Set (and focus on) a definite, clearly defined goal. It’s rising above narrow-minded pettiness and prejudice.”ģ. “The opportunities for you today are enormous beyond belief. Realise that all of your limitations are self-imposed. It’s understanding fully that as you sow, so shall you reap.”Ģ. “We must control our thoughts if we’re to control our lives. Understand that you literally become what you think about. He then talks about the virtual ‘price’ that we must pay for everything that we want in our life, a ‘price’ that consists of the following principles:ġ. Based on Isaac Newton’s physical law that every action has an equal and opposite reaction, the author believes that “we can achieve nothing without paying the price” and that “the result of your 30-day experiment will be in direct proportion to the effort you put forth”.Įarl Nightingale thinks that “each of us succeeds to the extent of his ability to sell”, whether we are a family member who’s selling ideas to his relatives or a sales representative who’s selling goods to his prospects.

Side 2 of The Strangest Secret opens with an invitation to put the principles to practice in a 30-day challenge. “No matter what your present job, it has enormous possibilities” Our deepest beliefs (dominant thoughts) will affect us most.

The first part ends by emphasising the importance of self-belief. It helps you to move towards the progressive realisation of your worthy ideal. Nightingale speaks of the power of visualisation, recommending to see yourself having already achieved your goal, and then holding that imagined picture fixed in your mind. Just as easy as we can draw success to us, we can draw failure to us, as the universal Law (of Attraction) is working both ways! The mental seeds we plant will determine what (life experience) we harvest. In other words: what you think today, creates your life in the near future, so always mind your thoughts, and practice positive thinking. To become successful, he says on side 1 of the record, you have to know what you want, and deliberately focus your thoughts on your predetermined goal. ‘We become what we think about’ is the main takeaway from part 1 of this article about The Strangest Secret, Earl Nightingale’s classic self-help recording from 1956 of which we share a free audio (mp3) download.

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