Thoughts to Build On

your luck has changed for the better. Is this really important? Yes! Very important! Psychologists will tell you that it is not ...

Chapter 15 Practice (In Your Imagination) Makes Perfect The only way you can really become an expert in almost any endeavor is t ...

You simply cannot think that rapidly with your conscious mind, so that job is delegated by nature to your subconscious mind whic ...

Actually you are impressing mental pictures of your executing the movement perfectly-into your sub- conscious mind. It is vital ...

Physical repetition of an action does not nec- essarily improve it. Certainly it does not assure perfection. You may only be tea ...

Chapter 16 How To Survive We hear a lot about survival, these days. Sur- vival from this danger. Survival from that danger. It a ...

evolution of plant and animal life, only those plants and animals which adjusted to their changing environment survived. Those p ...

An animal might adjust to its natural environ- ment and its relations with other animals and thus tem- porarily survive-but if t ...

vive" in terms of being an effective, acceptable, compatible personality. And especially note the word: «first." You must first ...

to the expectations of those who promoted YOU; you co- operate wholeheartedly with all company policies; you participate enthusi ...

or physically, their own selfish "improvements" on society from outside the established social structure. As this is being writt ...

what the real reasons are? You have just read about them in this chapter! White families are afraid that Negro families will not ...

improving the neighborhood, obviously has no connection with the color of one's skin. The neighborhoods in which most Negroes un ...

Chapter 17 "This, Too, Shall Pass" Long ago, William Cowper wrote: "The dark- est day, lived till tomorrow, will have passed awa ...

will. You need, instead, to seek another passage. The door to the future awaits you. Do not linger behind, looking at a door fro ...

Chapter 18 Forget It! So some little incident, some little annoying harrassment, irritates you? Forget it! Forget it now! At onc ...

How quick and complete a forgetter you are, will have a considerable effect on your own personal happi- ness and the happiness o ...

Chapter 19 Push Your Wheelbarrow Upside Down A visitor to a mental hospital saw an inmate pushing a wheelbarrow upside down. Whe ...

upside down. Be like the man who wrote God a letter and resigned as Manager of the Universe. Or as janitor! He really didn't hav ...

I read the daily papers as though they were directives from on High. I am gravely concerned about dozens of situations, and dili ...