Earl Nightingale The Strangest Secret
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Earl Nightingale – The Strangest Secret
This is one of the greatest audio’s and E-Book’s I have EVER listened to and read. (other than Think and Grow Rich) Earl Nightingale was a great speaker and motivator. Teaching us the Strangest Secret.
Read this(or listen to it below) if you are someone who has GOALS in life, and REALLY want
to achieve them!
Earl Nightingale The Strangest Secret
EARL NIGHTINGALE
Some years ago, the late Nobel prize-winning Dr. Albert Schweitzer
was asked by a reporter, “Doctor, what’s wrong with men today?”
The great doctor was silent a moment, and then he said,
“Men simply don’t think!”
DR ALBERT SCHWEITZER
It’s about this that I want to talk with you. We live today in a
golden age. This is an era that humanity has looked forward to,
dreamed of, and worked toward for thousands of years.
We live in the richest era that ever existed on the face of the earth…
..a land of abundant opportunity for everyone. However, if you take
100 individuals who start even at the age of 25, do you have any idea
what will happen to those men and women by the time they’re 65?
These 100 people believe they’re going to be successful.
They are eager toward life, there is a certain sparkle in their eye,
an erectness to their carriage, and life seems like a pretty interesting
adventure to them. But by the time they’re 65, only one will be rich,
four will be financially independent, five will still be working, and 54
will be broke — depending on others for life’s necessities.
Only five out of 100 make the grade! Why do so many fail?
What has happened to the sparkle that was there when they were 25? What has become of the dreams, the hopes, the plans … and why is there such a large disparity between what these people intended to do and what they actually accomplished.
Earl Nightingale The Strangest Secret | THE DEFINITION OF SUCCESS
First, we have to define success and here is the best definition I’ve ever been able to find:
“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.”
A success is anyone who is realizing a worthy predetermined ideal, because that’s what he or she decided to do … deliberately. But only one out of 20 does that! The rest are “failures.”
Rollo May, the distinguished psychiatrist says:
“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice…it is conformity.”
And there you have the reason for so many failures. Conformity — people acting like everyone else, without knowing why or where they are going.
Earl Nightingale | The Strangest Secret
We learn to read by the time we’re seven. We learn to make a living by the time we’re 30. Often by that time we’re not only making a living, we’re supporting a family. And yet by the time we’re 65, we haven’t learned how to become financially independent in the richest land that has ever been known. Why? We conform! Most of us are acting like the wrong percentage group — the 95 who don’t succeed.
Earl Nightingale | GOALS
Think of a ship with the complete voyage mapped out and planned. The captain and crew know exactly where the ship is going and how long it will take — it has a definite goal. And 9,999 times out of 10,000, it will get there.
Earl Nightingale | The Strangest Secret
Now let’s take another ship — just like the first — only let’s not put a crew on it, or a captain at the helm. Let’s give it no aiming point, no goal, and no destination. We just start the engines and let it go. I think you’ll agree that if it gets out of the harbor at all, it will either sink or wind up on some deserted beach — a derelict. It can’t go any place because it has no destination and no guidance.
It’s the same with a human being. However, the human race is fixed, not to prevent the strong from winning, but to prevent the weak from losing. Society today can be likened to a convoy in time of war. The entire society is slowed down to protect its weakest link, just as the naval convoy has to go at the speed that will permit its slowest vessel to remain in formation.
Throughout history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers, and prophets are in unanimous agreement — the key to success and the key to failure is this:
WE BECOME WHAT WE THINK ABOUT!
Earl Nightingale | The Strangest Secret
William James said: “We need only in cold blood act as if the thing in question were real, and it will become infallibly real by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real. It will become so knit with habit and emotion that our interests in it will be those which characterize belief.” He continues, “…only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.”
WILLIAM JAMES
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale put it this way: “If you think in negative terms, you will get negative results. If you think in positive terms, you will achieve positive results.”
DR. NORMAN VINCENT PEALE
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, they create them.”
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Earl Nightingale | The Strangest Secret
Well, it’s pretty apparent, isn’t it?
Earl Nightingale | “AS YE SOW… SO SHALL YE REAP ”
The human mind is much like a farmer’s land.
The land gives the farmer a choice.
He may plant in that land whatever he chooses. The land doesn’t
care what is planted. It’s up to the farmer to make the decision.
The mind, like the land, will return what you plant, but it doesn’t
care what you plant. If the farmer plants two seeds one a seed
of corn, the other nightshade (a deadly poison) waters and takes
care of the land, what will happen?
Remember, the land doesn’t care. It will return poison in just as
wonderful abundance as it will corn. So up come the two
plants – one corn, one poison as it’s written in the Bible,
“As ye sow, so shall ye reap.”
The human mind is far more fertile, far more incredible and
mysterious than the land, but it works the same way. It doesn’t
care what we plant … success … or failure. A concrete,
worthwhile goal … or confusion, misunderstanding, fear,
anxiety, and so on. But what we plant it must return to us.
Our mind can do any kind of job
we assign to it, but generally speaking, we use it for little jobs
instead of big ones. 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.
Do you want to excel at your particular job? Do you want to go
places in your company … in your community?
Do you want to get rich? All you have got to do is plant that seed
in your mind, care for it, work steadily toward your goal,
and it will become a reality.
Every one of us is the sum total of our own thoughts. We are
where we are because that’s exactly where we really want or
feel we deserve to be… whether we’ll admit that or not.
Each of us must live off the fruit of our thoughts in the future,
because what you think today and tomorrow, next month and
next year…will mold your life and determine your future.
You’re guided by your mind.
That is the Strangest Secret! | Earl Nightingale
The moment you decide on a goal to work toward, you’re
immediately a successful person — you are then in that rare
group of people who know where they’re going.
Out of every hundred people, you belong to the top five.
Don’t concern yourself too much with how you are going
to achieve your goal — leave that completely to a power
greater than yourself. All you have to do is know where
you’re going. The answers will come to you of their own
accord, and at the right time.
Start today.
You have nothing to lose — but you have your whole life to win.
Thanks for reading I hope you enjoyed my post!!
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