How to Make Success Automatic - If You Can Count to Four

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It is possible to make success automatic.
Basically, success is founded upon the type of thoughts
which we permit ourselves to entertain from moment to
moment. These thoughts are controlled by habit pattern.
Once this pattern is established and our thoughts become
an automatic process based upon these patterns which we
have developed because of our own desires, it is possible
for us to establish sufficient success patterns in the
subconscious mind so that we automatically think the
proper thoughts that will make us say the right thing, do
the right thing and will make us automatically successful.
The majority of the people of the world are constantly
thinking thoughts automatically as a result of habit patterns
which they have developed because of the total of their past
experiences. The result of the size and the quality of the
thoughts they are thinking, because of this automatic
mechanism, is causing them to not enjoy as large a measure
of happiness, health and prosperity as they desire.
This is because the majority of the people are not aware of
the fact that they are thinking beings and that they are
thinking constantly and they are thinking one thought at a
time. They are not aware of the fact that they can control
this one thought, and they are not aware of the fact that
they are what they are at the present time because of the
type of thoughts they have permitted themselves to think.
They are not aware that they can be anything they want to
be by learning to control these thoughts. This whole idea of
being aware of the fact that we are thinking beings is not
known by very many people.
Consequently, they have permitted themselves to think
unlovely thoughts, limited thoughts, unhealthy thoughts,
and they have stored in the abundance of these habit
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patterns, which are causing them to think their present
thoughts, and consequently they are experiencing an
inadequate expression of health, happiness and prosperity.
This great law, which I would like to refer to as the law of
cosmic habit force or the law of habit, creates the whole
universe. Every phase of expression in the entire universe
operates according to this law of habit. Every phase of
intelligence in the universe operates on the premise of the
law of cosmic habit force.
This means that once a pattern is formed and is repeated
enough time for it to become well established, it will
automatically operate in that orbit of expression, unless it is
consciously changed by a new decision upon it by the
individual himself.
For example, it was my pleasure, a few years ago, to become
personally acquainted with a man who had played
basketball on one of the professional teams. I believe the
name of the team was the Celtics. It was interesting for me
to visit with him and to hear him tell of the long hours of
training, in which he had to engage in order to develop the
type of proficiency that was necessary in order to play on
this great team.
He told me of the hours and hours each day that he would
stand in a certain position, on the basketball court, and
would turn and throw the ball into the basket. He did this
many time and do it blindfolded and would almost never
miss a basket. Consequently, after having developed a
strong habit pattern so that his proficiency would be to a
very fine point when he was engaged in a game, the play
would seem to be automatic, and it was much easier for him
to shoot the basket correctly than incorrectly.
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Also, I saw a movie a few years ago that showed a man and
his wife in a carnival act. The man would take swords or
daggers and, from a distance of 10 or 15 feet, would throw
them at his wife who was standing up against the wall. He
would literally wrap his wife up with these daggers,
throwing them and sticking them in the wall, just a fraction
of an inch from her body.
As the story progressed, it showed that the wife had proved
to be unfaithful to her husband and he became quite angry
with her. So he decided to use one of these daggers in the
show to kill her and instead of throwing it into the wall, just
inches from her heart, he was going to throw it into her
heart.
But, it portrays in the picture that, because he had been
doing this so long, and had thrown these daggers so many
thousands of times, he had developed such efficiency, based
upon this law of habit, that he could not break that law. He
could not cause the dagger to go into her heart. It would go,
automatically, to the same spot where he had thrown it so
many thousands of times before.
Isn't it interesting to know that we can design the type of life
that we desire to live, that we can design the type of things
that we desire to have and we can give our attention to these
things so many times and control our attention and direct
our attention on the assumption that we already are what
we want to be and we already have what we want to have,
until we automatically think these thoughts constantly, and
by so doing, we appropriate the great law of appropriation
of the great inexhaustible universe and can we realize our
objectives automatically?
So the important thing for each of us to become particularly
aware of is that there is such a law, and that this law is
available for each one of us to use.

