In his own voice ( Napoleon Hill )

0:00Hey, this is Strawberry One. Click their Marie Anderson. How y'all doing out there today? Now, who everybody is having a wonderful day? Right now we are going to tune in to other people's problems. I made it long and they took me to remit it. One of my students sometimes go ask if I didn't worry and awful lot over people who came to me with their problems. I said, are there people's problems? Why? Bless your life. I don't worry over my own problems. Why should I worry over somebody else's problems? It's not because I am indifferent. I am certain they are far from indifferent. I am very sensitive to the problems of my friends and my students. But not sensitive enough to let them become my problems. They are still your problems. I will do all I can to help you to solve them. But not enough to absorb them and take them over myself. That's not how we are doing. And don't you get them to have it either.

1:00There are a lot of people who have not only make room for all their own problems but they take on the problems while they are in laws and their relatives and their friends and the neighborhood and sometimes the problems of the whole nation. Where it was made for somebody else, not for me. And don't look for trouble. It will find you in its own way too soon anyway. Don't go looking for it. Because the circumstances of life have a queer way of revealing to you the things you are searching for. You are looking for faults and other people. You are looking for trouble. You are looking for things to worry about. You will always find them. And you don't have to go very far. You don't have to go out of your own house to find a lot of things to worry about. If you are looking for things to worry about. A person without hope is lost. Sound health inspires hope and hope inspires sound health. And what do I mean by hope? I mean hope of some yet unattained objective in life. Something that you are working towards. Something that you are trying to do and you know you are going to do it.

2:03And you are not going to be worried because you are not doing it fast enough. You know there are a lot of people in this world who start out to be rich. They want to make a lot of money in there. In patients, become nervous, work themselves into a fury because they don't get the money fast enough. Sometimes this desire to get money quickly influences people to get it the wrong way. And that's not good. Developed by daily prayer not for more blessings but for those you already have such as freedom is an American sin. What a marvelous thing it would be to express prayer every day in one farmer in your own words and don't need to use any words to talk just in your own thoughts. Express the prayer of appreciation for the freedom that you enjoy in American sin. Freedom to be ourselves. Freedom to live our own lives. Freedom to have our own objectives. Freedom to make our own friends. Freedom to vote as we please, to worship as we please, and to do pretty much anything else we please. Even abuse ourselves for wrong living if we want to do it that way.

3:05Then the privilege of acting on our own initiative. Man, a job that is secure from more hazards at present time. We think there's nothing in danger of war at this time. There may be some time later on, but right now there isn't. And then an opportunity to secure economic freedom according to your talents. And freedom to worship in your own way. Sounds physical and mental health. And the time that lies ahead of you. Think of the marvelous thing that consists in the time that still lies ahead of you. Well, you know, the richest part of my life and of my achievements is still ahead of me. I'm still just the answer that is I've been going to kindergarten. I'm a boy into the great in-school now in my profession. But I'm going to do some really good work before I play song. I am making better use now of my time than I used to. Time is a precious thing. I evaluated in terms of minutes now. And throw away your ass for an under your headache tablisher. First thing you do, headache is nature's way of warning you that something needs scratching. The headache is one of the most marvelous things in the world.

4:06It's a wonderful thing. We couldn't get along without headaches. While we die too young, we go, headache is nothing in the world, but nature telling you that there's some trouble somewhere and you better get busy into something about it. The joy that physical pain is one of the miraculous and marvelous things of all of nature's creations. Physical pain, it's in language that every living creature on the face of this earth and every person of every nationality understands. It's the only universal language. Language of physical pain. Every living creature begins to do something when physical pain begins to clamp down on. Because it is a form of warning and take no prejudice of any sort of anytime. That's a glad habit. And remember, sound help does not come from bubbles, but it may come from fresh air, wholesome food, wholesome thinking and living habits, all of which is under your control.

5:06Fat people may be good-ditching, but they generally die too young, and I don't like to see people dying too young. Fasting, here is one of my things. Now, if you want to know one of the main secrets, why I have such marvelous health, why I have no ailments, why I have lots of energy, it's because twice a year I go on a 10-day fast. 10 days without any food of any nature whatsoever, I condition my physical body through two days of preparation by fruits, and fruit juice is nothing but life vital ailments going into the body. Then I go on my fast of water, no thing but just plain water, all the water I can drink, but I put it up for flavoring or lemon juice or something, and it just a few drops to take the flatness out of water. Because believe you me, when you're fast, the water will taste mighty flat. And then when I come off of my fast for the first two days afterwards, I take very light, very little out. The first day on the one small bowl of soup with no grease in it, and one slice of whole wheat bread.

6:07Now, don't you start fasting just because I said so. And don't you start fasting at all until you learn under the directions of a doctor or somebody skilled in fasting, how to do it and why to do it? I recommended that fast to one of my students once, who was about 75 pounds overweight, and she said, you mean fast for 10 days? Well, I've starved with this the first day. I would starved with this the first day if you took food away from me. And I believe she meant it, and she probably would. The person got lost in the woods is scared of this. I suspect they could starved with this in two or three days. Believe you may, there is tremendous therapeutic value, tremendous spacial value, tremendous economic value in learning the art of fasting. And on work. On work must be a blessing because God provided that every living creature must engage it in one way or another or perish. Is that a marvelous thing to think about? Talk about the burdens of the air and the beast of the jungle

7:08and either wind and spinning or sowing, nor reap, but nevertheless they have to work before they can eat just the same. Work should be performed in the spirit of worship, as a ceremony. What a wonderful thing it would be if you would look at your work as the rendering of useful service. Think of not in terms of what you were getting out of it, but in terms of the people that you were helping, as a result of what you were doing enough. Did you know that when you were engaged in a labor of love, when you're doing something for somebody just because you love that person, or he's a friend of yours, you're not doing it for money. You know, you never feel tired when you're doing that kind of work. And it does something for you. You get your compensation, you can go along. I want to tell you that this business is going to extramile is the most wonderful thing in this philosophy. For what it will do to you is you go along, it makes you feel better. Better towards yourself, better towards your neighbor, and gives you a better standing in the world of hell. Work should be based on the hope of achieve with some definite major purpose in life. Thus if it comes voluntary, it's a pleasure to be sought,

