The Strangest Secret, Earl Nightingale
3/8/08
Earl Nightingale’s audio presentation of the Strangest Secret may be one of the most profound things one can experience and at the same time began the “motivational self-help” movement so many years ago.
He starts by explaining how man has stopped thinking. Then he defines success as “progressive realization of a worth ideal.” and explains to achieve this “we must control our thinking.” It is that focus on one solid foremost goal that allows one to achieve that which he desires. Those concepts are hugely powerful. To understand success and then understand how to achieve it is the key to enjoying life. Everything else is taken care of when these ideals are held strong and steady.
Notes:
- The Trouble is conformity
- Man who succeeds – “I’m going to do this and then does it” he decided to do it, deliberately.
- The key is to have a goal.
- We become what we think about. “Believe and succeed”
- Decide what you want
- Each of us is the sum total of our thoughts
- We are where we are because it is where we want to be, admit it or not
- “We must control our thinking”
- Why do you go to work? Successful people are working to a goal and doing what they want to do.
- Focus is key, you can’t wish for 100 other incompatible things equally and as strongly
- “As ye believe so shall it be done unto you” – Jesus Christ
- Make a goal card and carry it for each block of 30 days
- Look at the abundance around you
- Stop and think about what you fear, replace it with a positive goal
- Five of yourself more
- Go with this goal for 30 days; go as hard as you can. Act as though it were impossible to fail
- Goal Cards should have the sermon on the mount on one side and the goal on the other
- Don’t worry
- Success is in direct proportion to our service
