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CHAPTER 1 Which Way is Life Leaning? "The
optimist fell ten stories
And at each window bar He shouted to his friends— 'All right so far.'" WAS he, as
one
is now and then
inclined to think, a silly-pated fool,
or was there some basis for the feeling which inspired his utterance?
In other words, are those to whom life seems so bright, buoyant, even
and interesting, in distinction from those to whom it seems so dark and
complex and uncertain, to be described by this same, or by some kindred
term?
"One
who
never turned his
back, but
marched breast forward.Then, there are those who have exchanged fears and forebodings, gloom, and at least apparent despair, with their many times attendant bodily ailments, for peace and health and strength and newness of power. In other words they have come into a newness of life that is, to speak mildly, most interesting, and in some cases quite miraculous both to themselves and to their friends and acquaintances. Is it pure imagination? Then is imagination rather a good thing to have? Especially as in such vast numbers of cases these things last. It is true moreover of people of not any one peculiar trend of mind and thought and life, but of people of all descriptions and all types and so-called stations in life. Is it merely a difference of temperament that life seems so gloomy and uncertain and get-no-where to some, and so buoyant and certain and straight-to-the-mark like, to others? If so, is there somehow or somewhere a power to change or alter temperament? A part of what we might term the optimist's philosophy is—If you can mend a situation mend it; if you can't mend it, forget it. Is it good philosophy or is it foolishness? To me the term optimist marks the man or the woman of energy and common sense, in distinction from the one of either supine inactivity or that will allow himself or herself to get, as we say, all "balled-up," when in reality there is no occasion for it. Moreover if this one was a silly-pated fool, then was Browning also when he wrote: Never doubted clouds would break. Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." Was Samuel Johnson? when he said: "The habit of looking at the bright side of things is worth more than a thousand a year." Was Lowell? when he said: "Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those that never come." Or again, is G. K. Chesterton? when he says: "The optimist is a better reformer than the pessimist: and the man who believes life to be excellent is the one who alters it most." Or, looking at the matter in a really serious manner,—has the optimist something that the other fellow hasn't ? Personally I believe in the absolute reign of law, and in nothing, perhaps, more fully than in the law of cause and effect, the same as I believe that all life is from within out, and as is the inner, therefore, so always and necessarily is the outer. A few days ago, a friend who sees much of all phases of life, and whose daily work many times takes him among those whose lives and whose hardships and sufferings, both mental and physical, would cause ordinarily the stoutest heart that witnesses them to grow downcast and sceptical, said: "It's a good thing, after all, for one to have a little philosophy in his life; there are times when it stands him in right good hand." Where is there a philosophy of real value that the average individual can get hold of—a philosophy that will give results—a philosophy that as we say, will make good? Judging from all the philosophical and religious systems in the world, it would seem that every man and woman could have no want whatever along this line. Or, are they so complex, or are they so mixed with other things that so obscure their real working and vitalising portions, that we average mortals don't know just how to get hold of them? Undoubtedly many of them are sadly in need of some simplifying process, or some process that will extract the really vital portions from the great mass of verbiage that enshrouds them, or from the great mass of extraneous matter that has crept in, practically to engulf them. The skilled machinist is, I believe, continually on the alert to simplify the splendid specimen of modern machinery, by the elimination of every possible part that is not absolutely essential to its performing its real functions. To me whatever in philosophy, in religion, or in any code of life principles has use,—can be applied and used in the everyday problems of our common work-a-day life, is of value, and whatever hasn't, is not only valueless, but is, moreover, a positive detriment, in that it tends to keep from us the real vital laws and forces that, as we say, do the work. To me, if we consider terms not too technically, philosophy and religion are very similar and, in a sense, the same. They have also a very similar characteristic when we endeavour to apply to them both this great principle of use. I was reading only yesterday a portion of a very able sermon on the Sunday editorial page of one of our great dailies, in which the writer made a very strong plea for the value of allegiance to Truth, and the value of allegiance to Religion. Nowhere, however, was there a word said in regard to just what was meant by "truth" or what was meant by "religion." I dare say the sermon was of as little real practical value to ninety-nine out of every hundred readers as it was to me. We read now and then that one of the great secrets of life is "Adjustment." Again, that the secret of life is "Harmony." Granting this, is there some great truth, some great central truth, so to speak, that we can adjust ourselves—our daily lives—to? Some great central truth that we can square our lives by? Said one of the world's greatest teachers: "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Is there some understandable, some universal truth or principle that all can accept, and that all lives can be squared by? I believe most profoundly that the optimist has something that the other fellow hasn't. If it is a common sense, get-some-where and more-than-a-day optimism, I believe that its possessor has found primarily two great facts. The one is that there is a Science of Thought. The other is what might be termed the fact of the Divinity of Human Life—the element of Divinity with insights and powers that are greater than the ordinary human. CHAPTER
2
The Creative Power of Thought AND what
do we
mean by a Science
of Thought? Its funda- mental principle
is the fact that thoughts are forces, that like creates like, and like
attracts like, and for one to govern their thinking, therefore, is to
determine their life.
