Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude

People are not race horses, but this story is reminiscent of far too many men who, in the boom years of the 1920's, started off with a wonderful attitude of success. They achieved financial success, and then, when the Depression struck in 1930, they experienced defeat. They were crushed. Their attitude changed from positive to negative. Their talisman flipped to the side that read NMA. They stopped trying. They, like John P. Grier, became "has-beens."

Some people seem to use PMA pretty much all the time. Others start and then quit. But others ? the vast majority of us ? have never really begun to use the tremendous powers available to us.

What about us? Can we learn to use PMA, as we've learned other skills?

The answer, based on our years of experience, is a definite yes.

This is the subject of this book. In the chapters that follow we will show you how it can be done. The effort to learn will be worth it because PMA is the essential ingredient in all success.

Meet the most important living person. The day you recognize PMA for yourself is the day that you will meet the most important living person! Who is he? Why, the most important living person is you, as far as you and your life are concerned Take a look at yourself. Isn't it true that you carry with you an invisible talisman with the initials PMA emblazoned on one side and NMA on the other? What exactly is this talisman, this force? The talisman is your mind PMA is a Positive Mental Attitude.

A Positive Mental Attitude is the right mental attitude. What is the right mental attitude? It is most often comprised of the "plus" characteristics symbolized by such words as faith, integrity, hope, optimism, courage, initiative, generosity, tolerance, tact, kindliness and good common sense. A person with positive mental attitude aims for high goals and constantly strives to achieve them.

NMA is a negative mental attitude. It has opposite characteristics to PMA.

After years spent studying successful men, the authors of Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude have come to the conclusion that a positive mental attitude is the one simple secret shared by them all.

It was PMA that helped S. B. Fuller overcome the disadvantages of poverty. It was PMA that motivated Tom Dempsey, despite his crippled leg, to kick the longest field goal ever kicked in a professional football game. And it was certainly a positive mental attitude that enabled Henry J. Kaiser to build a Liberty Ship every ten days. It was Al Allen's ability to turn his talisman right-side-up that motivated him to return to his prospects ? the very ones who had refused him the day before ? and set a new sales record.

Do you know how to make your invisible talisman work for you? Perhaps you do: perhaps you don't. Perhaps you have developed and strengthened your PMA until life is bringing you every worthwhile wish. But if you haven't, you can and will learn the techniques whereby you can release your power of PMA through its magic in your life as you continue to read this book.

A positive mental attitude, what it is, and how it may be developed and applied, is described throughout this book. It is the

one essential principle of this book's Seventeen Principles for achieving worthwhile success. Achievement is attained through some combination of PMA with one or more of the other sixteen success principles Master them. Begin applying each of them as you recognize them while reading Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude, When you make each principle a part of your life, yours will be a positive mental attitude in its most powerful form. And the payoff will be success, health, happiness, wealth, or whatever definite aims you may have in life. These will be yours ? provided you don't violate the laws of Infinite Intelligence and the rights of your fellow men. Such violations are the most repellent forms of NMA.

In Chapter Two you will find the formula by which you may keep your mind positive. Master that formula; apply it in all that you do and you will be on your way to the attainment of your every desire.

PILOT NO. 1 Thoughts to Steer By

1. Meet the most important living person! That person is you. Your success, health, happiness, wealth depend on how you use your invisible talisman. How will you use it? The choice is yours.

2. Your mind is your invisible talisman. The letters PMA (positive mental attitude) are emblazoned on one side, and NMA (negative mental attitude) on the other. These are powerful forces. PMA is the right mental attitude for each specific occasion. It has the power to attract the good and the beautiful. NMA repels them. It is a negative mental attitude that robs you of all that makes life worth living.