Takeaways From As A Man Thinketh

James Allen's book As A Man Thinketh is  one of the top 10 motivational books of all time.  The book's intention is to motivate the reader to believe that, "They themselves are makers of themselves." Most people labor under the misconception that their life is the result of fate, luck, or circumstances. This book explains that your life is what you make of it, and the only way you'll be successful in life is if you're first successful in your mind. Here are some terrific thoughts taken from the book:

• A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.
• Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.
• The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state. Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.
• A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.
• As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.
• A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life. And he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts; ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to use them as aids to his more rapid progress, and as a means of the hidden powers and possibilities within himself.
• The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers.
• Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves.

Thought for the week--The dreamers are the saviors of the world.― James Allen

 

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