We are now finding that a definite active thought is a force, the same as electricity is a force, the same as vibration is a force, or rather as certain forms of vibration are productive of certain forms of force. They have form and quality and power, which we are now beginning to determine in our very laboratory experiments; although, up to the present time, we have learned more perhaps of their influences and effects than we have definitely of their qualities. We know definitely already a great deal of their effects in habit-forming, in character-building, and their effects in bodybuilding, the same as we have discovered definitely certain great laws in connection with their influences upon others. We have reached the stage of what may properly be called "scientific mind and body-building" through the agency of thought. As we think, so we become—cause, effect. Necessarily is it true, then—as is the inner, so always and inevitably is the outer. There is the hopeful, optimistic type of thought, which to whatever extent indulged, gradually increases the power for this type of thought. It has the effect of aiding greatly in the accomplishment of whatever we set out to do, the same as it has most potent and powerful influences in inducing health and strength and vigour in connection with all bodily organs and functions. It is what may be termed the normal, natural, creative type of thought. On the other hand, there is the fearing, vacillating, the sort of negative type of thought that has the influence of crippling our energies, stealing success in advance from our endeavours, the same as it has a depressing, sort of closing up, deadening effect upon all bodily functions and powers. We are finding scientifically true "as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." Along whatever line the mind sets itself does it attract unseen elements that induce it to grow gradually more and more along that line, as well as elements that aid it in accomplishing its set purpose. There is in connection with thought a law that we are now beginning to understand, that may be termed "the drawing power of mind." We are continually attracting to us, from both the seen and the unseen sides of life, influences and conditions corresponding with the types of thought we most habitually allow to take form in our minds, and that we consequently most habitually live with. "Birds of a feather flock together" is a very old statement. But birds of a feather flock together because like attracts like. For one to govern their thinking, then, is not only to determine their own life, but to determine also those that they attracts to them, their acquaintances and, eventually, their friends and comp- anions. The hopeful, confident, successful type of thought not only attracts to us success, but it also attracts to us successful people, those whose lives are dominated by the same type or trend of thought. They, in turn, become of help to us, and we to them. So, as we give in thought, we also get back again. Not only are our accomplishments determined by our prevailing types of thought, but our influence upon others is determined in this same way. Those who come in personal contact with us are influenced invariably, though many times unconsciously, by our prevailing types of thought. If we are hopeful, we inspire hope—we radiate hope and encouragement and strength, so to speak. If we have a feeling of friendship and good-will and helpfulness—love—we inspire these same qualities in others, and the same types of warming and life-giving thought-forces come back in turn to us from them. It is, therefore, scientifically true that as a man gives he gets. We are all influenced, and whether conscious of it or not, by the prevailing mental and emotional states and conditions of those with whom we come in contact. It was Henry Ward Beecher who said: "There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearing, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like the bringing of a lamp there." We use the term personal magnetism. Careful analysis will generally reveal the fact that personal magnetism is the outcome of clean, positive, cheerful, sympathetic, and helpful types of thought, that have gradually built certain qualities into the life of the one entertaining them, and that are instinctively felt by all those with whom he or she comes in contact. I have never yet known of one of a fearing, negative, critical, self-centered and self-seeking type of thought to have, to any appreciable degree, the quality that we term "personal magnetism." If we are small and critical we inspire and call from others the small and critical type of thought and act. If we hate we inspire hatred, and, with its chilling, killing qualities, it will turn back to us again. If we live in envy of those who are doing things, we are dwarfing powers within us that, if rightly cultivated and grown, would enable us likewise to do things, and thus remove any cause for envy. If we love we inspire love, and the warming, ennobling, uplifting influences of love will come back to us. We can hinder and retard another by holding him or her in the thought of weakness or failure, the same as we can hinder or retard our own efforts. "Keep your courage up, and you'll do," was Stevenson's way, perhaps unconsciously, of stating this law. Mrs. Wiggs also, perhaps unconsciously, stated it when she said: "When things first got to goin' wrong with me, I says: 'O Lord, whatever comes, keep me from gittin sour!' Since then I've made it a practice to put all my worries down in the bottom of my heart, then sit on the lid an' smile." And again, when she said: "Don't you go and git sorry fer yerself. That's one thing I can't stand in nobody. Ther's always lots of other folks you kin be sorry fer 'stead of yerself. Ain't you proud you ain't got a harelip? Why, that one thought is enough to keep me from ever gittin' sorry fer myself." It's the man or the woman who does not allow himself or herself to get, as the expression is, "all balled up," who generally arrives, and who also wears. Those who do allow it are generally the greatest hindrances