THREE BOGEY MEN WHO WILL TRY TO
STOP YOUR DAYDREAMS FROM
COMING TRUE
They are Poverty, Criticism, and III Health. The worries
about each will prevent you from building your Castles
in Spain.
THE IRON CURTAIN sends out interfering radio waves that
prevent our American stations from reaching the Russian
people with our programs we send about our fine living and
successes in life.
This is known as "jamming."
Three bogey men like to jam our positive thoughts of how
to make money, or otherwise become rich in friends and
health and happiness.
They are the bogey men of Poverty, Criticism, and Ill
Health, and I believe this is the order of their ability to stop
our conscious wishes from entering the tunnel to our sub-
conscious for action.
Just as money gets money, and success can get more suc-
cess, so can fear get more fear to a point where it clogs up the
brain and prevents positive thoughts.
Fear will cloud up the reasoning of people.
It will drive them into mob panics, for like birds of a
feather who fly together, people with similar fears gather
together.
You must do away with fear if you want the Master
Formula and its Six Steps to wealth and happiness to work.
How Fear "Blacks Out" Success
I believe that worry about money, fear of the poor house,
of having to live with relatives in old age, lack of independ-
ence to do as you wish, is perhaps the greatest fear of all
people.
People want independence and money brings it about.
Lack of money means poverty, a potter's grave, having to
ask people in old age for food, clothing and shelter.
This urge for money drives people onward that is, unless
they let the fear dominate their thinking.
Security is the first aim of people, the first fear of what they
might not get.
Hope sent gold miners to Sutler's Mill in 1849; fear caused
the market crash of 1929.
If there is junk on the tracks, fast trains slow down and
stop so get rid of your fears, for as F.D.R. said, "We have
nothing to fear but fear itself."
Desire for Recognition
I believe our second greatest worry, or fear, is that of
being criticised. We fear this. We want, instead, recognition.
Worrying about being criticised will cause your ideas to
crash in that tunnel of Hope, will retard this plan to get you
wealthy.
You must banish this worry. You must not have an in-
feriority complex always trying to assert itself to others.
Know you are good, and you won't have to strut con-
tinually to prove this to others and in the meantime lose out
on your plan for success.
Don't Fear the Bogey Man of Criticism
It gives me a thrill when I meet young men or women who
have struck out on their own and are building businesses for
themselves in spite of criticism from people who said it
can't be done.
During a recent visit to Chicago, I met one of the success-
ful young men in the mail-order business, John L. Strauss,
John, and a partner of his, Hugh Gallarneau, former ail-
American football player at Stanford University, a few
months ago decided to go into the mail-order perfume
business.
By careful testing, they determined the most popular
scents and the most likely mail-order markets.
Then, with only a few hundred dollars, they started their
business. Many people said they couldn't make it pay.
Despite the fact that the sale of perfume via mail has been
a declining field in recent years, success already is on the way
for them. Sales for the first three months refuted the pes-
simists who said it "couldn't be done" in this day of mass
selling.
So, John and Hugh have a new business that takes very
little of their time and that is making a profit.
This is proof again, if any was needed, that careful plan-
ning, backed by ambition, is one essential element of success.
Perhaps if you're discouraged because you think your
own field is too limited you can take courage from the fact
that two young men made a success in a business many
"experts" said was dead.
Don't Fear III Health Use the Formula
to Keep Well
Once you are secure with money, then you want recogni-
tion, after which comes the third greatest thing we worry
about: our health.
What is money without good health? What is recognition
without good health?
So the condition of your health is a big worry that might
further retard your climb to success.
"How, then," you ask, "can your Master Formula help me
to greater health or just keep me from losing my good
health?"
The answer is simple.
A fancy word describes it: "Psychosomatics."
What Is Psychosomatics?
It's a six-bit word that means your mind can and does
control many, many ailments.
You can will away sickness.
I've seen it happen so much I know it is possible.
I don't mean that if smallpox or a strong virus hits you,
you can will it away. When you're sick, you should see a
doctor. But I do mean you can avoid getting many an ail-
ment through the force of the brain.
