Higher career accomplishment

For those who have already accomplished something through ‘’The Secret’’, here is a method that can enable you to achieve even higher goals in your career or profession. Rise to the top of your organization or the top of your field locally, nationally level or even internationally.

What The Secret does not tell you

The Secret is a powerful means of accomplishing whatever you set your mind on. The method works. It is infallible. But everyone who applies the method does not get the same results, even if they aspire for the very same goals.

The Secret gives us results that are proportionate to the level of our personality. It gives us all the results that our personality is capable of generating, which is always many times greater than what we presently enjoy. But if we want to keep growing and rising by the method of The Secret we need to continuously expand the receptivity and capacity of our personality.

Normally we grow by experience without being fully conscious of it. This subconscious process of growth is long and slow and often involves many repetitions of the same experiences before we finally learn what they have to teach us.

This article present a method to consciously and rapidly expand the receptivity and capacity of our personality so that the results we achieve by applying The Secret can multiply and keep multiplying.

If we want to keep rising, we need to keep growing.

Four levels of work

Accomplishment is the process of converting energy into results. The level of accomplishment depends on the level at which we carry out the work.

• Physical work: When we simply expend our energy in hard physical work, doing everything ourselves without really thinking about things before hand, we get the minimum result and it take a longer time to accomplish. When we carry out routine work on a daily basis we may simply take up each new task as it comes to us without much forethought or overall organization. The experience we acquire by long years of hard work generates a knowledge and skill that gradually increases our efficiency and effectiveness. This is a subconscious process. But hard work is not the only or the fastest way to acquire the knowledge that comes by experience. We can also acquire it consciously.

• Organized work: When we organize the work we are doing, we use our energy and time more efficiently. The results are greater and they come more rapidly. When we get an important work assignment, we prepare in advance, consider all the steps and requirements, plan out a schedule and sequence of steps, contact people in advance to ensure their availability, assign specific tasks to other people, etc. In a word, we ‘organize’ the work. We may do all of this based on our past experience without applying our minds to invent anything new or do anything differently than in the past. But the result will be far better than taking up the task in a routine manner.

• Mental work: To work mentally is to actively apply our minds to fully understand how the work should be done and try to discover how to improve the way it is carried out. By mental effort we can quickly acquire the knowledge acquired through long years of hard work and organized effort. When we fully understand the nature of the work we are doing and apply that understanding in creative ways, we can accomplish much more in a much shorter time.

When American industrialist Henry Kaiser organized the production of Liberty ships during World War II, he found he could build a new freighter in about 30 days time. After studying the process of ship building very carefully and applying their minds to every stage of the process, Kaiser and his team found a way to eventually reduce the production time on new ships to 4.5 days – a 700% improvement in efficiency! That is the difference between organized work and work done by applying the creative powers of mind.

These are the three ways in which we commonly carry out work, depending on the nature of the task, its size, complexity and importance. But there is also a forth way to accomplish work.

• Spiritual work: Any work can be done even more easily, rapidly and effectively by a higher method which may be termed spiritual. This article describes the principles of a spiritual method for higher accomplishment that can be applied to achieve any professional, monetary or personal goal.

Vertical Accomplishment

Each accomplishment has a horizontal and a vertical dimension. Once you have successfully achieved something substantial in your work, there are two ways in which you can build on your achievement. You can try to expand your work horizontally to increase the volume of work you can accomplish or you can try to elevate your work vertically to a higher level or a wider field of activity.

Suppose you are a lawyer handling local cases in a small town. You can grow your business horizontally by acquiring more clients in the town and becoming the most popular and successful lawyer at that level. Or you can try to rise vertically to handle more difficult and important cases that have to be fought at the state or national level. If you decide to rise from the local to regional level, taking on larger and more complex, you may be able to raise your income five or ten times higher because of the greater size and value of the cases you handle.

Very often people strive only for quantitative expansion because it is at a level where they feel familiar or comfortable. Maximum achievement comes when you decide to elevate your work to a higher level rather than simply trying to expand your present activities horizontally.

