Paid For by a Glass of Milk

She thought he looked hungry so she brought him a large glass of milk.

He drank it so slowly, and then asked, “How much do I owe you?”

“You don’t owe me anything,” she said. “Mother has taught us never to

accept pay for a kindness.” He said, “Then I thank you from my heart.”

As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger physically, but

his faith in God and man was strong also. He had been ready to give up

and quit.

Many years later, that same young woman became critically ill. The

local doctors were baffled. They finally sent her to the big city, where they

called in specialists to study her rare disease.

Dr. Howard Kelly was called in for the consultation. When he heard the

name of the town she came from, a strange light filled his eyes.

Immediately, he rose and went down the hall of the hospital to her room.

Dressed in his doctor’s gown, he went in to see her. He recognized her at once.

He went back to the consultation room determined to do his best to save

her life. From that day he gave special attention to her case. After a long

struggle, the battle was won.

Dr. Kelly requested the business office to pass the final bill to him for

approval. He looked at it, then wrote something on the edge and the bill was

sent to her room.

She feared to open it, for she was sure it would take the rest of her life to

pay for it all. Finally she looked, and something caught her attention on the

side of the bill. She read these words:

“Paid in full with one glass of milk.

(Signed) Dr. Howard Kelly.”

Tears of joy flooded her eyes as she prayed happily, “Thank You, God,

that Your love has spread abroad through human hearts and hands.”
(Taken from the book- An All Consuming Desire To Succeed - By John Paul Carinci)

"One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay

his way through school found he had only one thin dime left, and he

was hungry.

He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house. However, he lost

his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal, he

asked for a drink of water.

Achieving That Goal

We will never simply happen to trip over a bucket of gold, but must in

fact work toward it.

Therefore, here are a few simple steps to use when planning:

1. Contemplate carefully on a specific goal.

2. Write out the special goal in full detail.

3. Make sure you understand the goal and that it is a goal you

truly desire to achieve.

4. Wait one full day, contemplating the goal during this twentyfour-

hour “programming time,” as your mind slowly accepts

what it is you are planning to accomplish.

5. I f you still feel powerfully strong about that particular goal in its

entirety, then write out a full page of why you want to achieve

the goal. Write out exactly what it would mean to you and how

it would change your present circumstances or life in any way.

6. Type out the goal summary in one simple paragraph. Post copies

of the typed summary at work, in your bedroom, on your night

stand, in your car, on your refrigerator, and anywhere else you

will see it during your waking hours.

"It is essential to plan in order to achieve anything worthwhile in life.

how long it will take for you to achieve it.

Let’s assume that your goal is to earn a law degree by attending night

school. Make sure you research how long it will take you and commit to

that time frame when you tell everyone about your goal.

If you desire to write a book, spell out how many pages you expect

it to be. Then search and download from the Internet a picture of what

you would like the front cover to look like. Next, find an old paperback

book, tape the new picture over the cover of the old book, then type out

a label of a tentative title for your book and tape it to the new cover you

have created. Make sure to keep the prototype copy of what you believe

your book will look like in plain sight for all to see, because once you

commit to yourself and all around you that you will be writing a new

book, and you even have a prototype cover and name, it will be nearly

impossible to back down from the goal. Just like the immigrant who

leaves his country to come to America, you must succeed.

People wonder how a foreigner coming to America can open

a business, make money here, and become successful. You see, the

immigrants make up their minds to succeed. The goal is etched deeply

into their subconscious minds. They know only one thing—they will

come to America, the land of opportunity; they will work endlessly and

succeed greatly. The same immigrants, before setting out for America,

told all their family members that they were going to America, would

become successful, and would send for each of them one by one after

having done so, so that they, too, could come to America. In short, the

word

They must succeed and send for their family because their family back

home is counting on them. Back home, their family is bragging that

their relative is in America, making a name for himself, and it won’t be

long before he sends for them.

7. Tell everyone you can about this special goal you so desire, andfailure never enters the immigrants’ minds. Their goal is simple:

desired, switch roles with the foreigner. We could commit to go to their

country, learn their language, and become tremendously successful

ourselves in their land."

Great expectations! It really is a mindset. We could each, if we so

"Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut

all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining

that state of mind known as a burning desire to win which is one of the

essentials to success."

