The Basic Mental Attitude That Brings Wealth and peace of mind

           * The Basic Mental Attitude That Brings Wealth and peace of mind * 

A life of wealth enjoyed by a mind at peace comes most often to men who maintain a positive mental attitude. With definiteness of purpose you add great positive power to your won mental attitude, and you can definite motives to sustain the actions which propel you toward your goal. At the same time you can set up spiritual guardians to keep your attitudes at a high " Yes " level , avoid conflicts  of motive, tune-in on other positive minds.

The computers which are beginning to manage our world are complicated devices. Most of them , however have a very simple basic principle : they say Yes or No. They either open a kind of electrical gate or they keep it closed, and by multi plying this process they can assimilate and select all kinds of information. 

The  mind of man is far more wonderful than any machine. Within it, however, there seems to be a kind of  Yes-No value at the focal point of thinking. It is as thought your awareness  of a circumstance of  life-sent to your brain at the Yes-No point to be processed. A person who maintains a positive attitude will find every possible Yes in that circumstance and make it part of his life. A person who maintains a negative mental attitude will lean toward the no side, miss much that is good live with much that is painful and damaging.

Nothing but a mental attitude ?  Nothing but a mental attitude, but it is right there that your success or your failure, your peace of mind of your nervous tension , your tendency toward good health or your tendency toward illness begins. Fortunately it is possible for anyone to make the change from negativism to positivism, and thus basically condition his brain to bring all that is good in life. Moreover, there are cer tain  " control levers " which the creator make 's available to us, once you know what they are.

I shall give you some here and some in other chapters so as to reinforce your money. Now and then you will find repetition of names, facts and methods in this books, always with a view toward helping your remember.


 
" Control your mental attitude with definiteness of purpose."
Emerson Said : ' The word makes way for a man who knows where he is going."     
Think what it means to know where you are going! Automatically you rid  yourself of all kinds of fears and doubts which may have crept into the making-your-mind pro cress. Your purpose is definite and presto! -all the limitless knowing your purpose, You can't be led astray by circum stamnce or words which have nothing to do with your pose. Where, before, a day's work may have contained a good deal of wasted motion, now your efforts are lined up so that each mental or physical motion helps every other motion.

You can see the connection with building wealth for work done well is a basic wealth- builder. Now see the connection with peace of mind. A man who works wholeheartedly at his job is not concerned with such matters as finding fault with others , disturbing his conscience by cutting comers in his work, watching the clock and so forth. No will he be discouraged by any obstacles which may crop up ; his positive and handle problem and  overcome them. 

Is this a secret of " genius " ?
I have mentioned that  many eminently successful men do not possess any greater intelligence than most other men possess. Yet their achievements are such that we may say that these men have " genius. " Surely it is the positive mental attitude of these men which makes their rain-power, not greater, but more efficient and more available than most other '. When I spoke to such men as Henry ford, Andrew Carnegie and Thomas A. Edison I Spoke with minds free of any fear or doubt that they could do anything they wished to do. 

I know that Andrew Carnegie was well aware of the need for a positive mental attitude. Before he undertook to back me in my success, he really put me " on the spot "  as to my mental attitude.

Looking at me shrewdly across his desk, that canny Scot said : " We've talked a long time and I have shown you the greatest opportunity a young man ever had to become  famous, rich and useful . Now-if I choose you out of the two hundred and forty other applicants for this job-iFI introduce you to the outstandingly successful men in America-if I help you get their collaboration in finding out the true philosophy of success will you devote twenty years to the job, earning your own living as you go along ?

We have had sufficient discussion. I want your answer Yes or No." I began to think of all the obstacles that would stand in my way. I began to think of all the hurdles I would have to jump. I began to think of all the time I would have to spend, and the big job of  writing, and the problem of earning my living all that while-and so forth.

I spent  twenty- nine seconds struggling with a negative mental attitude which, had it overcome me, would have affected me negatively ever after.

How do I know I took just twenty-nine seconds? Because, when I found the positive mental attitude which I had lost temporarily, and said " Yes !  Mr. Carnegie showed me the stopwatch he had been holding beneath his desk. He had given me just one minute in which to show my positive state of mind-otherwise, he felt, he would not have been able to depend on it. I had beaten the deadline by just thirty-one seconds, and thereby embraced an opportunity that was destined to change and improve the lives of millions of people, including my own.