He left himself no possible way of retreat.
He had to win or perish!
A long while ago, a great warrior faced a situation which made it necessary for him to make a decision which insured his success on the battlefield. He was about to send his armies against a powerful foe, whose men outnumbered his own. He loaded his soldiers into boats, sailed to the enemy's country, unloaded soldiers and equipment, then gave the order to burn the ships that had carried them. Addressing his men before the first battle, he said, “You see the boats going up in smoke. That means that we cannot leave these shores alive unless we win! We now have no choice—we win-or we perish! They won”.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat. Only by so doing can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a BURNING DESIRE TO WIN, essential to success.
Every human being who reaches the age of understanding of the purpose of money wishes for it. Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.
The method by which DESIRE for riches can be transmuted into its financial equivalent consists of six definite, practical steps:
First:
Fix in your mind the exact amount of money you desire. It is not sufficient merely to say “I want plenty of money." Be definite as to the amount. (There is a psychological reason for definiteness).
Second:
Determine exactly what you intend to give in return for the money you desire. (There is no such reality as “something for nothing.)
Third:
Establish a definite date when you intend to possess the money you desire.
Fourth:
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.
Fifth:
Write out a clear, concise statement of the amount of money you intend to acquire, name the time limit for its acquisition, state what you intend to give in return for the money and describe clearly the plan through which you intend to accumulate it.
Sixth:
Read your written statement aloud, twice daily, once just before retiring at night and once after arising in the morning AS YOU READ-SEE AND FEEL AND BELIEVE YOURSELF ALREADY IN POSSESSION OF THE MONEY.
It is important that you follow the instructions described in these six steps. It is especially important that you observe and follow the instructions in the sixth paragraph. You may complain that it is impossible for you to "see yourself in possession of money” before you actually have it. Here is where a BURNING DESIRE will come to your aid. If you truly DESIRE money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money and to become so determined to have it that you CONVINCE yourself you will have it.
Only those who become “money conscious" ever accumulate great riches. "Money consciousness” means that the mind has become so thoroughly saturated with the DESIRE for money, that one can see one's self already in possession of it.
You may as well know, right here, that you can never have riches in great quantities UNLESS you can work yourself into a white heat of DESIRE for money and actually BELIEVE you will possess it.
If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.
We who are in this race for riches, should be encouraged to know that this changed world in which we live is demanding new ideas, new ways of doing things, new leaders, new inventions, new methods of teaching, new methods of marketing, new books, new literature, new features for the radio, new ideas for moving pictures. Back of all this demand for new and better things, there is one quality which one must possess to win and that is DEFINITENESS OF PURPOSE, the knowledge of what one wants and a burning DESIRE to possess it.
We who desire to accumulate riches, should remember the real leaders of the world always have been men who harnessed and put into practical use, the intangible, unseen forces of unborn opportunity and have converted those forces, (or impulses of thought), into sky-scrapers, cities, factories, airplanes, automobiles and every form of convenience that makes life more pleasant.
Tolerance and an open mind are practical necessities of the dreamer of today. Those who are afraid of new ideas are doomed before they start.
Let us not forget, Columbus dreamed of an Unknown world, staked his life on the existence of such a world and discovered it!
Copernicus, the great astronomer, dreamed of a multiplicity of worlds and revealed them! No one denounced him as “impractical” after he had triumphed. Instead, the world worshipped at his shrine, thus proving once more that “SUCCESS REQUIRES NO APOLOGIES, FAILURE PERMITS NO ALIBIS.”
If the thing you wish to do is right and you believe in it, go ahead and do it! Put your dream across and never mind what “they” say if you meet with temporary defeat, for "they,” perhaps, do not know that EVERY FAILURE BRINGS WITH IT THE SEED OF AN EQUIVALENT SUCCESS.
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