—Napoleon Hill
Copyright John Paul Carinci 2005

What Really Motivates A Person?

"If a blade of grass can grow in a concrete walk and a

fig tree in the side of a mountain cliff, a human being

empowered with an invincible faith can survive all odds

the world can throw against his tortured soul!"

                                                —Robert Schuller (b. 1926)

                                                                        American televangelist, pastor, author

"Motivation to do something is a powerful driving force. We know that people have literally done the impossible because they were motivated by some tremendous force. An example of a tremendous driving force that becomes the motivation for non-wavering action is the New York City Marathon. Some thirty-eight thousand marathon runners are fortunate to be selected by a lottery system. Only those selected are eligible to run in the marathon, which is made up of over twenty-six miles of hills and valleys running through the five boroughs of New York City.

            So, if approximately forty thousand runners are allowed by lottery to race, how many people request to run each year? In 2008, there were over 105,000 entry forms submitted to the Road Runners Club. I would assume most of the 105,000 entrants were prepared to run the marathon. What type of commitment does it take to prepare for such a grueling race of twenty-six-plus miles? How many weeks, months, or years in advance must the runner practice and exercise for such a long race?

            I estimate that a runner would have to practice for at least a year to build up the stamina needed for that distance. Regardless, the entire 105,000 runners requesting entrance were committed to practice and work out and race in the historic marathon. What commitment and drive! The ultimate goal of finishing the New York City Marathon was enough to motivate the runners to get up early before work or to go out late at night to run so many miles in preparation for a marathon that they might or might not have the chance to run in.

What is the motivating force that drives someone to work so hard for a far-off goal? Why do inventors try the impossible when striving to invent something new? An inventor may fail thousands of times before succeeding with a new invention. What sustains his faith in persevering until he has succeeded? Why do some succeed while many more fail?

Well, the way I see it, those who experience repeated failure are often unwilling to go the extra mile that the successful inventor is willing to go. Let’s go back to the marathon race. In 2008, there were over thirty-eight thousand actual runners allowed to race. Of the 38,835 at the starting line, the vast majority—37,899 runners—actually finished the 26.2-mile distance. That is commitment. The oldest runner was a man of eighty-seven! He finished the race in eight hours and thirty-nine seconds. Talk about motivation!"

We Are Each Born into This World Destined for Greatness!

"Sir George Cayley is considered the father of aerodynamics. In 1800, Cayley was the first person to invent and perfect a glider that was controlled in flight by a human being through the movements of the person’s body.

In 1853, fifty years before the first powered flight was made at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Cayley built a triplane glider (a glider with three horizontal wing structures) that carried his coachman 900 feet (275 meters) across Brompton Dale in the north of England before crashing. It was the first recorded flight by an adult in an aircraft.

Every day, in every way, we are each improving on formerly proven and workable ideas, methods, words, and science. And each future generation will continue to improve on our proven and monumental ideas.

I can’t help but think of the first cavemen, and how they surely failed and succeeded so many times in their then-short life spans. We truly do live in the best time in the world’s history.

Today a former president can have his life saved and extended merely by having fairly routine by-pass surgery performed on his heart. And if need be, his heart can then be re-energized years later by the use of stents to prop open failed arteries. Years ago many of these heart patients simply died for lack of the technology that is readily available today.

A few weeks ago I got the inspiration to try to invent a new way to lift fingerprints off tape—specifically, duct tape. Duct tape is that gray-colored, very heavy, and strong-holding tape that was originally invented to repair aluminum heating air ducts, thus the name duct tape. It also is the tape of choice of many killers. To my knowledge, fingerprints are not easily lifted from the underside of duct tape. But I figured I could find a new way to lift fingerprints. What was my motivation? I was just frustrated with seeing many killers not being brought to justice because the technology of the day lagged in this specific area of forensics.

Now, I didn’t really have the time to invest, the knowledge, or the tools needed to invent some new-fangled way of lifting prints, but I had the desire. Of course, I have not succeeded, as of this writing. But I gave it a valiant effort and even surprised myself in my elaborate and extensive experiments in my inventive pursuit. I did not give up, but I have suspended my duct tape experiments for the time being.