Powerful thought is often as good in warding off sickness
as powerful x-rays.
There is a force to thought. It radiates just like gamma
rays from a man-made machine.
You can radiate thought and ward off many a "let down,"
that feeling of tiredness that weakens the body for germs to
take over.
How This Works
Remember, nothing takes the place of a good doctor. And
when a real germ strikes, your mind can help but of course
cannot kill the germ.
But here is how the mind can set up the body with strength
to ward off many a germ.
I'm told by doctors that many germs, are in the body at all
times, waiting for the body to let down and give up so that
they can take over.
Now if your body is strong it will ward off many a germ.
Keep them from taking hold.
Doctors in hospitals today will not operate on any one who
says, "I know I just know I won't pull through."
Their thoughts weaken the body. The body gives up be-
cause the strength of the mind has given up.
The will to live is gone. So usually is the patient.
Will Will Help You
"I'm not going to get sick I'm not I'm not!" is good
medicine, at a certain stage where illness is taking over.
I've warded off many colds. As a speaker, I just could not
have one. I felt them coming on. I said I just could not let
down a large audience. I fought off the cold with my mind.
If I had relaxed, given up, resigned myself to the cold, I
would have had it because my whole system would have
relaxed, and the strength of my mind would not have acted
as an antitoxin.
This system will never replace medicines, of course, but
your own doctor will tell you that you can fight off many a
cold, ailment, just like brisk walking walks off lameness.
Are my statements too far-fetched?
I think not. The will can ward off illness just as it can will
you to become anything you want in life.
Will power is the strongest potion against disease we have.
It is self-made inside the brain, rather than in an apothe-
cary's laboratory!
Brew up some will power right now!
Is Will Miraculous?
The oldster who gives up, retires to a park bench in St.
Petersburg, is on the way out
The oldster who says, "Give up ? Me ? They'll have to carry
me off kicking," usually lasts to be a 100 years of age.
He may be 100 in years but he is still 20 in his will!
A youthful will outlasts an aged body!
Determination to walk has often made a cripple stand
up, throw his crutches away, and start off walking.
"Miracle!" people shout. But is it? Yes, it is a miracle of
mind over body!
The secret of all shrines is the will power the shrine sets
up inside the body of the sick person.
When that person sees the crutches of others who walked,
he gains confidence, stirs up his will and off he walks!
You Are Your Own Shrine
Inside your body is a gland that secrets sudden energy for
emergencies.
A wall starts falling on you. You see it. The mind radios
the gland. The gland spurts out energy and you run faster
than you ever did, or you gain that super-human force that
holds up the wall with your very own hands.
That is the power of mind over body.
Over a falling wall.
It works over germs attacking you. In your throat are
many, many germs just waiting for you to give up, for the
body to relax, and then they attack.
Then you have a Pearl Harbor that you brought on.
You can be your own shrine, and cure many an ailment
with the power that the mind creates through fierce stimula-
tion of all your protective glands.
It's germs versus glands! You can't keep germs away. But
you can keep them in place!
Your thoughts will help do this for you.
Time Germs Take Over
If I am to have a sore throat or cold, it is usually after my
speaking tour is oven
Then I relax. I don't give a care, for I have no audiences
depending upon me, and then if I feel let down, Fm apt to
welcome the let down and slump into an illness.
The accident on the highway happens when you relax
seldom when you are alert, with your mind controlling your
reflexes, and helping your eyes, ears, hands, or brake!
Never give up.
"Hope" is nothing but fierce determination not to give
up to any trouble.
The near-blind have warded off total blindness by a deter-
mination that was almost medical in its reaction on the
nerves, and then sight was saved.
Determination has made many a stutterer get over his
difficulty.
Mind can't mend a broken arm, but it can sure give you
inner medication mentally that will help mend the bone
faster.
Your mind can help nature.
Give the Mind a Chance
So give your mind a chance to work with the body.
"I won't die I can't afford to my family my children
what would they do?/' shouts a person the doctor has
given up.
In many cases that person lives on.
"The doctor gave me up 20 years ago/' is an often heard
expression.
