In the Questions & Answers section of The Master Key System, Charles F. Haanel wrote about “hewers of wood,” or those who do what today we call “manual labor.” He posed this question: “Unless we are willing to think we shall have to work, and the less we think the more we shall work, and the …
Florence Scovel Shinn was born Septemer 24, 1871, in Camden, New Jersey. She was educated in Philadelphia at the Friends Central School and studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1889 to 1897. It was there that she met her future husband, Everett Shinn (1876 – 1953), who was a fairly celebrated painter of …
As you have probably noticed, the exercises in The Master Key System haveyou delve into your mind more and more. They build, one upon the other, so as to help you attain complete mental mastery. It is of the utmost importance that you follow and practice these exercises. As has been established, you are where you are in …
The nervous system is an electrical system. It is powered by the mind and the currents course through the spinal cord and through the nerves. Every thought sets the brain cells into action. If the thought is sufficiently refined and concentrated, then the thought expresses itself perfectly. The key to attaining what you want, then, is …
You have a dream. A goal. A vision. You are working assiduously towards it. Every day, you awaken excited by it and move forward boldly, working to attain that which you desire. When you defined your goal, you “activated” two laws that will help you succeed. Even when nothing else will. Charles F. Haanel describes …
In the Letter of Transmittal for Week Twelve of The Master Key System, Charles F. Haanel writes that [T]he time and thought which most persons waste in aimless effort would accomplish wonders if properly directed with some special object in view. Are you the constant flitterer, jumping from one goal to another? Do you have …
Week Nine of The Master Key System is an interesting week because Charles F. Haanel brings a lot of disparate thoughts and ideas together. As you progress further into the book, you will see how some things that seem not to belong actually do. You may have been getting that impression already. If so, then good; you’re ahead …
Charles F. Haanel wrote that matter is … … powerless, passive, inert. Mind is force, energy, power. Mind shapes and controls matter. Every form which matter takes is but the expression of some preexisting thought. The things around us — the things we see and touch and feel — are nothing until our minds takes …
