n every step you take is on the road to failure, how can you hope to
arrive at the success goal?

Prosperity begins in the mind and is impossible while the mental
attitude is hostile to it. It is fatal to work for one thing and to
expect something else, because everything must be created mentally
first and is bound to follow its mental pattern.

Most people do not face life in the right way. They neutralize a large
part of their effort because their mental attitude does not correspond
with their endeavor, so that while working for one thing they are
really expecting something else. They discourage, drive away, the very
thing they are pursuing by holding the wrong mental attitude towards
it. They do not approach their work with that assurance of victory
which attracts, which forces results, that determination and confidence
which knows no defeat.

To be ambitious for wealth and yet always expecting to be poor, to be
always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying
to reach East by traveling West. There is no philosophy which will
help a man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so,
and thus attracting failure.

The man who would succeed must think success, must think upward. He
must think progressively, creatively, constructively, inventively, and,
above all, optimistically.

You will go in the direction in which you face. If you look towards
poverty, towards lack, you will go that way. If, on the other hand,
you turn squarely around and refuse to have anything to do with
poverty,--to think it,--live it, or recognize it--you will then begin
to make progress towards the goal of plenty.

As long as you radiate doubt and discouragement, you will be a failure.
If you want to get away from poverty, you must keep your mind in a
productive, creative condition. In order to do this you must think
confident, cheerful, creative thoughts. The model must precede the
statue. _You must see a new world before you can live in it_.

If the people who are down in the world, who are side-tracked, who
believe that their opportunity has gone forever, that they can never
get on their feet again, only knew the power of reversal of their
thought, they could easily get a new start.

If you would attract good fortune you must get rid of doubt. As long
as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that
will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune
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