Success
Fix in your mind the thought that your ability is
limited to a given earning capacity and you will never earn more than that,
because the law of habit will set up a definite limitation of the amount you can
earn, your subconscious mind will accept this limitation, and very
soon you will feel yourself "slipping" until finally you will become so
hedged in by FEAR OF POVERTY (one of the six basic fears) that
opportunity will no longer knock at your door; your doom will be
sealed; your fate fixed.
Formation of the Habit of Saving does not mean that you shall limit your earning capacity; it means just the opposite - that you shall apply this law so that it not only conserves that which you earn, in a systematic manner, but it also places you in the way of greater opportunity and gives you the vision, the self-confidence, the imagination, the enthusiasm, the initiative and leadership actually to increase your earning capacity.
Stating this great law in another way, when you thoroughly understand the Law of Habit you may insure yourself success in the great game of moneymaking by "playing both ends of that game against the middle." You proceed in this manner: First, through the law of Definite Chief Aim you set up, in your mind, an accurate, definite description of that which you want, including the amount of money you intend to earn. Your subconscious mind takes over this picture which you have created and uses it as a blueprint, chart or map by which to mould your thoughts and actions into practical plans for attaining the object of your Chief Aim, or purpose.
Through the Law of Habit you keep the object of your Definite Chief
Aim fixed in your mind (in the manner described in Lesson Two until it
becomes firmly and permanently implanted there. This practice will
destroy the poverty consciousness and set up, in its place, a
prosperity consciousness.
You will actually begin to DEMAND prosperity, you will begin to
expect it, you will begin to prepare yourself to receive it and to use it
wisely, thus paving the way or setting the stage for the development
of the Habit of Saving.
Second, having in this manner increased your earning power you will
make further use of the Law of Habit by provision, in your written
statement of your Definite Chief Aim, for saving a definite proportion
of all the money you earn.
Therefore, as your earnings increase, your savings will, likewise, increase in proportion. By ever urging yourself on and demanding of your self increased earning power, on the one hand, and by systematically laying aside a definite amount of all your earnings, on the other hand, you will soon reach the point at which you have removed all imaginary limitations from your own mind and you will then be well started on the road toward financial independence.