“The Magic Word” (Attitude Lesson) 🎧 Bob Proctor | Lead The Field | Earl Nightingale

attitude is defined as the position or bearing as indicating action feeling or mood and it is our actions feelings or moods which determine the actions feelings or moods of others toward us and which to a surprising extent our success or failure now here is where we have the first opportunity to add some real heat to this powerful program consider this you live simultaneously on three planes number one you are a spiritual being number two you have a marvelous mind and three you live in a physical body now it's the spiritual non-physical world where the thought

energy is and of course you've been gifted with an intellect and through the use of your intellectual factors you can tap into this thought world this non-physical spiritual element of yourself and build ideas because it's ideas that are built with the intellect and then of course those ideas are expressed with and through the physical aspect of your personality your body that's where you move into action and you produce things or results earl explained that attitude is our position or bearing as indicating action feeling or mood now think of what he said attitude is action feeling

or mood that would indicate attitude is expressed by both your mind and body now we think in pictures or images we certainly have an image of our body but we do not have one for our mind no one has ever seen the mind where there is no image there is confusion the image is what brings order to the mind this is why solomon said where there is no vision the people will perish everything in the universe is growing or dying it's create or disintegrate well where there's no vision the people will perish it was after

years of serious study that i stumbled upon this beautiful truth without an image of the mind your understanding of attitude will be very likely distorted however that does not mean you will not be successful you could have a great attitude and become highly successful yet not understand exactly what attitude is and how it has affected your success in life a person in this position is frequently referred to as an unconscious competent when this is the case a person's success would be non-transferable since their success has its foundation in their attitude and since they do not

have a clear understanding of what attitude is they would be unable to explain the cause of their success to another person possibly even a loved one situations like this are not uncommon now before we help you in forming an image of the mind let's continue with earl nightingale's description of the magic word it is then our attitude toward life which will determine life's attitude towards us now what does this mean exactly everything operates on the law of cause and effect everything we say or do will cause some effect now we're charged with producing causes the

effects or rewards of our actions will always take care of themselves that's why i say success can be guaranteed and will come to us every time if we live in a certain way good attitude good results fair attitude fair results bad attitude bad results earl explained everything operates on the law of cause and effect that was correct however we're going to expand upon that dr warner von braun who is considered the father of space exploration stated the natural laws of the universe are so precise that we have no difficulty building a spaceship that we can

send to the moon and we can time the landing with the precision of a fraction of a second he also said these laws must have been set by someone everything in life is controlled by law cause and effect is just one of the laws earl recognized that everything was controlled by law in the final lesson he quotes ralph waldo emerson who said let him learn a prudence of a higher strain let him learn that everything in nature even dust and feathers go by law and not by luck i can assure you you're going to come

to love that statement as i do the law has been described as the uniform and orderly method of the omnipotent god in other words the law is god's modus operandi there are in fact seven laws i found it amazing how well earl nightingale included all of the laws and lead the field as we come to them they will be brought to your attention which will heighten your level of understanding and give you greater control over your life now as we return to lead the field that is exactly what earl nightingale is suggesting you see each

of us shapes his or her own life and the shape of it is determined by our attitude the attitude we hold most of the time sounds simple doesn't it but it's not quite that easy for most of us learning this new habit takes time but once it's mastered our lives will become as changed as if we walked out of a dark tunnel into the bright clear light of day a person with a poor attitude toward learning for example in school or afterward isn't going to learn very much until he changes his attitude i know you

can think of examples of this in your own life if we take the attitude that we cannot do something we generally will not do it an attitude of failure and we're whipped before we start so we know then that what we receive from life what we accomplish or fail to accomplish is due in large measure to our overall attitude william james of harvard said the greatest discovery of his generation was that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind you know in virtually every seminar you attend and every self-help book you

read william james is quoted human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind that sounds pretty simple doesn't it however it's not very easy it can't be otherwise more people would do it why don't they the answer is obvious they don't know how james was right a change in attitude will change your life however teachers tell that to students doctors tell it to their patients sales managers tell their salespeople and counselors tell couples who are having trouble just a change in attitude is all you require the person in question will agree they