My point in this example is this: The inspiration was there. But that intense, never-ending drive was not, at least not at that time. Otherwise, I would never have suspended the experiments, no matter how much failure I encountered."

"We learn wisdom from failure much more than

from success; we often discover what will do, by

finding out what will not do; and probably he who

never made a mistake never made a discovery."

—Samuel Smiles (1812-1904)

                                                                        Scottish author and reformer

"Writing books is much like inventing. A writer undertakes a tremendous endeavor when he plans to write a new book. In the books I have written, I would estimate that it took four to six years per book from the thinking, planning stage until the first printing of the final version. Talk about the need for perseverance and fortitude! There are many times during the writing of a book when doubt sets in. Doubt that I will be able to write enough words, or that it will make sense. Doubt that the readers will like it at all. And doubt that the subject matter is good enough. A seasoned writer can fight through all these negative impulses, realizing that this is normal in the process of writing what you hope will be the best material you have ever written.

But think about maintaining that intense drive for four or six years. And it is an intense drive that motivates a writer to keep picking up that pen, keep writing word after word, even when the words stop flowing. There are times when I sit staring at a blank page, unable to write anything worthwhile. A writer fights through this feeling, this black and negative impulse. In my case, if I can push out even twenty words, I feel better, at least for that moment, knowing that, with time, the flow of words will resume. You see, with an intense desire to finish a book so deeply etched into my subconscious mind, I know the positive impulse to continue writing is ever-present. I will be motivated to continue writing, and also to continue the thinking process that will work through any obstacles I may be facing at that time."

"Do what you fear and your fear will die!"

—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

American philosopher, essayist, poet

"That brings me to something I’ve been pondering recently: What really motivates us? Do we do great things because we are moved by positive influences, or are we driven by the emotion of fear—the fear of sickness or dying, or the fear of failure? How many great accomplishments might have been the result of actions that grew out of fear?"

Copyright 2011 John Paul Carinci

The Power Of Belief

“The man who decides what he wants to achieve and

works till his dreams all come true,

the man who will alter his course when he must and

bravely begin something new,

the man who’s determined to make his world better,

who’s willing to learn and to lead,

the man who keeps trying and doing his best is the

man who knows how to succeed.”

--Author Unknown

“Belief in yourself, a cause, or in your ability to overcome

an obstacle is a very powerful force. A strong belief in what

you want to accomplish is very important for being able to

complete your goals.

You exercise a belief in your abilities every day. While

driving, you believe in your abilities to park in a tight space

or to handle the car in an emergency situation in order to

avoid an accident.

Your belief in yourself started in childhood when you

learned to ride a bicycle, make something, or compete with

others.

As an adult, you have had to extend your beliefs in

yourself. You learned specific tasks that help you do your

work. As you grew more confident, you believed you could

do more.

Without belief, a conviction that you can do what you

set your mind to do, you will have a hard time succeeding

in anything.

The slightest bit of doubt in yourself can become an

unnecessary obstacle. Your own negativity can destroy your

momentum in accomplishing your greatness, even though

you are a capable person.

You can expand your “belief-in-yourself” attitude to all

facets of your life by conditioning your mind into believing

that you will not fail and that you will succeed in your

chosen goals.

Your mind has amazing powers. It’s more amazing than

any computer because it can create new ideas and its positive

powers can help motivate you to accomplish great things in

life. When you believe in something, your mind will stop at

nothing to bring the successful outcome to pass.

James Russell Lowell said, “Not failure, but low aim,

is a crime.” It was Oliver Wendell Holmes who said, “A

mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original

dimensions.”

“A woman from Scotland named Ms. Campbell, at age

26, left from Africa in April of 1991 in her quest to walk

around the world. By September of 1993, Ms. Campbell had

walked more than 17,000 miles through thirteen countries

on four continents.

Every goal requires a positive outlook and belief in

one’s ability to succeed.

Anyone can walk five miles in a day. Many people

in Manhattan walk five miles without realizing they’re

walking that far because so many other sights and people

occupy their attention.

Who would want to walk 17,000 miles? That takes a

real commitment. When the muscles in the body ache, the

person on such a journey has made a deep commitment to

keep right on going.