This is not a special privilege for just a certain few in the
world, but because we are human beings and because we
have a conscious mind and a subconscious mind and our
thinking processes function according to an exact science,
an exact set of rules and laws, just as tangible as electricity,
chemistry, or mathematics and that these laws are available
to us, we can learn to use them constantly, whether we are
aware of it or not.
In fact, we must realize that at this moment we are a bundle
of habits. Everything we do spontaneously, without giving
our conscious attention to it, comes as a result of a habit
pattern that is stored in the subconscious. We are so
familiar with this law of habit, in certain respects, that we
overlook its profound power and possibilities.
We overlook the fact that we can appropriate this simple
law, and by appropriating it can direct our attention to it
and control it and make it a habit. By so doing we can be the
type of person that we want to be and have the things that
we want to have.
Think how wonderful it would be to be able to be a person
of poise and self- confidence, a person who feels
comfortable in every situation in life, socially and in
business and in all human relations, to have entertained a
proper thoughts, so many times, under all of these various
conditions, that we automatically react to every situation
with love and kindness and humility, to be able to say the
right thing at the right time, and think the right thoughts at
the right time and do the right thing at the right time on
every possible occasion. We can do those things by
appropriating this wonderful law of habit.
Many years ago, before I understood this law as thoroughly
as I do at the present time, I read an article in a magazine.

The title of it was: "You can completely change your life in
just 30 days." At the time my life certainly needed changing,
and the title of that article appealed to me so I read it
thoroughly. It had a very simple but profound message.
The lady who wrote the article merely said that if you were
to decide, at the beginning of 30 days, the type of person
that you would like to be, the type of life that you would like
to be living, that by directing your thoughts on the
assumption that you already were that type of person, in
just 30 days, you would actually be that type of person.
Each day she gave some simple little suggestions regarding
some exercises that would help to control one's attention.
She suggested that we write down, in a notebook, in words
which were meaningful to us, what we wanted to be, so that
if anyone else would come along and read the note book,
they would get a distinct mental picture of what we had in
mind.
She suggested that we dramatize this new concept of
ourselves by enacting little dramas with a close, trusted
friend from the standpoint of our dream fulfilled. In other
words, we would assume that we are already the type of
person that we want to be and we would imagine some little
event which could happen only if we have attained our
objective. Then we should ask a trusted friend to help us
dramatize this little event on the assumption that we had
already attained our objectives.
She suggested that if we would do this it would recondition
the old habit pattern and condition the new habit pattern in
the subconscious until we would feel natural in the new
concept of ourselves. Hence, within 30 days, we would have
uprooted the old habit pattern, which was causing us to live
in undesirable type of life and we would be living the
desirable type of life which we have designed ourselves.

That was a very challenging article. I will remember it as
long as I live. It has meant a great deal to me in the last 10
years.
I am sure that everyone understands that a child, from the
time it is born, all the way through its growing period,
appropriates this law constantly. It is particularly true when
it learns to walk. All of us have watched a child trying to
take its first step.
The first thing that happens is that the child observes an
adult walking, and it stirs within its heart a desire to imitate
the adult. The child imagines itself walking like an adult. It
attempts to take its first step, but, of course, there are no
tracks in the subconscious, there are no patterns upon
which the thought can travel, so the child stumbles and
falls.
However, cost of a burning desire to learn how to walk it
gets up and tries again and again in each effort establishes a
little deeper track in his subconscious. Pretty soon, after
many efforts, the child finds that he can walk all the way
across the room and then begins to walk constantly, day
after day, and soon he can walk all over the house. Soon
walking is no longer a problem.
The average observer says it is just a habit. Actually, what
happened is that a brand-new track was built in the
subconscious mind. The average observer is not aware that
the of the fact that he has just watched an example of one of
the greatest principles in the whole universe, a principle
which, once understood intimately and on a basis where the
individual can appropriate it in his own individual life, will
make it possible for him to design the type of life that he
would like to live and by making every effort to be this type
of person, over and over again, hundreds and hundreds of

