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The Power of Concentration
MENTAL CONTROL THROUGH CREATION
LESSON XVIII.
I attended a banquet of inventors recently. Each inventor
gave a short talk on something he thought would be accomplished
in the future. Many very much needed things were spoken of. One
inventor spoke of the possibilities of wireless telephone. Distance,
he said, would shortly be annihilated. He thought we would soon
be able to talk to the man in the submarine forty fathoms below
the surface and a thousand miles away. When he got through he asked
if there were any that doubted what he said. No one spoke up. This
was not a case of tactful politeness, as inventors like to argue,
but a case where no one present really doubted that the inventor's
vision would, in the future, materialize.
These shrewd men, some real geniuses, all thought we would in time
be able to talk to those a thousand miles away without media. Now,
if we can make an instrument so wonderful that we can send wireless
messages a thousand miles, is there any reason why we should not
through mental control transmit messages from one person to another?
The wireless message should not be as easy to send as the projected
thought.
The day will come when all business will employ highly developed
persons to send out influences. These influences will be so dominating
that employes will be partly controlled by them and so you will
profit more and more by your mental powers and depend on them to
draw to you all forces of a helpful nature. You will be constantly
sending out suggestions to your employes and friends. They will
receive these unconsciously, but in case yours is the stronger personality
they will carry them out the same as if you had spoken them.
This is being done even today. A finely organized company secures
the combined effort of all its men. They may be each doing a different
kind of work, but all work to bring about the very best results.
The whole atmosphere is impregnated with a high standard of workmanship.
Everyone feels he must do his best. He could not be in such surroundings
and be satisfied to do anything but his best work.
A business will succeed only to the extent that the efforts of all
are co-ordinated towards one result. At least one person is needed
to direct all toward the desired end. The person at the head does
not have to exactly outline to the others what steps to take, but
he must possess the mental power of control over others.
An up-to-date business letter is not written in a casual, commonplace
way today. The writer tries to convey something he thinks the receiver
will be interested to know. In this way he awakens a responsive
spirit. Sometimes just the addition of a word or two will change
a letter of the matter-of-fact style to one that compels a response.
It is not always what is actually in a letter, but the spirit which
it breathes that brings results. That intangible something that
defies analysis is the projected thought of the master that brings
back the harvest that it claims.
But we should not always claim success for ourselves only. If you
are anxious that some friend or relative should succeed, think of
this person as becoming successful. Picture him in the position
you would like to see him in. If he has a weakness, desire and command
that it be strengthened; think of his shortcomings which belong
to his negative nature as being replaced by positive qualities.
Take a certain part of the day to send him thoughts of an up-building
nature. You can in this way arouse his mental powers into activity,
and once aroused, they will assert themselves and claim their own.
We can accomplish a great deal more than many of us are ready to
believe by sending to another our direct, positive and controlling
suggestions of leadership, but whether a man is a success or not
is greatly determined by the way he acts on the suggestions he receives.
We either advance or decline. We never stand still. Every time we
accomplish something it gives us ability to do greater things. The
bigger the attempt undertaken, the greater the things accomplished
in the future. As a business grows, the head of the business also
has to grow. He must advance and be ever the guiding influence.
By his power to control, he inspires confidence in those associated
with him. Often employes are superior to their employers in some
qualities, and, if they had studied, instead of neglected their
development, they could have been employers of more commanding influence
than those whom they serve.
Through your mental power you can generate in another enthusiasm
and the spirit of success, which somehow furnishes an impetus to
do something worth while.
In concentrated mental control, there is a latent power more potent
than physical force. The person becomes aware that the attitude
of the mind has a power of controlling, directing and governing
other forces. He has been placed in an attitude capable of acquiring
that which he desires.
All of us no matter how strong we are, are affected by the mental
forces of our environment. There is no one that can remain neutral
to influences. The mind cannot be freed from the forces of a place.
If the environment of your place of business is not helpful, it
will be harmful. That is why a change of position will often do
a person a great deal of good.
No person was ever intended to live alone. If you are shut up with
only your own thoughts you suffer from mental starvation. The mind
becomes narrow; the mental powers weaken. Living alone often causes
some of the milder forms of insanity. If children do not play with
those their own age, but associate with only older people, they
will take on the actions of the older people. The same is true of
older persons if they associate with people younger than they are.
They take on the spirit of youth. If you wish to retain your youth
you need the influences of youth. Like attracts like all over the
world.
The thought element plays a great part in our lives. Every business
must not only command physical effort but it must also command thought
effort. There must be co-ordination of thought. All employers should
aim to secure employes that think along similar lines. They will
work in fuller sympathy with each other. They will better understand
each other. This enables them to help each other, which would be
utterly impossible if they were not in sympathy with each other.
It is this that goes to make up a perfect organization, which directs
and influences them toward the one end. Instead of each person being
a separate unit, each one is like a spoke in a big wheel. Each member
carries his own load, and he would not think of shirking. Anyone
working in such an atmosphere could not help turning out his best
work.
All great leaders must be able to inspire this co-operative spirit.
They first secure assistance through their mental control. They
then make their assistants realize the value of mental control.
Soon there is a close bond between them; they are working toward
a single purpose. They profit by their combined effort. The result
is that they accomplish much.
If your business is conducted in the right spirit, you can instill
your thoughts and your ideas into your employes. Your methods and
ideas become theirs. They don't know it, but your mental forces
are shaping their work. They are just as certain to produce results
as any physical force in nature.
The up-to-date business man of the future is going to take pains
to get his employes to think and reason better. He will not want
them to become depressed or discouraged. There is time that instead
of being wasted he will endeavor to have them use in concentrated
effort that will be profitable to both employer and employed. There
must be more of the spirit of justice enter into the business of
the future.
There is a firm I know that will not hire an employe until he has
filled out an application blank. No doubt those that fill it out
think it is foolishness, but it is not. A capable manager can look
over this application blank and pretty nearly tell if this person
will fit into his management. The main thing he wants to know is
the applicant's capacity for efficient co-operative effort. He wants
persons that have faith in themselves. He wants them to realize
that when they talk of misfortunes and become blue they are likely
to communicate the same depressing influence to others. The up-to-date
manager wants to guard against hiring employes who will obstruct
his success.
You must realize that every moment spent in thinking of your difficulties
of the past, every moment spent in bad company is attracting to
you all that is bad; is attracting influences that must be shaken
off before you can advance.
Many firms prefer to hire employes that never worked before so that
they have nothing to unlearn. They are then not trained, but have
no bad business habits to overcome. They are more easily guided
and grasp the new methods more effectively because they are not
contrary to what they have already learned. They are at once started
on the right road, and as they co-operate readily they receive the
mental support of the management in learning the methods that have
been perfected. This inspires confidence in themselves and they
soon become efficient and, finally, skilled workers.
Most big business firms today employ efficiency experts. Each day
or week they are in a different department. They earn their money
because they familiarize persons with very little business experience
with plans that has taken the "expert" years of training
and much money to perfect.
The attitude we take has a great deal more to do with our success
than most of us realize. We must be able to generate those forces
that are helpful. There is a wonderful power in the thought rightly
controlled and projected and we must through concentration develop
this power to the fullest possible extent.
We are surrounded by many forces of which we know but little at
present. Our knowledge of these is to be wonderfully increased.
Each year we learn more about these psychic forces which are full
of possibilities of which we are not even dimly conscious. We must
believe in mental control, learn more about it, and use it, if we
want to command these higher powers and forces which will unquestionably
direct the lives of countless future generations.
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