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How to Grow Success by Elizabeth Towne Order in Adobe PDF eBook form for $4.95 Click here to order from Amazon.com Book Description
This book from 1904 contains the metaphysical principles for attracting the things you desire. Written from the feminine perspective this book offers practical guidance from the heart for those interested in finding a spiritual way of cultivating success and wealth. It is written in plain simple language. Because it was written over a hundred years ago the language at times appears quaint. Analogies to ordinary things like gardening make the words down to earth and easy to grasp. In this very interestingly written 12 chapter book you will learn: Success is not money, nor is it fame. The King, in the ancient fable turned to gold all that he touched, and starved to death. The "Sick Man of the East" has wealth galore and world-wide fame, but so abjectly afraid is he that he is never a moment alone; never tastes a dish that has not first been tried on a menial; and springs to his feet with pistol in hand if his best friend across the table happens to make a quick movement. Money and power he has, but not success. Chapter
1 HOW
TO GROW SUCCESS. SUCCESS—WHAT IT IS. SUCCESS is liberty
to command,
coupled with a clear conscience and loving heart. William Gladstone was a success. Abraham Lincoln was
another. Few men attain so complete a success as theirs. Jesus of
Nazareth was
a success, though most people imagine he was "poor." He was not. He
wore seamless robes and fine linen and fared sumptuously in many
elegant homes,
where he was more at liberty to command
than were the masters themselves. Nothing
was too good for Jesus. To own all
those homes would be a burden Jesus was too wise to assume. A successful man
is not necessarily a rich man, but he is a
man who can command all he desires. Among
money kings it is said J. Pierpont Morgan is not rated a very rich man.
But he
commands more money than any other man in the world. It is said men
confide in
him because of his fine business sense, gained by using
his own judgment; and because "he does exactly what
he agrees to." He never asks advice
and he keeps his mouth shut unless he has something special to say.
Then he
says it, in the simplest and fewest words possible. This is
concentration, the
mode of success. Money is not
success, but success includes the power
to command money. Success includes the liberty to
command money enough to gratify all one's
aspirations to better his own condition, and the condition of those
dependent
upon him. This does not mean that success includes money enough to
enable one
to outshine his neighbor. No man with
that aim in life was ever successful, or ever will be. Not to out-shine,
but to shine upon his neighbors, is the
successful man's mission. SUCCESS
IS ALIVE It germinates, sprouts and grows. It grows first underground. In due time it appears and keeps on unfolding. It is just as easy to grow
success as to grow potatoes. Yes, it is
easier; for success will grow out of
potatoes, and it will grow where potatoes
won't. There is not a spot on earth, or in heaven, or hell, that
will not
serve to sprout success in—not one. Success may outgrow a place and
need
transplanting; but it will sprout
anywhere. And at any time. Potatoes must be started at a certain time. The time to plant and tend success is NOW. You plant potatoes and you know they
will grow. You go off and do something else whilst they germinate
and sprout.
You can't see them grow but you KNOW
they are growing, and whilst you are working away at other things
you have a
nice little warm glow in your heart, over the fine crop that is coming
on out
there in the tater patch. You love that
patch. You planted it just as well us you could, with the best seed
potatoes,
and you are proud of it, even before there is the first peep of green.
"When that comes your love increases. You hoe every hill carefully and
you
take good care of the bugs. In due time you exhibit some of those spuds
at the
State Fair and you get a prize. And at last you command
more money for your potatoes than others get for theirs. Now do you imagine you had no
success until you got the gold for those
potatoes? Then you are greatly mistaken. You planted
success with every blessed tater hill. You loved it and
beamed on it, hoed the weeds away, picked the bugs off, and reveled
in success all summer long. You
lived on success all summer. Perhaps you say,
"Oh, that is a very pretty picture but my
potato patch was a failure." Then you planted failure with your
potatoes.
