New Thought is built on action and an understanding of your unique nature. Philosophy and ideals are important, but walking your unique Path leads towards success.

I dig the idea of taking control of what you can and letting go of what you can’t.

Flow.

Order of Essense: Book 4 hits hard on understanding your unique path and taking action. The self-assessment is deep.

• Power is ability to produce change.
• Mind is passive power; thought is active power.
• All thought has a tendency to clothe itself in its physical equivalent.
• Think straight and life will become straight for you.

THOUGHT GEMS 

• The physical body contains mind in every part
• Our thoughts are like roots that reach out in every direction into the ocean of energy around us.
• Those thought roots set in motion vibrations like themselves and attract the affinities of our desires and ambitions.
• How little we appreciate the marvelousness of this exquisite mechanism of the mind. It forms the connecting link between the created and the creator.
• Our theology and our creeds have too much of seriousness and sadness – too little joy and gladness – too much of shadows and too little of sunshine – too much of the hereafter and too little of now—too solemn, too sad, too serious.
• The whole world is engaged in the invisible commerce of thought.
• Sincerity is a human trait that is hard to counterfeit. It comes from the soul of a man and not from the calculating mind.
• The more thoroughly we are submerged in the world of superficial trivialities, the further we are removed in consciousness from the world of principle.
• The hope of the nation is in the individual. Men are not equal, never have been, and so far as we can now determine never will be–so long as ambition enters into the measure of a man, and free will exists, there will be leaders and followers.
• Success comes only from each man’s individual efforts wisely, swiftly, incessantly exerted.
• Permanent power cannot be acquired by any artificial plan of leveling men.
• Only as you stay close to nature’s plan of encouraging that which is best, can you reach supremacy.
• The way to get things in this world is to make yourself worthy of them.
• By giving you set in motion a law that brings returns
• You can’t just think and change your condition. You must act, and act according to a plan.

Self-Assessment

No one can hope to get the best out of himself, no one can expect to be adjusted, to forge ahead to health, happiness and success, unless he knows himself inside and out.

Take pencil and paper and actually answer the following questions yes or no and grade yoursef. Partly yes or partly no. Don’t try to give yourself the best of it. Do this honestly and conscientiously; give yourself the worst of it, if you even hesitate in the answers.

• Are you ambitious ————-… or indifferent
• Are you always calm ——-Dr do you get nervous or worry
• Have you courage —————–Or are you fearful
• Are you always cheerful ……… or gloomy
• Have you enthusiasm —-.. or just luke warm
• Have you faith—–or suspicious
• Are you honest ——-or dishonest
• Have you hope —-or despair
• Are you always just or unjust
• Do you love or hate
• Are you loyal —–or disloyal
• Are you bold -or timid, bashful
• Are you modest – or egotist
• Are you optimistic —————. or pessimistic
• Have you patience – or irritable
• Are you polite —–or rude
• Have you self esteem or conceit
• Are you sympathetic or apathetic
• Are you sincere ——— or deceitful
• Are you tactful or brusque
• Are you truthful —- or lie or exaggerate
• Are you unselfish ———- or envious or jealous
• Can you concentrate —- rr do you diffuse
• Are you decisive or do you vacillate
• Are you economical — ——-or wasteful
• Are you firm——-or unstable
• Are you industrious ———or slothful
• Have you initiative —————or wait for others to start
• Do you persevere ————–or give up easily
• Are you punctual ————–or procrastinate
• Have you self-control ——— or rash
• Have you self-confidence —— or doubt your ability to perform
• Are you thorough ————- or negligent
• Do you think for yourself…… or depend on others
• Do you reason ———— or go on your feelings
• Are you always considerate…. or thoughtless
• Do you exercise judgment or act on impulse
• Are you physically clean or “go dirty.”
• Do you know your job or are you excelled
• Are you a good listener or interrupter
• Are you forgiving or revengeful
• Are you generous or stingy
• Are you friendly or cold and indifferent
• Are you lovable or hateful
• Are you one person at home, different in company
• Can you hold your temper or go in rages
• Are your moods under your will or are you temperamental
• Is your disposition good or bad
• Do you talk clearly and distinctly or mumble
• Is your voice soft or harsh
• Are you careful of appearance or slovenly.
• Do you gossip and talk about others
• Do you thoroughly chew your food or gulp it
• Do you eat until you feel stuffed or in moderation
• Do you think more about getting or doing
• Do you think and say kind things r critical in thinking
• Do you dwell in present, past, or future
• Have you any secret past you are always trying to cover up…
• Have you had any terrible experiences that keep coming to mind
• Do you remember any treatment of your childhood or early maturity that has been a load on your mind
• Have you it in mind to get even with anyone
• Do you think anyone is trying to do you an injury, get even with you, rob you, slander you or “do you dirty”
• Is there anyone you are always suspecting of ulterior motive, envy, jealousy, etc.
• Are you domineering-bossy, giving orders, or hard
• Can you cooperate with others or do you prefer to “go it alone”
• Have you a secret ambition you have never carried out – What have you ever done about it
• Do you think you have any special talent or ability you have never had the opportunity to exercise
• Do you think you are getting a square deal from your employer, if employed; if in business for yourself, do you think any competition is more successful than you by reason of unfair trade practices
• If you are not succeeding, do you think any other person is to blame
• Do you talk too much
• For lack of English words to express yourself, do you use profanity, or slang, or too loud
• Do you think your eyes, your face, or your manner give expression to your feelings
• Do you think anyone loves you
• Do you love anyone
• Do you think the world owes you a living
• Make a list of the things you fear
• Make a list of the principal things you think about in an ordinary day
• Set down about how many hours a day you sleep, work, read, play, or other things
• Make a time schedule.
• Do you love a budget system for income and spending
• Do you express or show appreciation for anything that is done for you or that you receive
• Do you take any physical exercises
• Do you stand erect, throw back your shoulders, or stoop and slouch
• Do you walk with firm step or shuffle or slouch along
• Do you keep your eyes up when walking or down
• When talking to anyone do you look at them or down away from them
• Do you ever give any conscious thought to breathing deeply
• Are you graceful or awkward
• Do you sit erect or slouch over cramping your lungs
• Do you know any game, art, trade, science, subject or tricks so well that you could instruct others so that they could become proficient in them?
• Do you belong to any club, society, fraternal order, civic organization, trade organization, union, brotherhood or church or religious order?
• Why did you join it –  for what you could get out of it or for what you could do in it
• Do you take an active part
• Do you ever say kind complimentary, or considerate things to friends or acquaintances or to others, when merited and you have it in your heart, or keep silent and neglect it for any reason; why
• Are you touchy, easily embarrassed, self-conscious, often offended
• Are you efficient in any particular line of endeavor
• Do you excel in any game or sport
• Have you any work you do as a pastime or as an avocation and outside of your vocation
• Is your sense of sight good
• Is your sense of hearing good
• Is your sense of smell good
• Is your sense of feeling good
• Is your sense of taste good
• Is your skin soft, flabby, firm
• Do you observe things closely so you could describe them later
• Do you do any reading connected with your work, business, or profession, such as trade journals, treatise on the subject, etc,
• Do you ever get by yourself and meditate or concentrate on anything; what
• Can you keep your mind on one subject, or does it wander
• Do you know how to relax your muscles, and get limp, and relieve tenseness and tension
• Are you a good neighbor
• Are you a good citizen
• Are you a good brother, sister, mother, father, friend
• Put down anything else you can think of about yourself.