8:08and not a burden to be endured. Work with the spirit of gratitude for the blessings it provides, both in sound, physical health, and economic security, and the benefits it may provide once dependence, thus in embellishing it with love. And then think. Learn to communicate with infinite intelligence from within, and adapt yourself to the laws of nature as they are in evidence all around you. And that's one of the greatest systems of therapeutics that I know anything about. It's an abiding and an enduring source of faith. It does wonderful things to your physical body, and they view me as there does happen to creepy and ailments. Legitimate ailments, I know of no better medicine to take than faith. And then habits. All habits are made permanent and work automatically through the operation of the law of cosmic habit force, which forces every living thing to take on and to become a part of the environmental influences in which it exists. You may fix the pattern of your thought habits

9:10and your physical habits, but cosmic habit force takes these over and carries them up. Understand this law, and you will know why the High Book Concreac enjoys for him. If you ever have financial security in this world, you've got to do two things, at least. You've got to budget your time, the use of your time, and you've got to budget your money, your expenditures, and your receipt, so that you have a definite plan to go by. Now, to begin with, you have 24 hours of time. Let's take up time first. You have 24 hours divided into three eight-hour periods, eight hours for sleep, eight hours for work. Well, you have no control over the eight hours for sleep. You have to give that over to nature. She demands that. And you don't have always too much control over the eight hours that you put into work, even though you're working for yourself. You still don't have too much control. You have to be there. But there are eight hours that bless your lives. That's yours. You can waste it if you want to.

10:11You can play, you can work, and you can enjoy yourself. You can relax, or you can develop by taking forces of instruction. You can read, you can do anything you want with it. And there in lives the greatest opportunity of the whole 24 hours. It used to be back in the days when I was doing my research. I worked 16 hours a day, but it was a labor of love that I was engaged in. I reserved eight hours a day for sleep. And the other 16 I worked. Part of the time I was working in order to make a living, training salesmen and so forth, but mostly in research, getting ready to give this philosophy to the world. And had it not been for the fact that I had at least eight hours of free time on my own, I never could have done the necessary research. Now in those eight hours of spare time, you can practice developing all of those habits that you choose through the whole cosmic habit force. Now you don't have to follow my plans, but you get some mighty good ideas in the lesson on a flight phase,

11:11in the one on cosmic habit force, and in the one on the mastermind. Work out a plan of your own. And if your plan will be better than if I give it to you verbatim and you just follow it. Now the suggestions for budgeting of time, budgeting of income and expenses. First thing on your list, your monthly or weekly amount of income should be put down. Should have a regular book worked out, budgeting book. Now if you have a family or if you don't have a family, a life insurance is a must. It's absolutely a must. You just cannot afford to be what I do. If you brought children into this world who are responsible for, to whom you are responsible for an education, it's up to you to ensure yourself so that if you pass out of the picture and you don't earn any longer, they have done enough money to educate themselves with. That's just the most. And if you married a wife, that's dependent entirely upon you. It's up to you to carry it up insurance to give her a down payment on the second husband,

12:11if you should pass out of the picture. But life insurance, he's a wonderful thing because it gives you such wonderful protection in case you are taken away from your sorts of production. And a family man or a man who's in the business where his services are a large portion of the assets. There have been like that to know him job. There are the business where a human or a female, if taken away, would be a tremendous loss to the business. And men like that should always carry them, be insured for a large sum of money. Large enough to give a few up to Kazerman, be left by them and they should be taken out. So life insurance comes up to the top of the list. Then next, a definite percentage for food, clothing and housing. Now don't just go out and blow the works. You know, you can go down to grocery store and you can spend five times as much as you actually need if you don't have a system to go by. I do the shopping at our house. I believe that's not biased.

13:11And he does do that either way. That way I get what I want. But you know, I learned a great deal about shopping by following the housewives that I just found out were a good shopper and asking them questions. And believe you, they put me on to a lot of things I didn't know about buying food, about handling food I could buy. And so when I go over to one of those big supermarkets out in California, I always pick out the most likely housewives and I follow on behind her and start asking her questions. You'd be surprised how cooperated they are. They just love to tell you about what you should do. You shouldn't. Food and clothing. But we don't have a, I must say, the goal is to come out. We don't have a budget to go by. I buy whatever I, whatever my fancy strikes. But I just have to be in position where a budget on food and clothing is not necessary. But there was a time when it was necessary. And I imagine in the lives of most people it is necessary to have a budget.

14:14And then I definitely don't know how to be satisfied for investment. Even if it's only a small amount, if it's only a dollar a week, in fifty cents a week. It's not the amount that you set aside. It's the habit of being resourceful and for all good. It's wonderful thing to be proven. Not the waste things. And I've always admired anybody that doesn't waste things. I even like my grandfather. He used to go around picking up old nails and strings and pieces of metal. And he's surprised at what a collection of things he had. Now, my friend Galton never ran to that extent. He'd ran more to Rolls Royces and 600 Degrees States. But believe you me, I got around at long last learning that no matter how much of this philosophy you have, if you don't have a system for saving a part of what goes through your hands, it makes no difference how much goes through doesn't. And if you don't have that system, it will go through all of it.

15:14Whatever a mouth remains after you have taken care of those three items, should go into a current checking or spending account for emergencies, recreation, education, etc. You can draw on that. You don't have to follow your budget on that. That's a petty cash account, you might say. And if you're a real progul, you let it get up to pretty good size. You won't keep it down too slow all of that. And it's a nice thing. You know, you did a wonderful thing to know that you have a good nest egg lying in the bank, and you're saving the garden no matter what happens, you go all the way down there and get the money. You may not need it. And the chances are, you'll put you in that frame of mind where you won't help you go down and get it. But if you don't have it there, believe you me, you'll have a thousand needs. And you'll be afraid in a collection of all of them, won't you? I do. That's right. I think perhaps the thing that gives me the most courage to speak my peace and to be myself and that demands that people keep all for my toes is the fact that I no longer have to worry where my money is coming from.

16:16I just don't have to worry about that. I have no money where it's like I don't have any worries at all. People try to worry sometimes, but it's like the confucius say when Ratt tries to pull cats whiskers, Ratt generally winds up an honorable cat's belly. Well, I give you a little time, I'll not worry. Now, the mouth that I am so interested in has the fact that you're establishing it provoked savings, haven't it? And if you're a wages or income is so low that you can't cut your expenses anymore, and you can only absolutely take out of the top, off of the top, one per cent, one set out of every dollar. I think that one set often put it away in some place where it's hard for you to get at it.

