claudebristol.wwwhubs.comA Biography of Claude M. Bristol

[Close Box] Get Your FREE eBook Just for Visiting! "Open Your Mind to Receive" by Catherine Ponder" Submit your valid email address and also get FREE 21-part Prosperity eCourse! Name: * Email: * Self-Improvement-eBooks.com Choose from over 800 personal development ebooks and audios! Learn how you can become a member of Cornerstone Book Club. Many books and audios by James Allen available . . . Click Here for full details. Claude M. Bristol (1891-1951) Author of Prosperity Classic Born 1891, Claude M. Bristol served as a soldier in WW1 in France and Germany. He worked on the army newspaper, Stars and Stripes until 1919. His best known book is The Magic of Believing, published in 1948, which has sold well over a million copies, and is widely regarded as a prosperity classic. The Magic of Believing was written, he says, for ex-service men and women who would have to adjust to civilian life and try to prosper in it. It was published when he was in his 50s and followed the success of a small book he published in 1932 entitled T.N.T. — It Rocks The Earth. Claude Bristol was a hard-headed journalist for several years, including stints as a police reporter and as church editor of a large city newspaper. In this post he met people from every denomination and sect, and later read hundreds of books on psychology, religion, science, metaphysics and ancient magic. Gradually, Bristol began to see the ’golden thread’ which runs through all religions and esoteric teachings: that belief itself has amazing powers. Having spent years thinking about the power of thought, he had assumed others knew something about it too. He was wrong. Strangely, he found that most people go through life without realising the effect that strong belief can have on reaching their goals - they leave their desires vague and so they get vague outcomes. When Bristol was a soldier in World War One, there was a period in which he had no pay and couldn’t even afford cigarettes. He made up his mind that when he got back to civilian life "he would have a lot of money". In his mind this was a decision, not a wish. Barely a day had passed after his arrival back home when he was contacted by a banker who had seen a story on him in the local newspaper. He was offered a job, and though he started on a small salary, he constantly kept before him ’a mental picture of wealth’. In quiet moments or while on the telephone, he doodled ’$$$’ signs on bits of paper that crossed his desk. This definiteness of belief, he suggests, more than anything else paved the way for a highly successful career in investment banking and business. Bristol had learned the truth of philosopher William James’ statement that "Belief creates its verification in fact". Just as fearful thoughts set you up to experience the situation you can’t stop thinking about (the Biblical Job said: ’What I feared most had come upon me’), optimistic thoughts and expecting the best inevitably form favourable circumstances. Bristol’s The Magic of Believing has inspired many people throughout the 50+ plus years since it was written, from all walks of life, from salespeople to performers, and from housewives to politicians. The book was about achieving goals through mental visualization, and using faith as a means of drawing the people, circumstances and opportunities together to make it happen. Claude Bristol explained that he didn’t invent this idea, and in fact many people had used the same principles throughout the course of history to achieve much. He went on to write a third book entitled TNT: The Power Within You. His books were based on decades of searching for a deeper understanding of, and applying, what he called "mind stuff." This work came from his experience as a journalist studying and reporting on the full spectrum of spiritual and religious movements (especially fringe groups), building his own wealth and career as an investment banker, and his study of thousands of books on "the science of thought". Bristol was a popular speaker to clubs, business organizations and salespeople. He died in 1951. Here are some quotations from his books: Determination: "It’s the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles." Challenge: "It’s the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles. Attitude: It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen." Desire: "One essential to success is that your desire be an all obsessing one, your thoughts and aims be co-ordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup." Success: "One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aim be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup." Expectation: "We usually get what we anticipate." Dreams: "You have to think big to be big" Objective: "The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end." For more than four decades success-oriented Americans have turned to the no-nonsense, time-tested motivational techniques described in The Magic of Believing to achieve all their long- and short-term goals: a better job, an increased income, a happier marriage, or simply a good night’s sleep. * * * * * * Read in the author’s own words how he came to discover the awesome power of belief: How I came to tap the power of belief by Claude M. Bristol Is there some force, or factor, or power, or sciencecall it what you willwhich a few people understand and use to overcome their difficulties and achieve outstanding success? I firmly believe that there is, and it is my purpose in this book to try to explain it so that you can use it if you desire. Around 1933 the financial editor of a great Los Angeles newspaper attended lectures I gave to financial men in that dry and read my brochure T.N.T.It Rocks the Earth. Afterwards, he wrote, "You have caught from the ether something that has a mystical qualitya something that explains the magic of coincidence, the mystery of what makes men lucky." I realized that I had run across something that was practical and workable. But I didn’t consider it then (neither do I now) as anything mystical, except in the sense that it is unknown to the majority of people. This "something" has always been known to a fortunate few down the centuries, but for some unknown reason it is still barely understood by the average person. Years ago, when I started to teach this science by means of lectures and my brochure, I wasn’t certain that the concepts could be grasped by the ordinary individual. But since then, I have seen those who have used it to double and triple their incomes, build their own successful businesses, acquire homes of their dreams, and create sizable fortunes. I am now convinced that any intelligent person who is sincere with himself can reach any heights he desires. I had no intention of writing a second book, although many urged me to do so. But a few months ago, a woman in the book business who had sold many copies of my first little book literally read me the riot act: "You have a duty to give to the men and women who seek places for themselves in the world, in easily understood form, the new material that you have given in your lectures. Everyone of ambition wants to get ahead, and you have amply demonstrated that you have something that will help anyone. It’s up to you to pass it along." It took time to sell myself on the idea. But having served as a soldier in World War I, mostly in France and...