CHAPTER 15: FEAR: How to Outwit de Six Ghosts of Fear

- Three enemies which you shall have to clear out. These are INDECISION, DOUBT, and FEAR!

- Indecision crystallizes into DOUBT, the two blend and become FEAR!

- THE SIX BASIC FEARS:

• The fear of POVERTY } at the bottom of
• The fear of CRITICISM } most of one's
• The fear of ILL HEALTH } worries
• The fear of LOSS OF LOVE OF SOMEONE
• The fear of OLD AGE
• The fear of DEATH

- Fears are nothing more than states of mind. One's state of mind is subject to control and direction.

- THOUGHT IMPULSES BEGIN IMMEDIATELY TO TRANSLATE THEMSELVES INTO THEIR PHYSICAL EQUIVALENT, WHETHER THOSE THOUGHTS ARE VOLUNTARY OR INVOLUNTARY.

- Nature has endowed man with absolute control over but one thing, and that is THOUGHT.

- Fear of poverty is a state of mind, nothing else! This fear paralyzes the faculty of reason, destroys the faculty of imagination, kills off self-reliance, undermines enthusiasm, discourages initiative, leads to uncertainty of purpose, encourages procrastination, wipes out enthusiasm and makes self-control an impossibility.

- Your business in life is, presumably to achieve success. To be successful, you must find peace of mind, acquire the material needs of life, and above all, attain HAPPINESS. All of these evidences of success begin in the form of thought impulses.