To change your circumstances, first start thinking differently. Do not passively accept unsatisfactory circumstances, but form a picture in your mind of circumstances as they should be. Hold that picture, develop it firmly in all details, believe in it, pray about it, work at it, and you can actualize it according to that mental image emphasized in your positive thinking.

Attack a problem and shake it to pieces with your mind. Put all the mental power you have upon it. Secondly, pray about it most sincerely. Third, paint a mental picture of success. Fourth, I always ask myself, “What is the right thing to do?” For nothing that is wrong will ever come out right. Fifth, give it all you’ve got. But let me emphasize again, if you’re thinking defeat, change your thoughts at once. Get new and positive thoughts, this is primary and basic in overcoming difficulties and in achieving.

Whatever your situation may be, you can improve it. First, quiet your mind so that inspirations may rise from its depths. Believe that God is now helping you. Visualize achievement. Organise your life on a spiritual basis so that God’s principles work within you. Hold firmly in your mind a picture not of failure but of success. Do these things and creative thoughts will flow freely from your mind. This is an amazing law, one that can change anybody’s life, including yours. As inflow of new thoughts can remake you regardless of every difficulty you may now face, and I repeat, every difficulty.

In the last analysis, the basic reason a person fails to live a creative and successful life is because of error within himself. He thinks wrong. He needs to correct the error in his thoughts. He needs to practice right thinking. When the 23rd psalm says, “He leadeth me in the path of righteousness”, it not only means the path of goodness, but the path of right-mindedness as well.

When Isaiah says, “let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteousness man, his thoughts” (Isaiah 55:7). It not only means that a person is to depart from evil and do good, but that he is to change his thinking from wrong to right, from error in oneself and increase the amount of truth. An inflow of new, right, health-laden thoughts through the mind creatively affects the circumstances of life, for truth always produces right procedures and therefore, right results.