by Anthony Somers.

THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Aug. 02, 1919.

SEVERAL well-known people have have been writing on the subject of "Luck" in the columns of the Weekly Dispatch.

“I have never met a man who has succeeded in any department of life who owes his success to luck,” says Mr. Leonard J. Martin, the business man who rose to fame in a single day by his startling purchase of 4,000,000 British pounds of linen.

Lord Leverhulme’s experience has been precisely the same. “Luck!” he exclaims. “I often think that the word was coined by a man who spent most of his time watching other people ‘get on.’”

The Man Who "Makes Good."

“To my mind,” he adds, “‘luck’ simply means being in the right place at the right moment, or taking advantage of presented opportunities… The man who makes good is not the man who is for ever considering if he is going to be lucky.

1. He is the man whose whole thoughts and interest are concentrated upon his work.
2. He collects in his mind as many facts as possible concerning his work.
3. He works upon the facts with his imagination.
4. His mind is ever susceptible to external influences.

—and those external influences provide the opportunities about which we hear so much.”

And again: “The main thing, in my opinion, is to be prepared: always sleeping, as it were, with one eye open for opportunity. She knocks at the door of everyone, but she never knocks in the panel, and if we are half-asleep we may not hear the gentle tap. I suppose when we do take advantage of opportunity… it may have meant a lifelong training qualifying for the psychological moment.”

The Value of Directed Thought.

These statements are confirmed by thousands of letters received by the Pelman Institute from men and women of every profession, business, and occupation in life. These writers explain, very often in considerable detail:—

• how for various reasons they had formerly been “kept back” in life,
• how others had passed them by in the race,
• how they had never managed to make the most of themselves, and
• had failed to achieve their ambitions.

And then one day they had decided to take up Pelmanism, either on the advice of friends, or as the result of reading one of the Pelman announcements.

They had gone through the Course—which is a definite system of instruction directed through the post by expert instructors, and not merely a set of text-books—and learned the value of directed thought and how it leads to effective action.

And after thus training their minds on scientific methods they:—

1. had never once looked back,
2. had gained promotion to higher positions,
3. had increased their incomes, and
4. had acquired an all-round mental efficiency

—which enabled them to do everything they had to do quickly and well.

Opportunities for Everyone.

As Lord Leverhulme says, Opportunity comes to everyone, and the important thing is to know how to take advantage of it when it comes. “Concentration” is necessary, and so is the creative quality of “imagination”; one’s mind must be receptive to ideas and open to “external” influences—influences, that is, of the right kind—and one must be "prepared."

Pelmanism gives just that mental training that is so necessary in order to be “prepared” for the opportunity, and it gives, too, that power of instant decision which enables one to size the opportunity before it passes by to tap at another’s door.

And as you go through the Course, so those weaknesses and failings which handicap the progress of so many—such weaknesses, for example, as Indecision, Forgetfulness, Want of Observation, Lack of Will-Power, Brain-Fatigue, etc.—are eliminated, and in their place you develop such qualities as:—

• CONCENTRATION and SELF-CONFIDENCE
• ENERGY and SALESMANSHIP
• DIRECTIVE ABILITY and DEBATING POWER
• CONVERSATIONAL ABILITY and RESOURCEFULNESS
• PERCEPTION and ORGANISING POWER
• DECISION and FORESIGHT
• INITIATIVE and An ACCURATE MEMORY
• OBSERVATION and TACT
• WILL POWER and AMBITION
• JUDGMENT and ORIGINALITY
• IMAGINATION

which are of the greatest value to every man or woman, whatever his or her particular position in life may be.

15 New Ideas in 7 Days.

Thus the Head of an important Factory, after taking a Course of Pelmanism, writes:

“In 7 days I got about 15 new ideas for increasing my business, and also invented several articles, including an automatic machine. I feel I owe you a great debt.”

And this from a Clerk is interesting:

“Since I completed the Course my memory and powers of Concentration have considerably improved, and I am now occupying a very important position entirely owing to the beneficial results of the Pelman Course. As a practical mental stimulant Pelmanism has no equal.”

And thousand of similar letters could be quoted did space permit, some of them recording income-increases of 100, 200, and 300 per cent., as the result of taking the Course.

A Fascinating Occupation.

Pelmanism is not difficult to follow. You will find it most fascinating. It takes up very little time and will be repaid you over and over again in your increased efficiency and in the material betterment that this will bring you.

Investigate further for your benefit. Don’t delay. Don’t miss this opportunity.

The end.

Remember, What matters most in your life is YOU and what you do with your life.

Pelmanism is an authoritative message to taking Action—the Pelman Course reveals, in simple terms, that all action in life is preceded by THOUGHT.

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