You do not have to walk around the world as Ms.

Campbell did, but you are capable of achieving some

fantastic goals in your life. Accomplishing every goal

requires one step at a time, one day at a time. It takes a great

deal of willpower, fortitude, and desire to keep moving

forward to reach your goals day after day.

Just like the person who wants to chop down a large

tree, the tree will come down, but only after repeated

swinging away at the tree. You do not have to make mighty

swings to bring down a tree, because small swings of an

axe can ultimately bring down the tree too. One drop of

water will do nothing to a heavy iron bar, but let the drops

continue, one drop at a time, twenty-four hours a day, day

after day and, in time, the drops will wear a hole through

the iron bar.

Life is no different. Think of success as focusing your

energies on one thing at a time with no disruptions.

I remember as a young boy experimenting with a

magnifying glass and a piece of paper. I had read how a

spot of light shining through the magnifying glass from the

sun could burn a hole through the paper. By intensifying

the sun’s rays, you can produce much greater heat and light.

The laser beam accomplishes a similar result. Lasers have

been expanded to be used in all parts of modern life, from

the lasers that read bar codes at the check out stands in

stores to medical uses.

There are times you need to focus on your goals with

your mind having the intensity of a laser. Laser thinking

can be useful to accomplishing goals, especially when you

have a limited amount of time to finish your goals.”

Copyright 2005 John Paul Carinci

Develop Your Own Positive Driven Splinter

By:John  Paul Carinci

We’ve all had a painful splinter sometime in our lives. A splinter that throbbed, it seemed endlessly. Without us paying attention to it, it would hurt, sending pain signals to our brain. Well, very successful individuals, for thousands of years, have used the laws of nature to reverse the signal system and use it to accomplish great tasks. Most great inventors use a similar principle. Let’s study it.

Truly successful people have found that if they pre-program their minds, in particular, the subconscious mind, with certain commands and goals, it gets etched into their subconscious, and that is the real key here. It is important to realize that the subconscious will accept fact or fiction. That is why some people who are hypnotized will quack like a duck. It is because the subconscious mind has accepted the command, and is just complying with what it has been instructed with.

It is a proven fact, that on average, we use only 5% of our brain capacity. Imagine if we work on improving our brain output to perhaps 10%?

So, whatever is fed into the subconscious mind, on a consistent basis, that all powerful, inner-mind, will accept and in turn, send out powerful thought impulses to the conscious mind. Almost like the rays of light that emanate from the bright light of a lighthouse. It is those impulse-signals that work all the magic.

Think about the NYC Marathon runner who trains for the entire year before the big race. Think about the fact that the race is over 26 miles long. Let’s look at the mindset of this individual. The runner is intensely driven for that whole year, visualizing, all along, that ultimate finish line. The runner doesn’t think about failure to finish the race, or blisters, or many other obstacles that will arise during the year. The runner’s mindset is: one goal; one vision; one battle; that will ultimately be won.

The runner will also announce to everyone, sometimes months in advance, that they will be running the famous marathon. This is important, because once announced, a goal has that much more importance and urgency attached to it.  So once introduced correctly, the subconscious mind accepts this great goal, and works overtime to bring the intense, positive, driven goal, to pass, just like that terrible deeply imbedded splinter.

Think about the immigrant entering the United States to live. Their mindset is: “America is the land of opportunity. All I have to do is work very hard and I will make it. I can then send for my family, back home, and bring them to America to live.” The immigrant doesn’t think about failure, it doesn’t enter into the equation. Success is expected. It is demanded by the immigrant, because he proudly announced his intentions to all those back home. And his family, back home, expects nothing less than success from him. He has that intense positive driving force, that Positive Driven Splinter.  

We’ve all used this technique, unknowingly, for smaller desires and goals, such as an all day goal of wallpapering a room. By positively visualizing the successful out come of the finished project, maybe for even weeks in advance, we have pre-programmed our subconscious mind with the intense desire, or, “mental splinter”. Only after the completion of the project, will the subconscious mind back off - sending urgent signals of the goal desired.

But, then, after the goal has been achieved, the subconscious mind begins sending out signals of joy, happiness, fulfillment, and elation, derived from the completed goal. This is very important, because these feelings of self worth will help tremendously in the belief that you can, and will, complete the next intensely desired goal.

