Now there is one word which, when used with PMA (Positive Mental Attitude), motivates a person to honorable achievement. When used with NMA (Negative Mental Attitude), it becomes the excuse for lies, deception, and fraud. Necessity is the word. Necessity is the mother of invention and the father of crime.
Inviolable standards of integrity are fundamental to all worthwhile achievement and are an integral part of PMA.
Lee Braxton is such a man. Lee Braxton, of Whiteville, North Carolina, was the son of a struggling blacksmith. He was the tenth child in a family of twelve. “….. so you might say,” says Mr. Braxton , “that I became acquainted with poverty early in life. By hard work I managed to get through the sixth grade in school. I shined shoes, delivered groceries, sold newspapers, worked in a hosiery mill, washed automobiles, and served as a mechanic’s helper.”
When he became a mechanic, it appeared to Lee that he had risen as far as he could go. Perhaps he had not yet developed inspirational dissatisfaction. In due course he married. And together he and his wife scrimped along. He was used to poverty. And it now seemed to him that it was impossible for him to break the ties which held him down, although he was poorly paid and just barely supporting his family. The Braxtons were already having a terrible time making ends meet when, to complete the picture of defeat, he lost his job. His home was about to be taken from him because he was unable to meet the mortgage payments. It seemed a hopeless situation.
But Lee was a man of character. He was also a religious man. And he believed that God is always a good God. So he prayed for guidance. As if in answer to his prayer, he received the book, “Think and Grow Rich” from a friend. This friend had lost his job and his home in Depression. And he had been motivated to recoup his fortune after reading “Think and Grow Rich.”
Now, Lee was ready.
He read the book again and again. He was searching for financial success. He said to himself: “It seems to me there is something I have to do. I have to add something. No book will do it for me. The first thing I must do is develop a POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE regarding my abilities and my opportunities. I must certainly choose a definite goal. When I do, I must aim higher than I have in the past. But I must get started. I’ll begin with the first job I can find.”
And he looked for a job and found one. It didn’t pay much to start.
But it wasn’t many years after he had read “Think and Grow Rich” that Lee Braxton organized and became President of the First National Bank of Whiteville, was elected Mayor of the City, and engaged in many successful business enterprises. You see: Lee aimed high – in fact, very high. He had taken as his major purpose the goal of being rich enough to retire at the age of 50. He achieved this goal six years ahead of time – retiring from active business with substantial wealth and a fine independent income at the age of 44. Today Lee Braxton is leading a useful life. He is devoting his entire efforts to helping Oral Roberts, the evangelist, in his ministry.
Now, the jobs that he took and the investments he made is climbing from failure to success are not important here. What is important is that necessity motivates a man with PMA to action without transgressing recognized inviolable standards. An honest man won’t deceive, cheat or steal because of necessity. Honesty is inherited in PMA (POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE).
~ Excerpt from “Success through POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE by Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Stone”
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
An Ultimate Example of Encouragement (College Scholarship for 61 sixth-graders)
An Ultimate Example of Encouragement
(College Scholarship for 61 sixth-graders)
~Excerpt from “BE A PEOPLE PERSON” by Dr. John C. Maxwell, “Leadership Guru for Millions worldwide”
They story of Eugene Lang (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Lang)gives us an ultimate example of encouragement. Entrepreneur Lang was Success magazine’s “Successful Man Of the Year in 1986”. The following is a part of a feature article about Lang’s Encouragement of others.
A gray-haired man stands alone in the center of the auditorium stage – a distinguished, paternal presence sporting a fine wool suit and the barest trace of a mustache. He scans the sunlit room, with its peeling paint and frayed draperies, but his gaze lingers on the people.
They are Black and Hispanic men and women who fill most of the seats in the auditorium. Though some do not speak English, their attention is fixed on the man at the podium. But his speech is not aimed at them. He has returned to this place where he once was a student to address the “61 sixth-graders, dressed in blue caps and gowns, who are seated in the front rows.”
