Why few succeed and many fail E-Book

R. A. Richardson

• Herausgeber: David De Angelis
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

We all know many men and women who have had no financial backing, who have gone to the top of the ladder, and have been successful in not only making themselves happy and contented in life but have made many others happy; have not only made fortunes for themselves, but have made fortunes for others. We also know people who have been handicapped by ill health and still they have lived very successful lives, and greatly improved their health, their circumstances, their environment, and the environment and success of others. We know many who have had wonderful educations, but have made absolute failures. Others have had no education, and still they have been wonderfully successful.
No matter what your condition is, or where you are, get rid of self pity. This one thing will hold you back more than anything else I know. The majority of the biggest failures I have known have been afflicted with self pity. Get the idea out of your mind completely that you need help. What you really need and what every successful man or woman needs, is to learn how to help themselves. No one can say that he is successful physically, morally, mentally or financially, so long as he is dependent on any one else. He is just a miserable Parasitic failure. One cannot claim that he is successful until he has acquired health, happiness, prosperity and spiritual understanding.

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Why few succeed and many fail

R. A. RICHARDSON

Edition 2022 by ©David De Angelis

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DEDICATION

FOREWORD

DEDICATION

This book is gratefully dedicated to those students who are constantly seeking and searching for more information on the subject of health, happiness and success.

FOREWORD

The title of this book, "Why Few Succeed and Many Fail," naturally makes you wonder why the author would think himself capable of answering this question. To begin with, the author has supported himself since the age of twelve, due to the fact that he had to work his own way through colleges of optometry, ophthalmology, osteopathy and surgery, without the aid of parents or friends, thus giving him a wide experience with people in many walks of life. During his vacation each season he sold different kinds of merchandise, everything from soup to automobiles, including insurance, stocks, farm lands, city real estate, in fact anything at which he could make a living during his vacation and after school hours. For these reasons you can rest assured that the information contained in this book will be of practical value and not a few printed pages of theory. The author's wide travel in foreign countries as well as all parts of America gives him first-hand information as to why people in all walks of life fail, and why very few have been successful.

You have often heard it said that people cannot be successful until they learn to concentrate. Also that people cannot be successful unless they have financial backing. That people cannot be successful unless they have health. That they cannot be successful without education. All of these are false, and within the pages of this book, I propose to show you why they are false.

In the first place, you have no doubt seen many professors, many artists, and others too numerous to mention, who have been wonderful concentrators, who have devoted all of their time and attention religiously and faithfully to one thing, yet these same people have been miserable failures.

We all know many men and women who have had no financial backing, who have gone to the top of the ladder, and have been successful in not only making themselves happy and contented in life but have made many others happy; have not only made fortunes for themselves, but have made fortunes for others. We also know people who have been handicapped by ill health and still they have lived very successful lives, and greatly improved their health, their circumstances, their environment, and the environment and success of others. We know many who have had wonderful educations, but have made absolute failures. Others have had no education, and still they have been wonderfully successful.

No matter what your condition is, or where you are, get rid of self pity. This one thing will hold you back more than anything else I know. The majority of the biggest failures I have known have been afflicted with self pity. Get the idea out of your mind completely that you need help. What you really need and what every successful man or woman needs, is to learn how to help themselves. No one can say that he is successful physically, morally, mentally or financially, so long as he is dependent on any one else. He is just a miserable Parasitic failure. One cannot claim that he is successful until he has acquired health, happiness, prosperity and spiritual understanding.

Many of our big financial successes are absolute failures, for the reason that all of their time has been devoted to the acquiring of wealth. They have watched their business grow from nothing to millions, having given devoted attention to the minutest details; and on the other hand have absolutely ignored the care of their physical body, so that when they have reached the top of the ladder of finance they find themselves in ill health. They have labored under the impression that with wealth they could buy anything, but at last they find that money will not buy health. These same men have been told this truth before, but were too busy to realize it.

A millionaire, who attended one of my lectures, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and who was a young man, fifty-two years of age, came and told me that he would be willing to give every dollar he owned if he could be restored to health, and add just another fifteen or twenty years to his life. This man openly admitted that he had ignored completely all the rules of health. He had labored under the impression that because his father had lived to the age of ninety he could do the same thing. This millionaire had failed to learn the one lesson, that, "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy," is not a fable, but is a fact.

