Your Forces and How to Use Them

On my journey to putting the pieces of my life back together, I have read many a self-help books and listened to podcasts on positivity and meditation - basically anything I can get my hands on to try and understand what I can and should be doing to make myself better. Most recently I read a guide to self-improvement novel by Christian D. Larson, Your Forces and How to Use Them, and while I found this author to have really captured mental health in his New Thought Movement, he phrased it in such a way that makes me believe that anyone who reads is work is forever changed and given the secrets of the world and the path to being the truest you there could ever be. Bellow there is a short exert from his guide Your Forces and How to Use Them and I hope that after reading just a small but amazing example of his work you are compelled to see just how life changing his literature can be your life. 

“Promise Yourself,

To be so strong that nothing

can disturb your peace of mind.

To talk health, happiness, and prosperity

to every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel

that there is something in them

To look at the sunny side of everything

and make your optimism come true.

To think only the best, to work only for the best,

and to expect only the best.

To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others

as you are about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past

and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

To wear a cheerful countenance at all times

and give every living creature you meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself

that you have no time to criticize others.

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,

and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world,

not in loud words but great deeds.

To live in faith that the whole world is on your side

so long as you are true to the best that is in you."