“This is your first graduation – just the perfect time to DREAM,” he says. “Dream of what you want to be, the kind of life you wish to build. And believe in that dream. Be prepared to work for it. Always remember, each dream is important because it is your dream, it is your future. And it is worth working for it.”
“You must study,” he continues. “You must learn. You must attend Junior High School, High School, and then College. You can go to college. You must go to college. Stay in school and I’ll…” The speaker pauses, and then, as if suddenly inspired, he blurts out:“I will give each of you a COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP.”
For a second there is silence, and then a wave of emotion rolls over the crowd. All the people in the auditorium are on the feet, jumping and running, cheering and waving and hugging one another. Parents rush down the aisles to their children. “What did he say?” one mother calls out in Spanish. “It’s money! Money for college!” her daughter yells back with delight, collapsing into her parent’s arms.
The place was an elementary school in a poverty-stricken, drug-ridden, despair-plagued Harlem neighborhood. The speaker was multimillionaire entrepreneur Eugene Lang, who 53 years earlier had graduated from that very school. The date was June 25, 1981, and the big question was whether the warm and ever-confident Lang, a man who believes that “each individual soul is of infinite worth and infinite dignity,” would fulfill his promise.
Well, he did and he still is. In fact, these kids are now getting ready to graduate from high school and only one has dropped out of high school since sixth grade. You have to understand, in this community, 90 percent of the kids drop out of high school.
Lang began “I Have a DREAM” foundation and now other entrepreneurs in New York City are also going into classrooms offering the same kind of scholarships. Now there are 500-600 kids in Harlem who will receive this reward if they don’t drop out of school.
People need to be encouraged. Eugene Lang believed in these kids and it made all the difference in how they lived THE REST OF THEIR LIVES.
(College Scholarship for 61 sixth-graders)
~Excerpt from “BE A PEOPLE PERSON” by Dr. John C. Maxwell, “Leadership Guru for Millions worldwide”
They story of Eugene Lang (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Lang)gives us an ultimate example of encouragement. Entrepreneur Lang was Success magazine’s “Successful Man Of the Year in 1986”. The following is a part of a feature article about Lang’s Encouragement of others.
A gray-haired man stands alone in the center of the auditorium stage – a distinguished, paternal presence sporting a fine wool suit and the barest trace of a mustache. He scans the sunlit room, with its peeling paint and frayed draperies, but his gaze lingers on the people.
They are Black and Hispanic men and women who fill most of the seats in the auditorium. Though some do not speak English, their attention is fixed on the man at the podium. But his speech is not aimed at them. He has returned to this place where he once was a student to address the “61 sixth-graders, dressed in blue caps and gowns, who are seated in the front rows.”
“This is your first graduation – just the perfect time to DREAM,” he says. “Dream of what you want to be, the kind of life you wish to build. And believe in that dream. Be prepared to work for it. Always remember, each dream is important because it is your dream, it is your future. And it is worth working for it.”
“You must study,” he continues. “You must learn. You must attend Junior High School, High School, and then College. You can go to college. You must go to college. Stay in school and I’ll…” The speaker pauses, and then, as if suddenly inspired, he blurts out:“I will give each of you a COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP.”
For a second there is silence, and then a wave of emotion rolls over the crowd. All the people in the auditorium are on the feet, jumping and running, cheering and waving and hugging one another. Parents rush down the aisles to their children. “What did he say?” one mother calls out in Spanish. “It’s money! Money for college!” her daughter yells back with delight, collapsing into her parent’s arms.
The place was an elementary school in a poverty-stricken, drug-ridden, despair-plagued Harlem neighborhood. The speaker was multimillionaire entrepreneur Eugene Lang, who 53 years earlier had graduated from that very school. The date was June 25, 1981, and the big question was whether the warm and ever-confident Lang, a man who believes that “each individual soul is of infinite worth and infinite dignity,” would fulfill his promise.
