VISUALIZE TOMORROW, THEN ACT TO MAKE THE PICTURE LIVE

You can’t build the future in the future. You can only plan for it by constructive programs and positive actions today. There is now something for you to take, and something for you to give. Your giving may be only a courteous attention to another man’s ideas, but that is something–in fact, much. When this act of giving and taking is wisely repeated you learn not only that you can produce a constantly unfolding life, but how–which is to some point.


We must be ready to meet the ever changing scene. Surely this has always been true. Does not the art of planning one’s future begin with alert interest in how to overcome the obstacles of today? Tomorrow is new. New ways are necessary in the now if we are to be ready for the time to come.
DARE TO BE YOURSELF
DON’T PERMIT COMPROMISE
USE STRATEGY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE
DESIGN YOUR OWN FUTURE
BUILD ONLY ON YOUR OWN PLANS
DON’T BECOME A PSYCHIC SLAVE
IMAGINATION IS MAGIC WHEN YOU ARE ITS MASTER
VISUALIZE TOMORROW, THEN ACT TO MAKE THE PICTURE LIVE
MAKE YOUR DESTINY OR IT UNMAKES YOU

‘Will is powerless without action patterns. Make clear designs of what you want to do. Make pictures in your brain for your future conduct to follow. Repeat the same picture until it sticks. Habit is master or slave. Make a practice of mental imagery. Your brain is your theater. Make movies of tomorrow on your screen of thought.’

. . . until you reject the many false standards by which you were reared, and write a new Magna Carta of personal liberty, there is no future for you worth bothering about. Take what nature offers you, what nature says you need, whether human ignorance and petty platitudes agree or not. Give only what is natural for you to give, and do only what is true and healthful for your organism, no matter what de¬cadent dogmas stand in the way.

Excerpts from Build Your Own Future (1938) by David Seabury.

Dr. David Seabury (1885-1960), famed psychologist, spent his life striving to help individuals fulfill their responsibilities and discover how to get more out of living. He was the son of Julius Dresser (a Quimby patient and student) but chose to use his mother's maiden name. His brother Horatio Dresser was born in 1866 and in 1884 started the practice of mental healing with his parents. Dr. Seabury legally changed his last name to stand on his own merit. He was well versed in New Thought.