Have you ever started in the morning feeling cross and crabbed? Well, if you did, you probably found that after the inevitable domestic row over the buckwheat cakes and coffee, after you had left your spouse with tears in their eyes, and the children in good shape to get into trouble in school, that everyone seemed to “have it in for you”.
One person on the train seemed to deliberately tread on your foot, and another jostled you. When you started working, everything seemed to go wrong, and unless you pulled yourself together, you had a dreadful day and were relieved when night came, so you could sleep it off. You will always find that there are plenty of people waiting to go into mental partnership with you in such cases. If you are looking for a fight, you will get it. I tell you, friends, that people are all more or less in psychic touch with each other, and the sooner we recognize this fact, the better it will be for us.
This Law of Mental Attraction works either good or bad for us, according to the uses we make of it. If we run contrary to the law, we will be taught lesson after lesson, until we learn something. But if we fall in with the workings of the law, we can reap the benefits that come from mastering and controlling one of Nature’s great forces.
Now, don’t make partnerships of an undesirable kind. If you do you will have to bear the consequences. If you have already entered into such a partnership, it’s important to dissolve it immediately and go through a process of liquidation. After a while, you will have cleared up the old debts and straightened matters out and will begin to do business on another basis.
And I want to tell you right here that you can get into the best mental firms in the world if you only go about it right. They will not object to you if you are a fit member, and, in fact, they could not keep you out even if they wished. The doors will open at the magic touch of the spoken word, backed up by the proper mental attitude.
Cut loose from the old thought associations and form new connections. Get in touch with the right kind of thought‑waves, people and things. Cultivate the proper mental attitude and demand an entrance to the firm you wish. Good individuals are hard to find in all areas of business, trades, and professions. There’s room for you at the top. Claim what rightfully belongs to you and don’t let yourself be deprived of your heritage.
Assert yourself and join that dynamic firm whose signboard proudly reads: “I can, I will, I do, I dare.”
William Atkinson, Nuggets of the New thought, 1902.