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  Know Your Own Mind, Live Your Own Life .

You have great potential for success, but first you must know your own mind and live your own life-then you will find and enjoy that mighty potential. 

Become acquainted with your inner self and you can win what you want within a time limit of your own choosing. 

Certain special techniques help you win the goals of your dearest dreams, and every one of these techniques is easily within your power. 

SOMEWHERE along the path of life, every successful man finds out how to live his own life as he wishes to live it.

 The younger you are when you discover this mighty power, the more likely you are to live successfully and happily. 

Yet even in later years, many make the great change-from letting others make them what they are, to making sure that they make their lives to their own liking.

The Creator gave man the prerogative of power over his own mind. 

It must have been the Creator's purpose to encourage man to live his own life, think his own thoughts, find his own goals and achieve them.

 Simply by exercising this profound prerogative you can bring abundance into your life, and with it know the greatest wealth of all, peace of mind, without which there can be no real happiness.

 You live in a world filled with outside influences which impinge upon you. 

You are influenced by other people's acts and wishes, by law and custom, by your duties and your responsibilities.

 Everything you do has some effect upon others, as do their actions upon you. 

And yet you must find out how to live your own life, use your own mind, go on the dream you wish to make real and solid. 

Know thyself, said the ancient Greek philosophers, and this remains key advice for the man who would be in all ways wealthy.

 Without knowing yourself and being yourself, you cannot truly use the one Great Secret which gives you power to mold your future and make life carry you the way you want to go.

Let us then  take off on our trip to Happy Valley!

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Do not think of me as a back-seat driver.

 Rather, you are at the wheel and I merely call your attention to a trustworthy road map whereon the main highway is marked beyond question. 

On your journey to riches and peace of mind, the road grows smoother and straighter as you travel.

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Never believe you don't have what it takes.

 Probably you are reading under an electric light.

You know that Thomas A. Edison gave the first practical electric light to the world.

 But did you know that Edison was thrown out of school in the early grades after his teacher decided he had an "addled" mind and could not take schooling? 

This then was the impact of another person's opinion upon Thomas Edison-to let him know with the voice of authority that he didn't have what it takes to absorb even a primary education! Where would he have been if he had allowed this directive to take charge of his thinking?

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Fortunately for him and fortunately for the world, Edison decided to live his own life.

 Through early adversity, Edison discovered something he might never have learned through formal schooling. 

He learned, first, that he had a mind he could control and direct toward any desired end. 

Then he learned he could use the technical training of other men and successfully direct scientific research even though he himself never had been schooled in any of the sciences.

 When he took full possession of that "addled" mind it produced not only the incandescent lamp but also one great discovery after another.

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A boy finds a friend and finds himself. 

I too was nearly doomed by a false label of unworthiness.

 I was then nine years old. 

My mother had died a year before, and I lived with relatives.

 To them and to my own father I was a problem child who never would accomplish anything save, perhaps, what a life of crime can accomplish.

 I was doing my best to live up to my reputation as the successor of Jesse James.

 I even had a six-shooter which I had learned to handle like an expert.

 Then a certain woman came upon the scene and she changed my life. 

That woman was my stepmother.

Long before she arrived I had been thoroughly conditioned by my relatives to hate her. 

I found this very easy to do.

 She arrived, and my father brought her to our house where the relatives had gathered to meet her. 

He introduced her all around. 

At length he found me, where I stood in a comer doing my very best to look tough. "And here," said my father, "is your stepson, Napoleon, beyond doubt the meanest boy in Wise County.

 We don't expect much good from him.

 I wouldn't be surprised if he starts throwing rocks at you by tomorrow morning." 

At that moment, I believe my life hung in the balance.

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At that moment, I believe my life hung in the balance. 

It was a wise and wonderful woman who placed her hand under my stubborn chin and raised my head so that she could look me squarely in the eyes.

 She said only a few words, but they lifted me onto an entirely new level. 

Turning to my father, my stepmother said: "You are wrong about this boy. 

He is not the meanest boy in Wise County or anywhere else. 

He is a very alert and intelligent boy, and all he needs is some worthy objective toward which to direct his very good mind."

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That was the first time in my life that anyone had said anything good about me. 

I straightened up, threw out my chest and grinned. 

Then and there I sensed that "that woman" who had come to take my mother's place-as my relatives referred to her-was one of those rare people who can help others find the best that is in them.

