The Seventh Step to Achieving Your Desire
Happiness
HAPPINESS is a state of mind. We are responsible for our own mental states, therefore we are responsible for our own HAPPINESS or unhappines. Yet there is nothing like getting the things you want, and feeling the thrill of real achievement, to make you truly happy.
Reaching this state has often given one more genuine HAPPINESS in one year than had been experienced in a previous fifty years, all rolled together. This Seventh Step is like a seventh heaven of delight. This is the step which rounds off all the others; the end of the story which is a clear blueprint for perfect self expression; a master plan for vital living – the end of a story which can be – which WILL be – the beginning of NEW LIFE for YOU.
HAPPINESS IS A STIMULANT
There are many ways of speeding up blood circulation, but the trouble is that most of them also speed up death. The only safe and sure way is through HAPPINESS. HAPPINESS does many other things; it expands the solar plexus and tones up the whole system.
Unhappiness is an anaesthetic, a depressant; it has the same action on the system as is produced by morphine. It slows down the circulation to the extent that it no longer feeds us properly. Emotional balance is disturbed; to a certain extent, reason or judgment is temporarily marred. This is the state in which, quit often, opportunities are lost. Unhappiness is ALWAYS EXPENSIVE.
There is the Happiness of Achievement, and there is the Achievement of Happiness, and one is as important as the other. HAPPINESS is the Greatest Health Producer, the Greatest Youthifier, the Greatest Enhancer of our Personality.
Happiness TODAY means health and wealth, with more beautiful personality TOMORROW, because every day new cells, new baby cells, are being born in our bodies, and other cells are dying and being expelled from our bodies. These new cells, which are as impressionable as a new-born babe, react according to the happiness or unhappiness of our mind.
This process is going on all the time. Wise, and fortunate indeed, is the man who gives his new cells a happy birth. Welcome them with a smile; and they will irradiate, enrich, ennoble and revivify your life, beckoning in a rosy future.
“If I could only begin all over again!” “If I could only be born again!” are exclamations often heard. Yet this- or something very like it- is actually taking place throughout our lives, for vast numbers of these little entities which compose our bodies die every day, and other parts of us are being renewed. Each of us is a universe of these little lives, part of whose inhabitants die every year, and in which babies are born every year.
You and I are the same; but biological science affirms that not a single cell in our bodies can possibly be more than one year old. Thus Nature bestows upon us the power of perpetual renewal. We are indeed, forever YOUNG, in our bodies.
What fresh and wonderful material we are given by the beneficence of the Creator! We shall use this material, these forces, to the very best of our ability, to honour the great laws of Nature, and to achieve our SUPREME GOAL.
Therefore, START TODAY to impress, train and invigorate the millions of new cells daily formed within you toward Health, Youth, Beauty and Strength BY MAINTAINING AT ALL TIMES AN INWARD SPIRIT OF HAPPINESS.
Dwell, now, upon those wonderful words- HEALTH, YOUTH, BEAUTY, STRENGTH. Are they not worth striving for, with might and main? The germs of all these attributes are GIVEN TO YOU. HONOUR and CHERISH; NURTURE and DEVELOP them, AND SO LIVE GLOROUSLY- HAPPILY- as your Maker means you to live.
Materialization
Whenever we set out to do something, or to get something, we should make it materialize in our lives. Whatever it is you set out to get, get it, then wipe the slate clean of that thing, and set out after something else. If you plant a seed, see that it comes up, ripens and is harvested, sowed and disposed of. It must be FINISHED.
If you dream an achievement, make it blossom; make it real; make it come TRUE. In a famous speech, during the early dark days of World War II, Winston Churchill described his dream for the England-yet-to-be. The speech was addressed to America, and ended with these words: “This is the England we dream of fashioning. Give us the tools AND WE WILL FINISH THE JOB.” The dream was the spur, the inspiration; only ACTION would make it a living reality.
I was brought up on this maxim- “Walter, if you don’t want to finish a thing, don’t touch it; but if you do it, see that you do it thoroughly and completely.” Of King George III of England it was said that he was “all things by starts, and nothing long.” About the only thing the unfortunate monarch did was to lose America for England! When once you set your shoulder to the wheel, LEAVE IT THERE until the job is done.
We are told that birthdays are the milestones along Life’s Highway; this is not so. Birthdays do not tell how far one has travelled, but only how long one has been on the road. The undertakings that we finish- those are the real milestones, and, just as a traveller plans to get to his destination by a certain time, so we should set ourselves a sort of time limit for all our big undertakings, otherwise we will not bring them to completion, or use all our powers to get them finished.
