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Your Destiny is in Your Hands

This book from the As a Man Thinketh fame James Allen, is no different when it comes to rich wisdom about life and success. It talks about having good thoughts and mental conditioning, controlling the mind, habit and character formation, etc.

When we are responsible for our action and thinking, then we are responsible for our destiny. And that means, you can change the direction you are traveling in life if you don't like it.

Implicitly, the book says, "Life is not a chance, but the choices you make daily in your thoughts and action."

That means, no matter what others have told you, you can always, every single time, decide and make real changes in your life by managing your deeds and thinking process. You get the tools in the book to do it.

This book is a companion to the other work of James Allen which is The Life Triumphant.

The Chapters From the Book:

1. Deeds, Character, and Destiny
2. The Science of Self-Control
3. Cause and Effect in Human Conduct
4. Training of the Will
5. Thoroughness
6. Mind-Building and Life-Building
7. Cultivation of Concentration
8. Practice of Meditation
9. The Power of Purpose
10. The Joy of Accomplishment

Some Insights From the Book:

I. Every successful man, in whatever direction his success may lie, practices concentration, though he may know nothing about it as a subject of study.

II. Times, Places, and Conditions in which it is best to Meditate:

1. Very early in the morning.2. Immediately before meals.3. In solitude.4. In the open air or in a plainly furnished room.5. While sitting on a hard seat.6. When the body is strong and vigorous.7. When the body is modestly and plainly clothed.

III. The price of life is effort; the acme of effort is accomplishment; the reward of accomplishment is joy. Blessed is the man who strives against his own selfishness; he will taste in its fullness the joy of accomplishment.

IV. Man can (and does) choose what causes he shall set in operation, but he cannot change the nature of effects; he can decide what thoughts he shall think, and what deeds he shall do, but he has no power over the results of those thoughts and deeds; these are regulated by the overruling law.

V. Characteristics are fixed habits of mind, the results of deeds. An act repeated a large number of times becomes unconscious, or automatic - that is, it then seems to repeat itself without any effort on the part of the doer, so that it seems to him almost impossible not to do it, and then it has become a mental characteristic.

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About the Author: James Allen (28 November 1864 - 24 January 1912) was a British philosophical writer known for his inspirational books and poetry and as a pioneer of the self-help movement. His best known work, As a Man Thinketh, has been mass-produced since its publication in 1903. It has been a source of inspiration to motivational and self-help authors.

In 1903 Allen published his third and most famous book As a Man Thinketh. Loosely based on the Biblical passage of Proverbs 23:7, "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he," the small work eventually became read around the world and brought Allen posthumous fame as one of the pioneering figures of modern inspirational thought.

Allen published his own spiritual magazine, The Light of Reason, later retitled The Epoch.

His wife continued publishing the magazine under the name The Epoch. Lily Allen summarised her husband's literary mission in the preface to one of his posthumously published manuscripts, Foundation Stones to Happiness and Success saying:

"He never wrote theories, or for the sake of writing; but he wrote when he had a message, and it became a message only when he had lived it out in his own life, and knew that it was good. Thus he wrote facts, which he had proven by practice."