How To Attract Success

One time a Vermont farmer was comparing himself to some of his old schoolmates; he said: I am the biggest lunkhead that ever was and I know it. Now there is Joe Lake who didn't know half as much as I did; he was a regular lunkhead but didn't know it and now he is a Railroad President.

Then there was Bill Johnson whom I always had to help with his lessons; he was another lunkhead but didnt know it and now he is President of a big Bank. Then there was Sam Williams who was always at the foot of the class; he was another lunkhead but didn't know it and now he is President of the biggest Trust Company in the country. Then there was John Wilson, the fool of the class; he was another lunkhead and didn't know it and now he is worth millions and at the head of some of the biggest corporations in the country.

I was a lunkhead too, but the trouble with me was that I knew it and so I am still here on this rocky old farm. The above homely story tells the law of success and of failure in a few words. We must never get the image that we are a lunkhead unless we want to be a failure. God the great Universal Law manipulates people and things in accordance with the image we hold continuously and persistently in our imagination.

CHAPTER 10

It is a well established scientific fact that every material thing is but the objective symbol of the vibratory rate of the atoms which compose it; that the reason there are no two persons just exactly alike, and no two things of any kind anywhere which are exactly alike, is because of the difference in the rate at which their atoms vibrate. The reason a is a and not the letter b is because they are both objective symbols of different vibratory rates.

Did they both symbolize exactly the same rates of vibration, motion or action, we would need but the one symbol. What is true of letters is also true of a combination of letters or words, and what is true of words is also true of a combination of words or sentences. Suppose we take the words I am success and repeat them as fast as we can for five minutes, observing the vibrations which they set up within us and the thought currents with which they relate us.

Then let us take the words I am a failure, and repeat them as fast as we can for five minutes and observe the vibrations which are set up within us and the thought currents with which they relate us. We need only to make this one simple little experiment to convince ourselves of the difference in the vibratory rates which words symbolize and their effect upon us when we establish the habit of living in their currents.

The words I am success NOW repeated once or twice, or only a few times, do not affect us materially, but when they are repeated continuously and persistently and as rapidly as we can speak them, so that all other thoughts will be displaced completely, they will relate us with a strong, powerful vibration which will bring strength, courage, ambition, and a belief that success is possible for us.

On the other hand when we live in the thought of I am a failure and make such thoughts the law of our lives it can readily be seen that we relate with the currents in which failure, loss, lack and all the misery which these things bring are to be found. This truth is so stupendous, yet so simple and so subtle, that it is hard for us to realize it; in fact many persons do not know that we are living in the failure thought currents most of the time but believe we are living in thoughts of success, so subtle is the action, and until we put our conscious mind on the thoughts we are thinking and learn through study the difference between constructive and destructive thoughts and their action it is hard for us to believe that we do have a failure consciousness.