The ABC’s of Success by Bob Proctor

The desire for success is inherent within all of us. It is a part of our nature to want to grow, to improve the quality of our lives. However, nothing improves by accident, it requires conscious attention. When you are being bombarded by negatives, improvement, growth and success are easy to forget.

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True Success starts in an Attitude and ends in Action. It comes from Belief in oneself, and Believe in One higher than oneself. It comes quickest to the one who combines Confidence and Determination with Energy and Enthusiasm. Such a man Fears nothing - not even Failure; If God is for him, what has he to fear? He combined Hard work with good Humour, helping anyone he can in any way he can, and so finds a friend in almost everyone he meets. Integrity is in his eyes and Joy is in his heart, for he knows the Key to Living is in Loving. He is a man with a Mission and he allows Nothing to interfere with that Mission. He seizes Opportunity and Perseveres in his Quest when those around him would rather Rest. Often he seems surprised by success, for he has been too busy to Seek it; instead he finds it has followed him. He used Time well, and refuses to waste it in worry. He Undertakes much, attacks all with Vigour and clearly wants to Win. He aims for Excellence in all he does, and, whatever his age, people are struck by his Youthful Zest and Zeal. He is a pleasure to know and a pleasure to see: God willing today, He will be Me.


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Become More Creative by Bob Proctor

There is something good about everything. Anyone who understands the law of opposites or the law of polarity knows this rule to be true. The good side of bad times is that you are forced to become more creative.

I was in a meeting with Keith Watters last week. Keith is in the mortgage business. There are more than a few mortgage brokers in the marketplace who will tell you times are tough right now. Apparently Keith Watters doesn’t see it that way. He thinks business is pretty good but as he puts it, You sure have to be creative.

It’s people like Keith who keep the economy moving until it gets back on the right track. If everyone sat back and cried about bad times, the economy would come to a slow screeching halt. When Keith left our office, my assistant Gina Robichaud said, That man always has a good attitude; and he does.

You must have a winning attitude to win, whether the economy is good or bad. The beautiful part of all this is that, attitude and creativity are something each of us can control. If you will form an image in your mind of how you want your life to be, where you want to go, you can then begin to mentally search for ways of creating the good that you desire.

It isn’t necessary to sit and wait for something outside of you to improve. You have been gifted with the mental faculties within you to improve any circumstance around you. However, you must choose to do so.

Do as Keith Watters is doing - become more creative. Check your attitude as it will ultimately determine your attitude.


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Money by Bob Proctor

Money is by far the most sought after commodity in the world. People work for it, die for it, kill for it, and often marry for it.

It is a known fact that money will never make you happy, but enough of it will surely make you comfortable. All the money in the world is available to you but it must be earned, and there are only two ways to earn it:

1. People at work.
2. Money at work.

The only people who make money, either work in a mint, or are on their way to prison if they have not already arrived there.

Money is the medium of exchange used by civilized societies for other people’s products or services. You will have a difficult time getting along without it, but I’m sure you have already discovered that through experience.

Earl Nightingale said,
most people think they want more money than they really do, and settle for a lot less than they could have.
Less than one half of one percent of the population earn in excess of $100,000 and less than 5% earn over $50,000. Why then, with something so necessary and sought after by so many, does money obviously remain a mystery to over 90% of the population.

Is there an answer to that question? Of course there is. Money is a servant; it is meant to be employed. It is also a reward received for service rendered.

Decide how much you want and determine what service you must render to receive it. Throw your heart and soul into the service and expect the money in return. Don’t worry or even think of money coming - it must come. Direct all of your thought and energy into the service you provide.


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Your Brain

Today I want you to imagine that you own the most magnificent automobile ever built. By some stroke of magic you never had to touch the vehicle. It was in a constant state of perfect performance. It was housed in a dust free environment and the only time you ever used this prize possession was once every week when you drove it to the corner store to do your shopping.

Ridiculous, to be sure … however, we have something far more valuable. Yet, for some strange reason the only use most people ever give it could be compared to the infrequent use the automobile got which I just mentioned.

