MARK THEM WELL! USE THEM! They are TRUTH! THEY WORK!

What is the very first step on the high road to success?

The very first step is to DECIDE definitely and positively what form of success you want. The MORE GOOD a person CAN DO FOR OTHERS with his product, his life, his work, or whatever it may be, the GREATER SUCCESS will that person have!

(1) Never yet has success come, and never shall it come, to any person who simply wishes for it. Mere wishes are idle and utterly impotent unless the wish is great enough to INSPIRE ONE TO IMMEDIATE ACTION. Yes, ACTION, not wishes, is the BIG THING.

(2) Keeping your mind centered on the big success that you "are going to be" will NEVER bring it to pass. You must KNOW yourself successful NOW. So long as one looks upon success as a FUTURE acquirement just so long will success be POSTPONED, just so long will its attainment always remain FUTURE. From the very start one must learn to BACK UP the THOUGHT with the FEELING, the absolute conviction, that I AM SUCCESS NOW!

Since you have now firmly resolved to make a business of acquiring true success in accordance with Life's immutable Laws, you must throw your whole energy into making your mind a center for positive thoughts only, for constructive thoughts only. You are deliberately careful of the words you use. In a word it will be necessary for you to avoid all detours, even though they may appear easy and short.

(1) "Well, WHY doesn't it come?"

(2) "WHEN will it come?"

(3) "MAYBE this is the way it will come."

(4) "Perhaps it is not God's will that I have this."

Success does not come for the one who asks: "Well, why doesn't it come?" simply because he is asking WHY rather than KNOWING that IT NOW IS! And as concerns "God's will" for us His will for us is anything good we may desire. Get your thought right; capture an idea that will prove helpful to many; then DRAW IN CONFIDENCE on the Unlimited Banker for all that you require. You will discover that you cannot keep money from gravitating to you. Herein lies SURE and CONTINUING SUCCESS!

The steps to success are seven in number; and here they are:

(1) Thoroughly make up your mind exactly what you want most right now.

(2) Be certain that your desire has in it the element of good for many. Then ask your own inmost soul for the most perfect idea, or ideas, relative to your desire, ideas that will PRODUCE GOOD FOR MANY.

(3) Make a mental picture of your desire as FULFILLED NOW, and NOW only, making the mental picture complete, vivid, alive with feeling. This is the meaning of Jesus' great statement to "ASK BELIEVING THAT YOU (ALREADY) HAVE." In the mental picture you ACTUALLY DO HAVE (mentally, which is the realm of all TRUE CAUSATION) your desire right now. Once you really get into the FEELING that what you want already IS yours (mentally) you will SOON realize how quickly it grows into actual FORM. Keep out of your mind all fear-habits of thought. Know that fear-habits can be readily changed into FAITH-HABITS. Fear and faith are the same, one being one end of the stick and the other the other end of the same stick. The fear-end of the stick is a SHOVEL and will surely dig the grave of success; the FAITH-end is a JEWELLED CROWN ready to adorn the head of any who will wear it.

(4) If necessary, COMPEL yourself to implicitly believe that the same Power that give you your desire in the beginning will also GIVE YOU THE WAYS AND MEANS OF ITS TRIUMPHANT FULFILLMENT.

(5) Meditate carefully at frequent intervals on the REAL PURPOSE of your desire. This REAL PURPOSE of the desire, or the thing, is the ALL-IMPORTANT SPIRITUAL PROTOTYPE for the thing you want. Also go over the Lord's Prayer very carefully several times daily, it will help you much in meditating more profoundly, and will TUNE YOUR MIND IN WITH THE POWER (GOD).

(6) Every night before going to sleep, and every morning upon first awakening, make a solemn vow to live CLOSE to your God every conscious hour, to see only good in all, to entertain only good and constructive thoughts about everything and everyone.

(7) Frequently mentally see yourself ALREADY ENJOYING YOUR FULFILLED DESIRE. Do this every time you think of the desire; and especially at night and morning, just before sleeping and at once upon awakening, for at these periods the subconscious element of mind is especially amenable to suggestions. In this way you DO ALREADY HAVE your desire perfectly fulfilled (mentally); and if you persist in it you shall surely have it soon in its physical form right in the midst of your life. For example, the great bridge that now spans the Golden Gate at San Francisco was first pictured COMPLETED and IN USE by many in the MIND of its designer before it became an actual reality. But by mentally picturing the bridge as ALREADY COMPLETED and SERVING MANY PEOPLE WELL the designer DREW from the WHOLE UNIVERSE the power necessary to have it actually built.

These SEVEN points are the keys, or steps, to the attainment of real success in any line of endeavor, MARK THEM WELL, and above all other things USE THEM! They are TRUTH! THEY WORK!