17:19I'm a great believer in having money invested in the investment trust, where they represent a great variety of well-known stocks, so that if one goes bad, why it doesn't affect your investment thought? There are a lot of those investment trusts, some I'm a good, some I'm not so good, perhaps. But if you go to invest in them, investment trust, you want to go to your banker or somebody's acquainted, don't try to do that on your own judgment. Individuals as a ruler are just not qualified for doing that. But get some of your money to working for you, and you'll be surprised at what a nice game it is when you know that you're sitting aside a certain amount every month or every week, and that that amount is beginning to work for you. This business of tripping the money, but that I mean getting it in a place where you can't reach down in your pocket and get it. When I go to the bank, I go to the bank every so often to get money, to go to the pocket money. And I always take a $20 bill, what no matter what amount I get, I take a $20 bill and rip it up and put it into a special pocket in my wallet,

18:23just in case I happen to rob my money, I'll always have $20. I believe you the other day I needed it too, in very handy. Otherwise I'd have had to cash a check with somebody who didn't know me too well. And I wouldn't have liked to ask how that done. Saving money is a very difficult thing for most people because they don't have an assistant to go blind. First of all, I'm the choice of a profession or occupation. How much time are you giving to that? How much time have you given to the question of getting yourself adjusted in an occupation or a business or a profession that can be a labor of low? How much time are you devoting to doing that? You can grade yourself on all of these, the grading could run all the way from zero up to 100. Who should not give 100% of your time on this first item. But if you haven't already found the profession or the occupation that can constitute a labor of low, then you should put in a lot of time searching until you do find that.

19:25Then habits of thought. How much do you put in on the can do sort of thinking on the, how much do you put in on the no can do? In other words, how much time do you put in on what you desire and on what you don't desire? Have you ever stopped taking the dirty seat just about how much goes in on the time on the things that you don't desire live, fear, ill health, frustration, disappointment, discouragement? I'll bet you'd be surprised if you had a stopwatch that you could record the time that you put in every day on worrying about things that might have to be but never do. You'd be surprised if how much of your time goes. A little here and a little there and a little other place. The first thing you know of the predominating part of your portion of your time is going to thinking about things you don't want. Unless you have a system, a budgeting system, or if you keep your mind definitely fixed on the things you do want. I have three hours a day set aside for meditation. Silent prayer and meditation. Three hours. It doesn't make any difference for us to use it when I go home from these lectures.

20:29No matter what hour I get home, I'll put in three hours of meditation, giving expressing gratitude for the marvelous opportunity that I've had to give ministry to other people. And if I don't get to be in this night, I get to see it sometime during the day. Just expressing gratitude. Do you know the finest prayer on the face of this world is not to pray for something? Pray for what you already had. O divine providence, I ask that for more riches, but more wisdom with which to make better use of the riches I already have. What a wonderful thing that is. Oh, you have so many riches, all of you. You have health, you live in a wonderful country, you have wonderful neighbors, you have long-to-wonderful fires, you're setting a wonderful cloud of action. So you love the things you have been thankful for. Just think of the things that I have to be thankful for. It's no wonder I'm rich, is it? Why that be something wrong with me if I weren't rich?

21:33If I couldn't stand here and tell you that I have everything in this world that I want, it'd be something wrong with me, and this philosophy wouldn't there? I'd have no right to teach you to do whatsoever if I couldn't say that myself about it. I can be the master of my faith, the captain of my soul, because I live by philosophy, because it's designed to help other people, because never under any circumstances do I do anything? Intentually to hinder or harm or endanger another person. Never do. Then your business and personal relationships to other, how much time do you put into public relationships, or might say, or goodwill-billing, in your relationships with other people in business or in your job? He spends some little time cultivating people? If you don't, you're not going to have friends. You really won't. All the side, all the mind, I don't care, all good to friend is if you don't keep calm, that you'll forget about you.

22:39You've got to keep calm, that. Some of these days I'm going to get up a series of postcards that just take two cents to me, Lichuan, and I'll have a beautiful, motto, friendship on Lichuan, so that my students can have work cards and they'll allow one a week to each of their friends, just to keep in contact. I wouldn't be about idea for a business house or a professional man, there'd be nothing in the world, a hinder or a professional man, for building up a wonderful clienty, but doing that very thing, and he certainly would never violate the ethics of his profession by doing it. Maybe the whole commercial atmosphere in the total. He's only said that one among. He'll sit on 12 cards a year with the right kind of message on the back of his. I believe you may, but it would be the best thing in the world, it would be a little practice. Then the habits of health, physical and mental. How much time you're putting into seeing do it that you are a building of health habits that keep you giving your health consciousness, because the health consciousness doesn't just roll without some effort and your religion.

23:43How much time you're putting into living, I'm not talking about believing in it, and I'm talking about going to church and putting a quarter in the basket and not letting anybody can do that. But are you living in your bedroom and in your drawing room and in your kitchen and in your place of business and in your office, that's where I want to know how much you're living your religion. When you reach yourself on that, that's the place to bring yourself, not in the church, because the changes are you going to church once a week, or your summer legends, you have to go more. But if not how many times you go, either with counts, if not how much you contribute to the church and the way of money it's got to be in spot to do to live that religion. That's the thing that counts in every way of living. Why you know any of the religions would be wonderfully vivid if you don't live by them instead of just believing them. They'd all be wonderful. I don't over-illigion on the face of this earth, it wouldn't be wonderfully if people would live by. I'm asking you to great yourself on how much time you're spending in on living, you're religion, but believe you me, unless you're a very different, most people I know, you need to reflect on this.

24:54And then the youth made of your spare time. That's why you really need to go to town in the exam, really give yourself a counting on that one. Just how much, oh that's eight hours of spare time, you're devoting to some sort of advancement of your interests, impromptu to your mind, benefiting by association. Just how much are you doing? And then the budgeting you're spending of money. Have you got a system for doing that? Have you haven't got a system for work out for them? You can take that system flexible, it may sound a bit unweaped when you have to have cheesed a little bit, but you can always pay it back to the next week. Well you don't have cheesed. There's no accurate thinking based on the lesson on this. How much time are you putting into action, are you learning how to think accurately? Following the rules that I laid down in that lesson? How much are you doing to put that lesson into actual practice? Thinking accurately, doing your wrong thinking for once.

