The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-04
MISUNDERSTANDING
THE INFLUENCES WE CARRY WITH US
WHICH ATTRACT AND REBEL.
The Keystone of Worldly Success-Thoughts
are Things-HOw to Weave Pleasing
Thought RObes-Like At
tracts Like.
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possible, accepted for the moment without
argument or objection: First, that the
thoughts proceeding from our brains are not
myths, but highly refined substances, things
and realities; secondly, that in every phase
and department of nature likes attract likes.
Now, to become practical, if your order of
thought is practical, it viii attract the prac-
teal; if scheming and crafty, it viii attract
to you those of like nature; if artistic and re-
fined, it attracts that character of mind and
IL it dwell great deal in the sentimental and
ideal, it viii isolate you from the great mass
of your race.
You need speak but little openly to prove
this All persons carry the influence or power
Of their prevailing character of thought with
them, and, as regards attraction or repulsion,
tt is felt by all about them. Set a taciturn
blacksmith among a company of blacksmiths,
and his thought will soon bring his fellow
professionals in sympathy with him. Set
poet or philosopher among the same black
smiths, and though he disguise himself as
blacksmith, yet the chances largely are that
they viii not feel sat home" with him.
This law Of sympathy or attraction thus
quite unconsciously exerted, in the vast ma
jority of instances, involves the very keystone
OF success in LIES undertakings. 1t attracts
or repels. If you want to gain point with a
person, you want first, above all things, as we
say in common parlance, that person shall
stake to you
A prejudice or dislike at first sight has
spoiled many bargain and kept many an
applicant from the position sought for.
Analyze your own sensations on first meet
ing strangers and you must acknowledge
more or less force to this assertion. Why9
Because you feel their thought before you
hear it. You have an interior sense which
ss.takes stock" Of the individual with light
ming like rapidity, and at the same rate of
speed sums up for or against him. All have
this sense in greater or less degree
How to make this favorable impression?
Carry it with you Carry with you the kind
of thought that will make it. That is, carry
with you bright, cheerful, hopeful, con-
hdent set of thoughts or frame of mind.
Also, real live interest in the business you
have in hand or the business you apply for.
Don't try TO feign any of these thoughts.
The interior sense of the person you are to
meet will feel such false assumption disagree
ably, though in mind he may not know why
or wherefore. He only knows he feels dis
agreeably. That is bad for you. In any
event you've carried the wrong kind of
thought with you, and it HIS rubbed his fur
the wrong way.
Wild idea. isn't it, that your thoughts are
things tangible to others, and that your pre-
vailing character Of thought is as garment
worn by you and affecting others, either irTi-
tatfng as cloak of bristles, OF soothing as
one Of velvet But never mind arguing about
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the numbers of instances you VIII from time
to time recall do not favor the theory.
As, for instance, the gloomy faced, sour
looking, despondent person, whom you cannot
endure to see enter your room, or the bright
and CHEEKY one whose coming is ray of sun
shine. Which stands the best chance of get
ting the situation you have to offer? True,
Mr.. Gloom Face may prove the most efficient.
But now we speak Of the first step. only to
success, and the step OF means which does
bring success in vast number of instances.
Some persons wear robes of thought envelop-
ing them which strike you like a chill from a
damp cellar or breeze from the north side Of
a graveyard. The texture of others robes feels
to YOU as a Whit from the SHAMELESS. Bad
clothing for success.
Now comes the question, how to cultivate
the agreeable style of thought; how to make
for yourself these invisible garments pleasing
or the reverse to those about youa
The world has gravely set it down in its
books for ages that in order to make money
one must save, scrimp, and starve- assert
the contrary. If you want to make money,
spend it, not recklessly, but wisely and to an
end and for a purpose
Get the best of all you need-the very best
you can-whether of food, Of clothing, of
house, home, everything. If you hesitate be-
tween the fiyGor ten dollar boots, decide in
favor of the ten dollar pair, ppesuIning, of
course, they are the better.
Why? Because your food, your clothing,
your surroundings affect your thought and
make it pleasing or the reverse according to
their quality Live IN a tenement house, and
i've poorly, and you viii feel poor and abased
Ia the financial sense, and if it be necessary
that you have an interview with banker for
any purpose the chances are ten to one that
he scents you out, judges you accordingly,
and rejects your application.
Thousands are kept poor all their lives be-
cause they feel poor They feel poor because
they live poorly. They carry their signs out
side of the1n-signs to be felt as wen as read.
They are scared at Launching out" into any
thing which seems to them expensive.
How to make commencement Buy a
dollar necktie instead of a twenty-five cent
one Build on that The next venture viii
be easier. Say one or two dollars more q
week. If gou are unmarried, and lodge in g
more respectable locality. So you commence
to rid yourself OF the air of poverty and
squalor, which repela from you those you
need to attract.
Look at the majority of men of Wall street
Look at the majority of the bankers, the bro
kers. the SPECTATORS, the relatively few who
make money. They eat well, dress well, live
well. They conform to this law. They have
not probably analysed it. They might not b.
able to explain it, but intuitiYely they adopt
it. They commenced by adopting it. Or il
ever they were obliged to live at a ten cent
restaurant they left it as soon as possible.
They know that any kind Of cheap living
cheapens their value and standing in the eye:
Of that portion of the world they deal with
though they might laugh at the idea that they
cultivated and carried with them that charac
ter of thought most necessary in order tC
make money, or that their unspoken thought
condition of mind or frame Of mind was il
effect Substance power which could be