We don't live in the “Fairy Age”
This article has been
extracted from the book ‘The power of Concentration’ by Theron Q. Dumont.
According to Dumont the uninformed person may argue, "How can we achieve
something simply by desiring or wishing.” According to him, our any desire can
be gratified by using the power of concentration, but it depends on us how much
we concentrate to fulfill that desire. Because just your wish for something won't
bring it. Dumont believes that our wish to have something actually shows our
weakness and lack of faith that we will actually get it. So he strictly
emphasizes that we never wish because we don’t live in the “Fairy Age”. He says
that we use as much brain power in “useless imaginations” as we do in thinking
about something worthwhile.
Dumont emphasizes that
we must be aware of our desires, create its picture in our mind and set our
will in it comes true. Never drift without helm and rudder. First of all, know
what we want to do and then strive with all our might to do it and finally we
will succeed.
The Determinate Buyer
The most important thing
that he emphasizes is; the feel that we can accomplish anything we undertake.
Dumont says that many people commit to do things, but when they start they feel
they will fail and that's usually happens so. To illustrate this point, Dumont
has given an excellent example of a man, who goes to a store for an item. The
storekeeper says, “I am sorry, we don’t have this item.” But if the man is
determined to get that item must inquire from the storekeeper that where he can
get it. If the determine buyer again received an unsatisfactory answer, he even
consults the manager and finally find out from where he can purchase the
item.
He called it the whole
secret of concentrating on getting your goal. Dumont believes that the thing we
must remember, that our soul is a center of all-power, and we can accomplish
whatever we will to. For example, if someone say “I will find a way or must
make one!” it’s the passion that must win.
A messenger boy become the President of his bank
Dumont says that he
knows the head of a famous large bank who started there as a messenger boy. The
boy's father made a button for him with a letter "P" on it, put it on
the coat of his son and said, “Son, that 'P' is a reminder that someday you are
to be the president of your bank. I want you to keep this thought in your mind.
Every day do something that will put you nearer your goal.” Every night after dinner,
the father would ask, “Son, what did you do today?” Dumont says that in this
way the thought of becoming president was always kept in mind of the boy and
finally he did. The father strictly forbids his son to tell anyone what the
"P" stand for. His colleagues made fun of him and tried to find the
myth behind that letter "P" but they never did, until the boy was
become president and then told the secret.
“Power to him who power exerts”
Dumont
says we must not waste our mental powers in wishes and not dissipate our
energies by trying to fulfill every whim. We should concentrate to do something
that’s really worthwhile. The man that determined for something, will never
fails. Dumont refers to Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous lines, " Power to him
who power exerts."
Our today's success
largely depends on focusing or concentrating on the law of internal force,
because when we do this we awaken those thought forces or powers, which insures
enduring results when used in business.
He says if we are not
able to do this we have not reached our limit in the use of our forces. Dumont
believes that this universe is interwoven with myriads of great forces. We make
our own place, and whether it’s important depends upon us. We can accomplish
all right things in time by using the Indestructible and Unconquerable Law and
so we must not be afraid to undertake whatever we really want to accomplish and
be willing to pay the price for the effort. Every right thing is possible and
which is necessary will be inevitably take place.
Dumont also emphasize
that if anything is right, it’s our duty to do it, even the whole world
consider it to be wrong. "God and one are always a majority," or in
clear words, that invincible interior law is God, and being superior creature
of the God we can conquer the whole world if our cause is absolutely just.
Never say I wish I will be a great man rather say; I can. I will. I must. If we
just realize this, the rest will be easy because we have the hidden abilities
and powers to subdue everything that stands against our plans.