Well, he did and he still is. In fact, these kids are now getting ready to graduate from high school and only one has dropped out of high school since sixth grade. You have to understand, in this community, 90 percent of the kids drop out of high school.
Lang began “I Have a DREAM” foundation and now other entrepreneurs in New York City are also going into classrooms offering the same kind of scholarships. Now there are 500-600 kids in Harlem who will receive this reward if they don’t drop out of school.
People need to be encouraged. Eugene Lang believed in these kids and it made all the difference in how they lived THE REST OF THEIR LIVES.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
"FATHER FORGETS"...Amazing Insight...
~ by W. Livingston Larned, as read by Dale Carnegie
Listen, son: I am saying this as you lie asleep, one little paw crumpled under your cheek and the blond curls stickily wet on your damp forehead. I have stolen into your room alone.
Just a few minutes ago, as I sat reading my paper in the library, a stifling wave of remorse swept over me. Guiltily I came to your bedside.
There are the things I was thinking, son:
I had been cross to you. I scolded you as you were dressing for school because you gave your face merely a dab with a towel. I took you to task for not cleaning your shoes.
I called out angrily when you threw some of your things on the floor.
At breakfast I found fault, too. You spilled things. You gulped down your food. You put your elbows on the table. You spread butter too thick on your bread.
And as you started off to play and I made for my train, you turned and waved a hand and called, “Goodbye, Daddy!” and I frowned, and said in reply, “Hold your shoulders back!”
Then it began all over again in the late afternoon. As I came up the road I spied you, down on your knees, playing marbles. There were holes in your stockings. I humiliated you before your boyfriends by marching you ahead of me to the house.
Stockings were expensive-and if you had to buy them you would be more careful! Imagine that, son, from a father! Do you remember, later, when I was reading in the library, how you came in timidly, with a sort of hurt look in your eyes?
When I glanced up over my paper, impatient at the interruption, you hesitated at the door. “What is it you want?” I snapped.
You said nothing, but ran across in one tempestuous plunge, and threw your arms around my neck and kissed me, and your small arms tightened with an affection that God had set blooming in your heart and which even neglect could not wither.
And then you were gone, pattering up the stairs. Well, son, it was shortly afterwards that my paper slipped from my hands and a terrible sickening fear came over me.
What has habit been doing to me? The habit of finding fault, of reprimanding-this was my reward to you for being a boy. It was not that I did not love you; it was that I expected too much of youth. I was measuring you by the yardstick of my own years.
And there was so much that was good and fine and true in your character. The little heart of you was as big as the dawn itself over the wide hills. This was shown by your spontaneous impulse to rush in and kiss me good night.
Nothing else matters tonight, son. I have come to your bedside in the darkness, and I have knelt there, ashamed! It is feeble atonement;
I know you would not understand these things if I told them to you during your waking hours.
But tomorrow, tomorrow, I will be a real daddy! I will chum with you, and suffer when you suffer, and laugh when you laugh. I will bite my tongue when impatient words come. I will keep saying as if it were a ritual:
“He is nothing but a boy-a little boy!”
I am afraid I have visualized you as a man. Yet as I see you now, son, crumpled and weary in your cot, I see that you are still a baby. Yesterday you were in your mother’s arms, your head on her shoulder. I have asked too much son, too much.
“Father Forgets”
by W. Livingston Larned
condensed as in “Readers Digest”
Listen, son: I am saying this as you lie asleep, one little paw crumpled under your cheek and the blond curls stickily wet on your damp forehead. I have stolen into your room alone.
Just a few minutes ago, as I sat reading my paper in the library, a stifling wave of remorse swept over me. Guiltily I came to your bedside.
There are the things I was thinking, son:
I had been cross to you. I scolded you as you were dressing for school because you gave your face merely a dab with a towel. I took you to task for not cleaning your shoes.
I called out angrily when you threw some of your things on the floor.
At breakfast I found fault, too. You spilled things. You gulped down your food. You put your elbows on the table. You spread butter too thick on your bread.
