EFFICIENT ACTION
YOU MUST USE YOUR THOUGHT AS DIRECTED IN PREVIOUS CHAPTERS, AND BEGIN TO DO WHAT YOU CAN DO WHERE YOU ARE, AND YOU MUST DO ALL THAT YOU CAN DO WHERE YOU ARE.
YOU CAN ADVANCE ONLY BY BEING LARGER THAN YOUR PRESENT PLACE, AND YOU CANNOT BE LARGER THAN YOUR PRESENT IF YOU LEAVE UNDONE ANY OF THE WORK PERTAINING TO THAT PLACE.
THE WORLD IS ADVANCED ONLY BY THOSE WHO MORE THAN FILL THEIR PRESENT PLACES.
IF WE CANNOT FILL OUR PRESENT PLACE, EVERYTHING WILL GO BACKWARDS. THOSE WHO DO NOT QUITE FILL THEIR PRESENT PLACES ARE DEAD WEIGHT UPON SOCIETY, GOVERNMENT, COMMERCE, AND INDUSTRY, OTHERS MUST CARRY THEM ALONG AT A GREAT EXPENSE. THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD IS RETARDED ONLY BY THOSE WHO DO NOT FILL THE PLACES THEY ARE HOLDING. THEY BELONG TO A FORMER AGE AND A LOWER STAGE OR PLANE OF LIFE, AND THEIR TENDENCY IS TOWARD DEGENERATION. NO SOCIETY COULD ADVANCE IF EACH OF US WAS SMALLER THAN OUR PLACE. THE LAW OF PHYSICAL AND MENTAL EVOLUTION GUEDES SOCIAL EVOLUTION. IN THE ANIMAL WORLD, EVOLUTION IS CAUSED BY EXCESS OF LIFE.
WHEN AN ORGANISM HAS MORE LIFE THAN CAN BE EXPRESSED IN THE FUNCTIONS OF ITS OWN PLANE, IT DEVELOPS THE ORGANS OF A HIGHER PLANE, AND NEW SPECIES IS ORIGINATED.
THERE NEVER WOULD HAVE NEW SPECIES HAD THERE NOT BEEN ORGANISMS THAT MORE THAN FILLED THEIR PLACES. THE LAW IS EXACTLY THE SAME FOR YOU, YOUR GETTING RICH DEPENDS UPON YOUR APPLYING THIS PRINCIPLE TO YOUR OWN AFFAIRS.
EVERY DAY IS EITHER THAT MAY BE DONE TODYA, AND YOU DO NOT DO IT, YOU HAVE FAILED IN SO FAR AS THAT THING IS CONCERNED, AND THE CONSEQUENCES MAY BE MORE DISASTROUS THAN YOU IMAGINE.
YOU CANNOT FORESEE THE RESULTS OF EVEN THE MOST TRIVIAL ACT, YOU DO NOT KNOW THE WORKINGS OF ALL THE FORCES THAT HAVE BEEN SET MOVING IN YOUR BEHALF. MUCH MAY BE DEPENDING ON YOUR DOIN SOME SIMPLE ACT, IT MAY BE THE VERY THING THAT IS TO OPEN THE DOOR OF OPPORTUNITY TO VERY GREAT POSSIBILITIES. YOU CAN NEVER KNOW ALL THE COMBINATION THAT SUPREME INTELLIGENCE IS MAKING FOR YOU IN THE WORLD OF THINGS AND OF HUMAN AFFAIRS. YOUR NEGLECT OF FAILURE TO DO SOME SMALL THING MAY CAUSE A LONG DELAY IN GETTING WHAT YOU WANT.
DO, EVERY DAY ALL THAT CAN BE DONE THAT DAY.
THERE IS, HOWEVER, A LIMITATION OR QUALIFICATION OF THE ABOVE THAT YOU MUST TAKE INTO ACCOUNT.
YOU ARE NOT TO OVERWORK OR TO RUSH BLINDLY INTO YOUR BUSINESS IN THE EFFORT TO DO THE GREATEST POSSIBLE NUMBER OF THINGS IN THE SHORTEST POSSIBLE TIME.
YOU ARE NOT TO TRY TO DO TOMORROW'S WORK TODAY, NOR TO DO A WEEK'S WORK IN A DAY.
IT IS REALLY NOT THE NUMBER OF THINGS YOU DO, BUT THE EFFICIENCY OF EACH SEPARATE ACTION THAT COUNTS.
EVERY ACT IS, IN ITSELF, EITHER A SUCCESS OR A FAILURE. EVERY ACT IS IN ITSELF, EITHER EFFECTIVE OR INEFFICIENT.
EVERY INEFFICIENT ACT IS A FAILURE, AND IF YOU SPEND YOUR LIFE IN DOING INEFFICIENT ACTS, YOUR WHOLE LIFE WILL BE A FAILURE.
THE MORE THINGS YOU DO, THE WORSE FOR YOU IF ALL YOUR ACTS ARE INEFFICIENT ONES.
ON THE OTHER HAND, EVERY EFFICIENT ACT IS A SUCCESS IN ITSELF, AND IF EVERY ACT OF YOUR LIFE IS AN EFFICIENT ONE, YOUR WHOLE LIFE MUST BE A SUCCESS.
THE CAUSE OF FAILURE IS DOING TOO MANY THINGS IN AN ENEFFICIENT MANNER, AND NOT DOING ENOUGH THINGS IN AN EFFICIENT MANNER.
YOU WILL SEE THAT IT IS A SELF-EVIDENT PROPOSITION THAT IF YOU DO NOT DO ANY ENEFFICIENT ACTS, AND IF YOU DO A SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF EFFICIENT ACTS, YOU WILL BECOME RICH. IF, NOW, IT IS POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO MAKE EACH ACT AN EFFICIENT ONE, YOU SEE AGAIN THAT THE GETTING OF RICHES IS REDUCED TO AN EXACT SCIENCE, LIKE MATHEMATICS.