desperately want the good that is promised to them what's the problem attitude is a mind body thing and we were given no image of the mind what i am going to share with you now i found after nine years of searching it has been the single most valuable concept i have ever learned for me it brought all the pieces of the puzzle together it is an image of the mind it was originated by dr thurman fleet around 1934 in an attempt to show patients how they could heal their body by controlling the activities of the

mind and is simply called this stick person you see it illustrated all throughout your management guide just two simple circles and a couple of straight lines but they bring order to your mind this drawing will eliminate confusion and give you a model to begin working with as you proceed through this program now to help you personalize this image permit the large circle the mind to be your head and the small one to be your body mind is movement and as such is in every cell of your body however you must have an image to have

order so your head will represent your mind and so far as the seminar is concerned now let's take a look at the conscious mind it's a thinking mind the conscious mind is the part of you that thinks visualize the top half of your head as your conscious mind we're just going to divide the head into two parts top and bottom your free will lies in your conscious mind you can accept or reject any idea no person or circumstance can cause you to think about thoughts or ideas that you do not choose this is important because

the thoughts you choose will eventually determine your results in life as you accept a thought it's impressed upon your subconscious mind so let's take a look now at the subconscious mind this part of you functions in every cell of your body however again for our image the bottom half of your head will represent your subconscious mind every thought or word your conscious mind chooses to accept this part must accept it is absolutely no ability to reject this part of you operates in an orderly manner by law it expresses itself through you in feelings and actions

any thought you continuously impress upon your subconscious over and over again becomes fixed in your subconscious mind fixed ideas will then continue to express themselves without any conscious assistance until they are replaced fixed ideas are more commonly referred to as habits now let's take a look at the body the instrument of the mind your body is the most visible part of you your body is the physical presentation of you the material medium it is merely the instrument of your mind or the house you live in the thoughts or images that are consciously chosen and impressed

upon your subconscious must move your body into action the actions in which you're involved determine your results so let's take a look at this number one thoughts number two feelings number three actions number four results go back and forth with this a few times and it'll start to make a lot of sense to you to change results you're going to have to change your thoughts change your feelings and your actions it's that simple don't complicate it now let's go back and take a look at what earl was saying to develop a good attitude toward the

world in general each of us must first develop a good attitude towards himself we can't give to others something we don't have so it's the attitude we take toward ourselves which determines our attitude towards others which radiates to the world around us when you see someone with a poor attitude toward others you can be sure he has a poor attitude towards himself he doesn't like himself he's unhappy about something a happy person reflects his happiness in his attitude a person with a poor attitude most of the time is unhappy and frustrated most of the time

and he's a human magnet for unpleasant experiences when they come as they must because of his attitude they reinforce his poor attitude thereby bringing more problems and so on he becomes a self-generating doom fulfilling cycle but for the man or woman with a good attitude the same principle holds true in reverse expecting the best and that's what they get most of the time now why would a person persist in a poor attitude expecting the worst well we're so familiar with ourselves that we tend to take ourselves for granted we tend to minimize what we can

accomplish the goals we can reach and for some equally strange reason we believe others can reach heights which we cannot we tend to overlook the fact that there is an enormous undeveloped potential within each of us a great reservoir of talent and ability which we habitually fail to use there are millions of human beings living narrow dark and frustrated lives living defensively simply because they take a defensive doubtful attitude toward themselves and as a result toward life in general now i'm going to ask you to build an image in your mind of the stick person

i want you to visualize an imaginary funnel of energy flowing right into the crown of your head now remember we said the top half of your head is your conscious mind you have their mental faculties that gives you the ability to build any kind of an idea you want the energy that's flowing into your consciousness has no form it is neither positive or negative it just is energy is you have the ability to build any picture you want you can choose your thoughts you can build the ideas that you want see yourself with the good

you desire i want you to visualize yourself doing that right now now we're going to take that image and we're going to turn it over to our subconscious mind now from a visual perspective just see that beautiful picture drifting down through that imaginary psychic barrier into the subconscious mind keep this in mind the subconscious mind is in every cell of your body and has no ability to reject the picture that you're turning over to it the image that you're turning over is going to be bathed in emotion because the subconscious mind is your emotional mind

