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YOU NOW HAVE in your possession over a
hundred tested, proven principles. Apply them and they will work
for you. But watch out for two sneaky, tricky factors that can
spoil your progress: enthusiasm and greed.
Enthusiasm is a powerful force, and, like
electricity or nuclear power, it is important to control that
power carefully or it can fry you. Too much enthusiasm can cause
overwhelm and burnout.
Greed isn’t too far from enthusiasm.
Remember the children’s story of the goose that laid the
golden eggs? Its lesson applies to this book. The owner of the
goose didn’t want to wait for the golden eggs to come out
one at a time. He killed the goose to get all the eggs right
away and he wound up with nothing. If you try to get all the
value contained within these pages quickly, if you try
to apply too many principles at once, you will reap very little
constructive change. Most changes require concentration and it
is a limitation of the human mind that it cannot concentrate
on many things at once.
Choose a few, preferably only one
principle, and concentrate on it. Make it your theme for
a few days, a week, a month. At some point you will have gained
a certain naturalness or automaticity with it — a mastery
— and it will then be time to choose another principle to
concentrate on.
Although this seems a slow way, it’s
the best way to reap the most benefits in the long run. I wish
you well.
Concentrate on only one principle
at a time.
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