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Today's reading was edited and adapted from How to Get What You Want by Orison

Swet Martin, published in 1917.

You are victory organized. You were born to conquer, to play a magnificent part in life's great gain, but you can

never do anything great or grand until you have such a conviction of yourself and your ability.

We establish relations with our desires, with whatever is dominant in our minds, with the things

we long for with all our hearts. We tend to realize these things in proportion to the

persistency and intensity of our longings, and our intelligent efforts to realize them.

Stop thinking trouble if you want to attract its opposite.

Stop thinking poverty if you wish to attract plenty.

Refuse to have anything to do with the things you fear, the things you do not want.

A piece of magnetized steel will attract only the products of iron ore.

It has no affinity for wood, copper, rubber, or any other substance that has not iron in it.

When you were a child, you found that your little steel magnet would pick up a needle,

but not a match or a toothpick.

It would draw to itself only those things like itself.

Men and women are human magnets. Just as a steel magnet drawn through

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