THE ONE BIG REASON PEOPLE
DON'T SUCCEED
It is worry. Worry prevents more people -from gaining
their goals and ruins more success, than any other thing.
IF YOU HAVE three wishes if you yearn for wealth if you
are the waitress who says, "Gosh, if only I could marry a
rich man and have others wait on me."
If success is passing you by even though you are using the
Six Steps in this Master Formula, then maybe the one thing
holding you back is worry.
You worry, "I just know I won't be a success." You think,
"I know I can't have health."
Worry makes you old. It tears down your health. It pre-
vents you from going places.
You worry that perhaps you won't make that trip to South
America you've dreamed about, and somehow or other you
don't.
Why?
The Mechanics of Worry
It seems worry is as strong an activator of the will as
determination.
When you worry you set up a chain of negative thoughts,
of negative chemistry, that prompts your subconscious mind
to live up to your negative thoughts.
You fail because you will to fail.
Just as you can will to succeed and set up mechanically
reactions inside the body that move you forward, so can you
set up worry that will also cause you to live up to your
expectations but your worst ones.
Worry is as strong, emotionally, as determination. The
determination to live, we have seen, will often take a
person the doctors gave up and make him live because that
person instructed his body to live.
So can worry, just as strong as desire, set up electrical
impulses inside the body. Guide you to defeat, just as
determination can guide you to success.
Mechanically, worry works just the same as the desire to
win.
Stop worrying and you will begin to move forward.
Things That Worry Us
As I have pointed out we usually worry most about
Poverty, Criticism and 111 Health.
We worry about cancer, diseases of all sorts, of death.
We can, in this way, "worry ourselves into something."
It is like an irritation that soons causes a callus, a wart, a
cancer.
Death is often the big worry of many people, elderly ones
especially. Yet death is a moving forward into something,
not leaving something.
Retirement worries many. Yet if you were to attend the
new retirement classes in factories, you'd see that retirement
merely means going forward into something else not a
leaving behind, but a moving forward.
Death is a point of view.
The man on his natural death bed, the murderer in the
death cell, may have each his different point of view.
Perhaps the most philosophical one was that of the bandit
being hung by the neck who said:
"Now I won't have to worry about money, where to rob,
where to get food, where the next sheriff might be waiting
for me. At last, I'll be free of worries"
He was.
By-pass Worry and Be a Success
Nina Wilcox Putnam wrote her first novel after she had
been given two years to live.
Alfred Nobel was a semi-invalid from the age of 20.
Chopin created immortal music at a time when his friends
called him the "walking corpse."
Edison never worried that he had only 4 years of formal
education. Pasteur that he was not a doctor.
The Wright Brothers were called bicycle mechanics but
that didn't worry them.
Michelangelo painted his best pictures after 80.
Henry Ford and Abraham Lincoln were self-styled "fail-
ures" well that is, up until 40 when they became successes.
Winston Churchill flunked college exams. Einstein's math
teacher said he was a dull student.
John R. Gregg, whose shorthand is taught in so many of
the schools with my sales courses, was also called dull by
his fellow students.
Charles Darwin called himself "ordinary," but that didn't
worry him either.
Don't Have an "Excuse"
Worry is an "excuse."
An excuse for not being something you want, or having
something you desire.
Worry is an alibi.
"If only I had money," "If only I had success" "If
only I lived in another city /' "If only if only if only "
What is your excuse for not being a success?
I'll bet you can't think of an excuse that somebody else
hasn't already thought up and that others have by-passed
to become successes.
How did they do it?
By thinking "how" not "if."
"How" can I prevent my worry. Not, "If I were only
young again."
Success cares not for health or age!
Success Fears the Fear of Worry
