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The Power of Positive Thinking: Unlimited Possibilities
By Leigh Everett
Does negative thinking pay? Is it desirable for me to encourage thoughts
in my mind that break down, hinder, and incapacitate me for good work? Do I
want negative thoughts that inevitably bring discontent, unhappiness, and
ultimate failure in their train?
Your answer will be, of course, that you do not want them. But such
thoughts work insidiously, and will find an entrance into your mind if you
are not extremely vigilant. The surest way to keep them out, however, is to
fill the mind completely with vital positive thoughts, to think constantly
of yourself as a man of unlimited possibilities, growing daily in mental and
spiritual power, equipped for great things, a necessary part of God's
glorious creation, and moving forward toward a triumphant and immortal
destiny.
It is difficult to construct positive thoughts out of the poor stuff from
which dreams are made. A man should devote himself particularly to the
practical things of life. Some men learn this lesson all too late, for, as
Thoreau says, "Youth gets together the materials for a bridge to the moon,
and maturity uses them to build a wood-shed."
The habit of right thinking, when firmly established, becomes a source of
attraction. Good thoughts soon become great thoughts, and the mature mind
attempts even the impossible. The power of a single thought at the beginning
of a day can hardly be estimated. It can change despondency into hope, and
fear into courage. It can nerve the arm for great and noble deeds. It can
strengthen a weak and timid character into four-fourths of a man. It is
possible for it to set in motion an influence that will reach the ends of
the world.
The importance of right thinking is its effect upon right doing. How many
disastrous mistakes are made for lack of proper thought? How many of life's
failures are due to a careless and unwise selection of a business or
profession?
It was Sidney Smith who said: "If we represent the occupations of life by
holes in a table, some round, some square, some oblong, and persons by bits
of wood of like shapes, we shall generally find that the triangular person
has got into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, while the
square person has squeezed himself into the round hole."
Right thinking means that which constructs, strengthens, and ennobles. It
means better manhood, the pluck to do and to dare, and the heroism of mighty
endeavor. It knows no limitation, but reaches out daily for new conquests.
It is a power unto itself, growing through its own use.
Leigh Everett
http://www.develop-self.com
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