This week, I finished reading Og Mandino's "The World's Greatest Salesman", which cultivates the subconscious mind of a person through the narration of ten parchment scrolls, which readers recite over and over again. After a long period of persistence, the subconscious mind will be transformed into beneficial and lifelong good habits.
Through a story, the text tells the story of a shepherd boy named Hefei, who was lucky to get ten mysterious parchment scrolls from his master, and followed the principles in the scrolls to start his own business, and eventually became a great salesman, and built a powerful business empire.
The first part of the book is mainly about the shepherd boy Hefei through the mysterious parchment scrolls, and in accordance with the principles therein, entrepreneurial success story, the middle part of the ten parchment scrolls of the text content, the latter part of the part of the content of the parchment scrolls for each of the combing and focus on the interpretation of the table, with daily and weekly plan reflection template form.
Through the three parts of the text narrative, so that readers repeatedly recite, repeatedly think, repeatedly summarize, through the time of forty to fifty weeks, to cultivate the subconscious mind of each reader, and transformed into a lifelong habit of benefiting, so that it continues to grow.
Next, I will take the ten parchment scrolls in the book and the way of reflection, excerpted, to their own feelings, through the time of ten days, to share out, one a day, for their own practice and practice and readers of the thinking to learn from.
In the yet to be discussed in these ten parchment scrolls, first come to talk openly and honestly, I say, you to listen. If you are in the spirit of unwillingness to accept and try the plan documented in the book,, then you need not read what follows.
Unless you have the determination, perseverance, and courage to follow the program to the end, and spend 10 minutes a day for 40 or 50 weeks, your time will have been wasted.
You're always saying, "I'm not like everybody else!
But is it really different? At the beginning of the new year, how many of the plans you made have been accomplished? You said you wanted to lose weight, quit smoking, quit drinking ...... and what happened?
How long are you going to keep fooling yourself?
Maybe you do have a desire to succeed. The responsibilities that come with marriage, the obligations of parenthood, the desire for a new home and car, and the need to pay off that high level of debt, the realization of all this depends on your own efforts.
But it's not enough to have a desire to succeed, there are two kinds of desire for success, and one of them is false. The person with a false desire keeps telling his family, his boss, and even himself that he really wants to succeed.
He reads all the self-help books he can find, and gets a kick out of reading about other people's successes, just like someone gets a kick out of reading pornography. Unfortunately, they are never able to be there, but only participate in the lives and actions of others in their imagination; they are like spectators, just watching and not doing.
For such fantasists, tomorrow is the greatest day.
Tomorrow never comes.
If one of the words stings you, never mind, we all, more or less, have some of these false desires. We make promises to others, promises that we understand in our hearts can not be fulfilled, only to please the boss or family, hardly realizing the damage that such lies do to our own personality.
Today is your chance to change. Stop making false promises, stop changing your mind, and stop lying to yourself.
As you follow the program provided in this book day by day, you will see discover an important truth: you are the Creator's greatest opportunity. It would take all the internal electronics of the Empire State Building in New York to mimic your brain.
You are unique and one of a kind. You are the culmination of millions of years of evolution. You are far more than Solomon, Caesar, or Plato, in terms of physical ability. You can make life better, life more meaningful.
Today, I begin a new life.
Today, I climb out of the callus filled with the trauma of failure.
Today I come into the world, and I am born in a vineyard where the grapes are for all to enjoy.
Today, I will pluck the fruit of wisdom from the highest and densest vine, planted by the wise men many generations ago.
Today, I will savor the taste of grapes, but also swallow every seed of success, so that new life may sprout within me.
The path I have chosen is full of opportunity, as well as bitterness and despair. There are countless fellow failures, stacked higher than a pyramid.
However, I will not fail like them, for I hold in my hands the charts that will lead me across the rough sea to the shore of my dreams.
Failure is no longer the price of my struggle. It disappears from my life, along with the pain of the bean paste. Failure and I, like fire and water, are incompatible. I no longer accept them as I used to.
I'm going to be guided by wisdom to step out of the shadow of failure and into the paradise of abundance, health, and happiness that are beyond my old dreams.
If I could live forever, I could learn everything, but I cannot live forever, so within my limited life, I must learn the art of patience, for nature's hypocrisy has always been unhurried.
It takes a hundred years for the Creator to create the olive branch, the king of trees, and the onion withers after just nine weeks. I don't want to live like an onion, I want to be the king of all trees - the olive tree - and the greatest salesman in real life.
How can that be? I have neither the knowledge nor the experience, and I have fallen into the abyss of ignorance and self-pity. The answer is simple: I don't let so-called just or experience sharing get in the way of my journey.