And as you started off to play and I made for my train, you turned and waved a hand and called, “Goodbye, Daddy!” and I frowned, and said in reply, “Hold your shoulders back!”
Then it began all over again in the late afternoon. As I came up the road I spied you, down on your knees, playing marbles. There were holes in your stockings. I humiliated you before your boyfriends by marching you ahead of me to the house.
Stockings were expensive-and if you had to buy them you would be more careful! Imagine that, son, from a father! Do you remember, later, when I was reading in the library, how you came in timidly, with a sort of hurt look in your eyes?
When I glanced up over my paper, impatient at the interruption, you hesitated at the door. “What is it you want?” I snapped.
You said nothing, but ran across in one tempestuous plunge, and threw your arms around my neck and kissed me, and your small arms tightened with an affection that God had set blooming in your heart and which even neglect could not wither.
And then you were gone, pattering up the stairs. Well, son, it was shortly afterwards that my paper slipped from my hands and a terrible sickening fear came over me.
What has habit been doing to me? The habit of finding fault, of reprimanding-this was my reward to you for being a boy. It was not that I did not love you; it was that I expected too much of youth. I was measuring you by the yardstick of my own years.
And there was so much that was good and fine and true in your character. The little heart of you was as big as the dawn itself over the wide hills. This was shown by your spontaneous impulse to rush in and kiss me good night.
Nothing else matters tonight, son. I have come to your bedside in the darkness, and I have knelt there, ashamed! It is feeble atonement;
I know you would not understand these things if I told them to you during your waking hours.
But tomorrow, tomorrow, I will be a real daddy! I will chum with you, and suffer when you suffer, and laugh when you laugh. I will bite my tongue when impatient words come. I will keep saying as if it were a ritual:
“He is nothing but a boy-a little boy!”
I am afraid I have visualized you as a man. Yet as I see you now, son, crumpled and weary in your cot, I see that you are still a baby. Yesterday you were in your mother’s arms, your head on her shoulder. I have asked too much son, too much.
“Father Forgets”
by W. Livingston Larned
condensed as in “Readers Digest”
Develop an obsession – a MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION – to HELP OTHERS
(Excerpt from the book “Success THROUGH A POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE”, by Napoleon Hill & W. Clement Stone)
The entire nation – in fact the entire world – can be affected by the Magnificent Obsession of just one man who wants to share a part of what he/ she has. Orison Swett Marden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orison_Swett_Marden) was a man who shared a part of what he had and developed a Magnificent Obsession that changed the attitude of people from NEGATIVE to POSITIVE.
The seeds of thought in a book grew into a Magnificent Obsession.
At the age of seven, Orison Swett Marden became orphan. He was “bound out” for his room and board. At an early age he read Self-Help, by the Scottish author Samuel Smiles (http://www.emotionalliteracyeducation.com/classic_books_online/selfh10.htm)who, like Marden, had become an orphan as a young boy and had found the secrets of true success. The seeds of thought in Self-Help created a burning desire in Marden which grew into his magnificent obsession and made his world a better world in which to live.
During the boom that preceded the panic of 1893, Marden owned and operated four hotels. Since their operation was entrusted to others, he was devoting much of his time to writing a book. Actually, he was fulfilling a desire to write a book that would motivate American youth as Self-Help had motivated him. He was working diligently on his inspirational manuscript when an ironical twist of fate struck him and tested his mettle.
Marden entitled his work Pushing to the Front. And he took as his motto : “Let Every Occasion Be a Great Occasion for You Cannot Tell When Fate May Be Taking Your Measure for a Larger Place!”
And at the very instant Fate was taking his measure for a larger place. The misfortune that struck him would have ruined many a man. What happened?
The panic of 1893 struck. Two of the Marden hotels burned to the ground. His manuscript, nearly completed, was destroyed. His tangible wealth went down the drain, wiped out.
