Transcription of the conference " the secret of the success " of Earl Nightingale. Done by Alfonso Orozco Aguilar.

Recently, in London, a reporter interview to the great winning doctor of the Nobel prize 1952 Albert Schweitzer, and did the following question to him: Doctor, Which is the defect characteristic of the man nowadays. After brief meditation the wise person replaced: Simply the present man does not think.

On this interesting subject I want to speak with you. We lived at a time of gold, time with which the humanity has come dreaming by centuries. In order to reach it one made an effort and it worked by thousands of years. And now that we have arrived at her we see with indifference and apathy, like natural and obvious thing. We in America are specially lucky, we lived in the rich countries but on the Earth, plenty of opportunities for all their inhabitants.

Nevertheless, What it happens? Let us see a group of one hundred men. To the twenty-five years of age all are equipped with identical arms for the fight. All have equal faith in the future. All are safe to achieve the success, and all count such on elements to obtain it.

But, have you idea of which happens to our 100 men when arriving at the 65 years of age? In the term, we say of the wonderful adventure that together they undertook? Only one will have obtained wealth, four will have obtained certain economic comfort, five will continue working to maintain itself and 54 will be without resources.

Think you a little while. From one hundred, only five will arrive at the goal of their illusions. Why fails so many? What happened with that spark of inspiration that all had to the 25 years? Where went to stop their hopes, their dreams, their illusions, their plans?

Why with running of the years takes place this terrible difference between men who together began, and why that so enormous difference between the success of and a failure of others?

Since we are speaking of success, it is worth the trouble well to define what is success. Success is the progressive accomplishment of a worthy intention. If a man works towards a predetermined goal, if beforehand he knows what wants, and he knows by where to go to reach his ideal, that man is a success man. If one does not adapt to those conditions, is a failure.

Sucess is the progressive accomplishment of a worthy intention. Robert Mayle, North American, in his wonderful book " the man in search of itself " says this: " the value opposite, in our present society is not cowardice, but conformism ".

There you have the problem of our days CON-for-mism. Most of the people they act by inertia, like all the others, without knowing why and knowing exactly what they try, nor since there are to obtain it. They exist for example in the United States, but of 14 million people of 65 years of age. Of those 14 million, 13 are without resources. They depend on others to subsist.

We learn to read to the seven years. When we have 25 years we know like gaining the life. It is more, to that age many we are maintaining a family. But when we even have 65 years we have not learned to being economically independent, to form a patrimony. And that in America, the rich continent but of all the times.

Why? Because we were satisfied to going happening it.

The error is based in which we acted since it does the majority mistaken. However, Why that majority is satisfied to which as soon as it is enough to them to live modestly? in fact nor they themselves know it. Those people think that their lives are molded by the circumstances, by the things that happen to them, by outer influences. They are in effect beings who feel dragged towards a destiny that they have not chosen, who do not know.

Recently a survey between people was made of work, taking as it bases this question: Why rises you in the morning to go to work? Nineteen of each twenty did not have nor idea of what answering. It was happened to say " Good, because everybody does, "o to them no ". And in fact they were sincere. They work nothing else because everybody must do it, and.

But we return to the definition from success. What achieves the success? Single who progressively is giving form to a worthy ideal.

That one that says I will be such-and-such thing, and soon is put to work to make its goal. Like the teacher and school, that is masterful because it is exactly what it wanted to be. Like the woman who is wife and mother, because that is what wanted to be. Thus also the salesman is a success man who was made the intention get to be a good salesman to along with progress the company in which he toils.

In summary, success man is that one that by own decision carries out a work that it chose because therefore it planned it with all intention.

But only one of each twenty does. Therefore there is really no competition nowadays. Unless us we look for it. Instead of competing everything what we must do it is to devise. To devise better systems, new goals, efforts more constructive than take us to the success.

I have dedicated twenty years of my life to investigate if a key exists that determines the destiny of a man. I have wanted to know if a key exists to predict the future, and if just by to know it and to use it adecadamente can a person be guaranteed a future.

Then, that key if it exists. I have already verified it. Has put you to consider why are people who work lasts honestly and without obtaining no triumph that is worth the trouble? Are you noticed whom other people however, without as much effort it pretends obtains everything?

Frequently Everything has oido you them phrases " what touches becomes gold ", or " Has the magical touch ". You has seeing to which those that prevails in a thing tend to continue prevailing in another one, as well as those that they fail in something tend to fail in everything?

Then there am here why. It is question of goals. Some we have them, other no. The one that has a goal achieves the success because it knows where goes.

Imagine a boat on the verge of weighing anchor. Their captain and his crew have planned all the itinerary. And they know exactly as it is its destiny and the time that will take in arriving at him. They perfectly have a defined goal. In nine thousands nine hundred ninety and nine of each ten thousand cases, that boat will arrive at their destiny.

Now we see another boat, exactly equal to first. But without captain, crew and consequently without destiny, route nor calendar. Single we took the machine and we will leave it at random. In case it manages to leave the port, it will run aground in some desert coast and perhaps one will sink. It cannot arrive out of danger at any port because it lacks goal and quía.

