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YOU HAVE A SUCCESS CONSCIOUSNESS! - part 1

If you are not happy with your life as it is, you will know that it is within your power to change it to your liking.

Ed Roberts had been a school janitor for a long time. His take-home pay was just barely enough to buy the necessities for his wife and child.

Ed expected to stay in this groove the rest of his life because he felt he did not have the training necessary for a better job.

One day a salesman tried to sell Ed an electric floor-polisher.

"Oh, I could never afford that on my salary," he faltered dismally.

"Why don't you earn more money?" queried the salesman, deliberately.

A thousand thoughts raced through Ed's mind, concurrently. "Yes, why don't I earn more money?" he asked himself. He thought of many Toms, Dicks and Harrys who had no better background that he had, but who were doing far better than he was.

A light began to shine brightly in Ed's mind as he thought of many things he could be doing which were not only more remunerative than what he was doing, but far more elevating.

For several days the remark made by the salesman: "Why don't you earn more money?" haunted him. He was aroused within. Ed began to develop a success consciousness as he de­cided upon an objective—one that he knew he could and would put over. Instead of being always a tenant, Ed decided to be a landlord.

He started out by putting down the few dollars he had saved on a small four-family apartment house. He and his family lived in one apartment and rented the other three. The rent he col­lected not only met all payments on the house, but left a bit toward a new nest egg.

The last I heard of Ed Roberts, he had given up his janitor's job and had just completed the purchase of a much larger apartment house.

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