Law of Success (21st Century Edition)

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PLEASING PERSONALITY 659


  1. Develop a positive character, through the aid of the methods out-
    lined in this lesson.

  2. Learn how to shake hands so that you will express warmth
    and Enthusiasm through this form of greeting.

  3. Attract other people to you by first "attracting yourself" to them.

  4. Remember that your only limitation, within reason, is the one that
    you set up in your own mind.


These seven points cover the most important factors, although
such a personality will obviously not develop of its own accord. It
will develop, however, if you submit yourself to the discipline herein
described, with a firm determination to transform yourself into
the person that you would like to be.
I stress the second and the fourth as being the most important.
If you will cultivate those finer thoughts, feelings, and actions out of
which a positive character is built, and then learn to express yourself
with force and conviction, you will have developed a Pleasing Person-
ality, for you will see that out of this will come the other qualities here
outlined.
There is a great power of attraction in the person who has a
positive character, and this power expresses itself in unseen as well
as visible ways. The moment you come within speaking distance of
such a person, even though not a word is spoken, the influence of the
"unseen power within" makes itself felt.
Every "shady" transaction in which you engage, every negative
thought that you think, and every destructive act destroys something
within your character.
Emerson wrote: "There is full confession in the glances of our
eyes; in our smiles; in salutations; in the grasp of the hands. His
sin bedaubs him, mars all his good impression. Men know not why
they do not trust him, but they do not trust him. His vice glasses
his eye, demeans his cheek, pinches the nose, sets the mark of beast

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