THE MATTER TURNS, THEN, ON THE QUESTIONS WHETHER YOU CAN MAKE EACH SEPERATE ACT A SUCCESS IN ITSELF. AND THIS YOU CAN CERTAINLY DO.
YOU CAN MAKE EACH ACT A SUCCESS, BECAUSE GOD'S POWER IS WORKING WITH YOU, AND GOD'S POWER CANNOT FAIL.
GOD'S POWER IS YOUR SERVICE, AND TO MAKE EACH ACT EFFICIENT YOU HAVE ONLY TO PUT THAT POWER INTO IT.
EVERY ACTION IS EITHER STRONG OR WEAK, AND WHEN EVERYONE IS STRONG, YOU ARE ACTING IN THE CERTAIN WAY, WHICH WILL MAKE YOU RICH.
EVERY ACT CAN BE MADE STRONG AND EFFICIENT BY HOLDING YOUR VISION WHILE YOU ARE DOING IT, AND PUTTING THE WHOLE POWER OF YOUR FAITH AND PURPOSE INTO IT.
IT IS AT THIS POINT THAT THE PEOPLE FAIL WHO SEPERATE MENTAL POWER FROM PERSONAL ACTION. THEY USE THE POWER OF MIND IN ONE PLACE AND AT ONE TIME, AND THEY ACT IN ANOTHER PLACE AND AT ANOTHER TIME. SO THEIR ACT ARE NOT SUCCESSFUL IN THEMSELVES. TOO MANY OF THEM ARE INEFFICIENT. BUT IF GOD'S POWER GOES INTO EVERY ACT, NO MATTER HOW COMMONPLACE, EVERY ACT WILL BE A SUCCESS IN ITSELF. AS IN THE NATURE OF THINGS EVERY SUCCESS OPENS THE WAY OF OTHER SUCCESSES, YOUR PROGRESS TOWARD WHAT YOU WANT, AND THE PROGRESS OF WHAT YOU WANT TOWARD YOU, WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY RAPID.
REMEMBER THAT SUCCESSFUL ACTION IS CUMULATIVE IN ITS RESULTS. SINCE THE DEISIRE FOR MORE LIFE IS INHERENT IN ALL THINGS WHEN YOU BEGIN TO MOVE TOWARD LARGER LIFE MORE THINGS ATTACH THEMSELVES TO YOU, AND THE INFLUENCE OF YOUR DESIRE IS MULTIPLIED.
DO, EVERY DAY, ALL THAT YOU CAN DO THAT DAY, AND DO EACH ACT IN AN EFFICENT MANNER.
YOU MUST HOLD YOUR VISION WHILE YOU ARE DOING EACH ACT, HOWEVER TRIVIAL OR COMMONPLACE. THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT IT IS NECESSARY AT ALL TIMES TO SEE THE VISION DISTINCTLY TO ITS SMALLEST DETAILS. IT SHOULD BE THE WORK OF YOUR LEISURE HOURS TO USE YOUR IMAGINATION ON THE DETAILS OF YOUR VISION,AND TO CONTEMPLATE THEM UNTIL THEY ARE FIRMLY FIXED UPON MEMORY. IF YOU WISH SPEEDY RESULTS, SPEND PRACTICALLY ALL YOUR SPARE TIME IN THIS PRACTICE.
BY CONTINUOUS CONTEMPLATION YOU WILL GET THE PICTURE OF WHAT YOU WANT, EVEN TO THE SMALLEST DETAILS. IT WILL BE SO FIRMLY FIXED UPON YOUR MIND, AND SO COMPLETELY TRANSFERRED TO THE MIND OF DIVINE SUBSTANCES, THAT IN YOUR WORKING HOURS YOU NEED ONLY TO MENTALLY REFER TO THE PICTURE TO STIMULAT YOUR FAITH AND PURPOSE, AND CAUSE YOUR BEST EFFORT TO BE PUT FORTH. CONTEMPLATE YOUR PICTURE IN YOUR LEISURE HOURS UNTIL YOUR SUBCONSCIOUSNESS IS SO FULL OF IS THAT YOU CAN GRASP IT INSTANLY. YOU WILL BECOME SO ENTHUSED WITH ITS BRIGHT PROMISES THAT THE MERE THOUGHT OF IT WILL CAL; FORTH THE STRONGEST ENERGIES OF YOUR WHOLE BEING.
LET US AGAIN REPEAT OUR SYLLABUS, AND BY SLIGHTLY CHANGING THE CLOSING STATEMENTS BRING IT TO THE POINT WE HAVE NOW REACHED.
❤ THERE IS A THINKING STUFF FROM WHICH ALL THINGS ARE MADE, AND WHICH, IN ITS ORIGINAL STATE, PERMEATES, PENETRATES, AND FILLS THE INTERSPACES OF THE UNIVERSE.
❤ A THOUGHT, IN THIS SUBTANCE, PRODUCES THE THING THAT IS IMAGEED BY THE THOUGHT.
❤ WE CAN FORM THINGS IN OUR THOUGHT, AND, BY IMPRESSING OUR THOUGHT UPON DIVINE SUBSTANCE, CAN CAUSE THE THING WE THINK ABOUT TO BE CREATED.
❤ IN ORDER TO DO THIS, WE MUST PASS FROM THE COMPETITIVE TO THE CREATIVE MIND, WE MUST FORM A CLEAR MENTAL PICTURE OF THE THINGS WE WANT, AND DO, WITH FAITH AND PURPOSE , ALL THAT CAN BE DONE EACH DAY, DOING EACH SEPARATE THING IN AN EFFICIENT MANNER.
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