It Is Well Known That

The Minute That We Change Our Minds, And Stop Giving Power To The Past, The Past With Its Mistakes Loses Power Over Us.

Failure Feelings - Fear, Anxiety, Lack Of Self-confidence - Do Not Spring From Some Heavenly Oracle. They Are Not Written In The Stars. They Are Not Holy Gospel. Nor Are They Intimations Of A Set And Decided Fate Which Means That Failure Is Decreed And Decided. They Originate From Your Own Mind.

Your Automatic Creative Mechanism Is Teleological. That Is, It Operates In Terms Of Goals And End Results. Once You Give It A Definite Goal To Achieve, You Can Depend Upon Its Automatic Guidance System To Take You To That Goal Much Better Than "you" Ever Could By Conscious Thought. "you" Supply The Goal By Thinking In Terms Of End Results. Your Automatic Mechanism Then Supplies The Means Whereby.

Live In The Present. The Past Is Gone; The Future Is Unknown -- But The Present Is Real, And Your Opportunities Are Now. You Must See These Opportunities; They Must Be Real For You. The Catch Is That They Can't Seem Real If Your Mind Is Buried In Past Failures, If You Keep Reliving Old Mistakes, Old Guilts, Old Tragedies. Fight Your Way Above The Many Inevitable Traumatizations Of Your Ego, Escape Damnation By The Past, And Look To The Opportunities Of The Present. I Don't Mean Some Vague Moment In The Present -- Next Week Or Next Month, Perhaps. I Mean Today, This Minute.

Take The Trouble To Stop And Think Of The Other Person's Feelings, His Viewpoints, His Desires And Needs. Think More Of What The Other Fellow Wants, And How He Must Feel.