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How To Profit From Defeat

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HOW TO PROFIT FROM DEFEAT
BY NAPOLEON HILL

Every plan and every purpose in this life carries with it the possibility of defeat somewhere along the line.

The important thing is to learn that defeat does not mean failure, unless you accept it as such. This means we are never defeated by other persons or by circumstances. We defeat ourselves, unless we learn to rise above adversity.
Many people who have reached high success express gratitude for the defeats they met on the way up. These defeats provide a “testing time” which helped them gain self-confidence.

They learned that they possessed a power that was limitless and which could overcome any of the causes of defeat.

The turning point in the lives of very successful people often comes after some unpleasant experience which turns them into new paths of opportunity.

When Benjamin Franklin was a young man, he went to Philadelphia looking for a job. As he walked down the street munching a loaf of bread, a pretty young
woman was so amused at his appearance that she pointed her finger at him and laughed heartily.

Her bad manners paid off handsomely for Franklin, for he stopped and introduced himself to her so politely that she became ashamed of her conduct and apologized. She later became Franklin’s wife and his major source of inspiration while he was struggling to gain a place for himself.

Asked why he married a woman who treated him so rudely, Franklin replied that he had made up his mind to “tame” her and see if he could influence her to direct
her charming personality to something better than making fun of strangers.

Benjamin Franklin became great because, in addition to his many other fine traits and sound judgment, he learned how to look for that seed of an
equivalent benefit that comes with every unpleasant circumstance.

During the depression, Eddie Cantor lost all of his fortune. When a friend asked him what he was going to do about it, Cantor replied, “I am going to profit by the experience—and get busy making more money the way I made that which I lost.” The main thing is to recognize that every adversity and every defeat carries with it the seed of an equivalent or even a greater benefit.

Perhaps more important still, you will discover, as every successful person must, that every experience that comes your way, whether it be pleasant or unpleasant, can be of service to you in carrying out your mission in life. When you make this discovery, you will never again accept temporary defeat or failure as anything more than a challenge by which you can test the confidence you have in yourself, the faith you have in your Creator.

Source: Success Unlimited, July 1968, pp. 53-54

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How To Overcome Limitations

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How To Overcome Limitations
Napoleon Hill

Your only limitations, within reason, are those you set up in your own mind, or permit others to set up for you.      

Rid yourself of these imaginary curbs, and you can achieve any heights you desire. You can do anything – if you believe you can. There is no handicap that can stop you, unless you want it to do so.      

Thomas A. Edison became the greatest inventor of all time although he had little formal schooling. He knew what he wanted and believed thoroughly that he could get it.      

He permitted no limitation to enter his mind.      

He learned to overcome his handicap, using his active imagination to conceive new devices and then letting others with technical training perfect the inventions.      

Not too long ago “everyone” knew that Orville and Wilbur Wright were wasting their time trying to make a flying machine. Hadn’t others tried and failed?      

The Wrights, however, refused to recognize any limitations others tried to establish. They went right on  
working – and won.      

There is no greater proof of the statement that “whatever the mind of Man can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.”      

But, success comes only to those who try.      

It never comes to those who let themselves be hog-tied by limitations they believe insurmountable.

There is no such thing as a limitation which cannot be circumvented, removed or surmounted by some plan or purpose that turns the obstacle into a stepping-stone.      

The place to start is in your own mind – by maintaining a positive mental attitude, by knowing exactly what you want and keeping your mind so busily engaged in achieving it that there is no time left for discouragement.      

The only limitations that can hold you back are those you willingly accept as unbeatable.      

You’ll never know the miracles your mind can perform until you acquire the habit of casting off these imaginary shackles. Only you can do it. Others might encourage and urge and advise, but the final blow for freedom of the mind is yours alone to strike.      

Remember that those things that have never been done before offer the greatest challenge and opportunity. The pioneer who first accomplishes them is the one who reaps the reward.      

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Affirmation of the Week

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I take pleasure as others bestow upon me words of praise,  letters of appreciation, award commendations, and provide promotions, bonuses, royalties, and benefits of glorious personal achievements. In turn I regularly give to those who have helped me along the way through giving others the gratitude for all I have achieved.  My inner spirit overflows with joy.        

~ Dr. Anne Kunath


Terrie

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You Can’t Beat Spiritual Law

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The Law is that what you give out comes back to you multiplied.

Then the way to success of any kind, is to begin giving out what you want to have come back. If you have no money, find something else to give. Money is the mere symbol of service, and you can always give service of some kind.

Give something knowing that God is your paymaster and that He is the best of all paymasters. He will begin paying you when you begin working exclusively for Him. God always gives signs of approval. God will give because its is His nature to give. He, too, conforms to the law, because He is the Law. Remember that we are working with real law all the time. If you obey the law of giving, you cannot help but receiving.

Learn by heart what Jesus says: “Give, and it shall be given uno you.”
Repeat it, and repeat it, and believe it.

Trust. Believe that the law is going to work. It is; because when we are really willing to do our share, the law, never fails to work.

Let us apply the principle. If you want a job, begin giving service somewhere along that line. God will direct your paths. If you do not know what vocation you should be in, give your services along any line, and your particular line will open to you.

“Whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.” So you will find everything that your heart desires: health, money, friends, success, the development of your tal-ents, home, prosperity, love, happiness. For God, is Law. He gives, gives lavishly, patiently, joyously. Imitate God.

All that you give out brings its return. These are your planting: deeds, money, words, thoughts-everything. You can’t beat Spiritual Law.

Gardner Hunting


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You Are What You Think

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Thoughtless people sometimes say that our affirmations and meditations are foolish because we state what is not so. “To claim that my body is well or being healed when it is not, is only to tell a lie,” said one distinguished ‘man some years ago.

This is to misunderstand the whole principle. We affirm the harmony that we seek in order to provide the subconscious with a blue print of the work to be done.

When you decide to build a house, you purchase a vacant piece of ground and then your architect prepares drawings of a complete house. Actually, of course, there is no such house on the lot today, but you would not think of saying that the architect was drawing a lie. He is drawing what is to be, in order that it may be. So, we build in thought the conditions that will later come into manifestation on the physi¬cal plane.

To wait for things to “turn up” is foolish, because you will probably die before they do so .. What is your intelligence for if not to be used in building the kind of life that you want? Very primitive men in prehistoric times rejoiced when they found food growing anywhere, and then they waited, perhaps for years, until they happened to find another crop. Today we use our intelligence, and plant in good time the actual crops that we want, and the amount that we consider necessary. We do not sit about hoping that wheat or barley may fortunately come up somewhere. If we did that, civilization would collapse.
The time has come when intelligent men and women must understand the laws of Mind, and plant consciously the crops that they desire; and just as carefully pull up the weeds that they do not want.

The object of treatment is to produce a certain state of mind. That state of mind constitutes a true understanding concerning the problem in question and freedom from fear in connection with it. When this state of mind is attained, the demonstration must and does follow.

Whatever produces the required state of mind is a good treatment. Repeating certain affirmations, reading certain verses in the Bible, using the “Presence Card” or the “Golden Key, or any other “method” of producing that state of mind is a good treatment.

Note, however, that using the affirmations or reading spiritual literature is not an end in itself. It is the uplifted state of mind that is the end. Many sincere Christians have come to mistake the means for the end, and think that praying mechanically or going through certain forms constitutes the spiritual life; but this is not so. The spiritual life is the search for higher states of consciousness and nothing else.