by Napoleon Hill
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the negative attitudes within your own conscious and subconscious mind. You must correct these deviations as they occur in your plotting.
Ahead of you may be disappointments, adversities, and dangers. These are the rocks and hidden shoals past which you must sail on your course. And this you can do when your compass is compensated for variation. For if you are aware of the coral reefs and tides, you can capitalize on each. You can select the environmental influence of the light of a lighthouse or sound of a buoy to steer a course that will bring you towards your destination without serious mishap.
Now when plotting a course, you must rely upon the accuracy of your compass. Compensating the compass is not an exact science. A necessary safeguard is unceasing watchfulness on the navigator's part. It is possible, however, to correct a compass very effectively.
Just as a magnetic needle is in direct line with the north and south magnetic poles, so when your compass is compensated, you will automatically react in line with your objective, your highest ideal. And the highest ideal of man is the will of God.
This book will now go with you on your journey to success.
Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude will bring you success, wealth, physical, mental and spiritual health, and happiness when ? you react favorably to it. Remember what Andrew Carnegie said:
'Anything in life worth having is worth working for." Awaken the sleeping giant! In the next chapter entitled "The Amazing Power of a Bibliography" you will discover the art of reading an inspirational book in a manner that will help you to awaken the sleeping giant within you.
PILOT NO. 21 Thoughts to Steer By
1. What wouldst thou have? Love? Good health? Success? Friends? Money? A home? A car? Recognition? Peace of mind? Courage? Happiness? Or would you make your world a better world in which to live?
2. Name it and it can be yours ? if you learn and employ the principles found in this book that are applicable to you.
3. Think. Think with a positive mental attitude. And follow through with desirable action.
4. Compensate your compass to avoid dangers and thus arrive safely at your chosen destination.
5. The highest ideal of man is the will of God.
6. Awaken the sleeping giant within you!
AWAKEN THE SLEEPING GIANT WITHIN YOU!
CHAPTER 22
The Amazing Power of a Bibliography
This chapter is a bibliography. And this bibliography has amazing potential power. For within it may lie the hidden button which pushed can be used to unleash the power within you ? the untapped, unused vast resources that you alone possess. And we hope it will start a chain reaction that will help you in achieving true success. For if you want to motivate yourself and others: Say it with a book.
Say it with a book. In Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude the authors have used a technique that has proved exceedingly effective in their writings, lectures, and counseling service. We recommend self-help books which experience has proved cause a desirable and positive reaction in the reader.
Now in the twentieth century, America has been particularly fortunate in developing a group of authors who have the unique talent to write in a manner that sows seeds of thought which motivate those who are searching for self-improvement to find it. The reader reacts with desirable action.
While some of the books we recommend are out of print, the universal truths contained in them are just as true today as the day they were written. And such books can be obtained from used bookstores or rented from your library.
Again we urge you to read, study, understand, and apply the principles in inspirational, self-help action books, magazines and newspaper articles. Read everything you can find about those who had successful careers in your own field to determine what principles you can use to succeed. Also read success stories about
people in other kinds of work and find the common denominator, the principle involved.
Share with others a part of what you possess that is good and desirable: an inspirational, self-help action book, article, editorial or poem.
Now, that's what Nate Lieberman has done. For many years he was a manufacturer's representative. He had a Magnificent Obsession. Over a period of years, he shared thousands of inspirational books with his friends. And it was Nate Lieberman who made Emerson and Mr. Stone close friends with a gift of Emerson's Essays. And likewise he introduced him to the authors of Suggestion and Autosuggestion, The Law of Psychic Phenomena and Invention and The Unconscious, and many more.