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“The window to the world is open, so open up your mind’s eye and see.”
Dakota Brian Donley
May 30, 2007
6 years old

LECTURE

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SUCCESS.



Introduction

There are elements of genius in every person that, if awakened and trained, will enable them to do something worthwhile. There are stores of energy and ambition in every brain that if, unlocked and given expression in action, will supply the force necessary to bring things to pass. There are germs of goodness and divinity in every soul that, if quicken by love and wrought into character, will enable a person to live a clean, self-respecting, moral life. Awaken the genius, unlock the energies, quicken the divinity in a person, change them from negative to positive, combine their intellect, energy, and conscience in harmonious expression, and you have given to that person the psychology of success.

Secret: Awakened = Learn (L), Trained = Apply (A), Worthwhile = Teach (T), Learn, Apply, Teach (LAT). This secret will unfold as you keep reading!



What is Success

What constitutes success? If we are to see things alike, we must have the same viewpoint. Briefly, success is the accomplishment of anything attempted. We must get a larger concept of the subject. We must measure success first from the viewpoint of the individual, and second from their relation to society. We must measure success in the individual not wholly by their objective achievements in the few years that belong to the earth life, but in the light of the fact that the influence of their life extends far into the future. We must measure the success of the individual as related to humanity, not merely by their personal influence upon their family, their neighbors, and their age, but in the light of heredity, race evolution and people’s relation to God and eternity. We have lacked perspective in our view of success. Much that we have called success has really been failure. To do much work and accomplish little is not success. To pile up a fortune out of other people’s earnings without producing any real wealth is not success. To acquire wealth or fame, or to accomplish some great undertaking at the expense of health, conscience, or character is not success. To win out in business or profession, yet neglect your wife and children, soul growth, Christian living, or civic duties, is not success. How, then, shall we measure success? By the honest work done (A); by the money earned or wealth produced (A); by the knowledge acquired (L), culture attained (L), and character realized (L); by the joy experienced (A) and the happiness given to others (T); by the influence exerted (T) and the service rendered in harmony with the law of human progress (T).

Secret: Human thinking. This is the secret – Human Thinking Learn (L), Apply (A), and Teach (T). Read and follow DONLEY’S LAW at the end of the book to change your idea/plan into reality!

Remember, anything and everything started as a seed in someone’s Mind!

YES: Including GOD

Success and Soul Growth

If success includes material prosperity, soul growth, and service to others, there must be some way devised to attain all of these at the same time. There is a very generally accepted idea that if one gives themselves fully to their vocation and succeed in material things, they must neglect the spiritual. This idea is fundamentally wrong. The activities necessary for material prosperity, if prompted by unselfish motives instead of being restrictive to moral and spiritual growth, are conducive to such growth. The fact that most people who give themselves wholly to their work become so engrossed in it that they fail in moral and spiritual attainment, is no proof whatsoever that such a result is necessary. It is all a question of motive. The effects of any act are determined largely by the motive that prompts it and the mental and emotional states that are obtained during the activity. If we act from selfish motives, every such activity, no matter how noble its purpose or worthy its end, will inhibit soul growth and tend to narrow and contract the life; whereas, if we act from selfless love, no matter how simple or menial the act, it is conducive to moral and spiritual attainment. One may preach the gospel or engage in the most noble of callings, actuated by selfish motives, and in these worthy activities become narrow, irritable, and spiritually inert; or they may sweep streets and clean alleys for a livelihood, actuated by pure love, the thought of service, and glory of God, and out of these menial activities develop a beautiful soul and ripen a Christian character.

Secret: All success begins in the Human! YOU, ME, HER, HIM, Positive Emotions = Positive Soul Growth! If you are not happy and excited about what you are doing, make some adjustments and become happy and excited!!

Not What, but How

The main object of this lecture is present METHOD. It is easy to tell people what to do and what not to do, but how to do it is another thing. All of the essential elements for success might be mentioned in a single breath, but what good would it do without the knowledge of how to acquire these elements? We are all prone to giving advice that is worthless. For instance: Here is a good woman with the worry habit. She is sick in bed half the time. Her husband says, “If you will only stop worrying, you will soon get well.” Sympathetic neighbors say, “You worry so. That’s what makes you sick.” Her pastor calls and says, “You ought to rejoice. You are a Christian and have nothing to worry over. It’s is a sin to worry.” Her physician tells her that her nerves are all disordered and she is on the verge of nervous ………