Don’t Believe In Defeat

There is no difficulty you cannot overcome.

 

An effective method for making your mind positive in character is to eliminate certain expressions of thought and speech, which we may call the “little negatives.” These negatives clutter up the average person’s conver­sation, and while each one is seemingly unimportant in itself, the total effect is to condition the mind negatively.

 

These are “little negatives” to be sure, and a big thought is of course more powerful than a little one. But it must never be forgotten that “mighty oaks from little acorns grow,” and if many “little negatives” clutter up your conversation, they are bound to seep into your mind. It is surprising how they accumulate in force, and before you know it, they will grow into “big negatives.” The  best way to eliminate them was deliberately to say a positive word about everything. When you keep asserting that things are going to work out well, good results do occur.

 

So to overcome your obstacles and live the “I don’t believe in defeat” philosophy, cultivate a positive-idea pattern. What we do with obstacles is directly deter­mined by our mental attitude. Most of our obstacles are mental in character.

 

What you think about your obstacles largely determines what you do about them. Form the mental attitude that you cannot remove an obstacle and you will not remove it. But when your mind becomes convinced that you can do something about difficulties, astonishing results will begin to happen. All of a sudden you discover that you have the power you would never acknowledge.