The same it happens with a human being. Let us see the case of a salesman, for example. At the moment nobody with a shining future exists but that a good salesman. The sale is the profession better paid of the world for the good salesman who has goals. All the companies need good salesmen, and are arranged to offer a future to them without limits. But how many good salesmen can you find?

Somebody said that the world is neat so that the weak one cannot lose. The economy in our countries can be compared to the convoys in the days of war. The great boats sail at reduced speeds that allow the small ones to follow in the square.

For that reason it is so easy to gain the life nowadays, privileged mind is not needed nor an extraordinary talent to gain the life and to maintain a family.

Thus we have what commonly a security platform is called, if that is what we looked for. Of We depends the decision on which so above of that mediocre platform want to place, or if we want to us to be satisfied to vegetating in her.

Now, we return to the secret but extraordinary of the world, the subject on which wanted to speak with you today Why honors the men with goals and fails the men who do not have goals.

I am going to teach something to him that, if you truely understand will change it your life immediately. In effect, if you understand your life perfectly to me will be different as of this precise moment; their desires will be made like by magic art, their problems will finish and you will not return to undergo preoccupations; it will seem as if you radiated good luck. And what is but, those moments of anguish, fear, of doubts perhaps, that you have experimented, will stay in the past as a nightmare that will not return to never repeat itself.

Here it is the key of the success, and the key of the failure: OUR THOUGHTS FORGE OUR DESTINY. I am going to say it again. Our thoughts forge our destiny.

Through the history of the humanity differences of criterion between the great wise people and teachers have been registered, philosophies and prophets with respect to diverse concepts. But all, at all the times, have been in agreement with that point.

Aurelio frame, the great Roman emperor said " the thoughts of a man are its same life ". Disraeli said " With single hoping, everything has to arrive ".

After long Meditation I have arrived at the conviction that a human being who always structures an intention obtains it. And that nothing can resist to the ready will to sacrifice the same life for the sake of reaching the goal.

Emerson expressed: " the man is what throughout the day thinks ". William James aimed: " the most remarkable discovery of my time is that the human being can alter his single life with altering his mental attitude ". And it added " If with respect to our intention we acted with all cold blood, as if a this outside already reality, our goal will be made unfailingly and comprised of our same life. It will be mixed and one will mix with our feelings and our habits to such degree that our interest will become a faith ".

Also it suggested " Everything what you long for with sufficient intensity is almost safe that you obtain it ". If you wish to be rich, you will be rich, if you wish to be cultured, you will be cultured; if you wish to be good you will be good; single which you need to wish it with all your core, exiling of your heart incompatible desires with the fundamental intention."

Doctor Norman Vicent Peale, author of the famous book " the positive mind ", said: " This is one of the most important laws of the Universe, fervent would wish it to have discovered in my youth, this fact so sncillo that it is the base of a surprising law of prosperity and success; in four words, TEN FAITH and YOU PREVAILED ".

Shakespeare expressed it thus: " Our doubts are treasons, make us lose the good that we could win from fear of the attempt ".

In the Bible you can read to San Marcos 9-23 " Everything is possible for which she has faith ". George Bernard Show said: " people always throw the faults to the circumstances. I do not believe in the circumstances. The people who prevail in this world are the one that is put to look for the circumstances that need, and if it does not find them it creates them ".

Good, is very sure no? And each person who has discovered east principle has thought (at least during some time) that he was first in discovering it. Our thoughts forge our destiny.

Now we found more reasonable the one than a person who is happening in a worthy goal, reaches this goal, simply because she is thinking about her, and, our thoughts forge our destiny.

On the contrary, the man who does not have goal, that does not know where wants to arrive and whose thoughts by consequence will be confused thoughts of anxiety, fear and preoccupation, he will not harvest without which sowing: Its life will become a life of anxieties, of fears and preoccupations. And if it does not think about anything it will arrive at anything.

How operates this phenomenon? Why our thoughts become realities? I will try to explain it to it of the best possible form.

Let us suppose to a farmer owner of certain earth extension. The Earth is hoping to that the farmer decides that is what is going to seed. To the Earth like a the mind, does not concern the seed to him that is going to receive. It is limited to make it germinate and produce, and to give back to the farmer the fruit.

Let us suppose that the farmer has two classes of seed: One of maize and another one of yerbamora, a mortally poisonous species. It takes and others and them sowing; it takes care of to water them and to pay them, and, What it happens? Invariably the Earth will give the same the fruits to him of the maize and the poisonous yerbamora. As it says the Bible, " As well as put seeds, thus you will harvest ".

Then, the human mind works exactly just as the single Earth that is much more fertile, much more prodigal and mysterious; it is always arranged to receive the seeds of the success as well as the seed of the failure. It always makes the same germinate the idea heals and constructive that confused and the destructive one.

We could call to the human mind the last inexplored Earth continent, that contains wealth much greater than those than we have caressed in our ambitious dreams but. It depends on which we want to plant; that we will harvest.

However, if all this is certain, Why the people do not use plus their mind?