now those emotions are going to control the vibration that your body's in remember your body is a molecular structure it's a massive molecules and a high speed of vibration that image that you consciously and deliberately built and turned over to your subconscious mind is controlling the vibratory rate of your body now when you hear someone say i feel good or i feel bad what they're really saying is i'm consciously aware of the vibration i'm in so it's the picture you build and turn over to your subconscious mind that's controlling your vibration and your vibration controls

your actions now think of this for a moment it's your actions that control your results now let's come back to earl's words he said attitude is the reflection of a person what's going on on the inside shows on the outside one's attitude is incalculably powerful it can bring about marvelous results for us but we must train it patiently day by day now stop and think of the picture that we were building and what we were doing we were choosing our thoughts turn them into ideas turned the idea over to the emotional mind and the emotional

mind controlled the vibration which controlled the action what did earl say attitude was earl nightingale said that our attitude is our position our bearing as indicating thoughts feelings and actions i've often said that attitude is very much like a cake mix it's not just our thoughts it's not just our feelings and it's not just her action a cake isn't just the icing and it's not just the spice it's the composite of all the ingredients put together and that's really what your attitude is so you see the pictures that you build from the energy that flows

into your consciousness is where the attitude really begins and you are in control of the pictures that you build and the pictures that you build control the feelings the emotions and the emotions control the actions you do have the ability to be in complete and absolute control of your attitude now come back with me again to earl's words he began by saying now just for a moment let's talk about people successful people who go sailing through life from one success to another and who when they occasionally fail at something shrug it off and head right

out again no matter what a person does wherever you find a person doing an outstanding job and getting outstanding results you'll find a person with a good attitude these people take the attitude toward themselves that they can accomplish what they set out to accomplish that achievement is the natural order of things that there's no good reason on earth why they can't be competent successful they have a healthy attitude toward themselves and as a result toward life and the things they want to accomplish because of this they achieved some remarkable things and come to be called

successful outstanding brilliant lucky and so on they are quite frequently no more brilliant or talented than the majority of people by whom they're surrounded but they have the right attitude they find their accomplishments not too difficult simply because it seems so few others are really trying really believe in themselves successful people come in all sizes shapes and colors and in widely varying degrees of intelligence background and education but they have one thing in common they expect more good out of life than bad they expect success more often than they fail and they do when you

want something worthwhile take the attitude that there are a lot more reasons why you can have it than why you can't set out to earn it go after it work at it ask for it and nine times out of ten you'll get it now think about this our environment the world we've created around ourselves is really a mirror of our attitudes if we don't like our environment we can change it by changing our attitudes the world plays no favorites it's impersonal it doesn't care who succeeds or who fails nor does it care whether we change

or not our attitude towards life doesn't affect the world and the people in it nearly so much as it affects us it would be impossible to even estimate the number of jobs which have been lost promotions or good grades missed sales not made marriage is ruined by poor attitudes but you can number in the millions the jobs which are held though hated the marriages which are tolerated but unhappy the parents and children who fail to understand one another all because of people who are waiting for the world and others to change toward them before they'll

change instead of being big enough and wise enough to at least make a test which will prove where most of the trouble lies it's our own poor attitudes now i'm going to ask you to go back and build that image of the stick person in your mind again i want you to see yourself and visualize this funnel of pure unadulterated energy flowing into your consciousness we're going to build on the last image build the picture in your conscious mind again of the good that you desire see a beautiful idea on the screen of your mind

now we're going to have that idea again drift down through that imaginary psychic barrier from the conscious mind it's going to move into the subconscious mind into that emotional mind and as it does we can feel it permeate and penetrate every cell of our being our entire body moves into a new vibration now think of this that new vibration is expressed in action you'll remember what earl said action sets up an equal and opposite reaction and as we express this attitude the world reacts to us and the action as it sets up the reaction alters

our conditions our circumstance our environment add it all up we call them results now let's come back and take a look what earl was saying all right so a successful attitude will help to bring us the success we seek but just how does a person get this kind of attitude the easiest and most effective means of forming a good attitude habit is to begin conducting yourself as though you have a good positive expectant attitude toward life if you've never tried it you'll be amazed at what happens remember that actions trigger feelings just as feelings trigger

actions not long ago i read a line which went life is dull only to dull people this is true it could have also read life is interesting only to interesting people or life is successful only to successful people you must first become mentally from an attitude standpoint the person you wish to be a famous restaurateur was asked by a newspaper reporter one time when did you become successful and he replied i was successful when i was sleeping on park benches i knew what i wanted to do and i knew that i'd do it you see

