The Most Important Person You Communicate With is Yourself
“The mind can make a heaven out of hell or a hell out of heaven”
-John Milton
Several years ago, I was home after graduating from college and I met a guy who was friends with my girlfriend’s brother. He had graduated from Yale University a year or two before and was driving a truck all around Detroit delivering meat to restaurants. He typically drove this meat truck from 4:00am until noon each day. He got paid in cash at the end of each day by his boss. He had been the first person from the public school he had attended to go to Yale in [Read more]
Understand Your Ultimate Goal
Several years ago I was living in New York City and taking the subway to work every single day. Like many young people, I had been taught somewhere along the line that this was “the place” to work and where the most sophisticated work happened, where the highest salaries are paid and where the most important work occurs. I think this is true to a great extent. The city is extremely exciting and people work so hard there they cannot help but become incredibly good at their jobs. The concentration of businesses in New York also creates an abundance of extremely [Read more]
Do Not Be Controlled By Your Need to Feel Significant
When I was around 15 years old, I was in front of an ice cream parlor in Grosse Pointe, Michigan and there was a large group of kids around my age gathered around a well-dressed man who appeared to be in his mid 30s. The man was wearing a good-looking dress shirt, khakis and good shoes. I quickly realized, however, that the kids were all making fun of him. The man was quite off emotionally, and all he kept saying was that he used to work for a United States Congressman. The kids were all making fun of him and [Read more]
Mental Chemistry
Napolean Hill, the author of probably the greatest success self help book of all time, Think & Grow Rich, was massively influenced by Charles Haanel’s most famous work, The Master Key System. This is a transcription of a letter that Hill wrote to Haanel about The Master Key System:
April 21, 1919. Mr. Charles F. Haanel, St. Louis, Mo.
My dear Mr. Haanel:
You probably know, from the editorial in the January issue of the Golden Rule, copy of which my Secretary sent to you, that I began twenty-two years ago as a coal miner at a dollar a day.
I have just been retained by a ten million dollar corporation at a salary of $105,200.00 a year, for a portion of my time only, it having been agreed that I shall continue as editor of the Hill’s Golden Rule.
I believe in giving credit where it is due, therefore I believe I ought to inform you that my present success and the success which has followed my work as President of the Napoleon Hill Institute is due largely to the principles laid down in The Master-Key System.
You are doing a good work by helping people to realize that nothing is impossible of accomplishment which a man can create in his imagination. Surely my own experience proves this.
I shall cooperate with you in getting your course into the hands of the many who so greatly need your message.
Cordially and sincerely, Napoleon Hill, Editor, The Golden Rule Chicago, Illinois
Haanel’s work, Mental Chemistry, is another work that also builds upon the Master Key System and is an an important edition to your success library. I hope you enjoy it.
–Harrison
MENTAL CHEMISTRY
By Charles F. Haanel
MENTAL CHEMISTRY
Chemistry is the science which treats of the intra-atomic or the intra-molecular changes which material things undergo under various influences. Mental is defined as “of or appertaining to the mind, including intellect, [Read more]
Jung, Shadows and Your Potential
Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions. — Dr. Carl G. Jung In 2006, Ted Haggard was considered one of the most famous Christian conservatives. He also had great political power and advised the President and other politicians. Millions watched him as an exemplar of the values of the Christian right. In November of 2006, however, this all came crashing down when a male prostitute came forth and said he had known the male minister for three years as “Art,” a drug user and sex client. Prior to all of this, Haggard had been someone who spoke out against drugs and homosexuality. This is very similar to a 1980′s scandal involving Jimmy Swaggart:
In 1986, Swaggart exposed fellow Assemblies of God minister Marvin Gorman, who had been accused of having an affair with another pastor’s wife, who was at the time undergoing counseling with Pastor Gorman. Some said this was done out of fear that Gorman was taking away from Swaggart’s audience and donations. Gorman was based in New Orleans and was adding stations throughout the southern region and was beginning to add stations on the west coast and the northeast. Gorman was also in the planning stages for a weekday telecast. Once exposed, Gorman was defrocked from the Assemblies of God and his ministry all but ended. The following year, Swaggart exposed fellow Assemblies Of God televangelist Jim Bakker‘s sexual indiscretions and appeared on the Larry King Show, stating that Bakker was a “cancer in the body of Christ.” He and similarly-minded Baptist evangelist Jerry Falwell investigated Jim Bakker and eventually uncovered his indiscretions. In 1987, Jim Bakker’s ministry was falling apart as a result. As a retaliatory move, Marvin Gorman hired a private detective to follow Swaggart. The detective found Swaggart in a Louisiana motel on Airline Highway with a prostitute, Debra Murphree, and took pictures of the tryst. http://www.answers.com/topic/jimmy-swaggart#Controversies_and_criticisms
One of the most unusual things that I have witnessed throughout my life is that many of the most religious people I have known have also been the most troubled in many respects and often the most dishonest, [Read more]
Robin Hood and Appealing to an Employer’s Noble Motives
I grew up in a suburb of Detroit and went to school with several kids whose parents were in the Detroit Mafia. I would name them but to be completely honest I am afraid that if I did I might turn up dead. I do not want to upset these people with any slight–no matter how insignificant. I know they were legitimate members of a mafia family not just because when I was growing up everyone talked about it, but because years later when I started working for the Federal Government I met a US Marshal who told me all [Read more]
Homes with 16 Offers Above List and Your Job Search
Back during the absolute height of the real estate boom a home down the street from us went up for sale. I found out the home was for sale because I received a nice flyer about the home in the mail that also offered ”free hors d’oeuvres” and champagne at an open house that was occurring at the home one weekday afternoon. Having ”hors d’oeuvres” and champagne at an afternoon open house was quite rare for Pasadena-even during the days of the real estate boom. In fact, I had never heard of hors d’oeuvres and champagne being [Read more]
Allow People Around You to Feel and Believe Whatever They Want
When I was about nine years old I was driving down the street with a relative of mine and we saw a huge, pale man who was walking down the side of the road flipping off cars and screaming at them. The man did not have a shirt on and seemed extremely angry. He was wearing dirty jeans and had long hair that was sweaty. The man was large, probably at least 6′ 4″ and quite heavy. It was a terrifying site because the man’s movements were exaggerated and he seemed to be in a lot of pain. My relative saw this man, slowed down, pulled over close [Read more]
The Peter Principal and Being Ready for More Responsibility
The most important thing you can do in your work and in your career is to do what you know. It is fine to try new things. However, when you try new things, you need to be very careful that you remain focused on the things that you know and understand. If you venture outside of what you understand, you are likely to get into massive trouble and this trouble can come quickly. People who do well in their positions are typically rewarded with more responsibility and a better position. Eventually, however, this position will exceed a person’s level [Read more]
The Dangers of Getting Jobs Through Friends
Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure. “Oh, I already have a friend there. I’ll just contact him.” In the job market, it’s one of the more common things we hear after informing a job seeker that a certain employer has a job opening. There is a lot you need to consider before you decide to apply to a job through a friend or relative, or take a job working for a friend or relative. First, it is exceedingly rare that a friend or [Read more]