It is our brain. The organizer, the controller, the information processing center of our body. Though it makes up only 2% of our body's weight, it hogs 20% of the blood supply.

It seems to take care of itself without any assistance from us. It eats first, that is it takes its share of nutrients from the blood regardless of what has to go elsewhere. In case of malnutrition, the brain is the last to starve. It is the most powerful electrical instrument which has ever evolved.

Dr. Norman Vincent who is in charge of data processing for one of America's largest corporations recently told me what is coming over the next decade will make any thing we have today in data processing look primitive. However, he then explained that what is coming is a toy compared to your brain.

You can use your brain to think, to build ideas, to solve any problem. You can use it to literally transform your life. It is there, finely tuned, self maintained, all ready to drive you wherever you choose to go.

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Decision - The Mastery of Procrastination

The world’s most successful people share a common quality - they make decisions. Yes, decision makers go to the top and those who do not make decisions seem to go nowhere.

In Napoleon Hill’s research, he said that accurate analysis of over 25,000 men and women who had experienced failure disclosed the fact that lack of decision was near the head of the list of the 30 major causes of failure. Hill said this was no mere statement of theory; it was a fact. Procrastination, the opposite of decision, is a common enemy, which practically every person must conquer.

Now here is the good news if you make decisions. If you don’t, perhaps when you hear this you will want to start. Analysis of several hundred people who had accumulated fortunes well beyond the million-dollar mark, disclosed the fact that every one of them had the habit of reaching decisions promptly, and of changing those decisions slowly if and when they were changed. People who fail to accumulate money, without exception have the habit of reaching decisions, if at all, very slowly, and changing these decisions quickly and often.

Well, how are you doing in this important area of your life?

Are you a decision maker or a procrastinator, or are you having a difficult time deciding?

I hope you are not like the person who, when asked if he could make a decision replied, Sometimes I can and sometimes I can’t

If you don’t make decisions promptly, begin to do so. The next time you catch your mind saying, Do it, don’t do it, do it, don’t do it,
give yourself a firm command. Decide.

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Positive Expectations by Bob Proctor

Your mind is a magnet and, as such, attracts whatever corresponds to its ruling. Expectation dictates what that ruling state will be and governs what is attracted into your life.

That is a very powerful statement which comes out of one of our most effective seminars on Positive Expectations

If you listen carefully to most conversations, it will become obvious that the majority of people you are doing business with do not expect to receive what they want. They hope, wish, talk, plan, and work to get what they want, but if you were able to probe into their mind, they really don’t expect what they want.

Raymond Holliwell wrote a magnificent book, Working With The Law.
The “Laws” to which he refers are the universal laws. Holliwell suggests you should never desire something you do not expect and you should never expect something you do not desire. You are a creative being and the more you become aware of the creative process of which you are a part, the easier and more natural it will become to develop the proper expectant attitude. Winners expect to win while losers expect to lose.

It is not uncommon to hear someone at a casino in Las Vegas say to their spouse, I’m just going to lose 50 then quit.
Can you imagine anybody seriously wanting to lose, but they do.

Think of the many activities you are involved with that are successful. You expect them to be successful. When you have Positive Expectations, your actions are effective. This is an attitude that deserves serious consideration. Expect to have a great day, every day.


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Set Yourself Free by Bob Proctor

Do you think of Shakespeare as being a highbrow author who wrote plays designed to bore high school students? Do you view his writings as something for other people - writings which: had nothing to do with practical problems of life? If your answer is yes, think again. Shakespeare was not a way out, but a way in kind of guy.

I quote, “Every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity”.

How can you apply his advice in a practical manner to today?

Every bondman
- what does he mean? Every person who feels they are in bondage in any way … who feels trapped by circumstances … who seems bound to failure, poverty, sickness … who seems held back from what would make their life complete and good.

Every bondman bears in his own hand
- that is he possesses, he has within himself the power to
cancel
or get rid of his captivity, his seeming bondage.

You can be free. You have the power within you to remove the shackles, which bind you.

Paul Carus wrote in The Gospel of Buddha, People are in bondage, because they have not removed the idea of ‘I’.

