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Speaker 1: Efficient action. You must use your thought as directed in

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previous chapters and begin to do what you can do

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where you are, And you must do all that you

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can do where you are. You can advance only by

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being larger than your present place. And no man is

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larger than his present place who lives undone any of

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the work pertaining to that place. The world is advanced

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only by those who more than feel their present places.

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If no man quiet filled his present place, you can

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see that there must be a going backward in everything.

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Those who do not quiet feel their places are dead.

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With upon society, government, commerce, and industry. They must be

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carried along by others at a great expense. The progress

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of the world is retarded only by those who do

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not feel the places they are holding. They belong to

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a former age and a lower stage or plane of life,

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and their tendency is toward the generation. No society could

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advance if every man was smaller than his place. Social

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evolution is guided by the law of physical and mental evolution.

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In the animal world, evolution is caused by excess of life.

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When an organism has more life than can be expressed

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in the functions of its own plane, it develops the

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organs of a higher plane, and a new species is originated.

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There never would have been new species had there not

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been organisms which more than feel their places. The law

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is exactly the same for you. You are getting rich

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depends upon your applying this principle to your own affairs.

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Every day is either a successful day or a day

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of failure, and it is the successful days which get

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you what you want. If every day is a failure,

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you can never get rich, while if every day is

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a success, you cannot fail to get rich. If there

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is something that may be done to day and you

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do not do it, you have failed in so far

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as that thing is concerned, and the consequences may be

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more disastrous than you can imagine. You cannot foresee the

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results of even the most trivial act. You do not

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know the workings of all the forces that have been

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set moving in your behalf. Much may be depending on

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your doing some simple act. It may be the very

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thing which is to open the door of opportunity to

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very great possibilities. You can never know all the combinations

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which supreme intelligence is making for you in the world

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of things, and of things and of human affairs. Your

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neglect or failure to do some small things may cause

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a long delay in getting what you want do every

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day all that can be done that day. There is, however,

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a limitation or qualification of the above that you must

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take into account. You are not to overwork, nor to

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rush blindly into your business in the effort to do

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the greatest possible number of things in the shortest possible time.

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You are not to try to do to morrow's work

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to day, nor to do a week's work in a day.

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It is really not the number of things you do,

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but the efficiency of each separate action that counts. Every

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act is in itself either a success or of failure.

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Every act is in itself either effective or inefficient. Every

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inefficient act is a failure, and if you spend your

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life in doing inefficient acts, your whole life will be

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a failure. The more things you do, the verses for you.

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If all your acts are inefficient ones. On the other hand,

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every efficient act is a success in itself, and if

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every act of your life is an efficient one, your

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whole life must be a success. The cause of failure

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is doing too many things in an inefficient manner and

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not doing enough things in an efficient manner. You will

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see that it is a self evident proposition that if

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you do not do any inefficient acts, and if you

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do a sufficient number of efficient acts, you will become rich.

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If now it is possible for you to make each

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act an efficient one, you see again that the getting

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of riches is reduced to an exact science, like mathematics.

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The matter turns then on the questions whether you can

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make each separate act success in itself, and this you

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can certainly do. You can make each act a success

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because all power is working with you, and all power

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cannot fail. Power is at your service, and to make

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each act efficient you have only to put power into it.

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when everyone

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is strong, you are acting in a certain way which

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will make you rich. Every act can be made strong

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and efficient by holding your vision while you are doing

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it and putting the whole power of your faith and

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purpose into it. It is at this point that people

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fail to separate mental power from personal action. They use

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the power of mind in one place and at one time,

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and they act in another place and at another time,

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so their acts are not successful in themselves. Too many

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of them are inefficient. But if all power goes into

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every act, no matter how commonplace, every act will be

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a success in itself, and as in the nature of things,

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every success opens the way to other successes. Your progress

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toward what you want and the progress of what you

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want toward you will become increasingly rapid. Remember that successful

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action is cumulative in its results, Since the desire for

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more life is inherent in all things. When a man

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begins to move toward larger life, more things attach themselves

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to him, and the influence of his desire is multiplied.

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Do every day all that you can do that day,

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and do each act in an efficient manner. In saying

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that you must hold your vision while you are doing

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each act, however trivial or commonplace, I do not mean

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to say that it is necessary at all times to

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see the vision distinctly to all its smallest details. It

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should be the work of your leisure hours to use

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your imagination on the details of your vision, and to

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contemplate them until they are firmly fixed upon memory. If

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you wish speedy results, spend practically or your spare time

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in this practice. By continuous contemplation, you will get the

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picture of what you want, even to the smallest details,

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so firmly fixed upon your mind, and so completely transfer

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to the mind of formless substance, that in your working

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hours you need only to mentally refer to the picture

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to stimulate your faith and purpose and cause your best

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effort to be put forth. Contemplate your picture in your

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leisure hours until your consciousness is so full of debt

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that you can grasp it instantly. You will become so

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enthused in its bright promises that the mere thought of

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it will call forth the strongest energies of your whole being.

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Let us again repeat our syllabus, and, by slightly changing

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the closing statements, bring it to the point we have

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now reached. There is a thinking stuff from which all

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things are made, and which in its original state permits, penetrates,

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and feels the interspaces of the universe. A thought in

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this substance produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.

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Men can form things in his thought, and by impressing

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his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he

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thinks about to be created. In order to do this,

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man must pass from the competitive to the creative mind.

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He must form a clear mental picture of the things

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he wants, and do with faith and purpose all that

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can be done each day, doing each separate thing in

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an efficient manner,