25:54Then the use made of the power of thought, whether controlled or uncontrolled, are you controlling your thoughts or are your thoughts uncontrolled? Are you letting the circumstances of life control you? Are you trying to create some turkey senses that you can control? Now you can control all of them, nobody can do that. But you certainly can create some circumstances that you can control. And how about this privilege of voting? Yes or no? I'd say, oh well, I guess I'm not going to go to the polls today. The scriptures are going to run the country anyway. The politicians and my little vote is not going to cause it. Do you say that or do you say, I have a responsibility and I'm going to go to the polls and vote because my duty to do that. Put a little time in on that, do you? There are a lot of people who don't, you know. That's why there's so many crooked politicians and others in public offices that shouldn't be there. You don't matter the decent people don't vote. Then family relations, if other harm, are there harm on you? So have you have a mastermind relationship or are you just letting that one slide back?

26:55How much time are you giving to build improving your family relationship? You have to do something about you now. Somebody has to give you enough. The wife won't give in and start. Why don't you give in, gentlemen? And vice versa. The husband doesn't give in, start a little mastermind. Why don't you give in? Why don't you make it interesting for him? You made interesting for him before you married him. I'm sure you did. Are you in the marriage? Why don't you try it all over again and read, read and negotiate your marriage relationship so that you have a wonderful relationship that. I believe you'll need a payoff. It'll pay off in peace of mind, a payoff in dollars and cents, a payoff in friendships, a payoff in every way that you want to judge it. Then you and your job or business or your profession. Are you going to extra mile and do you like your work? If you don't like your work, find out why. If you're going to extra mile, how much are you going to extra mile? In what ways are you doing it? And are you doing it in the right sort of mental attitude?

27:55And leave you me. I don't care who you are and what you're doing. If you make it your business to go the extra mile, in connection with every person where you can possibly do it, the time will come and you will have so many wonderful friends that whatever it is you want to carry out through them, or they'll be there at your back and call. I don't care where you go. You might search this world over and you'll never find a marvelous relationship that I have with you wonderful people here in this class and you prove to hear tonight. And I worked at it in order to get I won't earn it. I want to deserve it. If I deserve it, you wouldn't have given. Thank you. Thank you very much. People just don't applaud like that with their hands and they hate it. They applaud with their hearts. And that's the kind of applause that I appreciate. I show off from say to Annie Lou. Annie Lou takes life a little bit more seriously than I do. He works on a lot of things that she doesn't particularly like. I don't do that. I won't do anything I don't like to do.

29:04But we are in a wonderful situation. We have wonderful health. When you see her, you know that. I don't need to tell you she's a wonderful person. Just the woman I should have had. Doing a wonderful job playing opposite me in this great theater of life. And we have everything in the world we can use or need. And we don't have more of anything. We all have just figure fingers. There comes running from a million different sources. Don't think for a moment we could have had that on any other basis that we first deserved it. We earned it. You couldn't have had it without it. Nobody could have anything that we're worth having without perturbing. If any of you happen to be students of Emerson, if you read the law of compensation, you will get the sum of the substance of this lesson very much more quickly. And you'll also get more out of it. After I had read Emerson's essays for 10 years, especially the one on compensation. And finally had the interpreter. Did it what he was talking about? I said that someday I would rewrite that particular essay so that men and women could understand it. The first time they read it. And the lesson that you get tonight is that rewrite.

30:14We call it the law of cosmic heavy course because it is the controlling force of all of the natural laws of the universe. You know we have been in natural laws. And obviously they all work automatically. Obviously they're not suspended for one moment for anybody. And those laws are laid down so that the individual who makes it his business to understand them and adapt himself to them can go very far in life. Those who do not understand them and adapt themselves to them go down and defeat. You've often wondered about the subject of head. How it happened to have had it. How we get them. How we get rid of the ones we don't want. And I hope that you'll get a feeding glimpse tonight of the answer to these questions. You of course know I have repeated time and time again the importance of recognizing that man has control over but one thing and one thing only. And that's the privilege of the farming his own habits carrying down those habits and replacing them with others.

31:20Refining them, changing them, doing anything in the world he wants to do with them. He has that complete pre-regulant. And he's the only creature on the face of this earth that has that privilege. Every other thing that comes into life has its pattern, its life pattern and it's destiny fixed for it. And it cannot go one eye out of beyond that pattern. We call it instinct. A man is not bound by instinct. He's bound only by the imagination and the willpower of his own mind. He can project that willpower that mind to whatever objective he cleanses. He can form whatever habits he may need in order to take him toward his objectives. And this lesson that you're all denied deals with that subject. The purpose of the science of success, of course, which you've been studying incidentally in the previous lessons are based and designed to enable one to establish habits that lead to financial security, health and peace of mind necessary for happiness. In this lesson, we examine briefly the established law of nature which makes all habits permanent to everything else except mankind. Now there's no such thing as a permanent habit for a man because he can establish his own habits. He can change them at will.

32:34You know, I admire this thing when you stop consider that the creator gave you complete control over your mind and gave you a means of making use of that control. And this law of columnic habit was is the means by which you set the pattern of your own mind and directed to whatever objective you choose. Now the some of the habits which are fixed by columnic habit force and which are not subject to suspension or circumvention are the first of all the stars and the planets as they are established in their fixed courses. You know, the wonder of being to contemplate all of those millions, billions quadrillions and trillions of planets and stars out there in the heavens, all going along according to the system never colliding. So precise in the system that the astronomers can determine hundreds of years of advanced the precise relationship of given stars and planets. Is it a marvelous thing to recognize of all of that is a carried on according to a system. You know, if the creator had to hang out those stars and watch everything every night, he'd be a very busy fellow.

33:44He's not going to do that. I don't think he's got a better system. He's got a system that works automatically. If you learn what those laws are, you can adapt yourself to them and profit bomb. If you don't learn what they are, you'll probably through ignorance or neglect you will supply them. I notice that the majority of people not recognizing the three of the law of coloredic habit force go all the way through life using this marvelous law, up forward to bring prosperity and health and success. And peace of mind, no, to bring poverty and ill health and frustration and fear and all of those things that people do not want by keeping their minds on those things and coloredic habit force picks up those habits of thought and makes them permanent. That is until I come along and break them up with this science of philosophy and I just hope why you're here. Mr. Stone and I had a very charming lady in our office last week wanting to sell us some space or something in a book that she was getting out based upon the birth date of people.

