This is slide B of your introduction tape. I want to point out that this program won't cost you one additional cent, but it will require an investment of some of your time. I know that's difficult for a lot of you. Sometimes time is the most difficult commodity to come by, but it will take a little time. There are no special things that you've got to purchase. There aren't any voodoo magical procedures and no back-breaking exercises. However, there isn't any substitute for the necessary investment of the time required to listen to your case.

Nobody can do it for you. I can help you, but I can't do it for you. It's your own mind and you have to change it yourself. So please, decide what it is you want to be and let's do the work together. and above all be persistent and it's all going to be yours. I have a little plaque on my wall that sums it all up. It's called, Press On. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not. The world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence, idealization, and determination are omnipotent. Think about it. Now in the past, I used to keep before me the little short words of wisdom with which we're all probably familiar. It went something like this. Our Lord gives me the courage to change the things I can, the grace to accept the things I cannot change, and the wisdom to know the difference.

You know what, I don't use that anymore. I don't use it because I believe that I can do or become anything I can envision as my goal. Therefore, I choose to believe that there's nothing I cannot change. I feel it is therefore through imagination and wisdom, if you will, that I pursue everything in life with a true image of I most certainly can. And believe me, it works. I can. Just stop a minute and reflect on this analogy. Think how many times a day you reinforce the image of obesity. This is just one little sideline in your life.

Just think about it. Go along with me a minute. Maybe you get up in the morning, and let's say you usually get up in the morning and drive yourself out of bed. Gosh, gee, already you feel tired just thinking about the day. Oh, golly, you've got to begin your day, so you do whatever it is you do first, and then somewhere in that routine, guess what you do? You run hop on the weight scale. Ah-ha. Never fails.

Oh, gee. So you pull off your pajamas, get on them again, you know. Maybe your pajamas got heavy through the night. Uh-oh. Do you say to yourself at this point, oh, golly gee whiz, I feel so thin and beautiful? Not usually, I bet. It's more like this. Oh, gee, jolly. Oh, I'm so fat. Oh, I've gained a tenth of an ounce. Oh, I'll never get my pants to zip up. My day is ruined.

Oh, my God, it's going to be awful all day. Oh, look, I look awful. What in the world am I going to wear? Oh, gee, everybody's going to see all my fat bulges. Oh, geez. Then we get out of clothes. And sure enough, oh, geez, I know, I know, I look awful. Fat and awful. I hate myself. How did you do this to my... Oh, geez, look at me.

Oh, fat and awful. I hate those scales. I hate myself. Well, maybe I'll check them again. Maybe, maybe I didn't see it right. Uh-huh. Look at that. I was wrong. Oh, gee, my knee. Christmas! I was wrong. I'm up a whole two ounces. Well, I'll take off my wristwatch and try again. Uh-huh, yeah, that does it. Back down, well, well, it took off an ounce anyway. Well, no breakfast. That's fattening.

Better not have lunch today, or yogurt maybe. It's just fattening. Oh, jeez. I can't even enjoy eating this or that that I do eat, because, oh well, I know it's fattening. It goes on and on and on all through the day and into the night. Every rest break, every time you're with somebody, every conversation, guilt, guilt, guilt, and more guilt. And what do we talk about? Our latest diet. Well, guess what? There isn't any alternative. Of course the body is going to present you with more and more fat. You are constantly, all day long, ordering and reordering it to produce exactly that. It's not going to fail you. All you talk about is diet and overweight. It thinks that's exactly what it's supposed to do for you.

So it's going to produce exactly what it thinks pleases you. And it has to think it's fat, because that's all you think about. Why don't you try something a little different? No matter how silly it may sound to you, because after all, you can use a good laugh at yourself. Healthy. Try this for a while. Every time you begin to say diet or overweight or too fat or too ugly and so forth, try to do something like, oh, I'm too fat or I guess I'm not eating enough. I'm getting so pretty. Every mouthful I eat I'm getting so pretty, my body knows what to do. Wonderful! Just observe the change in both your attitude, personality, and in your appearance.

Your body begins to think you're giving it some new instructions, which inadvertently you are. But mainly you stopped feeding it a negative diet. Hey, you're a neat person. Don't you think maybe it's time to get acquainted with that new person? You're going to be together a long time. To reinforce all those good things, get a little game plan for yourself. Try this one. First of all, start off in the morning, and just for two hours, refuse to say anything negative or hurtful about yourself or anyone or anything else.

Oh, for instance, if it's 103 in the shade, don't say, ugh, ugh, it's awful. It's just getting hotter by the minute. Why don't you try something like, hey, man, I'm so glad it's cooling off. I know it must have been worse a little earlier, so it should be getting steadily better now. Let's start putting a little more pleasure into our life and stop adding all the misery we can scrape up to torture ourselves. Suffering is just... it's for the bones. Now, extend your game plan tomorrow by not allowing anything negative until, say, after 12.30 in the afternoon. Can't say anything negative after 12.30.

You can say everything negative you want. But then the next day, you've got to go until 3.30 in the afternoon. And so on. Then try for a whole entire day. Maybe even add an evening without being negative. Come on, life is only a game. So you may as well load it in your mouth. Now I'd like to leave you to move on to the program with just a couple of thoughts. Here's a little verse, and I'm sure you've all heard this one too, and it's called, You Are What You Think.

If you think you are beating, you are. If you think you dare not, you won't. If you want to win, but think you can't, it's almost a sin, you don't. If you think you'll lose, you're lost. For in the world we find, success begins with what we think. It's all in the state of mind. Life's battle does not always go to the strongest and the fastest man. But sooner or later, the one who wins is the man who thinks he can. And then there's just one more rather serious thing I'd like to add to this.

And this was found at old St. Paul's Church in Baltimore way back in 1693. And most of you are familiar with it. It's called Death of Dorada. And there's some wonderful thoughts in it. Go placidly amid the noise and haste. And remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant.

They, too, have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons. They are vexations to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter. For always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble. It's a real possession in a changing fortune of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery.

But let this not blind you to what virtue there is. Many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of terrorism. Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imagining. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond the wholesome, discipline, be gentle with yourself. You're a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. You have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore, be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be.

And whatever your labors and aspirations in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery, and seemingly broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful, but also be willing to take a chance, to run a risk. And above all, strive to be happy.

