The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale (Daily Listening)

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The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale

I'd like to tell you about 'The Strangest Secret' in the world. 

The late Noble Prize - winning Dr. Albert Schweitzer was once asked, "Doctor, what is wrong with men today?"  The doctor was silent, a moment, and then he said, "Men simply do not think". 

1) Men today, simply don't think. When young, all want to successful. Only 5% achieve success. 'Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.' 

2) Opposite of courage is conformity. Conformity ....people acting like everyone else, without knowing why or without knowing where they are going. At 65 we are not financially independent, though all want to be successful. Instead of competing, what we need to do is create.

 

3) Some people seem to have a magic touch, because of goals. What would happen if the Ship starts from the harbor without knowing where to go? 

4) "We become what we think about." Throughout our history, great men have disagreed on many things, except this. If you think in negative terms, you will achieve negative results; if you think in positive terms, you will achieve positive results. Believe and Succeed. If a person thinks of nothing, he will become nothing. Human mind is the last unexplored continent in the world. A burned house can be rebuilt, but an unexplored mind cannot. Plan the seed in your mind. See yourself doing the things you want to. Every one of us is the sum of what he thinks. Your thoughts will mold your life and determine your future. It will shape your mind. It's up to you. You are in the driver's seat. This is the strangest secret of the world. Life should be an exciting adventure and not boring. As he believes so shall be done. To be successful understand – ‘As he sow so shall ye reap’. Imagine. Think positive. 

5) Human mind is the last great unexplored continent on earth. It contains riches beyond our wildest dreams. It comes as standard equipment at birth. It's free. And things that are given to us for nothing, we place little value on. Things that we pay money for, we value. The paradox is that exactly the reverse is true. Everything worthwhile is free - our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our intelligence, our love of family and children and friends and country. All these priceless possessions are free and the things that cost us money are actually very cheap and can be replaced at anytime. 6See yourself doing the things you will be doing when you have reached your goal. You are in the drivers

seat. People are basically good. As he believes so shall it be done. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Each of us succeed to our ability to sell. For this we must be willing to pay the price. First, we literally become what we believe. Our limitations are self-imposed. 

30 Day Action Ideas For Putting The Strangest Secret To work for you

Make a test to last 30 days. We can achieve nothing without paying the price.  Each of us succeeds in life to the extent of our ability to sell, 

7) It’s yours for the asking. What is the price? It is many things:

I. Understand emotionally as well as intellectually that 'You become what you think of '

II.Imagine- Cutting away all fetters from the mind and permitting it to soar as it was divinely designed to do.

III. Courage : Use all your courage to force yourself to think positively on your own problem. Set a definite and clearly defined goal for yourself and let your marvelous mind think about your goal from all possible angles, you are standing in the middle of "Acres of Diamond".

IV. Save 10% of every dollar you earn

V. Action Write on a card what you want to be - Ideas are worthless unless we act on them.

30 Day test: 

Every one want something and is afraid of something. 

8) Write on a card 'What you want more than anything else.' Make sure it is a single goal, and clearly written. You become what you think about. Stop thinking about your fear.  Second, Stop thinking about what it is you fear. 

9) Take control of your mind for 30 days. Maintain cheerful positive outlook. Know where you are going. “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? " Nothing great is possible without inspiration, don't let petty things bother you. If you sow positive thoughts your life will be cheerful, if you sow negative thoughts your life will be so. All you need is a purpose and faith. Do the best of whatever you are doing for the next thirty days. 

10) "Wake up and Live"  by Dorothea Brande- 'Act as if it was impossible to fail.' Provide service and product that are useful. Persist. Persistence is another word for faith. Habit will form. Don’t worry. Worry brings fear, and it is crippling. Be calm and cheerful. Don’t let petty things annoy you. Don’t be a failure or mediocre. Inspiration is important. 

11) Making money is the result of success and not vice versa. Only people who make money are those working in the mint, we need to earn money. For this we need to serve. Built, work, dream, create. We need to put the fuel in before we get the heat. You will get back what you put. Delude and you will get it back.  Prosperity is based on mutual exchange. To every action, there is equal and opposite reaction. Returns are equal to service. This is the price you want to pay for what you want. Don’t delude.

12)Success will depend on the quality and quantity of the service you render. If you want more provide

more service.Dr. David Harold Fink. Six steps for success: 

1. Set yourself a definite goal 

2. Quit putting yourself down. 

3. Stop thinking of all the reasons why you cannot be successful and start think of all the reasons why you can. 

4. Go back and think of the childhood, and why you thought you can’t be successful, if that is what you have been thinking 

5. Change the image that you have been thinking, by writing out the description, of the person you like to be 

6. Act the person you want to become.

13) Pay the price, by becoming the person you want to be. Flood gates of abundance will be open to you. 

Money?

Yes, lots of it.

Have peace. 

Start Today. 

You have nothing to lose, but you have a whole life to win.

This is Earl Nightingale,

Thank you,

“ HE IS EXACTLY WHERE HE IS BECAUSE THATS EXACTLY WHERE HE REALLY WANTS TO BE’ REGARDLESS’ HE LIKES IT OR NOT,  SO very powerful