But Marden had a Positive Mental Attitude. He looked about him to see what had happened to the nation and himself. His first conclusion was that the panic was brought on by fear; fear of the value of the American dollar; fear caused by the failure of a few large corporations; fear of stock values; and fear of industrial unrest.
Those fears caused the stock market to crash. Five hundred and sixty-seven banks and loan and trust companies, as well as hundred and fifty-six railway companies, failed. Strikes were prevalent. Unemployment affected millions of persons. Because of drought and heat, farmers experienced crop failures.
Marden looked about him at the shambles in material things and human lives. He saw the great need for someone or something to inspire the nation and its people. Offers came to him to manage other hotels. He turned them down. A desire had caught hold of him, a Magnificent Obsession. And he combined it with PMA. He set to work on a new book. His new motto, a self-motivator: Every occasion is a great occasion!
“If ever there was a time when America needed the help of a positive mental attitude, it is NOW,” he told friends.
He worked over a livery stable and lived on One Dollar a half ($1.50) each week. He worked almost unceasingly, day and night. He completed the first edition of “PUSHING TO THE FRONT” in 1893.
The book received immediate acceptance. It was used extensively in the public schools as a textbook and as a supplementary reader. Business houses circulated it among their employees. Distinguished educators, statesmen and members of the clergy, merchants, and sales managers commended it as a most powerful motivator to a positive mental attitude. And, in time, it was printed in twenty-five different languages. Millions of copies were sold.
Marden, like the authors of Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude, believed that ‘CHARACTER is the cornerstone in building and maintaining SUCCESS.’ He believed the highest and best achievements are noble manhood and womanhood, and that the achievement of true integrity and well-rounded character is in itself success. He taught the secrets of financial and business success. But he also entered a perpetual protest against dollar chasing and over-reaching greed. He taught ’there is something infinitely better than making a living: It is MAKING A NOBLE LIFE.’
Marden showed how some men may make millions and still be utter failures. Those who sacrifice their families, reputation, health – everything – for dollars are failures in life, regardless of how much money they may accumulate. He also taught that one may succeed without becoming a president or a millionaire.
Perhaps one of the greatest achievements of Marden’s MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION was the awakening of men and women to the realization that they could experience success if they would only employ the virtues they would like their children to have.
Perhaps fully as rewarding to Marden, Pushing to the Front was instrumental in changing the attitude of an entire nation from NEGATIVE TO POSITIVE. And that influence was felt throughout the world.
Marden demonstrated that a burning desire can generate the drive to action that is imperative for great achievement.
As you have seen, it took COURAGE & SACRIFICE for Orison Swett Marden to bring his MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION into reality.
A Magnificent Obsession does take courage. You may need to stand alone in combating and repelling the ridicule and ignorance of the experts. Like great discoverers, creators, inventors, philosophers, and geniuses, you may be termed, “CRAZY”, “NUTS”, or a “CRACKPOT”. The experts may say what you are trying to do can’t be done. With time your burning desire and constant effort will bring your Magnificent Obsession into reality. When they say, “It can’t be done,” find a way to do it.
A MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION WILL CONQUER IN SPITE OF THE OBSTACLES THAT STAND IN ITS WAY.
The entire nation – in fact the entire world – can be affected by the Magnificent Obsession of just one man who wants to share a part of what he/ she has. Orison Swett Marden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orison_Swett_Marden) was a man who shared a part of what he had and developed a Magnificent Obsession that changed the attitude of people from NEGATIVE to POSITIVE.
The seeds of thought in a book grew into a Magnificent Obsession.
At the age of seven, Orison Swett Marden became orphan. He was “bound out” for his room and board. At an early age he read Self-Help, by the Scottish author Samuel Smiles (http://www.emotionalliteracyeducation.com/classic_books_online/selfh10.htm)who, like Marden, had become an orphan as a young boy and had found the secrets of true success. The seeds of thought in Self-Help created a burning desire in Marden which grew into his magnificent obsession and made his world a better world in which to live.