When you were plowing and planting and hoeing you were telling yourself
all the
time that "there is no use—nothing ever
did well for you—it seemed to be your lot to drudge and pinch and worry
along
and never have anything—there is John Smith over the way—he
can take it easy and have fine stock and hire men to do the
drudgery whilst he rides around and bosses—and here you are—everything
is against you—damn the stones on this land
anyhow—your spuds never do well—ground is no good—why can't you take it
easy
like other folks?" And so on, ad infinitum, ad nauseum, your
mind meanders, whilst you, with less than half a
heart get through the "drudgery" any old way —just so you get
through. Potatoes are not the only thing
you planted. You planted thoughts in every hill. You cursed every hill you planted—cursed it
with mean thinking. You planted failure and
you will reap ditto. Every idle thought will bring its meed
of failure and subtract
from the money that might have been yours. It takes the finest seed
potatoes, good land and thinking to match, to insure
a good crop and good prices. The successful man puts his
thought into
his work. The unsuccessful one turns his thought away
from it: as if when he was supposed to be watering his garden
he should turn the stream over the fence into the road, leaving his
garden dry
and gasping. YOU MUST LOVE
And think about
your work if
you are to make a success of it and make it pay. "Blessed is that man
who
hath found his work.'' If you are doing work you dislike you will not
succeed,
and all the treatments in creation can't make you succeed. Get into line with a work you do love—something in which you can express yourself. If you think you must remain
where you are then put your interest, your
love, yourself, into that business.
One touch of yourself will make business
go. A young man laid in coal, opened
shop, placed his card in the local paper and sat down to wait for
custom that
did not come. When he went home to dinner one day his wife remarked
that she
had a headache which had been aggravated by the noise of putting in
coal at the
next house. That young man went to the newspaper office and added a
line to his
ad—"Coal delivered without noise!" He delivered his coal in sacks. Yes,
delivered it. One touch of himself did
the business and he was custom-less no longer. A man's success is measured on the unseen side by the amount of LOVE he feeds his work with; and on the seen side it is measured by money. I do not mean that the amount
of money a man manages to corner by fair
means or foul, his own or his father's, is the measure of his success.
Not at
all. But the amount of real love a
man puts INTO his work determines exactly the amount of money he or
some other
man can get out of it. If he respects himself and the rest
of mankind—if he knows
that justice rules NOW,—really knows it—he
will himself get the money. If he "knows just what mean and grasping
liars
men are," he attracts men who will rob him of the money due his work.
But
in either event HE is at the bottom of the whole business. The individual
himself is Lord of his own circumstances; circumstances and other
men are
puppets in his hands. As a man realizes this he moves
circumstances and people
at will, by pulling the right strings in
himself. YOU MUST LOVE People in order to be able to
move them. You must be able to see them as they see
themselves, and you must meet them heartily.
Love is not senti-mental gush; love is not a self
announcer. Love is divine emotion—that which moves outward
from the point where the Universal meets the
personal. Love manifests in the person as pure GOOD WILL. It shines in
his
face, beams from his eyes and impels his every action. The successful
man is a
man of pure GOOD WILL. Remember, Success is the
liberty to command, coupled with a clear conscience and
loving heart. In proportion as
a man is possessed of Good Will his
conscience is clear. Good Will is the outward-moving power of a
loving heart. Only such a
heart ever has liberty to command. In proportion as a man succeeds
in letting
Good Will flow outward to each person, thing or
circumstance with which he
comes in touch, in that proportion will he be able to influence
persons, things and circumstances according to his
will—his Good Will, which is just to
all. The art of succeeding is the
art of concentrating
Good Will, and using it for
definite purposes. He that doubteth and
yet doeth, directs Evil Will, not
Good Will, and he is condemned in his own soul. Not only that, but he
will reap
outwardly what he has sown—Evil Will. GOOD WILL
Must go out to all mankind,
collectively and individually. A single
grudge is a “worm i’ the bud” of your success. Send out such positive,
definite, personal Good Will that a
grudge finds no room to grow by eating out your
heart and success. It is your grudge that has the power to
destroy your
success—your grudge against person,
place, work, or "fate." Spray your soul daily, hourly, with Good
Will; and withhold not the spray from thy neighbor. THE ESSENTIALS Of success are these: 1.