Teddy Roosevelt went to the West when the doctors gave
him up, and so did Mayor LaGuardia of New York City
both lived for years and years.
Their minds were stronger than the germs!
Therefore, when you begin to feel ill, upset, if you are ill,
then get the rays of the mind to give forth their benefits,
and they'll help flush out germs.
It is mind over body!
A Chauffeur Gets a Chauffeur
Herbert E. Mueller was a chauffeur, and in such poor
physical condition his doctors gave him up.
Knowing about the power of the mind over the body he
willed himself not to die. He didn't.
He overcame his worry about health.
Then he wanted money. He invented a portable dance
floor that could be put on stages, in your own home, any-
where for a dance. He invented it in his own home. Today
this chauffeur has his own chauffeur.
He overcame the bogey men of Poverty and 111 Health.
Joel Gets Rich Quick
Joel T. Henry, of Decatur, Georgia, said like so many,
"If I had backing money I'd be a success."
Then he disregarded this negative thought. He forgot his
financial fear. He just knew he'd get money if he went at it
right.
He got a little, and hired a couple of machinists such as
himself. They had an idea. Knew how to blueprint it. How
to start it. They made a machine that makes a concrete
block.
Today Joel's shop employs 80 skilled workers.
One of the bogey men in Decatur got a knock-out punch!
Injured Man Sells Over Phone
It doesn't take all three bogey men to jam up someone's
life, for one can do it just as well.
Thirty-year old Ray Freeman, a Korean vet, in Oak Cliff,
Texas, was knocked on his back by ill health.
But he became an appliance salesman, selling his friends
over the phone.
Then he branched out. Now he sells others.
"I was pretty well upset," he told reporters, "after surgeons
took out part of my hip. I got tired of looking at four walls.
So I took up selling from a bed."
He is making a daydream come true by un-jamming the
bogey man of Ill Health.
Bob Christenberry had an arm put out of business while
in the Marine Corps. But this didn't stop him from using
the Six Steps and ending up as head-man of the famous
Astor Hotel, on Broadway.
Gordon Knight got swatted with a paddle at a military
school, and hasn't been able to sit down since, due to a spine
injury. His ideas of being an army man faded, but he became
a "General" in another business.
He started a fine magazine-selling firm, became head of
the Dallas Jaycees Kiwanis and other clubs. He found he
didn't need to sit down in life to become a success using the
Six Steps.
Life Begins at Sixty
Mrs. Marzelle E. Sloan, in Dallas, decided not to be an
old folks, rocking-chair sitter.
She is 81 years old. One year older than Grandma Moses
was when she took up painting.
So at 81 she writes for 20 trade magazines, and wishes she
had time to write for more.
'Wealth," she says, "doesn't make any difference when you
get up in years."
She sure fights the bogey man of Ill Health. She laughs
at him and defies him, in spite of her age.
She has cast aside the bogey man of Poverty. She is making
her own way.
When she joined a Life-Begins-at-Sixty Club, she got criti-
cised for not bowing to her age. She whipped that by youth-
ful determination.
Here's a woman at 81 making her wildest daydreams come
true!
All Things Are Relative
A hobo with $10 is as rich, mentally, as a millionaire with
his second million, for all success is relative.
The man with one leg becomes happy when he sees a
blind man.
Happiness is relative. Happiness is merely contentment.
If you are content you are happy.
Fear also is relative. Some people fear they won't be a
senator; others fear they won't get married.
By comparing your fears with other fears, you often see
that your fear is rather small after all.
Walter Matheny has no worry about money fears. He
helped 5,000 people after the war to recondition themselves,
and comparing any fears he had with those of these people,,
made his fears small.
When the war was over he got a GI loan. He rented an
18-room house on 40 acres in Pluckemin, New Jersey, and
rounded up 36 patients who needed palsy reconditioning.
He got a staff of doctors. They are now putting people
back on their feet, making them healthy.
None of these people had Poverty worries, nor fear of
Criticism they had Ill Health worries.
Walter helps them and in so doing, has become a na-
tional success that isn't counted in dollars but in smiles of
happiness from his walking patients.
A Lighted Soul Dispels Bogey Men in Dark Corners
