Let us understand. You cannot reasonably hope to succeed through merely dreaming about success.

You surely cannot achieve success if you plunge blindly through your career.

You cannot really succeed without possessing some degree of personal magnetism.

If you began reading this article, you certainly possessed a measure of magnetic capacity, either physical or psychic. When you have energetically observed its directions, you have made both varieties; but, above that, you have also combined them into one living whole, the magnetic personality.

This result has required at least a year of continuous effort. When you have arrived at this point in less time, you should go rearward and begin where haste first retarded your progress.

Magnetism is an instinctual growth

No matter how great may be your ability to read and interpret books, that growth, that law, requires time as well as intelligent effort? No matter how poor may be your ability in such respect, that growth is utterly certain if you put reasonable time and genuine effort into its acquirement.

The giant trees of California were once puny saplings. The slow lapse of time has drawn nature into their mighty hearts. Magnetism can no more be acquired by the mere reading an article, or through hurried practice of its directions, than can these giants of the West be produced in the hot-house culture of a northern summer.

Magnetic growth is naturally slow. Its principles, its methods, and the results of its study, have to be deeply sunk into and absorbed and assimilated through the subjective self before the reaction of magnetism in the objective life can find. Whenever you have read these lines correctly, you have learned that magnetic growth cannot be hurried. These statements are laid here because, had they appeared at the commencing of our work, the outlook would have seemed, perhaps, discouraging, but more especially because they would not have been understood. You now understand them because you have toiled, and you can afford to smile at such possible discouragement. You have paid an easy toll for magnetic power, for the benefits discount the pains.

Magnetism and practical life

The faithful observance of these suggestions has developed many surprises during the time occupied. The growth of magnetism involves intense and continual concentration of thought upon the psychic field, and it is very likely that you may notice it essential to guard against that danger. The method of so guarding is briefly indicated below.

The sole value of magnetism consists in its practical application to everyday affairs. Success-Magnetism is not an accomplishment merely; it is a practical power. If rightly developed and used, it controls the subjective self in the concrete work of the objective. The definition of the goal you have been seeking now appears:

Success-magnetism is personal magnetism intelligently multiplied into actual life.

The first duty of man is practical sanity.