Good Will toward all. This
includes
justice, honesty, a clear conscience and loving heart. 2.
An Aim; a stake to be reached. 3.
Eternal stick-to-it-iveness. 4. Concentration
of thought and
effort upon the details of reaching
the stake set. A man's aim in life is the reflection
of his opinion of himself. A man with a pretty low opinion of
himself has
no aim at all. He feels himself merely a fallen twig borne helplessly
on the
bosom of life. Wake up dearie, exalt yourself, and set your stake just as high as you dare. Then,
as you
find you can face your stake with a feeling that you are really going
to make
it after all, congratulate yourself upon your soul stature, and
move your stake higher. Listen to what somebody of the name of Buxton has said about the third essential to success. "The longer I live, the more I
am certain that the great difference
between men, between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the
insignificant, is energy, invincible
determination,—a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory!
That
quality will do anything that can be done in this world; and no
talents, no circumstances,
no opportunities, will make a two-legged creature a man without it." And Ella Wheeler Wilcox says: "There
is no chance, no destiny, no fate, Can
circumvent or hinder or control The firm
resolve of a determined soul." Another has said: "All things
are possible to him that
believeth." And I say unto you, "Go in to win and stick to
it." Concentration of thought upon
the details of getting there: You can't afford to
waste thought upon
grumblings and resentments, against individuals, circumstances or
"fate." You may imagine you have brains enough to divide between your
work and these petty fault-findings and resentments; but you have not.
Every
idle thought subtracts a definite amount
from your success and your cash. Put your
thought into business. This does not mean you are
never to think of anything but business; but
it does mean that you are never to
separate thought from Good Will.
Whatever you can think of with Good Will will aid you to
self-expression; will
increase your power. Concentrate; on the details of
getting
there. I was once lost above the snow line on a great mountain and had
to
retrace my steps upward to the point where I had taken the wrong trail.
I was
so anxious to get to that point that my whole soul seemed to leap
upward and
away toward that place leaving me so utterly paralyzed that I was
actually
unable to take a step. In a few moments I collected myself and put my
thought
into the climbing, when I made the distance easily and quickly. Where
the
thought runs ahead like that the will, the real motive power of the
body,
actually goes out of the body, leaving it unable to accomplish what is
expected
of it. When you are doing something
put your thought into it. Will follows
thought and thus you work easily and effectively. When you are relaxed
and
resting you may without injury let thought take any flight. "Whatsoever
thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might;" that is with all
of thee—thought and will, as well as hands.
Work done in this way actually rejuvenates the body;
whilst a scattered
mind scatters or disintegrates the body. You are a unit—a
One. Work as a
One. NEVER
FEAR FEAR Fear is a great bugaboo and
like most bogies he is merely a shadow. No
amount of fear will hinder your success if you will keep
your eye on the stake you have set, and keep sticking
to it mentally, fears or no
fears. When I ride the wheel I see stones to be avoided. If I look at
one and
say to myself, "I am afraid—I’ll probably run over it"—then I go over
it every time. But I may have more
fear—it may be a larger stone—but if I say
to myself, "I shall go around that,"
I invariably go around it. It is the Word, the
mental statement, that
determines whether I miss or hit those stones. I have proven by
hundreds of
careful observations that fear has
absolutely nothing to do with it. I
may be scared blue over something; I may not be able to keep my eyes
off the
obstacle; but if I affirm resolutely,
''I shall miss that"—I miss it every
time. Our bodies are just bundles of
mental statements, which are being hourly
augmented and revised by more
statements. It is these mental statements that incite motion.
Every thought sends
vibrations clear to the tips of the nerves and on out through the
personal and
universal auras. Every thought incites
corresponding muscular activity. "Mind reading," is really
"muscle reading," as Dr. Parkyn claims. Fear literally has no
power
over your body except as you state to
yourself that it has. Deny it—deny that
fear has power. Make persistent mental statements of what you
desire; make
them in the face of fear, until fear tucks his tail betwixt his legs
and gets
off the earth. Kate
Boehme gives this sentence to her students to
"concentrate" upon: "I am open on my inner side to the
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