Wake Up and Live!
Wake Up and Live!
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Dorothea Brande considered herself a failure. After reading a section in a textbook, she suddenly had a revelation - "Act as if it is impossible to fail." Applying that to her life, she soon went into production with many books, lectures, and editing assignments successfully completed. Listen to these podcast to find out more...
Chapter 1 – Why Do We Fail? Success as a Paradox…03
(An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library available on Amazon) Chapter 1 – Why Do We Fail? Success as a Paradox… WITH the time and energy we spend in making failure a certainty we might have certain success. A nonsensical paradox? No; fortunately it is a sober, literal truth, one which holds a [...]
Jul 13, 2020
11 min
Wake Up and Live – Introduction by Dorothea Brande – 03
(An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library available on Amazon) Wake Up and Live – Introduction by Dorothea Brande TWO YEARS ago I came across a formula for success which has revolutionized my life. It was so simple, and so obvious once I had seen it, that I could hardly believe it was responsible [...]
Jul 6, 2020
15 min
Chapter 12 – And the Best of Luck! – Wake Up and Live – 02
(An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library available on Amazon) Chapter 12 And The Best of Luck! SUMMING up, then, we have as the first tenet of success: Act as if it were impossible to fail. Beginning to put this into practice, we discover that the first demand upon us is that we [...]
Jun 29, 2020
11 min
Chapter 11 – Twelve Disciplines – Wake Up and Live – 02
(An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library available on Amazon) Chapter 11 Twelve Disciplines ONE THERE are dozens of small ways by which we can make our minds both keener and more flexible – two qualities peculiarly necessary for those who intend to live successfully. We all succumb too easily to the temptation [...]
Jun 22, 2020
47 min
Wake Up and Live – Introduction by Dorothea Brande – 02
(An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library available on Amazon) Wake Up and Live – Introduction by Dorothea Brande TWO YEARS ago I came across a formula for success which has revolutionized my life. It was so simple, and so obvious once I had seen it, that I could hardly believe it was responsible [...]
Jun 21, 2020
15 min
Chapter 10 – On Codes and Standards – Wake Up and Live – 02
(An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library available on Amazon) Chapter 10 On Codes and Standards BUT what if you must have approval and acquiescence in one phase of your work before you go on to the next? What if your work is contributory to a group effort? That is, of course, more [...]
Jun 15, 2020
15 min
Chapter 9 – The Task of the Imagination – Wake Up and Live – 02
(An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library available on Amazon) Chapter 9 The Task Of The Imagination ALREADY imagination’s contribution to a productive life has been considered somewhat, and its help has been called on in the matter of making that favorable mental climate which is necessary if we are to produce our [...]
Jun 8, 2020
13 min
Chapter 8 – On Saving Breath – Wake Up and Live – 02
(An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library available on Amazon) Chapter 8 On Saving Breath EARLIER in these pages the advice not to talk has been given. In fact it may seem that I believe one of the prerequisites for success is to sink oneself into a surly silence. Nothing can be farther [...]
Jun 1, 2020
14 min
Chapter 7 – Warnings and Qualifications – Wake Up and Live – 02
(An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library available on Amazon) Chapter 7 Warnings and Qualifications BEFORE going further, it may be well to issue a few statements as to what this system does not include. The advice is not to hypnotize yourself into success. This is important to understand, for many people, and [...]
May 25, 2020
12 min
Chapter 6 – The System in Operation – Wake Up and Live – 02
(An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library available on Amazon) Chapter 6 The System in Operation IF you are the possessor of a very vivid imagination, you will probably be already well on the way towards practice with no more than the clue in that sentence: Act as if it were impossible [...]
May 18, 2020
22 min
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