As we head into week 13 and the heart of the Christmas season, we are reminded that through the exercises we’ve been practicing that we are building progressions to fix in our minds the 4 tiny habits, a definiteness of purpose, a positive mental attitude, a written plan of action, and a mastermind alliance, leading up to the bigger habit of persistence. We are reminding ourselves that thoughts that fire together, wire together, and create a new reality for our subby.

As principled observers, we are encouraged to be on the lookout for where the lessons from Hill and Haanel show up in other places or situations. This week we were advised to listen to an old but very wise recording by Earl Nightingale called the “Strangest Secret”.

In this recording, which I’ve been listening to now as I drift off to sleep, he presents his key to success, when he says, “We become what we think.” Having a worthy ideal or goal as he sometimes refers to it, and continually working toward its attainment is what separates the successful people from those that aren’t.

That sure sounds like a definite major purpose to me. Holding that thought constantly before them invites the Law of Growth to help bring about the conditions necessary for the attainment of success.

The other correlation I found was what he presented as a 30 day habit of doing your absolute best in everything you do, allowing no negative thoughts or feelings to derail your intention or attention, and to be of greatest service to others as you can, without expecting anything in return.

We have learned that the Universal is always seeking a channel to be of greatest service to others, to give in order to receive, and we have been practicing the 7 day mental diet of using the Law of Substitution to only hold positive thoughts. We must realize that our minds are part of the whole, the Universal.