Law Of Attraction
Likewise, these are the materials out of which your
definite chief aim is formed; these are the things over which you may
become enthusiastic, no matter what your present station in life may
be.
More than twenty years ago I became enthusiastic over an idea.
When the idea first took form in my mind I was unprepared to take
even the first step toward its transformation into reality. But I nursed it
in my mind - I became enthusiastic over it as I looked ahead, in my
imagination, and saw the time when I would be prepared to make it a
reality.
The idea was this: I wanted to become the editor of a magazine,
based upon the Golden Rule, through which I could inspire people to
keep up courage and deal with one another squarely.
Finally my chance came! and, on Armistice day, 1918, I wrote the first
editorial for what was to become the material realization of a hope
that had lain dormant in my mind for nearly a score of years.
With enthusiasm I poured into that editorial the emotions which I had
been developing in my heart over a period of more than twenty years.
My dream had come true. My editorship of a national magazine had become a reality. As I have stated, this editorial was written with enthusiasm. I took it to a man of my acquaintance and with enthusiasm I read it to him. The editorial ended in these words:
"At last my twenty-year-old dream is about to come true. It takes money, and a lot of it, to publish a national magazine, and I haven't the slightest idea where I am going to get this essential factor, but this is worrying me not at all because I know I am going to get it somewhere!"
As I wrote those lines, I mixed enthusiasm and faith with them. I had hardly finished reading this editorial when the man to whom I read it - the first and only person to whom I had shown it - said: "I can tell you where you are going to get the money, for I am going to supply it."
And he did!
Yes, enthusiasm is a vital force; so vital, in fact, that no man who has
it highly developed can begin even to approximate his power of
achievement.
Before passing to the next step in this lesson, I wish to repeat and to
emphasize the fact that you may develop enthusiasm over
your definite chief aim in life, no matter whether you are in position to
achieve that purpose at this time or not.