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The business man must scheme and plan and devise and foresee. He
must create in imagination today the results that he is to achieve
tomorrow. He must combine the elements of his past experiential
complexes into a mental picture of future events as he would have
them. Riches are but the material realization of a financial
imagination. The wealth of the world is but the sum total of the
contributions of the creative thoughts of the successful men of all
ages.
How to Take Radical Steps in Business
With these principles before you, you can plainly see that the
creative imagination must be called upon in the solution of every
practical question in every hour of the business day.
Consider its part in two phases of your business life—first, when
you are contemplating a radical change in your business situation;
second, when you are seeking to improve some particular
department of your business.
How to Take Radical Steps in Business
In the determination of how best you can better yourself, either in
your present field of action or by the selection of a new one, take the
following steps: (1) Pass in review before the mind’s eye your
present situation; (2) Your possible ways of betterment; (3) The
various circumstances and individuals that will aid in this or that line
of self-advancement; (4) The difficulties that may confront you.
Having selected your field, (5) Consider various possible plans of
action; (6) Have prevision of their working out; (7) Compare the
ultimate results as you foresee them; (8) Decide upon the one most
promising, and then with this plan as a foundation for further
imaginings, (9) Once more call before you the elements that will
contribute to success; (10) See the possible locations for your new
place of business and choose among them; (11) Outline in detail the
methods to be pursued in getting and handling business; (12) See the
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