there are in the world to themselves, and they are likewise a hindrance to others. Certainly, others are influenced, and generally badly influ- enced, by the uncertain, excitable and non-productive type of thought that emanates as an atmosphere from them. To keep calm and quiet within—and the mouth closed—and to look forward with hope and faith and courage, and with the dogged determination of still finding the best when the illusions break or show cracks, is the mark of the man or the woman who will finally win out. Again, there is that rather large aggregation of people who are allowing happiness to remain away from them, and from those surrounding them, by giving undue attention to little, non-essential things, instead of seeing the fundamentals that are alone worth the attention of a normal, clear-cut type of man or woman. Such large amounts, whole cargoes, we might say, of peace and harmony are allowed to escape from such vast numbers of families because some member or members do not understand the significance of this important fact. How many millions of parents, especially mothers, in the world's history, could have been saved hours and, in the aggregate, years of worry, senseless, useless worry, if they had realised the importance of this in connection with their children! Then there comes that more pronounced and decided enemy and assassin of human endeavour and happiness—or, rather, two kindred ones, but always closely enough allied to be called twins—fear and worry. The mysterious, or the marvellous feature of these, to me, is always the fact that by them nothing is ever to be gained, but much is always to be lost. Fear always has the influence of neutralising normal healthy endeavour and action, sometimes to the extent of paralysing it fully, the same as it has on all bodily functions and powers. Much the same is true in regard to worry, both in connection with human activity and endeavour, as well as in connection with various bodily organs and functions, though in connection with the latter its action is more of a slow corroding and poisoning, rather than of a neutralising or paralysing nature. If anything were to be gained by either, one could easily see why they have such an almost universal hold on human life. But when we once fully realise, as every normal-minded person can, that by them nothing is to be gained, but everything to be lost, we can see how thoroughly foolish and expensive they are. There are vast numbers of people everywhere today who are given to them, and who are paying their continual heavy tolls, who could do nothing more valuable in all the world than to set about in a very definite way to think this proposition over; and, instead of further drifting under their influence, set sail and rudder straight for a point where these will be left forever behind. Not that one can always change a habit instantly, but it is essential to realise that when one is drifting they will likely continue to drift indefinitely, unless they set out in the direction of the point at which they want eventually to arrive. To set the face in the right direction, and then simply to travel on, unmindful and never discouraged by even frequent relapses by the way, is the secret of all human achievement. Fear and worry and all kindred mental states are so expensive that no man, woman, or child can afford to give them a dominating or even the slightest hold in his or her life. They will grow if we indulge them; they will depart—in time completely—if we are really determined that we can't afford them. There are untold numbers among us who are suffering various bodily ailments that have been induced, many times unconsciously on their part, by these two great filchers of human health and, therefore, of happiness. Fear invariably paralyses healthy action; worry corrodes and pulls down the organism. If not quick-acting, as in cases now and then they are, they have always the slow-poisoning influence. Long-continued grief at any real or apparent loss will do the same. Anger, jealousy, malice, a brooding disposition of any type, will do the same—each has its own peculiar corroding, poisoning, tearing down effects. A close-fisted, hoarding, stingy disposition will have also similar effects. Wise is he who determines early to do away forever with the companionship of the two twins. They are black fellows. They never help us. They never work, they never clean for us, but in their pails they carry always poison. Why not good-night, then, to the Black Twins! To bid goodbye to fear and worry, opening all doors and windows to hope and faith which always induce courage, which in turn is always productive of normal healthy action, and then coupling this with rightly directed endeavour, can work a complete reformation, even to a revolution, in any life within even twelve month months; and twelve months pass, as we all realise, oh! so quickly. Not that there are no problems, and hard and distressing circumstances, and even tragedies, that come into our common lives, but the very fact that these do come is the great reason why we should equip ourselves with the best agencies to meet and to master them, to leave them behind and, as quickly as possible,—then to forget them. Faith, hope, courage, and cheerfulness all along the way are the agencies that will stand by us successfully to meet, to master, to get the good from each experience; then to pass on and completely forget the distressing portions. It is not, What are the conditions in any life? but how a person meets whatever conditions arise, that determines whether he or she is a creature or a master of circumstances, that determines whether he or she has backbone and stamina, and withal good common sense in connection with their life problems. Cheerfulness, looking always on the bright side of things, determined always to stand in the sunshine, rather than in the shadow—this it is that makes life, with its knotty problems, continually easier. It's the "oil of gladness" that helps in doing the work. It is productive also of the influence that mysteriously escapes from our lives, that helps the friend, and the neighbour