Remember, ninety percent of all things around us are negative. Ninety six percent of all talk is negative. We must put Mental Blinders on each and everyday to block out all the negative influences that surround us. One excellent way of doing this, I have found, is through utilization of self-suggestion statements. I have been saying the same series of statements that run approximately five minutes long. Repeated a few times though out the day, in the same order, they will work magic.

The statements, once again, are received and absorbed into the subconscious mind. The subconscious accepts the statements, said with belief, as fact. And in turn will send out positive reinforcing thought impulses to the conscious mind.

Let’s look at a self-suggestion statement: “I Like Myself! I Like Myself! I Like Myself!” “I will be successful, it’s inevitable, because my aggressiveness will lead to my success!”

It is important to develop your own statements. They must be believable, remain in the same order and repeated multiple times throughout the day. Repetition is important so the subconscious will accept, store and work on the statements. It then will convince the body and mind of the vaidity of the statements, thus changing your life, attitude, and allowing the raising of the all important mental blinders that will shield you from the negativity that threatens the success of all individuals. So, what will be your Positive Driven Splinter?

This is just a very small sample of what is thoroughly covered and taught through various principles in the self-help book: The Power Of Being Different, which can be purchased online at Amazon, or the author’s site: www.johnpaulbooks.com , which also features free articles, and radio interviews, that you can access and download.

INVENTORS REPORT

John Paul Carinci’s Inventors Report (taken from the self help book: The Power Of Being Different” by John Paul Carinci

What do great inventors all have in common? they are intensely driven individuals that will not stop until they have achieved the goal set forth. They are not deterred by failure, no matter how many times they have failed, nor how many experts and people tell them their ideas are foolish and can’t be achieved. Failure to them, is accepted much the same as regular people accept being stopped at a red light while driving, they just deal with it along the way, accepting failure, no matter how many times it presents itself, as part of the game, never allowing it to leave a negative impact.

Thomas Alva Edison, born in Ohio on 2-11-1847. In school Edison was classified as “confused & not teachable” by his teachers. He was totally deaf in his left ear and impaired in his other ear. Edison experimented many thousands of times before he invented an acceptable incandescent lamp in 1879, and perfected it in 1880. Edison once said, “I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.” And, “discontent is the first necessity of progress.”

His key to beating all others out in the perfect light bulb was the vacuum glass bulb to keep the filament from burning out and a specialized carbon filament that outlasted all other bulbs of that time.

Edison died on 10-20-31 at age 84

Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876 at the age of 29. He beat out other inventors of the day that were working on the invention because Bell was able to perfect the invention making his far superior and won out. Bell worked on his theory that speech could be reproduced by means of an electrically charged wire. His first success came while he was testing his instruments in new quarters in Boston. Thomas A. Watson, Bell's assistant, had struck a clock spring at one end of a wire and Bell heard the sound in another room. For forty weeks he worked on his instruments, and on March 10, 1876, Watson, who was working in another room, was startled to hear Bell's voice say: "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you."

Bell once said, "Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do so you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before. Follow it up, explore all around it, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the result of thought."

Wilbur and Orville Wright, the Wright Bothers, made their first sustained controlled flight in a powered aircraft on 12-17-1903. They had been experimenting since 1896. In 1900 & 1901 their first flight attempts failed. In 1902 they built a wind tunnel to conduct specialized experiments. In 1903 they devised their own lighter gasoline engine, because they felt that the engines of the day were too heavy.

The brothers tried experiment after experiment to perfect the airplane, in 1905 they had the first practical model of the plane to produce.

Others had worked on the plane, but the Wright Brothers would not quit and worked endlessly till their model flew. "We were lucky enough to grow up in an environment where there was always much encouragement to children to pursue intellectual interests; to investigate whatever aroused curiosity." -- Orville Wright

Henry Ford,  created the first inexpensive mass-produced automobile, the famous Model T and began using assembly line manufacturing. He began working as a machinist, then an engineer with the Edison Illuminating Company. Thomas Edison and he were close friends. In 1896 introduced the Quadricycle, a four-wheeled cart with a gasoline engine. In 1903 the Ford Motor Company was founded, and in 1908 Ford introduced the Model T. By 1924 10 million Model T cars had been sold.