Leland Val Van De Wall wrote, “Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness”

The only power our problems can have over us is the power we give to them. As Emerson wrote, “The only thing that can grow is the thing we give energy to”.

If you are in bondage, held captive by problems, you have the power in your own hands to set yourself free. You are the only one who can set you free.

Shakespeare said it; I believe it and that settles it … for me.

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Earnest Desire by Bob Proctor

Wallace D. Wattles said, “Desire is the effort of the unexpressed possibility within, seeking expression without, through your actions.

Permit me to dissect that powerful statement. Desire is the effort of unexpressed possibility within.
We all have aspirations, dreams and goals. Desire is the energy exercised within; it’s the energy applied to your dream or goal that seeks to manifest itself on the physical level through what you do - your behavior.

Affirmations are the mental tools you use to alter your old conditioning and firmly fix your chosen WANTS in your sub-conscious mind. Only then does it become an earnest desire.

Thought is the fuel that creates the steam that turns your wheel of fortune. Do you want beauty in your life? Could you use a dose of inspiration? Would you like prosperity in your life? If so, create an earnest desire through affirmations. By using affirmations of wonderful, prosperous, successful thoughts consistently enough, they will become part of you. What you are doing is changing yourself by making yourself what you want to be.

It’s just not possible to dwell on negative, limiting, small and poverty-stricken mental pictures for eight or ten hours a day and expect to win. You need to stop feeding the desire you don’t want and focus, through affirmations, on the good you desire. Repeat to yourself, over and over again, statements like,

“I am a prosperous person,”

“I matter,”

“I am lovable and capable,”

“I am confident and happy.”

If you tell yourself a lie often enough, you will begin to believe it. When I began to make changes in my own life - some 45, 50 years ago, that’s what I had to do. I had to lie to myself. The person I wanted to become was so far removed from the person I was, it was the only thing I could do if I wanted to make any permanent change. I took the very opposite behavior of what I was experiencing and began to affirm. That’s what you’re doing when you start repeating affirmations - you’re actually telling yourself a lie

Wattles also said, Do small things in a great way, every day.
Writing an exciting, big idea in the form of a goal is something great. Do it every day and you will create an earnest desire. That earnest desire has to, must, and will manifest itself in your life.

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The Wisdom of Giving by Bob Proctor

Henry Ford knew about success. He once said that the person who will use their skills and constructive imagination to see how much they can give for a dollar, instead of how little they can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

That was wise advice. Giving has always been the cause of receiving. I recently came across an old article on ‘giving’, written by William Arthur Ward, I world like to share with you.

The Wisdom Of Giving

They who give have all things,

States the Hindu proverb.

They who withhold have nothing.

A Dutch proverb expresses it this way:

The generous man enriches himself by giving; the miser hoards himself poor.
Some give generously who give of their possessions. Others give substantially who share their talents. Still others give significantly who give of their knowledge, wisdom, counsel and insight.

You are wise to rise to the challenge of Longfellow:

Give what you have to someone. It may be better than you dare to think.

You can give yourself to your fellow man in a variety of ways. There is a time merely to listen to his problems.

There is another time simply to give of your presence. Often the greatest gift you can bestow on your friend is the assurance of your availability.

Remember the words of Albert Schweitzer:

You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it is a little thing, do something for those who have need of help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

You are wise to give while the need is greatest. Ponder the truth in the Italian proverb:

A gift long expected is sold, not given.

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Take Control of Your Circumstances by Bob Proctor

I want to suggest that beginning today for the next thirty days, you attempt to take control over your circumstances.

George Bernard Shaw once said, People are always blaming circumstances for what they are; I don’t believe in circumstances, the people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, they make them.

Millions of people are missing golden opportunities every day because they permit circumstances to stop them from accomplishing what they must accomplish to get what they want. Whenever you find yourself saying or thinking I would like to do this or that but I can’t because … understand that whatever follows the because is a circumstance and the moment you say those words you have given circumstance control over you.