Methods for Higher Career Accomplishment

There is a method for converting horizontal growth into vertical progress. It is best understood by observing the process by which people normally rise to higher levels in society. In the case of the lawyer, after decades of professional practice some lawyers acquire a reservoir of knowledge about their specialized fields that is superior to that of other people and they earn a reputation as experts in the field. When big, important cases come along, clients naturally flock to the lawyer with the most knowledge and best reputation.

How did that lawyer become an expert? He may tell you that he worked harder than everyone else and that may be partially true. But the chances are if he has risen very high, he has also applied the higher powers of organization and thinking.

Power of Thinking

The top lawyer became an expert by handling lots of cases and learning more about the field each time a new situation was presented. If you actually analyze the specialized knowledge he has acquired, you will find that the same capacity can be acquired far more quickly than he has acquired it by consciously and systematically studying the field – rather than by waiting for interesting cases to come along now and enhance his knowledge.

If a younger lawyer of equivalent capacity is willing to consciously and systematically exercise his capacity for thinking to understand the field and enhance his knowledge, he can achieve the same capacity as the most experienced lawyer in a much shorter period of time. How much shorter? Such a mental effort can make him the top or second best lawyer in his town or county in less than 12 months.

You can do this by organizing your work to set aside time to increase your knowledge by studying what the most successful lawyers have acquired by long years of trial and error experience. Seriously apply your mind to think about the cases you study and the cases you handle.

Power of Imagination

A still more powerful method is to exercise your mental imagination. Don’t just read. Think about what you read. Think through various alternatives or possible situations that might occur and develop strategies to handle these cases. Serious mental effort of this type will enable you to learn much more in a much shorter time than others have taken. This will give you a far greater comprehension and capacity that mere reading can give. It may be sufficient to raise you to the top level in your state within 12 months.

Silent Concentration

These are the methods that successful people usually employ to rise in their professions. Those who reach the top of their field work harder, organize better and exercise their minds more actively to acquire greater knowledge. But there are even higher spiritual methods available to rise further and faster.

The greater your capacity for concentration, the greater the knowledge you will extract from any situation, the faster you will learn, and the deeper the insights you will perceive. Try to suspend your thinking processes and imagination and enhance your capacity for concentration. Not thinking requires greater energy and concentration than thinking and it generates far greater results. This method can abridge years of study and experience into a few weeks or months of effort.

Enhance your Personality

The success of any method depends on the energy and personality of the person who uses it. Therefore if there is any limitation to the power the spiritual method, it is only a limit imposed by our limited personality. Your capacity for accomplishment can also be enhanced if you are willing for the effort.

The limits of our personality depend on the personal convictions that we have about ourselves and the world around us. If your personality refuses to expand, look at the convictions, which keep you at the present level: e.g. “I am already functioning at my maximum”; “These higher goals are unattainable”; “If this method were true, everybody would rise to the top.” Examine your convictions. How far do you believe that • I am capable of rising to a far higher level in life • I possess the same or greater capacity than many people who have rise to the top of their field • If I make the effort life and work circumstances will enable me to rise to that level as well • Applying higher methods I can rise much more quickly than other people have risen in this field

If you find that your mind doubts the truth of any of these affirmative statements, then work on converting those doubts into affirmations. When your mind is fully convinced, work on your emotions to ensure they fully endorse your higher understanding. When your mind and emotions fully support the effort, you may even feel physical sensations of irritation, tension or frustration. You should understand that this in only the resistance of your body which hesitates to expand its capacity. Ask your body to fully support your further progress. Ask for greater energy, strength, peace and patience. That is the ‘’’real work’’’ you must do to accomplish.

Each time you hit a plateau try to convince the mind that it can go ahead. Each time you rise higher, reexamine your convictions about further progress. Reaffirm your faith that the sky is still the limit for your to rise. Reject or overcome all mental reservations and obstacles. In the measure you conquer the inner obstacles, the external obstacles will be converted into opportunities. When your personality supports and agrees to widen itself and receive more, there is no height you cannot reach in your career and profession by hard work and systematic, single-minded devotion.