also, with their problems. It's a great help for us sometimes to remember that the neighbour has their problems also. And then the neighbour around on the next corner likewise, and—— To take a cheerful, hopeful, optimistic, never-down-in-the-mouth, but courage-always-up attitude of mind, is to set in, and to keep in continual operation, subtle, silent forces that are working along the lines we are going, and that open the way for us to arrive. They are the forces that are working for us continual good if we are but wise enough to recognise them and put them into operation. They are waiting always to be appropriated by us if we have an understanding sufficient to enable us to recognise and appropriate them. "It is a part of my religion to look well after the cheerfulness of life, and let the dismals shift for themselves," said Alcott. The world today is filled with heroes, heroes in the common life, but greater are they than any General, because the General ordinarily isn't out on the fields of continual fighting. They are the men and the women who are meeting their problems, many times distressing, and hard to understand, but always with courage up, always with a smile on their lips—even when hearts are sad—saying little, if anything, because they are too big, or because they haven't time for wanting sympathy, and also because they are not sufficiently selfish to grow the habit of intruding their problems and their troubles upon others. That we be men and women, although we stumble often and fall, is undoubtedly what Marcus Aurelius had in mind when so many years ago he said: "Be not discouraged, or out of humour, because practice falls short of precept in some particulars. If you happen to be beaten, come on again, and be glad if most of your acts are worthy of human nature. Love that to which you return, and do not go, like a schoolboy to his master, with an ill-will." It was Horace who said: "The mind that is cheerful in its present state will be adverse to all solicitudes for the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile." A similar thought was that of Aristotle: "Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility, but through greatness of mind." St. Francis (de Sales) struck squarely and helpfully at one of the great principles of life when he said: "Do not look forward to what might happen tomorrow; the same everlasting Father who cares for you today will take care of you tomorrow, and every day. Either He will shield you from suffering, or He will give you unfailing strength to bear it. Be at peace, then, and put aside all anxious thoughts and imaginations." We are now beginning to realise that happiness is a duty, and that the one who is not happy—if not chronically, at least primarily so—has either failed to grasp some of the essential principles and forces in life, or that his or her courage isn't up. Happiness is a normal and natural condition, and something is radically wrong with every life where it doesn't play at least a predominating part. Such a life fails also in performing its duty towards its neighbour as it should perform it. It is apt to be a hindrance rather than a help in this, our common journey. It was Stevenson who said: "A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of good-will, and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted. We need not care whether they could prove the forty-seventh proposition. They do a better thing than that; they practically demonstrate the great theorem of the liveableness of life." But Humanity is brave, so brave we will find if we search carefully—and even at times perchance if we look within—as to fill us with admiration for this rather common and, at times, queer and questionable thing we call Human Nature. Hope and courage and sympathy and trust are great producers, and they are great factors in a man's doing his duty, as well as his having the joy of achievement. "Never to tire," said Amiel, "never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart; to hope always like God; to love always—this is Duty." No, an optimistic philosophy rightly understood, does not teach that life is merely a long, even holiday, that there are no minor strains in what might be termed its daily music, no problems to be solved, no bread to be earned, no tired bodies that welcome the rest of the night, no burdens to be shared with friend, neighbour, relative. It does teach that we should always look for the best there is, and always expect to find it, and that we should never allow ourselves to indulge in fears and forebodings, and to stand trembling and helpless when the problem arises, when the distressing circumstance presents itself, when the work is to be done, and perchance the sorrow or bereavement to be borne. It teaches also to turn never a deaf, but always a ready ear to the friend's or neighbour's signal of distress. It equips us with the weapons to face such conditions when they arise, and to so direct them that they work for our advantage and our good, instead of against us. If we adopt a philosophy that recognises the working always of the law of cause and effect, instead of mere blind chance happening, then we believe that everything that comes into our lives has its part to play, and it is our portion to meet whatever comes in such a way that it will serve its highest purposes in our lives. Personally, I believe that nothing ever comes by chance, that everything comes through the operation of law, although many times we are not able to see the cause that has produced or that is producing such results. Moreover, I believe that whatever comes has its part to play, its mission to fulfill, and that if we can not always see it we may not do unwisely in having faith that the time will come when we will eventually rejoice that each thing came as it came. If we can preserve this attitude, then when the difficult thing is before us, its sting will be drawn, and our faith, insight, and courage to meet it wisely, and to get the best there is from it, will be increased many times a hundredfold. We should be lenient in judging another, and we should be lenient in judging