Excerpts from
"Earl Nightingale On Success"
(Includes audio of The Strangest
Secret)
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Book Description
This ebook contains the
original
recording of The Strangest
Secret which was written and
recorded in the mid-fifties and earned a Gold Record for the only
record of it's kind to reach sales of a million copies. This recording, was the
seedling from which the personal development industry grew. This ebook
contains many other powerful essays by
Earl Nightingale.
CONTENTS
About the
author........................................... |
Chapter 1 - The Strangest
Secret...........................
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Chapter 2 - Follow
Your River..............................
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Chapter 3 - The
River or the Goal..........................
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Chapter 4 - How To React To
Stress......................... |
Chapter 5 - Life
of the Unsuccessful....................... |
Chapter 6 - Six Techniques for Creative
Revolutions........ |
Chapter 7 - The
Devil's Wedge.............................. |
Chapter 8 - The
Profile of a Creative Person............... |
Chapter 9 - A
Commitment to Laughter....................... |
Chapter 10 - A
Time to Risk or Sit......................... |
Chapter 11 - The
Entrepreneurial Adventure................. |
Chapter 12 - The
Cure for Procrastination.................. |
Chapter 13 - The
Great Problem-Solving Tool................ |
Chapter 14 - Is
Your Personal Corporation Growing?......... |
Chapter 15 - Falling
Isn't Failing......................... |
Chapter 16 - The
$25,000 Idea.............................. |
Chapter 17 - The
Fog of Worry.............................. |
Chapter 18 - The
Boss...................................... |
Chapter 19 - What
Is Your Intermediate Goal?............... |
Chapter 20 - Success: A
Worthy
Destination.................
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Chapter 21 - Fake
It Till You Make It...................... |
Chapter 22 - It's Not the
Destination...................... |
Chapter 23 - Acres of
Diamonds............................. |
Chapter 24 - Don't
Follow the Follower..................... |
Chapter 25 - The
Difference Between 'Haves' & 'Have Nots'.. |
Chapter 26 - The
Flame of Hope............................. |
Chapter 27 - Nine
Steps for Solving Any Problem............ |
Chapter 28 - A
Pain in the Colon........................... |
Chapter 29 - Lloyd
Conant: This I Believe.................. |
Chapter 30 - Is
Your Destination Clear?.................... |
Chapter 31 - What
Happens When You Run Out of Goals?....... |
Chapter 32 - Napoleon
Hill's Think and Grow Rich........... |
Chapter 33 - How
to Give a Great Speech.................... |
excerpt
from
The Strangest Secret
By
Earl
Nightingale
When we say "nearly five
percent
of men
and women achieve success" then we have to define success. The
following is the best definition we've found: "Success is the
progressive realization of a worthy ideal."
If a person is working
toward a
predetermined goal and knows where to go, then that person is
successful. If a person does not know which direction they want to go
in life, then that person is a failure.
"Success is the
progressive
realization of a worthy ideal."
Therefore, who succeeds?
The only person who succeeds
is
the
person who is progressively realizing a worthy ideal. The person who
says, "I'm going to become this"… and then begins to work toward
becoming it.
Have you ever wondered why
so
many men
and women work so hard and honestly without ever achieving anything in
particular? Why others do not seem to work hard at all and yet get
everything? We sometimes think it is the magic touch or pure luck. We
often say, "Everything they touch turns to gold." Have you ever noticed
that a person who becomes successful tends to continue this pattern of
success? Or on the other hand, how a person who fails seems to
continually fail?
Well, the answer is simple
--
those who
succeed have established personal goals.
Success is not the result of
making
money; making money is the result of success and success is in direct
proportion to our service.
Here are five steps that
will
help you
realize success:
- Establish a definite goal.
- Stop running yourself down.
- Do not think of all the reasons why you
cannot be
successful --
instead think of all the reasons why you can achieve success.
- Trace your emotions back to childhood --
discover where you
first
got the negative idea you would not be successful -- face your fears.
- Renew your self-image by writing a
description of the
person you
want to become -- Act the part -- You are that person!
George Bernard Shaw said:
"People are always
blaming
their
circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The
people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for
the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them."
Well, that is pretty
apparent,
isn't
it? And every person who discovered this believed – for a while – that
he was the first one to work it out. We become what we think about.
Now, it stands to reason
that a
person
who is thinking about a concrete and worthwhile goal is going to reach
it, because that's what he's thinking about. And we become what we
think about.
Conversely, the man who has
no
goal,
who doesn't know where he's going, and whose thoughts must therefore be
thoughts of confusion and anxiety and fear and worry, becomes what he
thinks about. His life becomes one of frustration and fear and anxiety
and worry.
And if he thinks about
nothing…he
becomes nothing.
So decide now. What is it
you
want?
Plant your goal in your mind. It's the most important decision you'll
ever make in your entire life. All you've got to do is plant that seed
in your mind, care for it, and work steadily toward your goal, and it
will become a reality.
How do you begin?
First: It is
understanding
emotionally as well as intellectually that we literally become what we
think about; that we must control our thoughts if we're to control our
lives. It's understanding fully that…"as ye sow, so shall ye reap."
Second: It's cutting
away
all
fetters from the mind and permitting it to soar as it was divinely
designed to do. It's the realization that your limitations are
self-imposed and that the opportunities for you today are enormous
beyond belief. It's rising above narrow-minded pettiness and prejudice.
Third: It's using all
your
courage to force yourself to think positively on your own problems, to
set a definite and clearly defined goal for yourself. To let your
marvelous mind think about your goal from all possible angles; to let
your imagination speculate freely upon many different possible
solutions. To refuse to believe that there are any circumstances
sufficiently strong to defeat you in the accomplishment of your
purpose. To act promptly and decisively when your course is clear. And
to keep constantly aware of the fact that you are, at this moment,
standing in the middle of your own "acres of diamonds."
And fourth: Save at
least
10
percent of every dollar you earn.
It's also remembering that,
no
matter
what your present job, it has enormous possibilities – if, you're
willing to pay the price by keeping these four points in mind:
- You will become what you think about.
- Remember the word "imagination" and let
your mind begin to
soar.
- Courageously concentrate on your goal
every day.
- Save 10 percent of what you earn.
Finally, take action –
ideas are
worthless unless we act on them.
"Earl Nightingale On Success"
(Includes audio of The Strangest
Secret"
Order
in Adobe PDF eBook or printed form for $9.95 (+ printing charge)
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