34:49She won't know what my birthday was. And Mr. Stone didn't let her get very far with her story because he told her that he would have nothing to do whatsoever with any system or book that presupposed that birth date had anything to do with what happened to him in life. And when he got through, he said, now I can't speak for Napoleon Hill, but that's my decision and I said, well, you've just made my speech now, Mr. Stone. I don't care what to star your barn under. I don't care what under favorable circumstances you may have met with in life. I don't care what happened to you in the past. I do know all of I can take you if you follow my instructions. You can get from where you are and how to where you want to go and you get that easily. I know that. And I know that you can set a habit that will make your success so easy. You'll wonder why in the world you work so hard in the past and got so didn't get so far. You know most people work harder at failing in life than I work at succeeding a whole lot harder. It's much easier to succeed when you learn the rules and a lot more pleasure in it than it is to pay.

35:54And you certainly are not going to succeed unless you understand this law of academic habit holds and start building habits that lead to where you want to go. All actions and reactions of matter are based upon the fixed habits of academic habit force. Have you ever stopped thinking of it? That's the very smallest part of the matter. All exists as a result of habit that are fixed upon. And the perpetuation of every living thing through the sex principle, each seed reproduces its own kind. But each individual reproduction is modified by the vibrations that is the I environmental influences of the environment in which it exists. Thought habits of individuals are automatically fixed and made permanence by cognitive habit force. Now there is one thing to think about. Thought habits of individuals are automatically fixed whether you will it or not the thoughts that you give expression to are going to be fixed in the habits. You don't need to worry about it. If you keep your mind on the things that you want to become a habit, cognitive habit force will take over from their own out.

37:02The individual creates the pattern of his thoughts by repetition of thought on a given subject. But the law of academic habit force takes these patterns and makes them permanent unless they are broken up by the will of the individual. Wouldn't it be a terrible thing if we couldn't break habits? And when I see the number of people smoking cigarettes nowadays, I've been getting to think maybe they can't break that habit. When I see all the publicity that the magazine's a new favorite given about the death, I've decorated lung cancer due to cigarettes. I'm wondering whether or not people can break the cigarette habit. Well, don't get mad about it. I don't smoke either. Something to think about though, isn't it? You know, I'll tell you something, friends. If you want to go ahead and get lung cancer, smoke cigarettes. That's your business. I have nothing to say about it. Although I want to give you a little taste, it might be helpful. If you can start out tomorrow morning and prove that your willpower is stronger than a little pinch of tobacco in a little piece of silk paper,

38:10then you want to begin working on your willpower right away and re-educating it. When I quit smoking, I leave my pipes down. I told her to take them and throw them away. I wouldn't be needing them. She said, put them away until you call for them. I said, put them, throw them away. I'll not be needing them. Habits? Well, if you can't get the control of the habit of smoking, it's going to be very difficult for you to get control of some of these other habits of fear and of poverty and of other things that you're allowing your mind to dwell upon too. Well, I have some enemies to deal with. I always take the biggest guy first. When I let him, then the rest of him used to take their tails between their legs and run. And if you've got some habits you want to break, don't start with those little easy ones. Anybody can do that. Start with the big ones. Well, if you want to do something about it, take that pack of cigarettes that you have in your handbag there, ladies or in your pocket gentlemen.

39:10Have smoked up now. When you go home, put it upon the dresser. Say, let here, fellow, you may not know it, but I'm more powerful than you are. And I'm going to prove it by not going into that package again. I'm going to sit there for 40 days after which I won't need cigarettes anymore. Now, I don't think that I am talking against the cigarettes, then, you know, after all, I don't have any stock in the cigarettes. I am just giving you some ideas through which you must start testing your capacity to build the kind of habits that you want by starting with the taffers. I'll give you another habit. If you want a week's fast, a whole week without any food, tell your stomach that you are the boss. It may think it's the boss, but you are the boss. Now, don't do this on your own. Do it under the directions of a doctor. Because fasting is not saying anything for a child's play. Get control over your stomach and you'll be surprised at how many other things you have control over when you have control over your stomach.

40:14You know how in the world can we expect to be successes in this world? If we are going to allow all these myriad habits that come along through the circumstances of our daily life to take hold of us and we can't rule our lives. We can't expect to be successes. We have to form our own habits long enough until the calvary cabit force takes them up automatically. Now, let's take up the question of how the individual may apply the law of calvary cabit force. First, it connects with physical health. The individual may contribute to the healthful maintenance of his physical body by establishing habit patterns in connection with the following subjects and the rapport on them. And it's not very difficult to do this. If you want to prove this thalamus and the potency and the effectiveness of this law, calvary cabit force shares of magnifying place on pain. Because I don't know of anything in this world that man and women want any more than have a good strong physical body that responds to everything in life.

41:16I couldn't do the kind of work that I do. I couldn't write the inspirational books. I couldn't deliver inspirational lectures. If I didn't know that when I put my foot on the gas, so to speak, this is going to be powerless. And no matter how steep the hill and how long I know that I've got plenty of power to go the full distance because I keep my body in that kind of condition. First of all, in connection with your thinking, that's the place to start in connection with applying cosmic calvary cabit force for the purpose of developing sound health. Now a positive mind leads to the development of what is known as a health consciousness. You know what a health consciousness is? What is it? Just what do I mean when I talk about a health consciousness or a prosperity conscious, never in the other kind of a conscious. On awareness, a continuous awareness of a condition, don't you know, in other words, a predominating tendency of your mind to think about health and not about disease or ailments.

42:27Most people, they have a wonderful time telling about their operations. I had a very good friend of mine. It's me not more than six months ago. He had just come out of the hospital. And I want to tell you that his vivid description of his operation was such that I could feel this surgeon's scalp turning in my back. Yeah, I finally turned around and rubbed my back. It began to hurt back there where he was describing really dead before I got myself under control. But I didn't ask him to come back seeing me again when he left. And most people don't like to hear you talk about your ailments. They're not interested in your ailments. You ought not to be either, except get rid of them. And the best way to get rid of them is to farm a health consciousness, think in terms of health, talk in terms of health. Look in the glass. A dozen times a day and say, you help me, man, are you healthy? On, talk to yourself. You'd be surprised if the bottle happened. Now, the deposit in mind leads to the development of what is known as the health consciousness and cognitive care force carries out the thought pattern to its logical conclusion.