 That was the end of my six-shooter days.

 Increasingly finding myself as I grew older, I discovered my talent for writing.

 My stepmother helped me master the typewriter.

 With the aid of the typewriter I became a writer for newspapers.

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Through that experience I qualified to interview successful men, and thus I came to sit down with Andrew Carnegie.

 Out of that interview-which ran on through the better part of three days and nights-came my commitment to search out the secret of successful achievement, not merely as a matter of words, but as a pattern of definite action in the lives of men who have achieved great wealth. 

Out of this grew the organization of the Science of Personal Achievement which has reverberated around the world, bringing prosperity and peace of mind to millions of men and women.

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Great artists also live their own lives, or they could not be great. One of the great opera stars of all time, Madame Schumann-Heink, as a young girl went to a music teacher to have her voice tested. 

He listened a few minutes, then said brusquely: "That's enough! Go back to your sewing machine. 

You may become a first-class seamstress.

 A singer, no!" Remember, that was the voice of authority speaking. 

The girl could have been forgiven for deciding then and there that she would never sing again. 

Yet she had and kept possession of her own mind. 

She became all the more determined that she would learn to sing and to sing well. 

This she did, and the world became richer. 

So it has been with many other cases in which great personal talent might have been lost forever if the possessor of that talent

 had not felt it even when the "experts" said it was not there.

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Adversity? It's a tonic, not a stumbling block!

 Every adversity carries the seed of an equal or greater benefit. Very few march straight to success without going through periods of temporary failure and discouragement. 

Yet when you are in possession of your inner self there is no such thing as a knockout blow. 

You may be knocked down, but you can bounce right back. 

You may detour on rough roads, but you can always find your way back to the paved highway.

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You may think this applies only to simple matters.

 Think, then, of the infinitely complex matter of winning the independence of a colonial territory-and not only that, but of Know Your Own Mind,

 Live Your Own Life  focusing the many scattered influences which make sure you become the country's first President.

In 1910 I became the personal counselor of Manuel L. Quezon.

 I not only counseled him politically but, perhaps more importantly, I taught him the Science of Personal Achievement which then was quite new. 

Senor Quezon was the first President of the Philippine Islands when they gained their freedom.

 In 1910, however, that time was far in the future. 

The goal of freeing his people possessed Quezon's mind, and he saw himself as the first President of the new nation.

 I assured him he could realize both ambitions, yet we knew that such great events do not come to pass overnight.

There is a well-recognized power in setting up a definite goal.

 Few, however, realize the power of setting a realistic time limit in which one intends to attain that goal.

 After having counseled Senor Quezon for some years, I induced him to set a definite time limit for freeing the Philippines and becoming the new nation's leader. 

I also prepared an affirmation which he repeated to himself daily. It closed with a statement of this nature: "I will allow no person's opinion, no influence to enter my mind which does not harmonize with my purpose."

 Both the time limit and the affirmation were of great help to Quezon in knowing his own mind and keeping his own direction in the face of the enormous difficulties which beset him.

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Twenty-four years and six months from the day Quezon began to use the Science of Personal Achievement, he became the first President of the free Philippine Islands.

 Coincidence? Coincidence despite a world war which intervened and many other factors which were not foreseeable?

 I do not think it was a coincidence, for I have seen this principle of Personal Achievement work for so many people in so many different situations that coincidence must be ruled out. 

We shall touch upon the principle again.

 Right now I shall tell you about just one man, presently doing business in Chicago, who has used it with notable success.

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W. Clement Stone was in high school when he discovered his own goals, his own direction in which the powers of his  own mind would take him.

 Soon he was selling insurance at such a rate that he made more money than his teachers.

 Today his fortune is estimated at more than $160 million and it is increasing rapidly. 

In 1939, however, he faced disaster.

 At that time he was the head of an agency, representing a big casualty company, which sold a special accident and health policy. One day the parent company "pulled the string" and terminated his contract with two weeks' notice. 

Mr. Stone did not have large reserves.

 It was imperative to keep that contract going.

 He spent forty-five minutes in refreshing his contact with his inner self; then he decided that within those critical two weeks he would persuade the casualty company it was against their own best interest to terminate his contract. 

The company had very cogent reasons for ending the contract. Nevertheless, they did change their minds as he wished them to and Stone kept on marching toward his fortune.

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