Ford once said, “Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” 

Around 1930, Ford asked his engineers to create a V-8 engine that could be mass produced. A year later the frustrated engineers told Ford that it was impossible. Ford said, “ I want it and I’ll have it!” The engineers, at Ford’s urging forged on, and on March, 31, 1932 Henry Ford introduced his new V-8 engine to the public. The experts said it couldn’t be done, that it was impossible to invent a V-8 engine cast in one piece. Ford was able to mass produce his engine and prove everyone wrong.

Robert Fulton, was born in Lancaster PA. In 1765. He was a painter who is credited with painting Benjamin Franklin’s portrait. To invent a workable steamboat, Fulton used a special English steam engine. His ship, The Clermont, made it’s debut on August 17, 1807, steaming up river from New York to Albany. Fulton’s boat was mocked as : “Fulton’s Folly.”

Fulton later said, “ As I had the occasion daily to pass to and from the shipyard where my boat was in progress, I often loitered near the groups of strangers and heard various remarks as to the object of the new vehicle. The language was uniformly that of scorn, sneer or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense; the dry jest; the wise calculations of losses or expenditures; the dull repetition of  “Fulton’s Folly.” Never did a single encouraging  remark, a bright hope, a warm wish cross my path.”

Milo C. Jones, owned a small farm in Wisconsin. He had barely made enough off the farm for his family and him to survive. And then he was struck with a debilitating paralysis and confined to bed. Instead of giving up on life as an invalid, Jones used his time and mind to come up with a game plan for success. He gathered his family together and explained how, with their help and bodies, they would plant every tillable acre of their farm and raise little pigs. And while they were young they would slaughter the tender pigs and make special breakfast sausages named: “Jones Little Pig Sausages” and sell them in every store across the country, and “they’ll sell like hotcakes,”  he said, and they did.

King Camp Gillette, was born on 1-5-1855 and died on 7-9-1932. While working as a traveling bottle stop salesman he got an idea to invent a new safety razor that would be disposable and inexpensive, because the present day razors needed continuous sharpening and were worn out too quickly.

He found it very difficult to invent a blade as thin as paper yet tough enough to cut through tough whiskers. Critics were quick to knock him and his idea.

In 1903 Gillette began production of the Gillette Safety Razor and Blade, he only sold 51 razors and 168 blades in the first year. The following year 90,884 razors and 123,648 blades were sold. In 1915 450,000 razors and 70 million blades were sold.

Gillette once said, “ I didn’t know enough to quit. I was a dreamer who believed in the gold at the foot of the rainbow. I dared to go where wise ones feared to tread.”

C- 2009 John Paul Carinci

Taken from the book: The Power Of Being Different

"Using All Your Talents to the Fullest" (from my book THE POWER OF BEING DIFFERENT)

Dennis Waitley wrote the following story in Insight:

“The Scriptures tell of a story of a master of a wealthy estate

who gave some of his fortune to three of his servants. To the

first servant he gave five talents; to the second, three talents;

to the third servant he gave one talent. A talent in those

days was a measure of money. He told the three servants to

‘cherish and utilize to the fullest what had been given.’ And

after one year he would check with them to see what they

had done.

“The first servant invested his money in different

businesses. The second servant bought materials and made

things to sell. The third servant took his talent and hid it

and saved it. After one year the master saw that the first

servant, through his investing, had now 25 talents. The

second servant had built his up to 15 talents, which made

the master happy. So he asked the third servant what had

become of his one talent. The servant exclaimed, ‘I was

afraid to misuse the talent, so I carefully hid it. Here it is!

I am now giving it back to you in the same condition as

free time? Most of us do, but what would you do in your

free time to find greater success?

While growing up, I can remember my father working

three jobs to support our family. I don’t remember him ever

relaxing or hanging around the house. He worked hard. I

learned of his hard work when I used to go with him after

school to clean oil burners. Believe me, he earned every

cent he was paid.  COPYRIGHTED 2005 JOHN P. CARINCI

when you gave it to me!’ The master was very mad. ‘Thou

wicked and slothful servant. How dare you not use the gift

that I gave you?’”

