The Third Vow of Success

"Always will I bathe my days in the golden glow of enthusiasm."

I will arm myself with three powerful allies: confidence, pride and enthusiasm.

I am confident that I can face every challenge that I will encounter everyday.

I am proud that I can perform every task to the best of my ability.

I am a child that can always greet everyday with enthusiasm.

I will sustain my enthusiasm indefinitely, honestly and sincerely so that it becomes a habit.

I will be fearless like the youth in my quest for truth, energy and beauty.

"Today, I will raise my candle on high and smile at everyone."

The Second Vow of Success

"Never again will I greet the dawn without a map."

I will set goals for the day, the week, the month, the year and my life.

My dreams are my wish list.

My goals are those I want to accomplish before the end of the day which serve as the bricks of my future home.

As I fulfill every small task of the day, no matter how boring or menial it may be, I will be able to build my castle one brick at a time to house my dreams.

The Seventh Scroll: I will Laugh at the World

I will laugh at the world.

I will smile and my digestion will improve; I will laugh and my life will be lengthened for this is the great secret of long life and now it is mine.

I will laugh at the world.

And most of all, I will laugh at myself for man is most comical when he takes himself too seriously. Never will I fall into this trap of the mind.

And how can I laugh when confronted with man or deed that offends me so as to bring forth my tears or my curses? Four words I will train myself to say. This too shall pass.

I will laugh at the world.

For all worldly things shall indeed pass.

I will laugh at the world.

I will paint this day with laughter. Never will I labor to be happy; rather I will remain too busy to be sad. I will enjoy today's happiness today. It cannot be saved.

I will laugh at the world.

And with my laughter, all things will be reduced to their proper size. I will laugh at my failures and they will vanish in clouds of new dreams. I will laugh at my successes and they will shrink to their true value.

I will laugh at the world.

And as long as I can laugh, never will I be poor. This, then is one of nature's greatest gifts and I will waste it no more. Only with laughter and happiness can I truly become a success. Only with laughter and happiness can I enjoy the fruits of my labor.

I will be happy.

I will be successful.

I will become the greates salesman the world has ever known.

The Third Scroll: I Will Persist Until I Succeed

I will persist until I succeed.

I was not delivered unto this world in defeat, nor thus failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to walk, talk and sleep with sheep. I will hear not those who weep and complain for their disease is contagious. Let them join the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.

I will persist until I succeed.

The prices of life are at the end of each journey and not the beginning. It is not given to me to know how many steps are necessary in order to reach my goal. Failure I may still encounter at the thousandth step yet success hides behind the next bend. I will not know how close it lies until I turn the corner.

Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail, I will take another and yet another.

I will persist until I succeed.

I will never consider defeat and I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, impossible, failure and hopeless for they are the words of fools. I will ignore the obstacles at my feet and keep mine eyes on the goals above my head.

I will persist until I succeed.

I will remember the ancient law of averages knowing that each failure to sell will increase my chance for success at the next attempt.

Hence, I will learn and apply another secret of those who excel in my work. When each day is ended, I will make another attempt to achieve one more sale. When my thoughts beacon my tired body homeward, I will resist the temptation to depart. I will try again. I will make another attempt to close and if that fails, I will make another. Never will I allow any day to end with a failure. Thus, I will gain an insurmountable advantage over those who cease their labor at a prescribed time.

I will persist until I succeed.

Nor will I allow yesterday's success to lull me in today's complacency. I will forget the happenings of the day that is gone and greet this new sun with a confidence that this will be the best day of my life.

For now I know one of the greatest principle of success. If I persist long enough, I will win.

I will persist. I will win.