During the boom that preceded the panic of 1893, Marden owned and operated four hotels. Since their operation was entrusted to others, he was devoting much of his time to writing a book. Actually, he was fulfilling a desire to write a book that would motivate American youth as Self-Help had motivated him. He was working diligently on his inspirational manuscript when an ironical twist of fate struck him and tested his mettle.
Marden entitled his work Pushing to the Front. And he took as his motto : “Let Every Occasion Be a Great Occasion for You Cannot Tell When Fate May Be Taking Your Measure for a Larger Place!”
And at the very instant Fate was taking his measure for a larger place. The misfortune that struck him would have ruined many a man. What happened?
The panic of 1893 struck. Two of the Marden hotels burned to the ground. His manuscript, nearly completed, was destroyed. His tangible wealth went down the drain, wiped out.
But Marden had a Positive Mental Attitude. He looked about him to see what had happened to the nation and himself. His first conclusion was that the panic was brought on by fear; fear of the value of the American dollar; fear caused by the failure of a few large corporations; fear of stock values; and fear of industrial unrest.
Those fears caused the stock market to crash. Five hundred and sixty-seven banks and loan and trust companies, as well as hundred and fifty-six railway companies, failed. Strikes were prevalent. Unemployment affected millions of persons. Because of drought and heat, farmers experienced crop failures.
Marden looked about him at the shambles in material things and human lives. He saw the great need for someone or something to inspire the nation and its people. Offers came to him to manage other hotels. He turned them down. A desire had caught hold of him, a Magnificent Obsession. And he combined it with PMA. He set to work on a new book. His new motto, a self-motivator: Every occasion is a great occasion!
“If ever there was a time when America needed the help of a positive mental attitude, it is NOW,” he told friends.
He worked over a livery stable and lived on One Dollar a half ($1.50) each week. He worked almost unceasingly, day and night. He completed the first edition of “PUSHING TO THE FRONT” in 1893.
The book received immediate acceptance. It was used extensively in the public schools as a textbook and as a supplementary reader. Business houses circulated it among their employees. Distinguished educators, statesmen and members of the clergy, merchants, and sales managers commended it as a most powerful motivator to a positive mental attitude. And, in time, it was printed in twenty-five different languages. Millions of copies were sold.
Marden, like the authors of Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude, believed that ‘CHARACTER is the cornerstone in building and maintaining SUCCESS.’ He believed the highest and best achievements are noble manhood and womanhood, and that the achievement of true integrity and well-rounded character is in itself success. He taught the secrets of financial and business success. But he also entered a perpetual protest against dollar chasing and over-reaching greed. He taught ’there is something infinitely better than making a living: It is MAKING A NOBLE LIFE.’
Marden showed how some men may make millions and still be utter failures. Those who sacrifice their families, reputation, health – everything – for dollars are failures in life, regardless of how much money they may accumulate. He also taught that one may succeed without becoming a president or a millionaire.
Perhaps one of the greatest achievements of Marden’s MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION was the awakening of men and women to the realization that they could experience success if they would only employ the virtues they would like their children to have.
Perhaps fully as rewarding to Marden, Pushing to the Front was instrumental in changing the attitude of an entire nation from NEGATIVE TO POSITIVE. And that influence was felt throughout the world.
Marden demonstrated that a burning desire can generate the drive to action that is imperative for great achievement.
As you have seen, it took COURAGE & SACRIFICE for Orison Swett Marden to bring his MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION into reality.
A Magnificent Obsession does take courage. You may need to stand alone in combating and repelling the ridicule and ignorance of the experts. Like great discoverers, creators, inventors, philosophers, and geniuses, you may be termed, “CRAZY”, “NUTS”, or a “CRACKPOT”. The experts may say what you are trying to do can’t be done. With time your burning desire and constant effort will bring your Magnificent Obsession into reality. When they say, “It can’t be done,” find a way to do it.
A MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION WILL CONQUER IN SPITE OF THE OBSTACLES THAT STAND IN ITS WAY.
