It is most appalling to know that 95% of the people of the world are drifting aimlessly through life, without the slightest concept of the work for which they are best fitted and with no concept whatsoever of even the need for such a thing as a definite objective toward which to strive.
No position in life can be secure, and no achievement can be permanent unless built upon truth and justice.
Any definite chief aim that is deliberately fixed in the mind and held there, with the firm determination to realize it, finally saturates the entire subconscious mind until it automatically influences the physical action of the body toward the attainment of that purpose.
Your definite chief aim in life should be selected with the deliberate care, and after it has been selected it should be written out and placed where you will see it at least once a day.
The psychological effect of this is to impress this purpose upon your subconscious mind so strongly that it accepts the purpose as a pattern or blueprint that will eventually dominate your activities in life and lead you, step by step, toward the attainment of the object behind that purpose.
The principle of psychology through which you can impress your definite chief aim on your subconscious mind is autosuggestion, or suggestion that you repeatedly make to yourself. It is a degree of self hypnotism, but do not be afraid of it, for it was through the aid of this same principle that napoleon lifted himself from the lowly station of poverty to the dictatorship of France.
Auto Suggestion
you need have no fear of the principle of autosuggestion as long as you are sure that the objective for which you are striving is on that will bring you happiness of an enduring nature. Be sure that your definite purpose is constructive; that its attainment will bring hardship and misery to no one; that it will bring you peace and prosperity. Then apply, to the limit of your understanding, the principle of self suggestion for the speedy attainment of this purpose.
The subconscious mind may be likened to a magnet, when it has been vitalized and thoroughly saturated with any definite purpose, it has a decided tendency to attract all that is necessary for the fulfillment of that purpose.
Like attracts like, and you may see evidence of this law in every blade of grass and every growing tree. The acorn attracts from the soil and the air the necessary materials out of which to grow an oak tree. It never grows a tree that is part oak and part poplar.
Every grain of wheat that is planted in the soil attracts the materials out of which to grow a stalk of wheat. It never makes mistakes and grows both oats and wheat on the same stalk.
People, too , are subject to this same law of attraction. Go into any cheap boarding house district in any city there you will find people of the same general trend of mind associated together. Or go into any prosperous community and there you will also find people of the same general tendencies associated together. Those who are successful always seek the company of others who are successful, those who are on the ragged side of life always seek the company of those who are in similar circumstances. "Misery loves Company."
Water seeks its level with no finer certainty than we all seek the company of those who can occupy our own general status financially and mentally.
Oil and water will mix about as readily as will people who have nothing in common.
You will attract to you people who harmonize with your own philosophy of life, whether you wish it or not.
This being true, can you not see now the importance of vitalizing your mind with a definite chief aim that will attract to you the people who will be of help to you and not a hindrance? Suppose your definite chief aim is far above your present station in life. What of it? It is your privilege -in fact it is your duty - to aim high in life you owe it to yourself, and to the community of which you live, to set a high standard for yourself.
There is much evidence to justify the belief that nothing, within reason, is beyond the possibility of attainment by the person whose definite chief aim has been well developed.
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