43:40But it will just as readily carry out the picture of an ill health consciousness created by the thought habits of the hypochondria, even to the extent of producing the physical and the mental symptoms of any disease on which the individual may fix his thought habits to appear. Is that a marvelous thing to know that if you think about certain ailments or disease long enough, the nature will actually simulate it in your physical makeup. You had done an wise kind of a journey. I know elderly lady down the mountain section when I was a small boy, due to the murder of my grandmother's every Saturday afternoon and sit on the front porch and entertain us all afternoon with the operations of herself or husband, but her husband died with, but her mother died with, but two of her children died with. And then she always wound up after about three or four hours of this by saying, no, I'm going to die of cancer. I think of her hands on her left breast like this.

44:40I've seen her do that a dozen times. I didn't know what cancer was at the time. I found a letter. Years later, some 10 years later, maybe my father sent me a copy of the county paper and I saw an announcement of an Sariancita's death of cancer of the lip. She finally talked to seven do it. Now that's not an exaggerated case at all. Just happened to be one of the cases that I know about. You can talk yourself into a headache. You can talk yourself into a billy condition. You can talk yourself into anything and think yourself. If you allow your mind to dwell upon the negative sides of your physical body. So thinking is important. Not in eating the metal attitude and the thought patterns established while one is eating and during the following two or three hours while the food is being broken down into liquid form for introduction into the bloodstream, made the environment whether the food enters the body in a suitable form for the maintenance of sound health.

45:43And did you know that the metal attitude that you're in when you're eating becomes a part of the energy that goes into the bloodstream that you know that? Well, if you don't know that, you better be learning about it because it does. You're kind of forward to eat when you're disturbed. You just kind of forward to do it. You kind of forward to eat when you're too tired physically. Sit down and rest. Relax. As a matter of fact, food should be a form of a religious exercise. It should be a ceremony, a religious ceremony. When I get up from morning, the first thing I do is I go out to the kitchen and squeak. That is when I'm home. Squeezing a nice, big, long glass of orange juice. I worship every brick. Every ounce of that orange juice. It goes out. I don't just turn up a glass and go go go go go go go go go go. Let's go down a little bit. I'm in worship every mouth. Now, if you think I am just kidding, if you think I'm just feeling in time because I don't have anything else to say, I praise the idea because I'm telling you something that's very important about your eating. And if you get into the habit of blessing your food,

46:49not only when you sit down to the table, but blessed as it goes into your body, if you get into the habit of doing that, I want to tell you right now, it will go a long way, you're keeping you healthy. And then third, in connection with your work. Here too, mental attitude becomes a vital ally of the silent repairman that is working on every cell of the body while one is engaged in physical action. Therefore, work should become a religious ceremony also, with which only positive thoughts are mixed. I think one of the tragedies of civilization consists in the fact that there are so few people in the world at any one time who are engaged in a labor of love. That is doing the thing they want to do because they want to do it, not because they just have to eat and sleep and wash and cold. I'm hoping and praying that before I shall, of course, over on the other side, that I will have made valuable contributions to mankind,

47:54to the end that individuals may find a labor of love in which to make a living and earn their way. While the grand world is with the Olivia, that it worked for some of the people who live here. And what's wrong with some of the people while I have not anything wrong with them, it's just their habits that are wrong. They think wrong, that's what's the matter, really? That's the thing in terms of good health, that's opulence, that's the planting, and the fellowship, and the brotherhood, instead of stirring up race rights, all of that sort of thing, setting man against man, brother against brother, nation against nation, thinking in terms of war, instead of cooperation. Why there's plenty in this world for everybody, including the squirrels and animals and birds, plenty for everybody. If only some people wouldn't try to get too much and try to keep up that people from getting enough, through wrong thinking. I obviously don't want any advantage, any benefit of any nature whatsoever, that I can't, that can't be shared with all of my people everywhere.

48:57I don't want anything, and I can't share with people. I want no advantage over other people. So they've only the opportunity of sharing with them my knowledge and my ability to help them to help themselves. Work, what a marvelous thing it is, observe that, for instance, the famous male brothers have discovered that four vitally important factors must be observed to maintain sound physical health. An equal balancing through thought habits of work and play and love and worship. I love an interesting thing. That's all they think can come from the great male institute where they have had thousands of people pass through their clinics. They have found out that where those four things are out of culture, out of balance, almost invariably it results in some form of physical ailment. Observe that here at University, a sound explanation of one of the major reasons for adopting and following the habit of going the extra mile.

50:01This habit not only benefits one economically, but it enables one to work with a mental attitude that leads to sound physical health. It's not a wonder of them. When you're doing something out of a spirit of love, out of a spirit of desire to be of health to other people, not out of a selfish desire, it tends to give you better health and to build up better health habits. For comparison, consider the person who has the habit of driving and performs all work grudgingly on the negative frame of mind. Nobody wants to even work with it. And nobody wants to employ him if he can find somebody else who doesn't drive. The fellow who drives while he's working, not only a damage easy himself, but he damages everybody around him. The district Andrew Carnegie told me that one single negative mind, you know, an organization of 10 dollars, could more or less discover the mind of everyone inside of two or three days without even opening his mouth or saying anything just by releasing thoughts. You'll go into a home where there is fighting between members of the family and the moment you cross the threshold, even when you get in the, I can tell when I get in the front yard.

51:05Whether I want to go in or not, well, they're safe going in or not. Certainly, if I get in there, I can tell we have an experience in our home that makes me proud of the nothing I can tell you about. Almost invariably when a person walks into our home for the first time, they look around and make some complimentary expression such as this. For instance, an outstanding publisher came to see me not long ago and when he walked into our living room, he said, Oh, what a beautiful home. And then he looked around again and after all, it was just an ordinary at home. It's not anything else standing, but he said, Well, they're work beautiful. It's not just the word I want. He says the way I feel when I get in here is that the vibrations are good. I said, Now you're getting hot. You're getting up my eye. This home is charged and recharged constantly with positive vibrations, no in harmonies inside of this ultra permitted. Even our dogs have picked that up, our little parmarians. They respond to the vibrations of that home and they can tell a person that's not the harmony with that home in a moment to come in and they don't like that kind of a person.

