THE SECRET OF SUCCESS, William Walter Atkinson [best management books of all time txt] 📗

is that which lies right before you to be done –
do it the best you know how, feeling assured that in its doing you will be making
progress toward the better things for which your heart has been longing. New
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ideas come while you are in action – in the doing of things comes the inspiration
for the doing of greater things. You can always get a better "running start" when
in action, which will give you an advantage over the best "standing start"
imaginable. Get into action and motion.
In this little work we have endeavored to call your attention to something of far
greater importance than a mere code of rules and general advice. We have
pointed out to you the glorious fact that within each of you there is a Something
Within, which if once aroused would give you a greatly increased power and
capacity. And so we have tried to tell you this story of the Something Within,
from different viewpoints, so that you might catch the idea in several ways. We
firmly believe that Success depends most materially upon a recognition and
manifestation of this Something Within – we think that a study of the character
and work of all successful men will show you that differ as they do in personal
characteristics, they all manifest that consciousness of that Something Within
them that gives them an assurance of Inward Power and Strength, from which
proceeds Courage and Self-Confidence. You will find that the majority of
successful men feel that there is a Something helping them – back of and behind
their efforts. Some have called this Thing by the name of "Luck" or "Destiny," or
some such term. But it is all a form of the same recognition of an Inward Power
that they are "helped" in some way, although they are not quite sure of the nature
of the helper – in fact, the majority of them do not stop to speculate upon its
nature, they are too busy and are content with the knowledge that It is there. This
Something Within is the Individual – the "I" in each of them – the source of the
power which men manifest when they express it. And this little book is written in
the hopes that to many it may be the first step toward the recognition,
unfoldment and manifestation of this Inward Power.
We earnestly urge upon you to cultivate this "I AM" consciousness – that you
may realize the Power Within you. And then there will come naturally to you the
correlated consciousness which expresses itself in the statement, "I CAN and I
WILL," one of the grandest affirmations of Power that man can make. This "I Can
and I Will" consciousness is that expression of the Something Within, which we
trust that you will realize and manifest. We feel that behind all the advice that we
can give you, this one thing is the PRIME FACTOR in the Secret of Success.
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Publication Date: 07-09-2009

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