We Become What We THINK About….

July 17th, 2008

6 words….

1 sentence….

True wisdom…..

The Late Earl Nightingale was one of the, if not THE pioneer of the self-improvement industry. He was THE first person to publish what is now called “Audio Books” by producing and marketing classics like “Lead the Field” and “The Strangest Secret”. His rich, deep voice carried authority, and is still recognized today.

When he first started publishing these audio materials, the only way people could play them was on their “record player” on a vinyl 33 1/3 rpm (that’s revolutions per minute) album, as we used to call it. Nowadays, you’d go out of business if you only offered your materials this way. Later he would offer cassette tapes to sell his materials. How old fashioned!

I own both of these series, and I can tell you that they are FULL of timeless information on how to become successful in life. In both series, he maintains that everything that a person does in life to be successful stems from these six words:

We become what we THINK about.

That is his “Strangest Secret”. Fill your mind and you’ll fill your pockets. It’s that simple. Every action we take is a direct result of our thoughts. Every success, every failure, everything we do and say, is a result of our thoughts.

Earl doesn’t even take credit for the concept. He says he learned it from Napoleon Hill in his book “Think and Grow Rich”. And yet he made a fortune selling this idea packaged through his self-improvement courses, which were all based on this one idea.

That phrase is the main premise for this website…that success happens as a daily persuit of acting on our learning. And we learn little by little, step by step, concept upon concept, a day at at time. Success does NOT happen overnight. Nightingale defines success as “The progressive realization of a worthy goal.” The only way this can happen is through filling our minds.

In order to fill our pockets, we have to fill our minds first. Daily. Step by step. That is what this website is dedicated to.

Start filling your mind today. I publish a daily success email which you can subscribe to. Just click on this link to get started in the journey:

http://www.success-a-day-at-a-time.com/successtips

You’ll really be glad you did.

Until next time,

Tim