Prosperity via concentration

[Guest guest]

Hi Charlie

 

I just posted this extract from Dumont's self-help classic, The

Power of Concentration, to my blog. Perhaps it will help you too.

 

Slightly off-topic for KY (although KY will certainly help your

concentration skills), this self-help classic may help you to be

prosperous.

 

The entire book is posted free at Project Gutenberg:

 

http://gutenberg.net/etext98/prcon10.txt

 

Here's the extract I posted:

 

>>

 

Many men will not begin an undertaking unless they feel sure they

will succeed in it. What a mistake! This would be right, if we

were sure of what we could and could not do. But who knows? There

may be an obstruction there now that might not be there next

week. There may not be an obstruction there now that will be

there next week. The trouble with most persons is that just as

soon as they see their way blocked they lose courage. They forget

that usually there is a way around the difficulty. It's up to you

to find it. If you tackle something with little effort, when the

conditions call for a big effort, you will of course not win.

Tackle everything with a feeling that you will utilize all the

power within you to make it a success. This is the kind of

concentrated effort that succeeds.

 

Most people are beaten before they start. They think they are

going to encounter obstacles, and they look for them instead of

for means to overcome them. The result is that they increase

their obstacles instead of diminishing them. Have you ever

undertaken something that you thought would be hard, but

afterwards found it to be easy? That is the way a great many

times. The things that look difficult in advance turn out to be

easy of conquest when once encountered. So start out on your

journey with the idea that the road is going to be clear for you,

and that if it is not you will clear the way. All men that have

amounted to anything have cleared their way and they did not have

the assistance that you will have today.

 

The one great keynote of success is to do whatever you have

decided on. Don't be turned from your path, but resolve that you

are going to accomplish what you set out to do. Don't be

frightened at a few rebuffs, for they cannot stop the man that is

determined--the man that knows in his heart that success is only

bought by tremendous resolution, by concentrated and

whole-hearted effort.

 

"He who has a firm will," says Goethe, "molds the world to

himself."

"People do not lack strength," says Victor Hugo; "they lack

Will."

 

>>

 

Good luck with your efforts, Charlie.

 

All best wishes

 

Angela

 

Angela Booth: ab

----------------

Digital-e: Info To Go

http://www.digital-e.biz/

The information you need to build your business.

For professional writers and other creatives.