How To Get WHATEVER YOU WANT In Spite Of All Obstacles!

Here is the power which will enable you to succeed-to GET WHATEVER YOU WANT-in spite of all obstacles, all handicaps, all failures, all defeats. It is the POWER OF BELIEVING!

Without it, you are doomed to constant failure. With it, your success is assured-YOU WILL GET WHATEVER YOU WANT. The POWER OF BELIEVING will:

(1) Enable you to BE whatever you want to BE! What you ARE helps determine what you GET ..

(2) Enable you to DO whatever you want to DO! What you DO helps determine what you GET.

(3) Enable you to HAVE whatever you want to HAVE! Intensely BELIEVE and RECEIVE!

On what authority can I make such statements?

I make those statements on the authority of the Bible and of the Holy Scriptures of ALL of the great religions, past 110 and present, and ALL of the greatest thinkers, philosophers and psychologists throughout the entire history of mankind.

ALL of the great teachings and ALL of the greatest thinkers throughout ALL of history cannot ALL be wrong!

Here is the POWER-not just to conquer your fear of failure (which it instantly will do )-but to enable YOU to BE whatever you want to BE . . . to DO what- ever you want to DO ... to HAVE whatever you want to HAVE!

THIS . . . is what the POWER OF BELIEVING will do for YOU:

“As a man thinketh in his heart [as he INTENSELY BELIEVES] so IS he," says the Bible. The Bible also says, "ALL things are possible to him that BELIEVETH." That" s a strong statement, but it comes from a reliable source.

In fact, the power of INTENSELY BELIEVING is the basis of ALL of the great religions. Study the great religions and you will find the ONE thing they ALL have in common is the need for and the power of INTENSELY BELIEVING.

Buddha taught, “ALL that we are is the result of what we have thought [INTENSELY BELIEVED]."

Confucius taught, “The way of a superior man is three-fold: virtuous, he is free from anxieties; wise, he is free from perplexities; bold, he is free from fear." Through this wisdom of that great thinker runs the golden thread of INTENSE BELIEF.

The Koran of Mohammedanism emphasizes the need for and power of BELIEVING.

The blog you now are reading is not a blog about religion. I do not intend to intrude upon your personal beliefs. I just respectfully want to point out that the deepest convictions of all mankind in all religious faiths are centered in the need for and the power of BELIEVING. Everybody throughout all history can't be wrong! Therefore, I am sure we can conclude that INTENSELY BELIEVING is one of the greatest forces in the world! From the quotations just given, we are told on the highest authority that we actually become what we INTENSELY BELIEVE I

“As a man thinketh in his heart [INTENSELY BELIEVES] so IS he."

“ALL things are possible to him who believes."

This is the teaching of all religions.

"ALL that we are is the result of what we have thought [INTENSELY BELIEVED]."

Here is Universal Power in your own hands!

You can become what YOU want to become ... you can be what YOU want to be . . . you can achieve what YOU want to achieve-by INTENSELY BELIEVING that YOU can!

Study the miracle cures and you will find one motivation . . . INTENSE BELIEF!

Study the lives of all great men and women and you will discover always the same motivation . . . their own INTENSE BELIEF in their personal abilities, INTENSE BELIEF in their ultimate success. (You will find many actual examples in the next chapters.) Psychologists have proven that whatever the mind of man can conceive and BELIEVE-man can achieve!

William James, famed philosopher and psychologist of Harvard University, who is acknowledged as probably the greatest thinker of modem times, constantly taught that: "BELIEF CREATES THE ACTUAL FACT." He said, "In any project, the important factor is your BELIEF. Without BELIEF there can be no successful outcome. That is fundamental."

And William James further wrote: "If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich; if you wish to be learned, you will be learned; if you wish to be good, you will be good. Only you must, then, really wish [IN- TENSELY BELIEVE] these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly." IF YOU INTENSELY BELIEVE THAT YOU WILL GET WHAT YOU WANT-YOU WILL GET IT! Dr. Walter Scott, famous psychologist and President of Northwestern University, said, "Success or failure in business is caused more by MENTAL ATTITUDES than by mental capacities." In other words, your success in business is the result of YOUR INTENSE BELIEF that you will succeed-and is not dependent upon superior brainpower.

Then, what about will power? Many leading psychologists have no faith in will power alone. Their experiences prove that it is a person's DESIRE and IN- TENSE BELIEF that he or she will achieve that desire- which determines the success of that person. INTENSE BELIEF must be reinforced by will power, but it cannot be replaced by it.

As Bruce Barton said, "Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared BELIEVE that something inside them was superior to circumstances."

And Emerson, one of the wisest men this nation has ever produced, said, "No accomplishment, no assistance, no training, can compensate for lack of BELIEF." He also wrote that every man reveals in his eyes the exact indication of his rank. You can just look at a man and tell how much he BELIEVES in himself and what he stands for.