his attitude had been one of success of expecting success long before the material the tangible rewards of success had been earned the great german philosopher gerda put it this way before you can do something you must first be something now we're back to the image of the mind i'm going to ask you now to build this picture again see your mind and your body now your head is the mind and everything from the neck down as being the body now we're going to add five little antennae that are going to stick out of the top

of your head or your conscious mind they're your sensory factors you can see hear smell taste and touch now those sensory factors are truly like antennae and they pick up vibrations they pick up what's going on in your outside world that's what your senses are meant for they help you correspond and communicate with your material world our problem is 97 of the population use them the wrong way we focus on present results now let's go back and think what are results results are nothing but the physical manifestation of past attitudes of fast images that we

got emotionally involved with that controlled the vibration which set up the action which in turn set up a reaction and produce the results now if we are going to let results flow into our consciousness we're going to keep getting the same thing what a girl call it a self doom fulfilling cycle and that's where most people make their error they let their bank account control their thinking about their finances they let their x-rays control their thinking with respect to their health they let their present results in so far as relationships are concerned control their thinking

insofar as the relationships go i'm going to suggest that that is a terrible error and it's one that virtually all people are making absolutely refuse to let present results control your thinking now look at what earl was saying chances are you know people who seem to be what others call lucky all kinds of wonderful things happen to them and they give the impression of happily sailing through life having a wonderful time and accomplishing more in a year than most people do in five how does that happen well these people clearly understand that present results are

nothing but the manifestation of what has been going on in their mind in the past and they must not let those present results control their thinking earl concluded here by saying if you will conscientiously go about the test i'm going to recommend and concentrate on it every day you'll find yourself beginning to join this small happy extremely productive group of people you'll find yourself becoming lucky as they say and most of your problems will take care of themselves of this you can be sure the results will be nothing short of amazing now here's the test

act toward the world everything and everyone with an attitude calculated to produce the results you want that is if the results you want is more success in what you're doing act as though you are already in possession of that success if you want others to treat you with admiration and respect treat others with admiration and respect now we're back to the stick person again get the picture in your mind of what you want not what you've got if you're a little short of cash ignore that build the picture a prosperity in your mind if you

haven't been feeling too well ignore that let the doctor take care of the body you work on the mind build the picture of perfect health if you find yourself alone and lonely and you would like to have a meaningful relationship build that picture in your mind do what it will suggest act as if you've already got it get the picture in your mind that's where it all begins that's where creation begins in your life it begins with choosing the picture and getting emotionally involved now earl went on to say treat every person as the most

important person on earth do this for three excellent reasons one as far as a person is concerned he or she is the most important person on earth number two because this is the way human beings ought to treat each other and number three by treating everyone this way we form an important habit now consider this before we even continue the images you hold in your mind control the vibration you're in if you begin treating other people as the most important person on earth what vibration do you think you'll be in if you see only the

good in other people or situations what vibration do you think you'll be in you see before the good can go to someone else it must come to and through you this is why it's so important to follow earl nightingale's recommendations now let's go back listen to what else he said there's nothing in the world that men women and children want and need more than self-esteem the feeling that they're important that they're needed that they're respected they will give their love their affection their respect and their support to the person who fills this need have you

ever noticed that the higher you go in any organization of value the nicer the people seem to become you see the bigger the person the easier it is to talk to them to get along with them to work with them do you know why it's because they have a good attitude and the people with the best attitudes just naturally rise to the top they don't have good attitude because of their position they have the position as a result of their attitude now i have found that people move ahead according to their level of conscious awareness

and we're going to see this i want you to build an image in your mind of lines horizontal lines you might have seen them in your management guide in the section on the magic word but here we're talking about a model of cosmic consciousness self-consciousness and simple consciousness it's like lines on a pad they're just horizontal lines and this is a graph to explain levels of consciousness the people with the best attitudes are the same people who operate with a fairly high level of awareness think of it this way science and theology are the only

points of reference you can go to in search of information with respect to your true potential both of these areas clearly indicate that nothing is either created or destroyed which would indicate all the knowledge there ever was or ever will be is one hundred percent evenly present in all places at the same time all the power there ever was or ever will be is one hundred percent evenly present in all places at the same time in other words the way to fly an airplane has always been here the wright brothers merely became aware of the