times, one day he will suddenly realize he actually is the
person he dreamed that someday he would be.
As I said, everyone has a certain idea of the law of habit, but
a majority of people take it for granted. I would like to
describe this idea so effectively that you will thoroughly
understand it and will be able to be the type of person you
want to be and you can have the things you want to have,
automatically.
Let's challenge ourselves to use this great principle to cause
ourselves to be the ideal type of person. I am thinking now
of the quality of kindness. Kindness is a quality of love.
Even in the sacred writings it is recorded that love suffereth
long and is kind.
Love is kind. Each one of us who understands the law of
love reacts kindly to every person and to every situation.
Consider the difference in the individual who has
appropriated this great law of habit so that he habitually
and spontaneously responds to every situation with an
attitude of extreme kindness.
Compare this person with the one who has unconsciously
made it a habit to be unkind or to be critical or sarcastic or
crude in any fashion. I am sure we can recognize the
possibilities and the challenge of using this great law to
become a habitually kind person instead of an unlovely
person.
I am also thinking of the quality which is commonly
referred to in the world today as positive thinking. Think
what a tremendous challenge it is to make a habit to always
entertain positive thoughts.
A positive thinking person is one who has made a habit of
always seeing the good in every situation. I believe that
when one is able to see the ultimate truth in every situation

he will always see the good in it. One who has developed
this habit of positive thinking always sees the beauty in
every situation, and the true and the desirable. He always
reacts, not only with kindness, but with enthusiasm and
with a positive feeling of joy and peace and understanding.
On the other hand, it seems that many people in the world
constantly react negatively to situations in life is a matter of
habit. They see that which seems to be inadequate in each
situation. They react critically and they have the attitude of
fault finding as a matter of habit. They do not realize that
what they see in any situation and in each person is not
really the true situation. They are seeing what they are
because they are seeing through their own experiences
which are stored in the subconscious.
We do not see with the natural physical eye, it is only an
instrument of the seer. The seer is the subconscious, which
is our being. Solomon of old said that, "As a man thinketh in
his heart," or the subconscious mind, "so is he." This means
that he is what he is because of what he thinks in the
subconscious mind, and I am what I am because of what I
think and have stored as habit patterns in my subconscious
mind and you are what you are because of the sum total of
your habit patterns in the subconscious and whatever we
are makes it possible for us to see what we see in every life
situation.
However, most people are still operating under the false
illusion that they actually see what is in that situation,
instead of knowing they see only what they are capable of
seeing, based upon their experience and the habit patterns
of their subconscious mind. It is a tremendous discovery to
be able to use this great law of habit and to know that when
we observe things on the outside of us, we see what we are
instead of what really is.

Let's challenge our cells not to definitize the type of person
we want to be. We want to be a kind person. We want to be
a person of wisdom. We want to have the qualities humility,
courage, faith, enthusiasm and the capacity to enjoy life as a
matter of habit.
We want to see the good, the true and beautiful in life. We
want to see the abundance in the universe and we want to
express this abundance. In other words, we want to live an
abundant life, in a large way, because there is an unlimited
supply of everything in this universe, not only of wisdom,
joy and peace, but also an abundance of the material things.
There is a law by which all of these wonderful things can be
appropriated in this law operates on a thought pattern. We
are thinking beings, and we can appropriate this law of
beingness, and consequently, we can appropriate unlimited
abundance. The only limit of our appreciation is our own
concept of ourselves and our concept of our desires.
We are the designers of our own experience. Our thoughts
do not recede into the past, they advance into our future
and become our daily experiences as they arrive.
So let us realize that the law habit is not something that we
should take for granted. It is something that we should
appropriate.
Let me review very briefly.
• Decide exactly what you want to be and decide
exactly the things you want to have.
• Definitize them by writing them down and go over
them hundreds of times in your thought processes.
• Think about the things you want to be, and the things
you want to have, until habit patterns are

established, in the subconscious, in the form of
tracks upon which the thoughts can function.
• Then, when you feel natural in this new concept of
what you want to be and what you want to have, it is
yours.
This law habit is a challenge, and by the proper
appropriation of it, you can be anything you want
to be and you can have anything you want to have.

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