Choosing Your Goal - If You Can Count to Four

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Choosing Your Goal - 1
How many people do you imagine know what they want to
be in life? How many know what they want to have?
Oh, in a general sense, most everyone has some hazy idea
that they want to be famous, important, happy, successful,
etc., but it was a shock to me to discover that less than 2% of
the people know to any definite degree what they want to be
and what they want to have. 98 out of every 100 have not
done any clear, distinct, definitized thinking regarding their
beingness or havingness.
You may ask the question, why? Why is it that so few have
gotten around to defining their goals? Why so many have
drifted along with the tide of humanity? Well, it would take
many pages to give you the deeper answer, but briefly, at
this point, the reason is that only a few or a where is that
"thinking" has anything to do with what happens to them.
There are a few basic facts regarding the way the mind
functions which I would like to explore with you at this
point in our consideration.
You see, our mind, even though it is one, seems to function
through two major phases. These two phases, we call the
conscious and the subconscious. The conscious phase is the
part of us, which is aware, and is the personal and male part
of the mind. The subconscious is the impersonal and female
part and is not aware.
The conscious phase is the part of us that can say, "I AM."
When you say, "I am happy," or "I am healthy," or "I am
successful," or "I am displeased," or "I am at home," or "I
am sick," or "I am poor," or "I am unhappy." Any such
remark, which means that you are aware of some state of
beingness is the function of your conscious mind.
Our Creator especially designed us so that we can reason.
We can reason either deductively or inductively. But I
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remembered just how difficult those words were for meat
the outset, so instead of calling the two functions of reason
deductive and inductive reasoning, with your permission, I
will refer to them as the "A" type and "B" type of reasoning.
Our conscious mind has the ability of reason either "A" type
or "B" type.
• "A" type means that we have the ability to investigate
any matter, remark or situation before we will accept
it as true.
• "B" type means that we have within us the ability to
accept it as true on the assumption that it is true
without having investigated it.
The subconscious mind has the ability to reason, only
according to the "B" type. It cannot investigate, it accepts
whatever the conscious mind tells it and accepts it as being
true. But once the subconscious accepts anything as true,
even though it may be untrue, it begins right away to
arrange itself so that whatever it has accepted appears to be
true. So it is our privilege to investigate everything that
comes our way, that we may know it is true, before we
accept it as a part of our beliefs.
That's me say with all the strength of my beingness, that I
believe that one of the most important phases of the entire
study of life. Is this phase dealing with the "A" and "B" type
reasoning of the two major phases of our minds. Most of the
misunderstandings of the ages stem from not
understanding how the mind functions in regard to its
reasoning processes.
After much sincere and devoted research in this field, I now
believe that unless one understands the simple ABC rules of
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the way the mind functions, one cannot be sure of anything
he believes.
For example, before a certain period in the history of the
earth, everybody, including the most respected scientists,
believe that the earth was flat. No one had ever investigated
it. It appeared to be flat to everyone. The leading scientist of
the day could give you good, seemingly reliable reasons why
it was flat. Why is this possible? How could these scientists
be so mistaken? He had used the "B" type reasoning and
had assumed that it was flat because it looked like it was
flat. He had not used the "A" type reasoning, which made it
possible to really investigate it.
But just as soon as a Columbus came along and dared to go
beyond what had been done before, and his research proved
that the Earth was not flat, but round, the scientists
announced the new discovery, and then the millions
accepted the new concept on the assumption that they have
now found the truth. But the millions used only the "B" type
of reasoning.
The above example seems to prove conclusively that it is
possible for us to be living on a false premise of values, even
though every bit of evidence which we have tends to prove
that we are right.
But isn't it a marvelous thing to know that now we can take
everything that we presently believe and put it upon the
table of investigation and find out the genuine truth about it
by using the "A" type of reasoning.
Let me say, that in my own personal experience, I have
found that when things were not going well in some phase
of my life, I later found out that it was because I was not
aware of the truth regarding that phase. When I learned the