principles governing flight edison merely developed a higher degree of awareness when he created the incandescent light it was awareness that took us out of the cave and put us in the condominium now think an animal operates with a simple consciousness the animal knows and yet knows not they have senses they can see hear smell taste and touch they're aware of their objective world but not their subjective world the next level of consciousness is self-consciousness that's where you and i operate we not only have sensory factors to deal with our objective world we have intellectual factors

that will permit us to deal with our subjective world then you have the higher level that theology would refer to as divine consciousness christ consciousness or possibly krsna consciousness depending upon your religious persuasion science might refer to this level of consciousness as cosmic consciousness as a person raises their level of conscious awareness it's expressed in their behavior and results individuals who work for fifty or a hundred thousand dollars a year are not necessarily working for fifty or a hundred because that's what they want they're working for fifty or a hundred because they're not aware of

how to earn 200 or 500 000 a year you're quite capable of earning a million dollars a year if you develop the proper level of conscious awareness people suffer from headaches because they're not aware that they can eliminate the headache it's their head they made it ache and they can make it stop remember this you're not a body you live in a body you're a spiritual being individuals with lower level of consciousness react to conditions or circumstance those with a higher level of awareness would respond the higher level of consciousness the greater the awareness of

the laws that govern the universe they know that the thought energy they send into the universe dictates what will return you see a person with a very low level of conscious awareness is operating just above animalistic consciousness it's fight or flight they react to everything now a person with a higher level of consciousness and you and i can raise our level of consciousness as a matter of fact that's what this program does that's what the lead the field coaching program will do for you it helps you raise your level of conscious awareness and as you

do it becomes easier to follow all of earl nightingale's directives and lead the field you automatically develop a better attitude and with a better attitude comes a better results and you can go higher and higher and higher have you ever noticed the people that are way up there in so far as awareness how calm and peaceful they are have you ever noticed that you're attracted to them they have something about them that you admire and respect it's that spiritual spark it's in their eye it's in their movement it's in their energy it's their attitude now

let's go back and take a look at what earl pointed out he said act towards others and the world at large in exactly the same manner that you want the world and others to act toward you for example treat the members of your family as the persons they really are the most important people in your life carry out into the world each morning the kind of attitude you'd have if you were the most successful person on earth and notice how quickly it develops into a habit almost immediately a change will be noticed irritations that used

to frustrate and annoy disappear when some less informed person gives you a bad time stay on track when someone cuts in front of you with his car or acts in any other manner that shows his ignorance and lack of courtesy don't permit yourself to drop to their level don't let their unhappiness make you unhappy when you begin to develop better attitudes you should realize you've already placed yourself on the road to what you seek you are well on your way to joining the top five percent of the people you've prepared the ground planted the seed

you have made of yourself an embodiment of that which you seek now in summing up here are a few points to keep in mind first it's our attitude at the beginning of a task which more than anything else will bring about its successful outcome second our attitudes towards others determine others attitudes towards us we are interdependent the success we achieve in life will depend largely on how well we relate to others third before you can achieve the kind of life you want you must think act talk and conduct yourself in all of your affairs as

with the person you wish to become fourth the higher you go in any worthwhile organization the better the attitude you'll find attitudes are not the result of success success is the result of good attitudes and finally the deepest craving of human beings is for self-esteem to be needed to feel important to be appreciated when you treat every person you meet as the most important person in the world both of you will benefit to make these important principles a habit knit part of your life here are some suggestions since your mind can hold only one thought

at a time make those thoughts constructive and positive look for the best in people and ideas be constantly alert for new ideas you can put to use in your life don't waste time talking about your problems or your poor health unless you're talking to a doctor it probably won't help you it cannot help others radiate the attitude of well-being and confidence the attitude of the person who knows where he's going you'll find good things happening to you right away lastly treat everyone with whom you come in contact as the most important person on earth start

this habit practice it consistently and you'll do it the rest of your life i hope you enjoyed this video we put a lot of good information up here and it causes everything in your life to get better if you'd like us to notify you every time we put a new video up hit subscribe and then turn on notifications check out all our videos and we will notify you when we put a new one up [Music] [Music] you