man, he
will feel a fellow feeling for you, but it will
do you no good. It will be a case of
misery love's company. And the first thing you know, you
will find yourself and that man in an earnest conversation
about dull times, poor crops. The country is going to
the dogs. No chance for a man. Nowadays we are
all going to the poor house, et cetera, et cetera.
I've seen it happen many a time, haven't you. But
if you are an I can and I will man
and he is the same. See how different things are.
He will warm up to you and will feel that
he understands you, and sooner or later you and he
will do business with each other. In fact, the arrangement
is begun with your first meeting. If you can get
yourself in something like the same mental attitude of a
man with whom you wish to do business, you will
get along with him. Never fear. When you have something
in mind upon which you are working and you are
at the same time maintaining the proper mental attitude, you
are placing yourself in psychic touch with every other man
in the same line who is holding the same mental attitude.
You drew an inspiration from them, and both parties to
the mental partnership, share in the profits. Both will share
to a certain extent in each other's progress, and both
will draw largely from the mental stock of those who
are working along the same lines, but who are holding
a negative mental attitude. In fact, the whole store of
knowledge and progress along those lines will be tapped by
these partners holding the positive mental attitude, new plans, ideas, combinations, schemes,
devices will spring into being in their minds, and they
will not only help each other, but will draw upon
the less positive people. This seems a hard law, but
it is, like all of nature's laws, so severe that
we are forced sooner or later to learn the lesson
we learn by experience. Only. This operation of law of
mental attraction is a good example of one of the
meanings of that saying, so dark to many, to him
that hath shall be given to him, that hath not
shall be taken away, even that which he hath at
any rate. That is the way the law works. And
it is not only in the matter of success that
this mental partnership works. Its operations are manifest everywhere. You
will notice that the negative emotions drow to themselves people, thoughts,
and things upon which they can feed. Let a man
or woman manifest jealousy, and lo, as if from the
earth spring apparent causes for that jealous feeling, all sorts
of things seem to conspire to feed the green eyed
monster into a state of fatness. And let a man
or woman get a notion that people are trying to
slight them. And let them continue to hold this thought,
and it will soon seem to the poor victim of
fear thought as if everybody in the world was determined
to snub, slight and tread upon him and hurt his feelings.
If he persists in this attitude, life will become a
burden too heavy to bear, and there will be no
possible relief for him except a change of mental front.
Let one imagine that everyone is trying to cheat him,
and he will be a lucky man if he does
not find that the things he feared have come upon him.
Let a man cherish thoughts of hate and malice, and
sooner or later he will become involved in all sorts
of hateful, malicious schemes and occurrences with his partners whom
he has drawn to him. He who lives by the
sword shall die by the sword. Is proven every day.
He who thinks every man is a rogue will see
enough rogues to justify him in his belief, and will
probably end up by having people think of him as
a rogue. He will draw all sorts of roguish people, things,
and circumstances to him. Did you ever start in the
morning feeling cross and crabbed. Well, if you did, you
probably found that, after the inevitable domestic row over the
buckwheat cakes and coffee, after you had left your wife
with tears in her eyes and the children in good
shape to get into trouble in school, that everyone seems
to have it in for you. Some fellow in the
train seemed to deliberately tread on your pet corn, another
jostled you, and so on. When you got down to business,
everything went wrong, and unless you brought yourself up with
a short turn, you had a dreadful time of it
all day, and were glad when night came that you
might sleep it off. You will always find that there
are plenty of people way to go into mental partnership
with you. In such cases, if you are looking for
a fight, you will get it. I tell you friends,
that people are all more or less in psychic touch
with each other, and the sooner we recognize this fact,
the better it will be for us. This law of
mental attraction works either good or bad for us, according
to the uses we make of it. If we run
contrary to the law, we will be taught lesson after lesson,
until we learn something. But if we fall in with
the workings of the law, we will reap the benefits
that come to man when he masters and controls any
of nature's great forces. Now, don't make partnerships of an
undesirable kind. If you do, you will have to bear
the consequitquence. If you have already formed such a partnership,
to dissolve it at once and go into liquidation. After
a while you will have cleared up the old debts
and straightened matters out, and will begin to do business
on another basis. And I want to tell you right
here that you can get into the best mental firms
in the world if you only go about it right.
They will not object to you if you are a
fit member, and in fact, they could not keep you
out even if they wished. The doors will open at
the magic touch of the spoken word, packed up by
the proper mental attitude, cut loose from the old thought associations,
and form new connections. Get in touch with the right
kind of thought, waves, people and things, cultivate the proper
mental attitude and an entrance to the firm you wish.
Good men are scarce in all branches of business, trades
and professions. There's room for you away up at the
top too. Get what belongs to you. Do not be
cheated out of your heritage. Assert yourself. Join to day
that good hustling firm whose name on the sign board
reads I can, I will, I do, I dare