The other day I was speaking with the executive officer in charge of a well-known sales organization. He explained they were fifteen percent behind quota for the year. When I asked him what they were going to do to make up for the shortfall, he quickly replied they would not be able to. He then began justifying his position.

Shun Fugimotto, a Japanese gymnast with a fractured leg in a plastic cast from his hip to his toe, was a gold medal winner at the Olympics in Montreal. He would not permit circumstances to keep him from realizing his dream.

In the 1950’s there was good reason why you could not fit a powerful computer in a briefcase. Someone would not accept that idea and today you can carry a computer in a briefcase.

High achievers make things happen because they will not permit circumstances to stop them.

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Daily Little Tasks by Bob Proctor

If you happen to be like most people, there are very likely a number of activities you are involved with every day, which are becoming monotonous. These of course are habitual, routine activities that you are called upon to do each day, some of which you may not even enjoy performing. Well, don’t despair because there is ways you can add a shot of enthusiasm to these activities, which will, in turn, add pleasure to your work.

Arthur Rubenstein, the famous pianist, lived to be 95 years old and was still performing in public when he was 90. Anyone who watched him playing could easily see that Mr. Rubenstein got enormous joy out of his work.

One day he was asked about the secret of his exuberance: how could he play pieces so enthusiastically which he must have played so many hundreds of times before? Rubenstein replied, I try to imagine I am playing each piece for the very first time, so the music comes new to me every time.

That is a principle you and I could apply to many aspects of our lives. Think of the boredom that would be eliminated with that type of an attitude.

Yule Brenner played the role of the King of Siam thousands of times on stage, repeating the same lines over and over, night after night. Every time he stepped onto the stage he fascinated and inspired his audience with a magnificent performance.

In his writings Wattles said, “You become great by doing little things in a great way every day”.

I know for a fact that if you make that principle a habit, as many true professionals have done, you will be milestones ahead of the masses. Start today!

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An Interesting Word by Bob Proctor

When you learn something, the quality of your life is improved because you have become a more effective individual. Why then, when an individual passes a course of instruction with high marks, possibly at the top of their class, do they remain an ineffective person? Do you think it is possible that the individual in question never actually learned anything? They merely gathered information and remembered it.

Gathering information means exactly what it implies - gathering information. Learning is when you consciously entertain an idea, you get emotionally involved with that idea, and you act on the idea and improve your results. The bottom line is results.

Reading, remembering and repeating do not constitute learning. That concept may earn you a degree but it will not necessarily make you an effective person - at anything.

Permit me to use a salesperson as an example - we could just as easily use a lawyer, a cabinet-maker or a clerk typist. The salesperson only closes one sale in twenty; he or she is ineffective. The hypothetical salesperson attends a course on closing sales. They pass the course with flying colors. Ask this person a question on closing a sale and they will answer it correctly. However, back in the marketplace they still only close one sale in twenty. They have learned nothing.

Eric Hoffer once said, “To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence you will think you can’t learn; too much and you will think you don’t have to learn”.

To improve your results you must learn. We can all improve and we are either learning or we are not.

Learning - it is an interesting word.


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The Opposite of Courage is Conformity by Bob Proctor

If you want to succeed you must be different from the masses. Be yourself. Do not be afraid to assert your true personality. Don’t ever forget that you are a unique individual. As soon as you tow the line, you are denying your true personality and virtually denying yourself the opportunity to grow.

Although society, in general has done an excellent job of turning most of us into clones by eliminating difference and nipping our personal aspirations in the bud, a tiny inner voice nevertheless survives within each of us. Timid and worried, it whispers to us that our public images are false, that our genuine personalities are hidden and unexpressed. Frustration, sadness, and in some cases, a feeling of being dead inside, are some of the disadvantages we heap upon ourselves.

The fear of being different and the need to conform are false and destructive. It is an acquired concept, not something we were born with. Here are five powerful affirmations. Read these affirmations aloud a number of times every day for thirty days:

. Day after day I am asserting my true personality more and more.

. I am unique and feel completely free to express my desire to succeed.

. It is my right and duty to be myself.

. The success I achieve will be in keeping with the extent to which I assert myself. I am asserting myself more and more in all areas of my life.