We have too small a programme. Get a big programme and make a fixed time limit. This simply drags the power out of you. HAVE COMPLETE FAITH IN THE DEFINITE TIME LIMIT.
Humanity may be divided into three classes:-
THE SHIRKERS WHO NEVER START;
THE STARTERS WHO DO NOT FINISH;
THE SUCCEEDERS, THOSE WHO FINISH.
You have the tools for the job; but have you what it takes to use them properly? OF COURSE YOU HAVE! Gird up your loins NOW, fix that time limit, and FINISH THE JOB.
An observant penman recently made a similar classification to the one set down above, calling people Clods, Commencers, and Completers. A great distance lies between the SHIRKERS and the STARTERS, but there is only a tiny distance between the STARTERS and the SUCCEEDERS, or SURVIVORS as they might be designated. The STARTER has manifested all the traits of Ambition, Initiative, Energy, Courage, Imagination, Independence, and Industry characteristic of the SUCCEEDER; but- and in that “but” lie millions of lost dreams- he is just a little short of that valuable, essential and very-easily-developed quality- continuity or “stick-at-it-iveness,” as it has been called.
This is the ability to keep on keeping on, which turns defeat into victory; which pulls the sun out from behind the clouds; which makes a man say, even though the breath comes heavily at times, “I AM THE CAPTAIN OF MY SOUL.” If YOU are the indomitable stuff of which SUCCEEDERS are made, you will work on, hope on, fight on. If you are baulked in one direction, you will turn with new heart to another. You will KNOW that, somehow, sometime, you will reach your HEART’S DESIRE
OUR GREAT SUPREME GOAL, we will be travelling towards that all the time, untill we attain it. Nothing less than full attainment brings satisfaction. When our great goal is reached, we will probably progress in line, on a greater scale, and obtain more happiness, more self-esteem, even more money, from the effort.
When I opened in my work, I attained the first stage I aimed at. Later, I realised I had to go further, because I had seen more wonderful things I wanted to do and know, so I set a new GOAL. I did something else.
A man flourishes grandly by struggle, by aspiring always to greater heights. Atrophy begins when effort stops. In life, the effortless things soon pall, because they shred away personality, they lessen joy, they decimate achievement. Good though the reward may be, THE GAME IS WORTH MORE THAN THE PRIZE. Games keep one fit. In the biggest game of all- LIFE- a man must be FIT.
Life is like a stairway. When you reach the first landing, you discover another and higher one to aim at, and, reaching that, you find another higher still. We must give ourselves some kind of programme. Life, indeed, should be a grand progression. When a fine man dies, he seems, even in death, to be reaching out beyond the grave, for the healthy joy of new adventure, new struggle, new and more wonderful achievements.
For such a man, Nirvana is a place where a man can DO things with all his heart and soul, as long as day follows night; as long as the seasons follow each other; as long as the years, the centuries, the aeons, stretch forward into eternity.
Acquired Continuity is always superior to inherited Continuity, for inherited Continuity tends to make one too conservative, too inadaptable. Of course, the way to develop the Finishing-What-You-Start Trait is always to ask yourself, before you start anything, whether it is definitely certain, or reasonably probable, that doing it will directly help you to attain YOUR SUPREME GOAL, to achieve your SUBORDINATE AIM, or to enhance your PERSONAL EQUIPMENT. ANYTHING you WANT to do, you can always DO, for DESIRE is the greatest force on earth.
The WANT is always bound up with a predominant instinct, and a predominant instinct generates its own energy. It is a self starter, a SELF-STARTER that gets your car going untill you reach your goal.
NEVER START A THING WHICH IS NOT IN LINE WITH YOUR LOFTIEST AIMS AND PURPOSES. FINISH EVERYTHING YOU START. MAKE EVERY UNDERTAKING MATERIALIZE.
THIS IS THE LAST OF THE STEPS TO ACHIEVING YOUR DESIRE. THESE STEPS HAVE SHOWN YOU THAT THE BEST SCHOOL A MAN CAN ATTEND IS THE SCHOOL OF SELF-KNOWLEDGE.
Your GREATEST UNDERTAKING IS THE BUILDING OF A PERFECT LIFE. YOU HAVE THE TOOLS- FINISH THE JOB!
Have a fantastic day
Willem Broekers