Getting Acquainted with the Real You - part 2

Articles In This Section:

· Getting Acquainted with the Real You - part 1

· Getting Acquainted with the Real You - part 2

· Getting Acquainted with the Real You - part 3

· ONE WORKS HARDER AT BEING A FAILURE THAN AT BEING A SUCCESS - part 1

· ONE WORKS HARDER AT BEING A FAILURE THAN AT BEING A SUCCESS - part 2

· ONE WORKS HARDER AT BEING A FAILURE THAN AT BEING A SUCCESS - part 3

· THE REAL YOU! - part 1

· THE REAL YOU! - part 2

· THE REAL YOU! - part 3

One night Joe went to bed and, as usual, began thinking about his many creditors and of the threats they had been making regarding his indebtedness.

A tide-turning thought entered Benson's mind.

In one of my earlier books, he had read the same thought which is repeated in this book, to the effect that man is a mind with a body—not a body with a mind.

The statement hadn't meant much to Joe when he first read it, but now it seemed to take on a new significance.

"If I am mind," Benson thought, "I can be anything I want to be. All I have to do is make up my mind what I would like to be—and then be just that."

Throughout the night his mind ran in constructive circles. He thought of himself as he was. He thought of others whom he would like to emulate. He thought of the changes he would have to make within himself to be able to accomplish what he would like to accomplish.

"What is the difference between me and the man I admire— and perhaps even envy?" he asked himself.

"I do not like to refer to myself as being spineless," he thought, "but I might as well face it and admit it to be the truth.

"I shrink when asking others to grant me any request which might relieve my condition, because I feel I will be refused, as, invariably I am.

"The go-getter has forcefulness. He tells others what kind of deal he would like to make—one which will be of benefit to both. They listen to him and, in most cases, do as he wants them to do.

"My actions are guided by my mind. The other man's actions are guided by his mind. Why can't I change my mind to coincide with his?"

The early morning rays of the sun peeping through the openings in his curtains indicated the dawn of a new day.