. Every day I am increasing my self-worth ten fold and becoming more and more successful.

Repeating these affirmations on a daily basis will develop courage. The opposite of courage is not cowardice; the opposite of courage is conformity. Be yourself. Dare to Win.

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Defining Success by Bob Proctor

Our success in life is achieved through understanding and gaining a higher level of awareness of who we are and what we’re capable of being.

Many people would be quick to define their success as it relates to an object such as a new car, a bigger home, or whatever the circumstance might be. I would suggest you look at those achievements as a reflection of your own level of awareness.

Success should not be measured by things, but more, by the experience and learning gained as a result of moving from one level of awareness to the other. What did it take to get the car, the bigger home? Did it move you out of your comfort zone? Did the goal scare and excite you at the same time? Did you experience and overcome obstacles along the way?

If you can answer yes to any of those questions then, in my opinion, you have been successful. If you cannot, then you are probably more a “thing collector” rather than a “success achiever.” Big wins and great success requires growth.

We all trade our time for something. What are you trading your time for? What is your worthy goal, or ideal? In choosing a goal, the question we should ask ourselves is NOT whether we are worthy of the goal, but rather, is the goal is worthy of us!

Alfred Adler said, “I am grateful for the idea that has used me.”


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Imagination by Bob Proctor

Have you ever wondered how children can sit through replay after replay of their favorite Lion King or Little Mermaid video? It amazes me that they’ll voluntarily watch the same show every day without a single complaint or request for something new.

What’s more amazing, though, is that adults do the very same thing with their days. The majority of men and women play “movies” in their heads again and again, relentlessly focusing on the review of past events, most of which are unpleasant and disturbing experiences that have come their way.

If they’re actually able to stop their contemplation of past events, they allow impressions of their current surroundings and results to govern their lives. And, once in a while for variety’s sake, they’ll contemplate the future by either worrying about it, or daydreaming and wishing that something better might come along. And then they wonder why bad things keep happening to them, or why they never rise above the issues and obstacles in their lives.

Frankly, they would be better off watching The Lion King 40 times a day –because at least then, they’d be immersed in a creative and upbeat, positive process. See, most people have never learned how to “program” creative and upbeat “movies” in their heads because they’ve never been taught the value of creative visioning and purposeful thinking. If you doubt me, listen to the varied conversations going on around you. Sadly enough, I can readily predict that you’ll hear a Dante’s nightmare of disconnected thoughts with very little effort put forth in carrying on a purposeful (much less positively-minded) conversation. While it is true that people are free to think anything they please, as long as they remain set in their ways, there is very little that can be done to change the unpleasant experiences that keep cropping up in their lives.

There is, however, a strong movement that is stirring the multitudes into a new conception of living. The study of the mind – and its veritable unearthly power – is at last taking its proper place in modern civilization. Proper use of the mind and its various faculties will give you anything you choose – but the emphasis here is on the word “proper.” To move in this favored direction requires study and focused, consistent effort … with a good measure of creative juices stirred in. In the classic movie, Miracle on 34th Street, Kris Kringle tells young Susie Walker she can become whatever she chooses through the aid of her imagination. Kris went on to explain, the “Imagi-Nation” is a place we can all go … just like the British nation or the French Nation.

Although this may seem a cute line from a movie, it’s also a very healthy way to view the imagination. Your mind is a place you can purposely go to. And FREE WILL is your passport. No one is ever refused entry. There are no borders or limits put on the size of what can be built. And best of all, it’s a universal nation that allows all of us citizenry!

Just as the oak tree develops from the gene that lies within the acorn, and a bird develops from the gene that lies asleep in the egg, so too will your achievements grow from the organized plans that first begin with your imagination. An image in your mind is the first stage of the creative process in life. From your imagination your visions and plans arise.

In his best selling book "Think and Grow Rich" Napoleon Hill wrote, “You will never have a definite purpose in life; you will never have self confidence; you will never have initiative and leadership unless you first create these qualities in your imagination and see yourself in possession of them.” He went on to say that, “… imagination is the most marvellous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known.”

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