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Your Forces and How
to
Use Them
suggested by superior environment should be used in
more superior thoughts. If you wish be a master mind, your thought must always be
forming
to
still
may sugenvironment may be.
higher than the thought your environment
gest, no matter how ideal that Every impression that enters the mind through the senses should be worked out and should be made to serve the mind in its fullest capacity. In this way
the original impression will not reproduce itself in
the mind, but will become instrumental in giving
mind a number of new and superior ideas. To work out an impression, try to see through its whole nature. Look at it from every conceivable point of view, and try to discern its actions, tendencies, possibilities and probable defects. Use your imagination in determining what you want to think or do, what you are to desire and what your tendencies are to be. Know what you want, and then image those things upon the mind constantly. This will develop the power to think what you want to think, and he who can think what he wants to think is on the way to becoming what he wants to become. The principal reason why the average person does the
not realize his ideals
is
because he has not learned
what he wants to think. He is too much by the suggestions that are about him. He imitates the world too much, following desires that are not his own. He is therefore mislead and misplaced. Whenever you permit yourself to think what to think
affected