Live each day with Positive Mental Attitude
March 10, 2011
Good Morning Everybody.
I am writing these lines from sunny Southern California. It is a beautiful morning, with sunrise, small breeze and a clear sky. I have been living in the USA for over a decade and have been living in various parts of the USA but have always loved to live in Southern California. I feel as if I must have some kind of connection to this place as I feel very spiritual and peaceful living here.
First time I came to know about Positive Mental Attitude through Orison Swett Marden, an American Hero, through his positive books when I was a teenager and living in Biratnagar, Nepal. When I finished his first book, I could not stop myself from asking for more. As it is said, "When the student is ready, teacher appears everywhere." It happened to me like that as I was ready to receive some positive thoughts. It is a fact that we hear so much negative at our homes and rarely anybody talks about positive things in life.
Today I begin a new life.
Today, I have decided to give out what I have been collecting for over two decades now, to the world so that somebody will get benefit out of it, at any part of the world as the whole world has become a small "Global Village" now and over 6 billion people have become part of that village. Internet has made our lives so interdependent as anything can be learned from anybody at any part of the world. There is no distance anymore.
Please enjoy reading my collections as most of the time, I am not a creator of these thoughts. There is so much already available in history books and in so many other collections, we don't need to worry about getting the wisdom. It is just "reminding ourselves daily": "We are the greatest miracles in the world"; "We are God's very special creation as we can THINK and act accordingly"; "We have the power of choice and can work accordingly towards achieving our goals" and the list is endless.
Now, I would like to start today with the word "POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE":
“Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.”
~ W. Clement Stone,American best selling Author
Please send me your thoughts, comments, suggestions and let me know if, after applying what you read here, has changed something in your life.
I love what Og Mandino, author of "The Greatest Secret in the world", has to say, "Good habits are secret to success and bad habits are the reason for failure. Today I create good habits and become their slave since everybody is a slave to their habits: good or bad."
Have an awesome, exciting, positive day everybody.
~Prem Guragain
Los Angeles, California
Good Morning Everybody.
I am writing these lines from sunny Southern California. It is a beautiful morning, with sunrise, small breeze and a clear sky. I have been living in the USA for over a decade and have been living in various parts of the USA but have always loved to live in Southern California. I feel as if I must have some kind of connection to this place as I feel very spiritual and peaceful living here.
First time I came to know about Positive Mental Attitude through Orison Swett Marden, an American Hero, through his positive books when I was a teenager and living in Biratnagar, Nepal. When I finished his first book, I could not stop myself from asking for more. As it is said, "When the student is ready, teacher appears everywhere." It happened to me like that as I was ready to receive some positive thoughts. It is a fact that we hear so much negative at our homes and rarely anybody talks about positive things in life.
Today I begin a new life.
Today, I have decided to give out what I have been collecting for over two decades now, to the world so that somebody will get benefit out of it, at any part of the world as the whole world has become a small "Global Village" now and over 6 billion people have become part of that village. Internet has made our lives so interdependent as anything can be learned from anybody at any part of the world. There is no distance anymore.
Please enjoy reading my collections as most of the time, I am not a creator of these thoughts. There is so much already available in history books and in so many other collections, we don't need to worry about getting the wisdom. It is just "reminding ourselves daily": "We are the greatest miracles in the world"; "We are God's very special creation as we can THINK and act accordingly"; "We have the power of choice and can work accordingly towards achieving our goals" and the list is endless.
Now, I would like to start today with the word "POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE":
“Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.”
~ W. Clement Stone,American best selling Author
Please send me your thoughts, comments, suggestions and let me know if, after applying what you read here, has changed something in your life.
I love what Og Mandino, author of "The Greatest Secret in the world", has to say, "Good habits are secret to success and bad habits are the reason for failure. Today I create good habits and become their slave since everybody is a slave to their habits: good or bad."
Have an awesome, exciting, positive day everybody.
~Prem Guragain
Los Angeles, California
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