ourselves. From my own stumblings and errors and fallings I have come to the place where my only question in regard to another is, Which way is he looking? Not, how much has he groped and stumbled and fallen, the same as myself; but is his face now turned in the right direction, and is he genuinely endeavouring to keep it there? If he is wise enough, when he falls, to linger there only long enough to get his lesson, and long-headed enough to learn it quickly and go on, even his stumbling becomes an asset, and it is a mere matter of time before he reaches a very certain destination. The bright child doesn't have to be burned continually. The wise man or woman learns his or her lessons quickly and goes on. "Don't worry when you stumble—remember, a worm is about the only thing that can't fall down," some one has said most admirably. We can all afford to be exceedingly charitable towards others. The fact that every one of us has their failings, and also the fact that every one of us has stumbled and fallen—and at times fallen flat—gives us a very broad basis for that admirable and kingly quality—charity. While each of us is in his or her present incomplete state we should be very slow to judge another. It may uncover the hypocrite in us more quickly than we may be aware; and to condemn another is, if we will consider it in this light for but a very brief moment, richly and consummately asinine. "To speak wisely," it has been said, "may not always be easy, but not to speak ill requires only silence." We need more sympathy in our common life. It is always a mark of wisdom. It expands the individual life also into the other lives around him. It is well that we work each for our own individual good. Anyone, however, who stops there will find that they can never reach their highest individual good unless they take also an interest—and not merely a sentimental, but an active interest—in the lives and in the welfare of those about them. "Help thou thy brother's boat across, and, lo! thine own has reached the shore," says the Hindoo proverb. There must be the general as well as the individual good, and only he who is aiding it is realising the best for himself. "I have noticed," said Uncle Eben, "dat de man who gits so selfish dat he can't think o' nobody 'cept hisse'f, ginerally looks like he war thinkin' of sumpin' disagreeable." One of the great laws of life is giving—we term it service. Service for others is just as essential to our real happiness and to our highest welfare as is the fact that we work for our own individual welfare. No man lives to himself alone. No man can live to himself alone. The Order of the Universe has been written from time immemorial against it. There is no man who has ever found happiness by striving for it directly. It never has and it never can come that way. Why? Simply because the very laws of the universe are against it. It was Charles Kingsley who sang so truly: "Friends,
in this world of hurry and work and sudden end.
If a thought comes quick of doing a kindness to a friend, Do it that very instant! don't put it off—don't wait! What's the use of doing a kindness if you do it a day too late!" A man may become wealthy, he may become very wealthy in the sense o£ acquiring money. He may become a millionaire, and even many times over, by working for it directly. But very common men have done that. Indeed, many of a low type have done it. We now have sense enough not to call these great men. Careful analysis will show, in every case, that it requires service for one's fellow-men to constitute a great man. The man who is working for greatness alone is the man who ordinarily never achieves it. It is the man who has his mind and heart centered on accomplishing the thing that is in some way serving or that is to serve his fellow-men, who may some day be elevated by the silent vote to the position of greatness. So, there is no such thing as finding happiness by seeking for it directly. It comes always through the operation of a great and universally established law—by the sympathy, the care, the consideration we render to others. The higher types of happiness will never come by seeking for them directly. A real interest in the affairs of others makes for a generous, wholesome, inclusive and, therefore, broad and happy life. The life that is sharing in the interests, the welfare, and the happiness of others is the one that is continually expanding in beauty and in power and, therefore, in happiness. The little, the equivocal, the small, the exclusive, the pure self-seeker, are never among those genuinely happy. As Henry Drummond once said, they are on the wrong track. The large-hearted, the sympathetic, those always ready with the helping hand are the ones who have found the road. Joy in another's success not only indicates always the large type, but it indicates that they in turn are worthy of success themselves. And if they are not always what we term a success in some given field, or art, or in acquiring wealth, they are a success in the greatest of arts, the Art of Living. They are also a success in that the joy and happiness of others enters into and becomes a portion of their own lives. Half the heartaches of the world would be banished, and half its burdens would be lifted, if every life were habitually tuned to this deep but simply expressed sentiment by Emily Dickinson: "The Winning of the Best" by Ralph Waldo Trine Order in Adobe PDF eBook or printed form for $5.95 (+ printing charge) or click here to order in printed form from Lulu.com for $10.99 |
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Because we at the Prosperity Affiliates Network are giving our affiliates the opportunity to earn 100% from every sale which is virtually unheard of in affiliate marketing programs upto now, and the reason we are doing this is to provide them with a great incentive to promote their web-stores and thereby help to spread the knowledge contained in these audios and ebooks around the world. FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE SELF-HELP WEBSITES PAN100 web-stores are fully customizable, and included in the membership package is webpage creator software, website templates, graphics, etc., etc.; in fact everything you need to create professional-looking web pages yourself in order to add your own additional products, articles, etc., if you wish to give your web-store that personal touch. On the other hand you may not have the time or inclination to create your own web pages at the moment, in which case you can just leave the web-store exactly as it is:  Click here
