But this is one of my favorite books. It's called Path to Prosperity. It's by James Allen.

I'm sort of like a, I don't know what you call it, but I really love, like, philosophy. I love

Stoic philosophy. I love old, ancient texts. And some of them are hard to read. And it's kind of fun for me.

Like, I kind of like breaking it down and digging into it.

But this is one of my favorite authors. He writes, he's like a poet. He writes very poetically.

He also wrote as a man thinketh. I don't know if you guys have heard that, but that's a great book.

But I want to read this part because this is really powerful. He says, it may be that you are a businessman and you are

suddenly confronted with some overwhelming difficulty or probable disaster, right? So just think

we probably some, you know, difficulty or probable disaster. He says, you grow fearful and

anxious and you are at your wits in. To persist in such a state of mind would be

fatal for when anxiety steps in, correct judgment passes out. So Rose, we're just talking about.

He said, when anxiety creeps in, correct judgment passes out because our amygdala, our emotional

center is all aroused and we're not necessarily going to make great decisions.

He says, now you have, if you will take advantage of a quiet hour or two in the early morning

or at night and go away to some solitary spot or to some room in your house where you know

you will be absolutely free from intrusion. And having seated yourself in an easy

attitude, you forcibly direct your mind away from the object of anxiety by dwelling upon something

in your life that is pleasing and bliss giving. A calm, reposeful strength will gradually steal into your mind and your anxiety will pass away,

right? So what he says is, if when this anxiety creeps in, you have some difficult obstacle,

go away to a quiet room, steal an hour or two, he says. And he says, you forcibly direct your mind by dwelling upon something in your

life that is pleasing and bliss giving, right? So you force your mind to go away from that to something

that is pleasing and bliss giving. But he doesn't stop there. He doesn't say to end there. He says,

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