The human machine cannot and will not perform its functions when held in a state of tension. It must have relaxation. A man who cannot play as well as work, is a failure. If he is not already in the hands of a physician, or in a sanitarium, it is because he has not used up all of his reserve energy. He is facing nervous bankruptcy, and does not know it. He naturally tells you each day that he never felt better in his life. He has learned to say this and be optimistic, the same as he has in his business. Therefore many people fail because they have never learned how to divert their attentions. Their concentration has been in one direction, and the disintegration of their physical body has been the result.

When a man reads the same literature, the same class of books, he becomes tense and hardened to these things, and just so sure as he does, his glands of internal secretion change, all of the organs of his body change their function, and regardless of how careful he is about his diet, his food will not digest. He can sleep only when he is exhausted, but his rest is never profound. He works his problems all night long. Is it any wonder his human machine fails him? He wouldn't think of treating his automobile or the machinery at his factory this way. He knows these machines must have oil to keep their parts working, they must be kept free of grit, dust and other substances, which tend to wear them away; but he allows his human machine to become clogged and congested; he allows waste material to remain inside to decay and form a poison that eats its way through the tissues, finding its way into the heart, the liver, the lungs, and into the joints of the body, his blood stream carrying it on and on until it finds some point of least resistance. If the eyes are the point of least resistance, then they are the first to give way. If the kidneys or the heart happen to be the point of least resistance, they give way, because they are not strong enough to throw off this poisonous substance.

Foolish man, he now goes to a heart specialist, an eye specialist, or a kidney specialist, whichever the case may be, only to find that very little, if anything, can be done for him. In place of being told the truth, he is led to believe that some special treatment, some special medicine, will cure him, but he wakes up later on to find that he was only deceived; that these men who treated him were deceived; that they themselves had never learned anything about the care of the human machine.

In our medical training, we are taught how to make repairs, how to treat symptoms. Very little time is given to teaching the medical student how to prevent ill health, or how to regain health. He has crammed into him, day after day, the idea that certain inorganic drugs will do the work that real live fresh organic foods should do. It is really a case of one failure treating another.

Few physicians live to be very old, because they know nothing about taking care of themselves, but the ignorant public look to these failures for help, when the best they can get is some temporary relief. The majority of eye specialists wear eye glasses; the majority of throat specialists have their own tonsils removed; the majority of surgeons have some of their own organs removed. Any thinking person should see that these men are failures.

Next we will take up the individual who is going to save himself through prayer. He is going to live a successful spiritual life. He is going to teach other people how to have spiritual understanding, while he himself is constantly struggling to make himself believe that he is happy, and that he is successful. He is so conscientious that he continues to worry and fear he will suffer for some of the mistakes he has made. There are more failures in the ministry than in any other profession, outside of physicians. These two classes suffer just as much, if not more than the people who follow their teachings. They fail because they have never learned the truth.

In one European city, where I visited, there are over five hundred churches and the people in this city pray more than in any other place I have ever been. They offer prayer from five to ten times a day. I can truthfully say they are the most superstitious, poverty-stricken lot I have even seen. God did not place man on this planet to be constantly asking for help, and praying for peace, praying for happiness, and praying for prosperity, praying for health, and the Lord only knows what-not. Man was placed on the planet and everything placed here to maintain him. He was given power over animals of the land, the birds of the air, the fish of the sea, and every living thing. He was given a mind superior to all other forms of animal life. He was given the strength and the ability to reason, and the liberty to set himself free. Now this same weakling turns out to be a beggar, after God has given him everything, he gets on his knees and asks for more. Certainly, he should suffer. Selfish, lazy individual that he is, why should he not suffer? But the question is, how much more suffering does one individual need than another?

The man who succeeds is always the man who finds out early in life that he is his own best friend, that he must help himself before he can help others. Who is going to have confidence in a man helping them, when they look at him and find him to be a dilapidated looking wreck? It's just like a salesman going out to sell a man stocks and bonds, trying to convince him that it is a good money making investment, when the salesman himself is shabbily dressed and looks everything except prosperity. The keen business man, the keen observer, would know immediately that something was wrong. A good reliable firm, handling stocks and bonds certainly could afford a more prosperous looking representative. Many a good sale has been lost because of the salesman's personal appearance.