52:15This park yielded up and sniffed a person and if he's pleased with that harmonious atmosphere, he'll go over and kiss his hand. If she's not pleased, finds that he's not in harmony with the bark at him and back away. I didn't teach you that either. It's their own idea. So homes, places of business, streets, cities, all have their own vibrations made up of the dominating thoughts of those who work and go that way. You go down to Bip Davenue in New York City. I don't care whether you have how much how little money you've got in your pocket. If you walk along there with those big prosperous stores, long about tippinies, you catch the feel of that crowd and you feel like you're a prosperous student. Although you may not have very much money, you'll go just for a block over in the other direction, over to 8th Avenue or 9th Avenue in Hell's Kitchen. And I defy you to walk one block there without feeling like you were as poor as a church mouth even though you may have all of them in the world.

53:19I'm going to get out of this connection with cosmic hadn't doors. First of all, a death that made your purpose. Through a combination of the principles of the philosophy of American shemet, one that conditioned his mind and body to hand over to cosmic habit force, the exact picture of the financial status he wishes to maintain. And these will automatically be picked up and carried out in their logical conclusion by an inetrable law of nature which knows no such reality as major. I observe by studying people who are successful and I've had probably more opportunities to study successful people at close range than any other man living today. I have observed and they think constantly in terms of things they can do, never in terms of things they can't do. I once asked Henry Ford if there was anything he wanted to do that he couldn't do. He said, why no, I don't think about the things I can't do.

54:22I think about the things I can do. Now, the charge of people, however, not like that. Do you think about the things they can't do and worry about them and they're constantly, they can't do them? They think about the money they don't have and worry about it and consequence that they don't have it and never get it. You know money is a peculiar thing, isn't it? So now another, it just doesn't follow the fellow round that doesn't believe he's got a right to get it. I don't know why that is. Money is an inanimate thing. I don't leave it to follow the money. I don't think it's false there. I think it's in the mind of the person who does as he can get it. I noticed that when students of mine start believing that they can do things, it starts to change their entire financial condition.

55:23I noticed that when they don't believe they can do things, they don't do them. So the whole purpose of this philosophy is to induce my students to build up habits of belief in themselves and in their ability to direct their minds to whatever they want in life and to keep their minds off the things they don't want. If you don't know too much about Mahatma Gandhi, it'd be a good idea if you had to get a book or read up on the life of Mahatma Gandhi. There's a man who didn't have anything to fight the British with except his own mind. He didn't have any soldiers, he didn't have any money. He didn't have any military equipment, he didn't even own a pair of bridges. And he put to rob the great British Empire with his mind power just resisting him. He didn't want them, he didn't accept them and finally the British picked up, they got the big idea and got out. Surprisingly, how many individuals is that when you set your mind against them? You don't have to say anything, you have to do anything, you just have to say in your own mind, I don't want that person in my life, I'm eventually, he'll get out sometimes very quickly.

56:30Telling you this mind power stuff, it's powerful, it's potent, it's marvelous, it's profound if you want to become a cleanser with it and start using it. Now this philosophy is the medium by which one's thought habits may be controlled until they are taken over by Cosmic Habit Bors. And it is well to hear a call attention to the fact that no one has ever been known to become financially independent without having first established a prosperity consciousness. Just as no one really may remain physically well without having first established a health consciousness. I remember so well my greatest difficulty when I started out with Andrew Carnegie. My greatest difficulty was forgetting that I was born in poverty and in literacy and ignorance. It took me a long time to forget the little mountain foot in the mountains of the Wias County Virginia where I was born. Long time before I could forget about that and get it out of my system.

57:30And always when I start out to interview an outstanding man, I think, oh well, I'm so insignificant when I come to be into his presence, I guess I'll be ashamed and afraid because I remembered where I came from. I remembered my poverty because a long time before I could shake that poverty off. But finally I did it. And when I began to think in terms of opulence, I began to say then, well, if I wouldn't Mr. Ederson see me, why wouldn't Mr. Wanda make you see me? Because I'm just as big in my field as he is in his. I not only felt that ladies and gentlemen, but I saw the day when I made it come true. It's an achievement when you can reach out and influence the lives of millions of people all over the world beneficially. I say that's an achievement. And I say if that would have been done without having to change the habits thoughts of Napoleon Hill, that was my biggest job, believe me, my biggest job was not getting in to see the men of affairs and to get their collaboration. That was easy. My biggest job was to change the habits of thinking of Napoleon Hill and had I not changed those habits.

58:36The books that I have written that inspire millions of people never would have had the effect of the ad. Because when an author writes a book or makes a speech, the exact similarity that he's in when he's speaking or writing is conveyed to his audience and he's no mal ears who is smart enough to keep that audience from picking up the thoughts. You read a book to anybody, and you have impressions about that writer and you read that book. And you couldn't possibly read one of my books without knowing down deep in your heart that I'm dealing with fundamental principles as fundamental as the infinite intelligence itself. You know that. You don't need anybody to prove it to you. And before I could write books of that kind, I had to completely build over my thought processes, my habits of thinking and learn to keep my mind on the things that were positive and keep it on there automatically. Fixations of fear and faith. Did you know that each one of you came over to this plane with a marvelous doctrine system of your own?

59:36Did you know that a chemist don't you know that breaks up your food and distributes it takes out of it the things that nature needs? And did you know that if you think right, eat right, exercise right, a little ride, you know that this doctrine inside of you does everything else automatically. They call it body resistance. I don't care what you call it, it's a system that nature gave you for balancing everything that you need to keep your body and find condition all the time. But you have to do your part. Now faith. Fixations are wonderful thing if it doesn't have to be a negative fixation. But you want to look out for these fixations of fear and self-limitations, the things that you can't do, the fear of criticism or the fear of anything else. But if you want to make use of fixation and benefit by the law of cosmic Hadid force in doing so, go to work on the fixation of faith. Fixation of applied faith. Now there's a fixation you can tie to.

1:00:38And there's a fixation if you tie to it properly when you reach out there and call for the things you need you'll find them always in place. If they're not where you thought they were they'll be close at hand. By all means cultivate that kind of a fixation. Don't let it get away from you by neglect. How do you go about making a fixation of anything? Any thought about it? How do you go about it? Repetition. That's right. And applying it and everything you do and think and say. Repetition. Some of you are old enough to remember the coupé in formula, day by day and every way I'm getting better and better. Millions of people all over this country were saying that. And it didn't come out to a ticker's dam, not swearing, D.A.M. in a small coin. Unless the person saying it believed it. It wasn't what he said, the count of it and what he thought while you were saying.