truth about that phase, things became harmonious and
satisfactory.
Now, due to the nature of the functions of the two major
phases of the mind, 98% of the people do not understand
the way the mind works. They are the victims of every
suggestion which comes their way. Whether it comes from a
friend, a parent, a minister, radio, television or newspapers.
They do not know that, whatever impresses the conscious,
and in turn impresses the subconscious, must express itself
in their lives as an experience.
Each idea of which we conceive in the conscious mind is like
a seed in the vegetable realm. If we believe it, and impress it
upon our subconscious, it is like planting a seed in good
soil. The subconscious is the womb of life, like the soil is the
womb of the vegetable realm and the proton is the womb of
the mineral realm. The challenge is to become as familiar
with the "thought" realm as we are with the animal, the
vegetable and the mineral realms.
In the "thought" realm, the idea concept is the father. The
subconscious is the mother, and the result is the son.
Now, we are all exercising this great law at every waking
moment. Whatever we permit ourselves to give our
attention units to, we appropriate the law of sowing and
reaping in the realm of "thought." Now, since this is true,
we can well understand that throughout all the past, we
have all been giving our attention to something during every
waking moment. And since the law says that we reap what
we sow, we have been reaping, in our daily experiences, the
result of our sowings.
Maybe you will say, "I didn't realize that I sowed the type of
seed that would bring me such a harvest as this." But as I
said before, many of us are not aware that we are sowing,

but it doesn't matter whether we are aware of it or not, we
put the law in motion when we give our attention to either
the lovely or the unlovely and we must reap the harvest
after its kind.
Now we know that we are thinking beings. We also know
that we can think only one thought at a time. We know that
we can control this talk, which searches through our
beingness. We can direct it in any direction we choose. We
can design the type of experiences we desire to express. We
can determine just what we want to be and half, and the
entire universe, with all its power, wisdom and unlimited
resources is behind us to help us attain our goal.
Every man and woman in history, who has received any
recognition, has consciously or unconsciously directed his
or her attention toward a goal of his or her own choosing,
and by controlling his or her attention, he or she invoked
the infinite powers of the universe on his or her behalf.
Every book, it seems to me, that has been written on
success, in recent years, tells the story of Henry Ford,
Thomas A. Edison, John Wannamaker, William Wrigley
and the familiar ones. It is true that the successful
gentleman mentioned have chosen a definite goal, and used
to the principles of success in order to attain them.
However, it is my desire to make it quite clear, that anyone,
regardless of who he may be, regardless of his station in
life at the present time, can discover his goal in life and by
directing his attention to it, can obtain it and live a very
happy, healthy and prosperous life.
It has been said that 98 people out of every 100 do not have
a goal or main purpose in life. That is not true. Every person
has a goal or a major purpose in life. Every person was
especially designed to serve or express life in some

particular channel well. 98 have not discovered their
channel as yet.
The Bible tells us to: "Ask, and it shall be given unto us;"
"Seek, and ye shall find;" "Knock, and it shall be opened
unto you."
Perhaps your goal, at this time, should be to find your main
goal in life. Then ask that you be shown just what your
major purpose in life is. Whom do you ask? Ask God. How
do you ask God? God is infinite intelligence.
The subconscious phase of our mind is the channel through
which we contact and infinite intelligence. When we have a
movement of thought (controlled) in the conscious mind,
the defined ideas contained in our thoughts are impressed
upon the subconscious, which in turn, in its own way, takes
it up with the infinite intelligence and the answer comes
back just as tangibly as a telephone or a telegraph message.
The answer comes back through natural means. Sometimes,
it comes through a person, sometimes through intuition. So,
let each of us, who is still in the list with the 98, get busy
and start asking infinite intelligence to tell us what our "big
channel of service" is.
This works, I know, because I have been working it for years
as casually as writing a letter or making a telephone call.
Now, soon, you will know what your goal in life is. Soon you
will know what you want to be. Soon you will know how to
appropriate all the wisdom, power, material, and
ingredients and anything you desire in the invisible or the
visible realm of life.
Because, when you have learned the tremendous power of
directing your attention toward whatever you desire, you