Here is an encouraging estimate: people in America

can often live to be 85 or 90. Today’s newborn will have the

benefits of medical science that will enable them to live to

be 100 to 110.

We are very fortunate today to be able to live long,

healthy, and productive lives. Our forbearers often died

from fever, pneumonia, and even childbirth, which killed

many women and children. Imagine living centuries ago

when a good life meant living only into your thirties.

Imagine ending your opportunities by age thirty.

The person who is 70 today is often healthier than a

person 60 years old who lived in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Today, it’s not unheard of for a 75-year-old to run New York

City’s 26-mile marathon and to finish. Though you always

have dangers around you that can cut your life short, the

statistics are in your favor to live a healthy and active life

into old age.

Can you appreciate the fact that you will probably have

more time on this great earth than your ancestors? Or do

you waste and undervalue your life? Do you wish for more

AFFIRMATIONS THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE

Self-Suggestion Statements (taken from my book)

Today I begin my new life. The old life of mediocrity,

compromise, and weariness has been laid to rest. Today I

am born anew, with all the enthusiasm of a child. For as a

child, I was going to conquer the world. Today I will replace

the old with the new, and the new will slowly become habit

through daily repetition.

With the new Power Ideas that I have learned, I will

be successful. For now on, I know why many fail and I will

avoid that road filled with pits of failure. Never again will

I feel pity for myself, for now I realize I have all I need

to change my life for the better. I understand now that I

absorb and retain only positive motivating thoughts, which

that my odds at being born and winding up with my exact

Now I realize that like the bodybuilder developing his

body, I must maintain my greatest asset - my mind. And

I now vow to feed that mind inspiration and motivation,

through books, tapes, and actions. My mind must stay

in shape like the muscles of the bodybuilder. And I also

realize that I am different from others. But I will never

act as though I am better than another. For no one is ever

better than anyone else, just different – through attitudes,

personality, inspiration, thoughts, and enthusiasm. I will be

successful; it’s inevitable, because my aggressiveness will

create opportunities for my success.  COPYRIGHTED 2005 JOHN P. CARINCI

personality were millions to one. So, I will love all of God’s

other miracles as I love myself. Always, will I show my love

to others, looking for the good, the gold inside of everyone.

Because I now know every human being has good inside of

him, though, sometimes, hidden. I also know that showing

my love first will bring forth love out of others. Just as an

animal studies a human’s eyes, looking for danger, friend

or foe, all whom I have eye contact with will study me for

love, hatred, despair, sadness or fear. I will project only

love.

Now that I possess these Power Ideas, I will motivate

myself each day onward to success. Never again will I

allow others to keep me down. I will arise each morning

with renewed energy and confidence, eager to unwrap that

special gift of a new day. I will push on harder when others

give up. And I will move to the top like heavy cream, rich

in texture, with my convictions. I vow to always consume

positive uplifting thoughts, but if I should wander, as I may,

I will quickly get back on track. Do we not watch what our

bodies consume? Is it not paramount to feed our minds,

which controls our bodies – only the purest, most uplifting,

enthusiastic thoughts?

it will send back out like the beacon of a lighthouse. The

bible says: “Ask and it shall be given. Seek and you shall

find. Knock and the door shall open. For the one who asks

will always receive.”

Are we not what we eat? And do we not become and

achieve what we think? Never again will I allow others to

sense negativity from me. The world is full of pessimistic

individuals, preaching doom and gloom. I choose a better

way to live. There are so many others, departed and living,

who have believed in me as someone special. Do I not owe

it to them, myself and my creator to accomplish greatness?

For my enthusiasm and charisma will spur positive actions

and responses from others. I now know that a positive

attitude is contagious. I will forever lift the attitudes of all

that I meet, knowing full well that when I help another - I

help myself.

Always, and from this day on – I will love all people

whom I meet each day, no matter how they treat or react to

me. How can I love myself without loving all others first?

For now I am aware that I am the greatest living miracle

that my newborn mind was first exposed to. I know now

have so much more than many others who have debilitating

impairments, who achieve greatness many times despite

severe obstacles.

