Self Help
This woman sent me a check to cover the cost of my analysis fee,
because she felt that the fee had been earned, even though I did not
render her the service that I usually render my clients.
It is impossible for anyone to foretell what seemingly insignificant incident may lead to an important turning-point in one's career, but there is no denying the fact that these "turning-points" may be more readily recognized by those who have well-rounded-out confidence in themselves.
One of the irreparable losses to the human race lies in the lack of knowledge that there is a definite method through which Self-confidence can be developed in any person of average intelligence. What an immeasurable loss to civilization that young men and women are not taught this known method of developing Self-confidence before they complete their schooling, for no one who lacks faith in himself is really educated in the proper sense of the term.
Oh, what glory and satisfaction would be the happy heritage of the man or woman who could pull aside the curtain of fear that hangs over the human race and shuts out the sunlight of understanding that Self-confidence brings, wherever it is in evidence. Where fear controls, noteworthy achievement becomes an impossibility, a fact which brings to mind the definition of fear, as stated by a great philosopher:
"Fear is the dungeon of the mind into which it runs and hides and
seeks seclusion. Fear brings on superstition and superstition is the
dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul."
LOVE, beauty, joy and worship are forever building, tearing down and rebuilding the foundation of each man's soul. In front of the typewriter on which I am writing the manuscripts for this Reading Course hangs a sign with the following wording, in big letters: "Day by day in every way I am becoming more successful."
A skeptic who read that sign asked if I really believed "that stuff" and I replied,