will begin the type of beingness and the type of havingness
that you have secretly dreamed about all your life.
It is necessary that each of us decide what we want to be
and what we want to have.
Until we definitely decide what our goal is, we will be
confronted with the necessity of making a new decision
every day of what our goal is for that particular day. Each
night, before we go to sleep, we should design the pattern of
our activities for the following day in terms of our goal.
When we do that, the subconscious is impressed and it
works on that pattern all night while we are asleep. Then we
seem to automatically do everything right all day the next
day. The pattern which we design and take to bed with us is
easy to follow the next day.
But, if we neglect to design a desirable pattern, just before
we go to bed, and unconsciously go to sleep with mood, we
will go through the next day with a negative mood.
There is one exception to this. If you have a quiet time, early
during the day, you can use your will power to neutralize
your negative mood, and dynamically outline a positive
pattern, on the spot, for the rest of the day.
1. So, first of all, we define our goals.
2. Then we must develop a strong feeling, or a "white
heat" desire for our objectives.
3. The subconscious responds to our desires to the
degree of our feeling impressed upon it.
How do we develop a "white heat" feeling regarding our
objectives? But assuming how we would feel if we already
were what we want to be or we already have what we desire
to possess. Also, by visiting with a companion or a friend

whom we know will be for us and who will share our joys of
attainment.
Another very helpful technique is to obtain color pictures of
what you want and put them on the wall by your bed, near
the mirror, in the bathroom, and any other place where you
will see them frequently.
May I share a personal experience with you, which will
illustrate a very effective method of building a burning
desire and a consciousness for something new? A few years
ago, while I was in the insurance and investment business,
our company issued a special 6 year annuity investment
policy. Very few of our agents around the country sold much
of it.
For the first three years I was with the company, I did not
sell a single policy of that type. I had no feeling for it. I did
not see its value. I had no desire to sell it and consequently
did not sell it.
However, as an experiment, after discovering the principle
of how my mind worked, I decided to use the principle and
see what would happen. I obtained all the literature
available on this policy, and each night, just before going to
sleep, I read and studied the entire kit of literature
thoroughly. I did that for about 30 nights.
At the same time, I made a 15 minute recording on my
record player and for the entire 15 minutes, I made
statements from the assumption that I was an expert selling
a minimum amount of this policy each week. I played this
recording over and over each night and morning during this
30 day period.
Pretty soon, I began to see why certain men and women
would want to invest their money in that plan. During the

month that this took place, I wrote enough of this plan to
earn $440 in commission.
During the following month, I earned $1200 on that one
plan. I became an expert in presenting the plan to people
who were able to invest large sums in that type of plan.
Note that, before I conditioned my mind, by reading the
entire kit of literature over and over, each night for 30
nights, and playing the recording over and over to myself, I
had known about the plan for three years, and yet had made
no sales at all.
May I suggest to you, if you are selling something as a
vocation, try the above experiment. Anything that you can
devise that will help you to control your conscious attention
is good, that is, if it is honest and does not harm anyone
else.
Many people do the following.
1. They assume that they already have attained their
objective and then plan to dramatize an event which
could only take place if they have already attained
their goal.
2. Then, they play this little drama, and the
subconscious is impressed, because it is implied that
they have are ready reach their goal.
We had a party at our house celebrating my debut on
television about three months before my first television
program. We assumed that we had just come from the
studio and all of us were celebrating my first telecast. We all
were in on the principle, and understood its power, and
everyone was excited and congratulations were extended to
me as though I had given a good lecture, etc.

That was three months before my first appearance on
television, on June 19th. At that time, we did not know just
when would be able to start the series of telecasts. We were
using a known technique to impress our subconscious
minds and developing a definitized, burning, obsessional
desire for our goal. May I suggest that you get some friends
to play the game with you. Have him or her shake your hand
and congratulate you on having become the person you
desire to be or having attained the goal you desire to obtain.
This applies to any quality of mind that you desire to have.
It also applies to any type of expression, you might desire to
experience, such as singing, traveling, golfing, etc.
This also applies to employment. It also applies to the size
of your income. Get a notebook and begin to list the things
that you want to be and have. You can change it as often as
you wish, but you will soon find that your desires will begin
to stabilize and you will soon feel strongly along certain
lines.
Your real and genuine desires will come forth and you will
be one of the 2% instead of one of the 98% who do not
know what they want to be or what they want to have.
Let me challenge you to know that we live in an
inexhaustible abundance in this universe. There is no limit
to what you can be or have, except your ability to dream
and believe in your dream.
"Make large plans, for they have magic to stir men's
blood."

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