to test-drive a fully functional PAN100 web-store
VERY SIMPLE TO RUN ONLINE BUSINESS To take part in the PAN100 Power Affiliate program and earn 100% from every sale, all you need is a PayPal account (a Business or Premier account is recommended), which costs nothing at all to open. If you don't already have a PayPal account you can open one right away by clicking here. If for some reason you are unable to open a PayPal account you can still become the owner of a PAN100 web-store, and if you contact us we will explain to you exactly how.
PAN100 web-stores come fully stocked with over ninety high quality self-help audio and ebook products, and we add two or three new products each month. The retail value of this inventory is well over $1000, and growing every month. When a customer makes a purchase from your PAN100 web-store you receive their payment directly into your PayPal account the moment the sale is made. You receive 100% of the sale price minus PayPal's payment processing fee of around 4%. Once they have paid, our automated system provides your customer with their download details immediately and sends them an email with their download information also. At the same time, PayPal email you, the web-store owner, with notification that the sale has been made and provide you with details of what was purchased together with the customer's contact details. There really is nothing at all to running this online business as everything is done for you automatically. Your web-store comes fully stocked with quality audio books and ebooks. We digitally deliver all the products to your customers ourselves. We even provide after sales support for your customers. All you need to do is advertise your web-store and wait for the orders to come rolling in! Once money starts to accumulate in your PayPal account you can either transfer it to your bank account or PayPal can send you a check on request, or you can apply for a PayPal Visa/Mastercard debit card and make purchases virtually anywhere in the world using it. ADDITIONAL AFFILIATE REVENUE Whenever a customer purchases a product from your web-store they will also be presented with a One-Time-Offer (OTO) to purchase an additional package of self-improvement ebooks for $29 or $39. If they decide to purchase the OTO bundle you will receive the proceeds from every other sale of it (each alternate sale) directly into your PayPal account also. Likewise, in the right-hand menu column of each page of your web-store you will see there is a "Special Offers" section, and you will receive 50 percent of the proceeds from the purchase of these products also. As time goes on we will be adding more products to this Special Offers section. This will be a great source of additional affiliate revenue for you, as the Special Offer products are all best sellers! MEMBERS-ONLY AREA WITH VALUABLE CONTENT Once you have enrolled into the program you will be given unlimited access to the PAN100 members' area where you will find over 1000 professionally written self-help articles as well as many audios similar to those featured on the demo site above which you can use any way you like. You can compile these articles into individual ebooks and offer them as free downloads to visitors of your web-store if you wish, and we will supply you with the PDF creator software needed to enable you to achieve this very easily. In the members' area you will also have access to a large range of tutorials including video tutorials to help you get started, plus lots of downloadable software, ebooks, etc., many of which come with full resale rights and ready-made sales web pages. You will also find tips on advertising your web-store and attracting visitors to it. We plan in the future to build a large online community of PAN100 web-store owners, and provide them with the opportunity to discuss all matters pertaining to the PAN100 program and the promotion of New Thought ideas generally via a member's forum. LOW STARTUP COSTS AND MEMBERSHIP FEE Membership to the PAN100 Power Affiliate program normally costs $47 per month which includes domain rental, website hosting (with 10 gigabytes of file storage/300 gigabytes of monthly bandwidth), maintenance and support, plus unlimited access to a members' area featuring hundreds of dollars' worth of additional resellable ebooks and software products, many of which include ready-made sales web pages, plus a huge array of other valuable resources including over 1000 self-help articles and mp3's that you can use in any way you wish. The membership fee automatically entitles you to receive 100% of the sale proceeds from the products listed on your web-store with no need to purchase anything at all in addition. There is also a one-time $20 setup fee payable when you first enroll. For a limited time, however, we are giving new members the opportunity to save $14 per month by paying annually instead of monthly. We are also waiving the $20 setup fee for annual subscribers, which amounts to a $188 saving in your first year of membership alone compared to the normal monthly membership rate, then a further $168 yearly saving after that. You will find full details of this special offer further down this page. THE BOOMING SELF-HELP INDUSTRY As you probably already know, the self-improvement industry is one of the most rapidly growing of all, you've only got to visit your local book store to see that for yourself, and this is your golden opportunity to have a part of this multi billion dollar industry without breaking the bank. Where else in the world could you purchase an easy to run store fully stocked with popular, readily saleable products that can be sold over and over again for a total investment of as little as $33 per month? We think that the earning potential of this new online business opportunity speaks for itself.  As you can see from