Your ability is always judged by your appearance, as much as by your speech. We hear so much about a pleasing personality. This really means one's ability to dress themselves in such a manner as to be pleasing to the human eye. It means their ability to see the good in others, and tell them about it, so that they are glad to be near you. This, we call an attractive personality, a pleasing personality, and still people study books of all descriptions on the many ways to acquire a pleasing personality, when in reality it can all be summed up by saying, that a pleasing personality means the ability to make people feel comfortable, to make them feel at home while in your company, to make them feel glad to be near you, to make them happy to be counted as one of your friends.

Remember, all mankind is susceptible to flattery, whether you mean it or not. Learn to tell people of their fine qualities, learn to tell them of their many possibilities, learn to tell them of their ability to help others, learn to tell them of the many pleasant things they say and do. After you get their confidence, they will call on you for more flattery, as every man and woman loves to hear all about their fine qualities. They never get enough of it, they will come right back for more.

When you have reached a certain point with these people, and they look up to you as being their ideal, then you can start to tell them the truth taking for granted that you have been telling them the truth all the time, but you have only been telling them one truth, you have just been telling them about their fine qualities. They have swallowed it all down, and each day, if you have been keeping your eyes open, you have noticed that they have made a special effort to do things that pleased you. This shows that they respect you, they respect your ability. You have already demonstrated to them you are a very intellectual, keen observing person, because you have seen in them the fine qualities which ordinary people did not see, so naturally you are superior.

Now you are ready to help them. They will not be offended at all, not in the least, if you tell them occasionally of some of their shortcomings. Of course, you must be diplomatic. To be diplomatic really means to be able to say the proper thing at the right time, whether it be false or true, the truth always preferable, and in business most profitable, with some few exceptions. You see I am trying to be practical. There are times when telling the truth would cost a life. There are other times when telling the truth would cost several people their lives. For this reason I am saying that judgment again has to be used.

We hear much about honor, and much more about truthfulness. No man can succeed without these qualities. How do we know? Because every dishonest man has many times paid the price for every dishonest act. No liar is so perfect that he can keep it up without being caught, in addition to having his conscience, if he has any, constantly annoyed as a result of his lying. Liars, how-ever, very seldom have any conscience.

Remember that all minds are subject to the influence of others. If you repeat a thing forcefully enough and often enough, you are bound to make others believe it, and especially yourself. It will become so ingrained in you that your subconscious mind will start to carry out the suggestion, and it will be unconsciously carried to every cell of your body, thereby becoming a part of you, to either make or break you. Constructive thoughts and suggestions are always carried to conclusion, if they are retained long enough. Time will tell.

Show me what you do, where you work and where you live, and I will tell you what your thoughts are. Let me have one good look at you, and let me see your wardrobe and talk to you for ten minutes, and I will tell you what your chances are, and for what you are fitted.

Only five out of every hundred people are successful, the other ninety-five are failures. Remember, you can have what you want if you want it badly enough. A woman wants a divorce,—she gets it. She marries for money, she gets it, but the price she pays is always worth more than the reward she gains.

Thousands of people fail in life, for the reason that they think there is a short road that leads to health, happiness and success. There are no short roads. You must have knowledge, you must have experience. Only time and study will give you these.

The most successful people I know are those who love their work, and unless you enjoy your work, give it up. Find something that you can learn to love. Work that is done without love is always hard work. No matter how easy it may appear to be, it is drudgery, wearing and tearing on the person who does it without pleasure.

I had the privilege of going through one of the large perfumeries while in France. At the time I was just as much interested in the employees, and their reactions to life, as I was in the methods of extracting the perfume from the flowers. While this was very interesting, I was compelled to give my attention to a woman employee, who was so stupid that she knew nothing about the place where she worked, except the one machine which she operated. I asked her where I would find someone who had charge of the sales force. She did not know. I asked her how many employees were in the plant. She did not know. I asked her how many were in her department. She did not know. I asked her if much of the perfume was sold at the plant. She did not know. I asked her other questions, and finally, I asked her how long she had been there. She said she did not know, but she thought about seven or eight years.