have proven that whatever the mind can conceive and
believe-man can achieve.
William James taught that: "BELIEF CRE-
ATES THE ACTUAL FACT." He said, "In any project,
the important factor is your belief. Without belief there
can be no successful outcome. That is fundamental."
Belief is the result of a disciplined mind. Only
a disciplined mind can concentrate the intensity of belief
into the white heat of a desire powerful enough to achieve
its goal. So William James further taught: "If you only
care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it.
If you wish to be rich, you will be rich; if you wish to be
learned, you will be learned; if you wish to be good, you
will be good. 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."
Mental focus through mental discipline.
Dr. Walter Scott, famous psychologist and
President of Northwestern University, taught: "Success or
failure in business is caused more by mental attitudes than
by mental capacities." Mental attitudes are the result of
mental discipline.
The famous preacher-psychologist-writer, Dr.
Norman Vincent Peale, says: "Think success, visualize
success, and you will set in motion the power-force of the
realizable wish. When the mental picture or attitude is
strongly enough held, it actually seems to control condi-
tions and circumstances." To hold a mental picture or
attitude strongly enough requires mental discipline.