Never again will I follow the followers in life. For now

I know that I can lead the way. And even though I may

take wrong turns, never again will I be deterred. I now

know so much more. Even Thomas Edison had more than

10,000 mistakes before achieving his great invention of the

light bulb. Failure will never again intimidate or depress

me, rather it will be my steppingstone to victory. For now,

I understand that victory is always near the end of the

journey, not within the first few steps. I will push on. I will

rise to the occasion. Each new day will be the best day of

my life, and the world will take notice and admire this new

attitude.

From this day forward, I will be sure to spread this

new positive attitude in all I do and for all others to see,

feel, and sense. I know it is far better to wear a protective

armor made out of motivation and a positive disposition,

which will repel all negativity. And in return, I will allow

the subconscious, the more powerful part of my brain to

WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO CHANGE SOMEONE'S LIFE

We Have the Ability

to Change Someone’s Life

Words have the power to destroy or heal. When words are true and kind,

they can change the world.

—Buddha (Siddhārtha Gautama)

(ca. 6th century B.C.E.) Founder of Buddhism

"How powerful are words? Can words, spoken or read, really

change someone’s life? Can words have a lasting effect, or are they lost

in a split second?

It dawned on me one day that I could possibly change someone’s

life with mere words, either spoken or written. In fact, we all can! How

powerful is that? With the pen I am holding at this moment and any

scrap of paper I might write on, my words could have an immense effect

on someone’s life. Words that are read are a very powerful means of

communication. My thoughts written down can translate into positive

thought impulses in the mind of another person. These thought impulses

can then propel that person forward into some sort of action, or change

their present direction.

Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.

—Pearl Strachan Hurd,

Mid- to late 20th century poet

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An All-Consuming Desire to Succeed

Words spoken have started wars, have initiated truces, have begun

many a fight, and have been the cause of many murders. Words have

broken up many relationships and have started other ones. Words. Mere

words. A supreme example of the power of words is the Bible.

The Bible

The best gift God has given man is the Bible. It is by all odds the most

influential book (or rather collection of books) in existence. The Old and

New Testaments have held men together spiritually through the centuries.

Three hundred and fifty years ago

1611, fifty-four devoted English scholars and churchmen, assigned to the

task by King James I, gave to the English-speaking world a monument of

noble prose, on which so many of us have been brought up. The Bible has

been translated into more than 1,150 languages. In short, the Bible has had

the most dramatic career of any book in the world.

[this piece was written in 1661], in

—Abraham Lincoln

Words can inspire many a reader. Words also can motivate a writer

to write thousands of words himself—perhaps even in just one sitting. I

have been influenced by certain word-related subjects to the point that

I could not stop writing, while at other times I had writer’s-block. I

have read the words of the greatest motivators, such as Og Mandino in

his great self-help book,

been motivated to great action for many years after reading W. Clement

Stone and Napoleon Hill and their masterpiece self-help work,

through a Positive Mental Attitude.

(1809-1865), 16th President of the United StatesThe Greatest Salesman in the World. And I haveSuccess

At a seminar in 1977, I met a great motivator and Olympic

champion, Bob Richards. He was giving a motivational speech to all the

agents of a life insurance company I had begun working for. I was only

twenty-one and was struggling to make sales. After his speech, Richards

took a few minutes to talk with me. He told me to go out and buy a

copy of

Success through a Positive Mental Attitude.

Well, the rest is history. I devoured that book, as well as other

motivational books and tapes, and it changed my life forever.

Words spoken can change someone’s life. Now, thirty-five years

later, I am still in the life insurance business, I am running my own

successful agency, and I am still practicing self-help techniques. So now

I feel compelled to give back to society. I want to change the lives of

young and old alike and to help people in foreign countries. I have

had my first self-help book,

published worldwide. There’s no greater feeling than when someone

tells you that the self-help book you wrote changed his life for the better.

We each have the power to motivate through the written word,

the spoken word, and even mere acts of kindness. So try it out today.

See if you can make someone’s life better than before. Try to motivate

someone to greatness. Make it one of your new goals. Watch how your

enthusiasm becomes contagious.

The Power of Being Different, translated and

I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a

word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move

around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning

like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take

on other meanings as if they had the right to be young.

—Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962), Poet, philosopher  C-JOHN PAUL CARINCI from the book An All-Consuming Desire To Succeed