FRANKLIN SHOWS YOU HOW
CONCEIVE it + BELIEVE it + Take ACTION Now = SUCCESS
Six Year Positive Philosophy Project->Welcome to Year Nineteen!
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Franklin
Franklin
"Use the Golden Rule as your personal starting point, continue by reading and learning from these great people. All the Best to Your Success, Health and Happiness! " bf / gk
Bettger
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Franklin
"Have confidence in your knowledge that the determined tortoise succeeds while the non-directed hare does not. Stay in your own lane. Balance inspiration with persistence, perspiration and patience. Keep your minds eye aimed directly on your target, and then keep moving to it, until precisely what you want is achieved." fb /gk
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"Anything the human mind can believe, the human mind can achieve
Believe in poverty and you will be poor
Believe in wealth and you will be rich
Believe in love and you will have love
Believe in health and you will be healthy"
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
In 1726 Ben Franklin conceived a plan for achieving the following good habits:
TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
ORDER. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
RESOLUTION. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
FRUGALITY. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing.
INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
JUSTICE. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
MODERATION. Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
CLEANLINESS. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, cloaths, or habitation.
TRANQUILITY. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
CHASTITY. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.
HUMILITY. "Imitate Jesus and Socrates.
How did he do it? In Ben's own words:
"I determined to give a Week’s strict Attention to each of the Virtues successively. Thus in the first Week my great Guard was to avoid every the least Offence against Temperance … if in the first Week I could keep my first Line marked T clear of Spots, I suppos’d the Habit of that Virtue so much strengthen’d and its opposite weaken’d, that I might venture extending my Attention to include the next … Proceeding thus to the last, I could go thro’ a Course compleat in Thirteen Weeks, and four Courses in a Year."
Ben didn't work on them all at once. Instead, he would work on one and only one each week "leaving all others to their ordinary chance." While Franklin did not live completely by his virtues, and by his own admission fell short of them many times, he believed the attempt made him a better man contributing greatly to his success and happiness, which is why in his autobiography, he devoted more pages to this plan than to any other single point; in his autobiography Franklin wrote, "I hope, therefore, that some of my descendants may follow the example and reap the benefit."
Ben Franklin's 289 year old gift keeps on giving--the greatest New Years present to you and me. Do you want to try Ben's experiment this year? If Yes all you need is a pen and paper or phone memo (and a little discipline will help too). Write down the 13 items that you'd like to improve in yourself. Then at the end of the day review your behavior and mark one star each time you (for lack of a better word) fail in achieving that virtue. The 2nd week begin again giving attention to your 2nd virtue only. And so on for the next 52 weeks.
All The Very Best for A Happy Healthy Successful life !
-> W. CLEMENT STONE
(c+b+a): CONCEIVE, BELIEVE, ACTION
W. CLEMENT STONE
"Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.”