the demo
web-store, most of the
ebooks listed in
the main part of the catalogue sell for $7.95, and
the
audio/ebook packages sell for $17.95. By selling just one or two
products per week you not only will cover your monthly membership cost
but will already be making a healthy profit on top! With the right
amount of
advertising and a little effort there is no reason why you should not
be able to sell ten or more products every day and earn a considerable
full-time or part-time income with this
unique online business opportunity.FREE PRODUCTS FOR YOUR OWN PERSONAL USE As a PAN100 Power Affiliate you will automatically receive download links to all new product additions that we make to your web-store (2-3 each month). These are for your own personal use and enjoyment.* If you would like to purchase other products from your web-store you can do so at discounted wholesale prices, and you will be given details of how to do that after you join. Click here for another example of a fully operational demo web-store. This web-store is identical to the one that you could soon be owning! In the left-hand column of the web-store you will notice that there are presently a series of articles with audio. This area of the website is fully customizable, as is the main header graphic, introductory text, footer text, and background image of the web-store. You can also add products of your own to the main part of your web-store, above those currently shown in the catalogue, and can take part in the Google AdSense program if you wish to and generate additional income from your web-store - Every time someone clicks on one of the Google ads you will get paid! You can even change the Home Page entirely to a webpage of your own creating if you wish - You will be in full control of your website! QUALITY WEBSITE TRAFFIC PROVIDED No new business website survives for long without a constant stream of visitors to it, no matter how wonderful the products or services offered may be. Once your web-store is up and running you will be able to purchase quality targeted traffic from us at some of the lowest prices in the industry. We have partnered with one of the longest established advertising network providers of expired domain targeted website traffic in the world. For a cost as low as $3.50 per 1,000 unique visitors you can instantly generate reliable amounts of traffic to your web-store which will enable you to build a valuable emailing list by capturing your visitors' names and email addresses, increase sales, establish new customers, generate leads, and create general awareness of your new web-store. Seventeen good reasons why you should become a PAN100 Power Affiliate today:
GETTING STARTED First, you need to choose a domain name (web address) for your new web-store from the list of great domain names below. You can choose between two top-level domain name types - .com and .info - both of which are perfectly suited for informational type websites such as these. As one would expect, the choice of good available domain names ending with .com is much less than those with .info as many millions of .com domain names have been taken by people already over the years. One excellent way to broaden the available choice of .com domain names is to begin the name with www- so that rather than typing in www. you would type www- instead. As the vast majority of you web-store visitors will be clicking on a link in order to visit your web-store rather than manually keying in the website address in their web browser, it really makes little difference whether your domain name begins with www. or www- or has neither of these prefixes in front of the name itself. We have provided a broad selection of suitable domain names below for you to choose from, many of which will be ideally suited to those members wishing to adopt a specific theme for their web-store. A domain name like www.freeselfhelpadvice.info, for instance, would be a great choice for attracting visitors to your web-store via newspaper or magazine small ads as would www.onlineselfimprovement.info. In fact, domain names ending with .info like these are the perfect choice for including in adverts of all kinds as those that read them are much less likely to think you are just trying to sell them stuff. It is always an excellent practice to offer your site visitors something free to read or listen to or to download in return for visiting your web-store, as people are much more likely to make a purchase once they have received a free sample of what you have to offer. The domain names below are all already registered by us and ready for use, and if you choose one of these we will be able to have your new web-store up and running within a couple days. If you are unable to find a suitable domain name for your web-store listed below, you can choose one using the domain search engine link at the bottom of the list instead. Note: If you choose a domain name other than one listed below you will need to wait one to two weeks longer before your web-store is activated. If you prefer, you can register your own domain name elsewhere and use that for your web-store instead. If you decide to do that you should enroll into the program using the link below the list of domain names or click here to enroll. Once you have chosen one you like from the list below, click on the domain name and you will be redirected to PayPal where you will be required to pay $67 for your first months' PAN100 membership which includes a $20 one-time setup fee. You can pay this directly from your PayPal balance if you have sufficient funds available, or by debit or credit card if you prefer. Once your PayPal subscription has been created and the payment processed you will receive an email from us with a temporary password giving you immediate access to the PAN100 members' area. You will receive your web-store username and password with details of how to use your new web-store approximately 48 hours later once it has been set up.