1:01:41And there were a lot of people who said it over and over again and then find that it turned some sound up because it didn't work for me. Because I didn't believe it in the first place. You can understand why it didn't work. It makes no difference what farming you use or what you use any oral farming you are. As long as your thought patterns are positive and you repeat them over and over again. I want you to follow the habits of thinking in positive terms until calumacate it for us. Take up your mental attitude and make it predominantly positive and not predominantly negative. The circumstances of life are such that the majority of people have their minds are predominantly negative all the time. Now once you all do this, you change all of that and make the mind predominantly positive all the time. So no matter what you want, you can turn on the power and get some response from infinite intelligence. Infinite intelligence is not going to do anything for you while you are in a state of anger.

1:02:45No matter how much right you have to be angry. Infinite intelligence is not going to do anything for you but she is going to let you do something for two. Yourself, if you keep yourself in a state of a negative mind, you can't afford to go into action. You can't afford to go into expression. You can't afford to have human relationship while you are in a negative mental attitude. And the best way to keep from having a being in a negative mental attitude is to start to build up these positive habits and to look positive, have it for us to take them over and make them predominant within your mind. Here are the negatives that you should avoid making into fixations. Poverty, imaginary illness, laziness, just plain never-ending garden variety of laziness, laziness. You know what a lazy man is? He is a man who hasn't found a labor of love. That's right. No lazy people except those who haven't found something they like to do. Of course, somehow I don't know if it's hard to please.

1:03:50They go all the way through life and have an alibi. They don't like this. They don't like that. In fact, they don't like anything. Period. They are lazy. An envy, an greed, an anger, an hatred, an jealousy, and dishonesty, and drifting without aim or purpose. Here is the ability of mental attitude in general, vanity, arrogance, cynicism, sadism, and the will to injure others. Now those are things that become fixation in the lives of most people. You can't afford to have that kind of a fixation. You just can't afford it. It's too expensive. Even as a student of the sciences, I'd still say it's too expensive for it. You can't have that kind of a habit. Not a fixation. Down here are the positives that you can't afford to have, and you can't afford not to have them. The deafness of a major purpose in life heads the list. Make it a fixation by all means. Eat it, save it, drink it. And indulge in some acts every day of your life leading in the direction of your overall major purpose in life.

1:04:50And faith, personal initiative, enthusiasm, willingness to go the extra mile, imagination, the traits of a pleasing personality, accurate thinking, and all the other traits recommended in this philosophy of individual achievement. Now those are the things that you can afford to make into fixations so that they dominate your mind. You live by them. You think by them. And you act by them. You relax yourself to people by them. And you'll be surprised how quickly you can give yourselves changed lives. You'll be surprised at how quickly the people who have tried the injure you will, other own accord, fall away and become ineffected of an impetus. You'll be surprised at how potent you will become, how you will attract to you new opportunities. You'll be surprised at how quickly you will solve your problems on their lives.

1:05:52You wonder why you didn't do it before instead of worrying over your problem why you just didn't get busy and dissolve it or solve it. On every one of those you'll notice everyone is under your control, subject to your control as a result of a reputation of thought. That's all you have to do. Just keep repeating it over and over and over again. And put some action about the behind the thought. Words without deeds, you know what it did. Engage in some sort of action. One should develop fixations by all means. But one should take care to see that they are fixations on the subject of that which one wants, not that which one does not want. Is it a strange thing that the majority of people go all the way through life with getting everything they don't want and very few things that they do want? Isn't that funny? You know a lot of people who don't get the make-in marriage that they really want. If I get him or her and find out about it, no a lot of people like that. I know a lot of people who don't get out of their jobs what they want. I know a lot of people who do not get out of their profession now what they want. They like to have more patients and better patients with better dispositions.

1:06:59Incidentally that's, there's an idea. You know how a professional man like a dentist or a lawyer or a doctor or an engineer how to how he goes about attracting a lot of patients that are agreeable to get along with. Wonderful patients pay their bills promptly and all that sort of thing. You know how he doesn't? Yeah, leave that away himself. That's right. You said him all the way. That's the idea. The other word is the effect starts with the professional man himself. He is all metal out of the authority of clients or his patients is what determines what they do toward him. No getting away from that. That's absolutely true. That happens to a merchant, happens to a man or woman in a job or any other person in any other connection. In other words if you want or a farm people don't start with the people starting with you. And get your metal out of the authority. You'll find that the others will fall in line. They can't do anything about it. If your mind isn't positive, the negative minded person can't influence you in the least. Nothing he can do about it.

1:08:01I positive minded person is always the master of the negative minded person. That is if he exercises his right. Where is what we are as a ladies and gentlemen because of two forms of heredity. Now one of them we control our right and one of them we do not control at all. Through physical heredity we bring into this world a little thumb total of all of our ancestors. Now we have to be born with a nice brain power, nice well developed roundabout bodies. Fine. But if we have to be born with a hunchback or some fliction, nothing much we can do about that. In other words we have to take part physical heredity hands as it is. I know a man afflicted with the loss of his legs through polio who ran a peanut stand within two blocks of the white house and right in the white house. A man afflicted with the same thing or running the biggest nation in the world.

1:09:04And he made an asset out of his afflictions instead of a liability. Social heredity however is another thing. Social heredity consists of all of the influences that enter into your life after you are born and may be dating back to the prenatal states even before you are born. The things you hear, the things you see, the things you are taught, the things you are read about, the legends that you are influenced by and all that sort of thing. Constantine social heredity and by far on the way the most important part of what happens to us all the way through life is due to our relationship to social heredity or what we get out of our environment and how much we control. No, it is a social heredity thing. You know, it is a good idea for all of us all to go back and reexamine ourselves about these vital things that we think we believe in.

1:10:05Find out just what right we have to believe in. Where do we get our beliefs? What is there to support any belief? So help me, I don't think I have any beliefs that are not supported by good sound evidence or at least what I believe to be evidence. But I didn't arrive at that open-minded state of tolerance overnight. I will tell you that now. There was a time when I was at the bottom of the intolerance of the next one. Well, I found out that that was a bad thing for me and certainly not a good for my students to have a close mind about anything.