INSPIRATION FOR SUCCESS

Are you in any business? What amount of returns are you expecting from that business of yours? Do you actually believe you can make a head way in that choosing business of yours? Ponder over these questions a little bit, but I would like you to keep the answers to yourself.

No matter the answers you may give to the above questions it may as well fall short of one thing which may be a missing link to your answers. Know what that thing is? What you have within you,which is either success or failure!

All physical manifestation of success are but a function of your inner thought activity. In other words your business endeavours will either have to fail or succeed within you first. All other things will be formalities. You can easily prove this for yourslft. If you are in a business say bottled water business and you do not seem to be making a headway, look carefully into your own thought and see what you can find.You will find that you already have an established belief that business is not good. You do not feel like doing anything much about taking the business to the next level. You are not likely to find within you any sense of success. You are not expecting any customers.

Now suppose someone comes along and says to you: "What is the matter? Why are you not doing more business?" Your answer would be: "People don't seem to want what I have to sell" Or perhaps something like this: I am too old to compete with modern methods." Or even:"Well, times are hard." All this is negative thought or failure mindset.

Now this man to whom you are talking does not believe a word you have said. He knows that success is in mind and not what you do, and he says: "The whole thing is in your own mind; the trouble with you is that you don't feel that you are a success."

Perhaps you have heard something of this before; if so you will ask him what he means, or perhaps you think he is talking about something peculiar; but we are taking it for granted that you are so anxious to do something to make your business a success that you will be willing to try anything, so you ask him to explain. He begins by telling you all is Mind; nothing moves but Mind moves it and that you are a center in this Mind. You do not understand how this relates in any way to your business, but he goes on to say that your thought decides whether your business shall be a success or a failure. Here you become indignant, and ask if he means to tell you that you want to fail. Of course he knows you do not, and he explains that while you wish success, you are thinking failure, fearing it, and that there is a law that makes your thought, never asking questions but at once sets about its fulfillment. You become interested and ask how this can be; in return you are asked this question: "How did anything come into being?" This sets you to thinking and of course you realize that there was a time when nothing existed but life; so whatever has come into being must have come from that life, for what we see must come from that which we do not see. You have to admit that. Then what you do not see must be the Cause of everything; and you must also admit that; and that Cause works by Law; this you are compelled to admit. Then this Law, being everywhere, must be in you; this is harder for you to see; but after much thought you begin to realize that it is so. Then you, without knowing where your thought processes were leading you, have conceded that you, yourself, are the reason for what happens in your life, be it success or failure.

Now what are you going to do about it? This is what you must do. For every time that you have thought failure you are going to replace it with strong thoughts of success. You are going to speak positive words into your business. You are going daily to see nothing but success and to know that it is Law that you are using, and that is that it is what is applicable at any time and anywhere. If you have got it in your mind, it must follow outwardly.

Always remember this. Life is from within outward, and never from without inward. You are the center of power in your own life.

Be sure and not take on false suggestion. The world is full of calamity howlers; turn from them, every one, no matter how great you think they may be; you haven't the time to waste over anything that is negative. You are a success, and you are giving to the Law, every day, just what you want done. And the Law is always working for you. All fear has gone and you know that there is but One Power in all the Universe. Happy is the man who knows this, the greatest of all Truths.

The whole thing resolves itself into our mental ability to control our thought. The man who can do this, can have what he wants, can do what he wishes, and becomes what he wills. Whatsoever you desire, believe you have it and you will surely have it.