The Creator has blessed me with enough knowledge and instincts, a gift that is beyond the reach of other creatures. The value of experience is often overestimated, and when one is old one opens one's mouth to speak more often than not in a confused way.
Honestly, experience does have a lot to give us, it just takes too long. By the time one gains wisdom, its value has diminished with the passage of time.
As it often turns out, experience is rich, and people have little left to live for. Experience has to do with fashion, and just because a behavior is appropriate for a certain time does not mean that it still works today.
Only principles last, and I have them now. The principles that will guide me to success are written in these parchment scrolls. It teaches me how to avoid failure, not just achieve success, because success success is more of a state of mind.
While the definition of success is a matter of opinion, failure is often interpreted in one way: it is the failure of a person to achieve his goals in life, whatever they may be.
In fact, the biggest difference between success and failure comes from different habits. Good habits are the key to success; bad habits are a flash of failure. Therefore, the first thing I have to do is to develop good habits and implement them wholeheartedly.
It's not an easy thing to do, so how do you do it? It can be done with these parchment scrolls. Because in each scroll there is a principle written, which allows you to get rid of a bad habit for a good habit, which allows you to make progress.
It is one of the laws of nature that only one habit can inhibit another. So the first habit I must develop in order to follow the path I have chosen is:
Read each parchment volume in thirty days before moving on to the next.
Upon rising in the morning, read silently; after lunch, read silently again; and at night, before going to bed, read aloud.
The next day is exactly the same. After repeating this for thirty days, you can open the next volume. Each volume was read in the same way for thirty days, and in time they became a habit.
What are the benefits of these habits? Here lies the secret of human success.
As I repeated these words every day, they became part of my mental activity, and more importantly, they penetrated my mind. It was a mysterious world that never stood still, created dreams, and influenced my behavior without even realizing it.
Once the words on these parchment scrolls, were fully captivated by my marvelous mind, I woke up every day energized. I have never been so energized.
I am more energized, more enthusiastic, and the desire to challenge the world overcomes all fears and insecurities. Inside this world of strife and sadness, I am surprisingly more alive than ever before.
Eventually, I would find that I had a way of coping with everything. Soon, these methods would be able to be utilized. Because, any method, with more connection, becomes easy to use.
After much thought, a seemingly complex behavior becomes easy to implement, and there is infinite pleasure in doing so, and with pleasure, out of human nature, I am more than happy to implement it.
Thus, a good habit is born, habit becomes nature. Since it is a good habit, that is what I mean.
Today, I start a new life.
I solemnly swear never to let anything get in the way of my new life. I will never waste a day while reading these parchments, for time never returns, and lost days cannot be made up.
Nor will I ever break the habit of daily reading In fact, spending a little time each day on these new habits is a small price to pay in relation to the joy and success that may be gained.
As I read the words in these parchment scrolls, I must not let the brevity of the words overshadow the depth of the content. It takes a thousand fruits to make a bottle of grape wine, with the skins and pomace thrown to the birds.
The wisdom of grapes is passed down from generation to generation, some filtered, some eliminated, passing with the wind, only the pure righteousness is eternal. They are distilled in the words I am about to read. I will follow the instructions, never waste them, and drink in the seeds of success.
Today, my calluses turn to dust. No one will recognize me as I stride through the crowd, for I am no longer my old self, I have a new life.
Now, do not ask you what you expect from life, I am afraid you can not answer for a moment. I don't want to ask you how much you have now, but just four facts, your present position, your salary, and the position and salary you will have in forty-five weeks when you have accomplished these records of success.
Take out a piece of paper and quietly write down your memo.
Memo to: (your name) Date:
Present position:
Present salary:
Position in forty-five weeks:
Salary in forty-five weeks:
When you've finished writing it, sign your name, put it away, and don't say a word to anyone. Get started now; procrastination is the worst habit of all.
You can start filling out your Success Record Sheet any Monday, and once you start, you can't interrupt it, barring serious illness.
But if you come across a vacation in the middle of executing your plan, then by all means let yourself go and enjoy the relaxation of the holiday. Then, as soon as the vacation is over, continue with the plan.
Now you begin to read the first parchment volume, which will show you how to read the other volumes, as well as the schedule. Don't be discouraged by the simplicity of the text in this volume, **** realize that simplicity and plainness are the keys to success.
Now that immediately starts learning to deal with one of your most persistent enemies, your bad habits. The first parchment scroll talks about ways to get rid of those bad habits. Read it slowly and underline the sentences that you find the most sensible and inspiring.
Start today by telling yourself that you will never let anything get in the way of growing into your new life. Don't waste every day.
The contents of the nine subsequent parchment scrolls are unfinished.