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ROV N SU C 55 E ODS you've got psycho power!" ff• •• By M. R. KOPMEYER AMERICA'S SUCCESS COUNSELOR has helped millions!" ff• •• "Our LIFE is what our THOUGHTS make it." -Marcus Aurelius THOUGHTS 10 BUILD ON M. R. KOPMEYER BY America's Success Counselor To Millions This is a book of THOUGHTS to build your LIFE on. It is a unique book ... 80 entirely different and unrelated chapters . . . each providing about 10 minutes of stimulating and rewarding reading . . . each starting your own thoughts on a positive course of immediately useful and profitable ideas ... so that you thus may build your life as you want it. It is the purpose of this book to stimulate constructive thoughts, to give your thoughts improved direction and greater substance, to provide the kind of motivational thinking which will enable you to deal suc cessfully with people and problems. THE SUCCESS FOUNDATION P. O. BOX 6302, LOUISVILLE, KY. 40206 x+ When You Bought This Book, You Bought Stock In Yourself! The best investment you can make is in YOU. You can make more money or acquire more of whatever you want-by investing in YOU than in any other investment. When you bought this book, you bought stock in YOURSELF. Nobody buys stock in anything unless he or she has confidence in it. Because, in buying this book, you really bought stock in YOURSELF, you have proved that you have confidence in YOURSELF. Now that you have bought stock in YOUR SELF and proved that you have confidence in YOUR SELF, you have taken the first step in getting whatever you want in life. This book now will tell you how to do it. x+ YOURSELF STOCK CERT IFICATE This certifies that you own STOCK IN YOURSELF This is YOllllr certificate of confirllence in YOllllr .. seH anrll YOllllr agreement to ]begin at once and. constantRy Ulse proven sllllccess methods to get whatever yOUl want as a worthy Rife goat ~.~ Introduction THOUGHTS ... The Building Blocks of Life This is a book of THOUGHTS TO BUILD ON. Why? Because with our THOUGHTS we build our personalities, our characters, our lives. Our THOUGHTS determine what we are and what we will be throughout the future. AU great religions, all great philosophies, aU great thinkers, all great achievers, affirm that we actually are the materialization of our THOUGHTS. The Bible says, "As a man THINKETH, so is he . " Buddha taught, "All (yes, all) that we are is the result of what we have THOUGHT." Wrote the great emperor and philosopher of ancient Rome, Marcus Aurelius, "Our LIFE is what our THOUGHTS make it." Eighteen centuries later, the eminent psycholo gist-philosopher William James, reaffirmed, "Belief (confi dent THOUGHT) creates the actual fact." The American educator, Amos Bronson Alcott, taught, "THOUGHT means LIFE, since those who do not i THINK do not live in any high or real sense. THINKING MAKES THE MAN." So we learn from these great sources of wisdom throughout the ages that our THOUGHTS build our lives and in a very real sense our THOUGHTS ARE OUR LIVES. THOUGHTS are the building blocks of our lives and thoughts build upon themselves, for as George Sala wrote, "Thought engenders thought . . . the more you think, the better you will express yourself." THOUGHTS are the building blocks of PER SONAL POWER. Emerson states categorically, "THOUGHTS rule the world." Clergyman William Ellery Channing wrote, "Secret study, silent THOUGHT, is the mightiest agent in human affairs. What a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward THOUGHT." Henrich Heine, the much-quoted German poet, tumed to concise prose to make it clear that, "The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of THOUGHT." And back to Emerson, who deeply believed in the power-force of THOUGHT, "There is no THOUGHT in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power. Jonathan Edwards emphasized it, "The ideas and images (THOUGHTS) in men's minds are the invis ible powers that constantly govern them." ii Then, in addition to providing the building blocks of life, and in addition to being the root-source of personal power we find that it is THOUGHT by which we attain pel'sonalsuccess. The world-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 (THOUGHT) or attitude is strongly enough held, it actu ally seems to control conditions and circumstances." Dr. Walter Scott, famous psychologist and president of Northwestern University taught, «Success or failure in business is caused more by mental (THOUGHT) attitudes than by mental capacities." Disraeli, «Nurture your mind with great THOUGHTS; to believe in the heroic makes heroes." And clergyman John William Teal, <'It is the habitual THOUGHT which frames itself into our life. Our confidential friends have not so much to do in shaping our lives as THOUGHTS have which we harbor." Isaac Taylor, «THINKING, not growth, makes manhood." Johann Pestalozzi, the Swiss educator, taught, "Man, by THINKING only becomes truly man. Take away THOUGHT from man's life, and what remains?" Confucius, «Learning without THOUGHT, is labor lost." And Emerson, once again, «No accomplish ment, no assistance, no training, can compensate for lack iii of belief (confident THOUGHT)." Then, Henry Ford, "Whether you THINK you can or THINK you can't-you are right." So ... our THOUGHTS determine what we are and what we will be; our THOUGHTS are our source of personal power; our THOUGHTS are the principal means of our successful achievement, and reveal it as Wil liam plumer said, "THOUGHTS, even more than overt acts, reveal character." And, as if all that were not enough, THOUGHTS can bestow upon us the gifts of happiness and pleasures. From the ancient wisdom of Marcus Antoninus, "The HAPPINESS of your life depends upon the quality of your THOUGHTS." Are you lonely? Sir Sidney wrote, "They are never alone who are accompanied by pleasant THOUGHTS." Bishop John Williams advised, "Garner up pleasant THOUGHTS in your mind, for pleasant THOUGHTS make pleasant lives." Another clergyman, Charles Hadden Spurgeon, used to preach that, "Good THOUGHTS are blessed guests and should be heartily welcomed." And Robert South taught that, "Nothing is comparable to the pleasure of an active and prevailing THOUGHT." But, perhaps, the pleasure of THINKING was best expressed by the wise and much-quoted lawyer of iv another generation, John Foster, who wrote, "The pleasant est things in the world are pleasant THOUGHTS, and the greatest art in life is to have as many of them as possible." And so, having focused the wisdom of the great minds of many centuries on the power, the benefits and pleasures of THOUGHT, let us explore, in the chapters that follow, THOUGHTS TO BUILD ON-now-in the exciting, confusing, threatening, sometimes happy, but al ways wonderful, world in which we live. Thousands of years of wisdom, experience and observation have proven, beyond any doubt, that YOU WILL BECOME WHAT YOU THINK. So ... what should you think? If you let your mind drift, it will idly contem plate whatever happens to attract its attention and will set in motion a chain of thoughts, one leading to another to no telling where! Then something else will attract its attention and the first chain_of thoughts will be broken by another und irectional chain. Therefore this book: "THOUGHTS TO BUILD ON." Its purpose is to give your thoughts direction and substance-to channel your thoughts toward rewarding ends. But this book will not do your thinking for you ... because you will become only what you, yourself, THINK. Therefore, this is a very unique book. Each brief chapter (and there are eighty) can be read in just several minutes. Each chapter gives you a different, stimulating