Business Power; A Practical Manual in Financial Ability

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS. OUR goal in this chapter is Psychic Income. ' We define subjective (psychic) income as the stream of consciousness of any human being," remarks Professor Fisher. "All his conscious* life, from his birth to his death, constitutes his subjective income. Sensations, thoughts, feelings, volitions, and all psychical events, in fact, are a part of this income stream. All these conscious experiences which are desirable are positive items of income, or services; all which are undesirable are negative items, or disservices." The business man should keep two sets of books, one for the physical income, and one (in his self-observing mind) for the psychic income. The physical income of highest value is net; and the real income, psychically considered, is also net above all personal disqualifications. You are invited to study this chapter with the thought thus presented incessantly in mind. Remember the net psychic income! § 1. In every phase of practical life certain personal requirements, in addition to the main considerations already given, become imperative if effort is to be crowned with success. These requirements concern body, dress, personal style, language, character, self-mastery, business conduct, and savings or increase of capital. § 2. The factors enumerated represent, on the one hand, success-assets, but imply, on the other hand, all the handicaps of a lack of capital. If you were to capitalize yourself, so to speak, that is, try to ascertain your capital worth, or your income worth, the items would be (a) your static self, (b) the acting expression thereof through your dynamic self, which means simply the factors named above in Section 1, (c) your experience, with corresponding judgment...