Now let's take our case for BELIEF all the way to the United States Supreme Court. The decision ... by the late Justice Cardozo: "We are what we BELIEVE we are."

Or let's ask a great American thinker and poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He wrote: "Perseverance [based on INTENSE BELIEF that you will succeed] is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough at the gate [of Success] you are sure to wake up some- body."

The famous preacher-psychologist-writer, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, says, "Think success, visualize success, and you will set in motion the power force of the realizable wish [INTENSE BELIEF]. When the mental picture or attitude [INTENSE BELIEF] is strongly enough held, it actually seems to control conditions and circumstances."

Yes, you are or you become what you IN- TENSELY BELIEVE. You never can be better, more successful or bigger than you BELIEVE you can! A farmer exhibited at a County Fair a pumpkin grown in the exact shape of a two-gallon jug. "When this 114 pumpkin was no bigger than my thumb," he explained, "I stuck it in the jug and just let it grow. When it filled the jug, it quit growing." What the waUs of the jug did to the pumpkin, our BELIEFS do to us!

Our INTENSE BELIEFS shape-and limit- our lives just as the jug shaped and limited the size of the pumpkin. We can never be bigger than we INTENSELY BELIEVE.

So let me repeat-so that you never will forget it: All of the great religions and"the greatest thinkers, philosophers and psychologists in the entire history of the world agree that we are or will become exactly what we INTENSELY BELIEVE!

The principle of BELIEVING is like dialing a telephone. You get what you dial. If you dial the wrong number (fear, sickness or failure) that's what you will get. You will get it automatically-not as a trick of Fate but because you dialed it yourself. If you dial (by IN- TENSELY BELIEVING) happiness, success, health, love, riches, popularity, power, fame-you will get exactly what you dial-not because you are lucky, but because you dialed it yourself by INTENSELY BELIEVING. BELIEF in their ability to succeed is the one basic, essential characteristic of all successful people! You become what you BELIEVE to the exact extent of the INTENSITY of your BELIEF. That's why it is so important to BELIEVE INTENSELY. You cannot achieve your goal by a casual, indifferent, occasional be- lief. Your BELIEF must be INTENSE. "As a man thinketh in his heart so is he," says the Bible. You have to think [BELIEVE INTENSELY] "in your heart." The Bible 115 didn't emphasize that you must BELIEVE INTENSELY "in your heart" just to teach meaningless words. No, the Bible meant to state, as a definite requirement, that YOU MUST BELIEVE INTENSELY.

As we shall discuss in later chapters, your conscious mind must BELIEVE with such white-hot intensity that the exact image of what you want will be burned deeply into your subconscious mind which then will use its unlimited powers to achieve for you your greatest desires! YOU MUST BELIEVE INTENSELY.

In this connection it might be well to repeat the instructions of philosopher and psychologist William James: “ ••• not to wish at the same time for a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly."

You will deepen your BELIEF by concentrating INTENSELY on one desire or, at most, several compatible desires. And when I say “concentrate," I mean deeply thinking about your INTENSE BELIEF, not just a few times a day, but hundreds of times a day! Remember you are a living advertisement of the contents of your mind . .. and “heart." "As a man thinketh in his heart [INTENSELY BELIEVES] so is he." Remember, too, that if you are not accomplishing what you should, it is because you do not really "think in your heart" that you can do it. You do not INTENSELY BELIEVE you can do it. Therefore, you do not do it.

I gave the following illustration in my blog, Thoughts to Build On: A little boy who lived in the moun- tains found an eagle's nest high on a rocky crag. In the nest was just one eagle's egg. The boy took the egg home and placed it in a hen's nest under a setting hen. The' 116 eagle's egg hatched along with the chicken eggs and the baby eaglet played with the baby chicks and of course thought he was just like them-a chicken.

Since he BELIEVED he was a chicken he, of course, lived and acted like a chicken. He did not try to fly but remained with the chickens in the fenced-in chicken yard. Yet as the eagle grew bigger and stronger there seemed to be something inside him that made him feel he was not just a chicken-and he felt the urge to fly. Because he BELIEVED he could.-he COULD!

So he stretched his mighty wings and began to fly . . . higher . . . higher . . . higher . . . until he reached his new home on top of a lofty mountain. Because he BELIEVED in a greater destiny-he knew he was not a chicken, confined to a dirty chicken yard. Because he BELIEVED-his belief released his real powers! He now lived on the highest pinnacle and soared through the bright, blue sky as the proud symbol of courage and freedom-the American Eagle!

The most powerful forces of nature are the in- visible ones: heat, sound, electricity, gravity-just as the most powerful forces of man also are invisible: love, thought, desire, BELIEF. You see and feel only their powerful effects.

In the next chapters, you will learn what a mighty force is this invisible power of INTENSELY BELIEVING that YOU CAN SUCCEED. We shall examine the exciting, inspiring, real-life stories of men and women whose achievements were so great as to almost be miracles -because they used their tremendous POWER OF BELIEVING!