We are
limiting the number of PAN100 web-stores to 1000 in total. This is a
strict limit we are imposing in order to protect the interests of the
web-store owners. Once we have 1000 active members, the doors will be
shut, and no
one else will be able to join even at ten times the current membership
cost.
 This is not any type of sales hype that
we're giving you here, it is a fact and a truth,
so if you really want one of these online stores then it is important
that you act now and enroll right away before it is too late.This offer is limited to one web-store per person, in order to give everyone a fair chance. It is okay for other family members to purchase a web-store also, but we are limiting this offer to a maximum of three web-stores per household. Bear in mind also that there is no long-term commitment or obligation of any kind on your part by becoming a member, and that your monthly or annual membership fee will never be increased once you are a member. You are free to cancel your membership at any time, and you will have nothing more to pay. Furthermore, there are no complex, difficult to read and understand terms and conditions to agree to before joining. Our terms of service are in easy to understand, plain english and can be found at the foot of this webpage. As stated above, the regular cost of becoming a PAN100 Power Affiliate is $47 per month, plus there is a one-time setup fee of $20, however, if you act right away you can take advantage of the following limited-time reduced price offer:
 There are a great many affiliate programs out there, thousands in fact, and quite a large number in the self-help, self-improvement, personal development niche, and some of these offer good commission rates just for advertising their product or service without the need to purchase or spend anything at all yourself, but the main problem with most of these type of affiliate programs it that whilst you may be able to earn a reasonable amount of money from them to begin with, eventually the sales begin to dwindle and in time virtually dry up all together due to lack of variety and over exposure. You may be able to sell someone else's personal transformation course to people for $99 and earn $50 yourself for doing so for a while, but how many of these people are likely to come back and purchase more products from you? What else do you have to offer them even? This is what makes the PAN100 Power Affiliate program so unique and different to any other. Right away you will have a product range of 90+ self-help audios and ebooks to offer people that are realistically priced and easy to sell. Nearly all the products come with a bonus ebook making them superb value for money, and new products are added automatically to your web-store each and every month, so your customers are likely to keep returning and making further purchases indefinitely once they experience the true value of what you are offering. They are also likely to send their friends and loved ones to your web-store knowing that you have products available that will inspire them and help them overcome just about any human difficulty. Our money-back guarantee is a genuine one. If you can find a single affiliate or reseller program in the self-improvement, personal development niche that has longterm earning potential even approaching this one (which as you know offers you 100% commission on every sale), and that has a constantly updated product range like this one, and that offers affiliates a fully customizable sales website of their own, then please tell us about it and we will be more than happy to return every cent that you have paid us and give you free lifetime membership on top if what you are telling us about turns out to be true. Perhaps sometime in the future we will need to withdraw this money-back guarantee due to others duplicating our idea, but for the time being we are confident that you will not find another affiliate or reseller program anywhere on the Internet offering anything remotely similar to what this one offers, so for the time being this guarantee stands firm! If you have any questions or concerns, please use the contact form link at the foot of this webpage, where you will also find our privacy policy and terms of service. All online subscription payments are through PayPal who are the largest and one of the most trusted and secure online payment processors in the world today, so you can enroll into this program with confidence in the knowledge that if we fail to supply you with what you have paid for you can complain to PayPal and ask for a refund. VERY
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