The Woman Who Spoke Her Life Into Existence - Florence Scovel Shinn And The Power Of The Word

Her diagnosis of why manifestation stalls is compact and it is correct, stating, nothing stands between man and his highest ideals and every desire of his heart but doubt and fear. When man can wish without worrying, every desire will be instantly fulfilled. Wish without worrying. Welcome. To the Reality Revolution. I'm your host, Brian Scott, and today we're finally going to do a deep dive on Florence Scovel Shinn, one of my very favorite authors. Her writing and affirmations have completely transformed my life. You can hear me read all of her books on the channel, but I wanted to go deeper and know more about this amazing teacher. So let me take you back. There's a house in Greenwich Village on 112 Waverly Place, near Washington Square, and in 1900 a young married couple is living in the studio apartment there. They're both painters. They met at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and married in 1898. He's going to become famous. He's going to be counted among the Eight, the group that breaks American art Wide open, and gets called the Ashcan School because they paint the actual city instead of pretty things. His name is Everett Shinn. She is an illustrator, and a good one. Her drawings run in Harper's. She illustrates novels, including one called Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, which becomes one of the best-selling books in America. Her name is Florence. And her husband does something for her that almost no husband in the history of marriage has ever done. He builds her a theater. Next door to their home, he constructs an actual theater. Then he writes 3 plays. And in all 3 of them, he casts his wife in the leading role. She's in her early 30s. Greenwich Village at the turn of the century. Married to a rising painter. Living beside a theater her husband built. Starring in plays her husband wrote for her. Summering at an art colony in New Hampshire in a colonial house he designed. By any measure available in 1905, this is an enviable life. In 1912, after 14 years of marriage, Everett Shinn asks for a divorce. She is 41 years old. He remarries the following year. He will marry twice more after that, divorce both, and spend a good portion of the '20s and '30s in the tabloids. She never marries again. You have to understand, divorce back then Was a big deal. Watch the TV show *Gilded Age* or *Downton Abbey*, where a single divorce can destroy a woman's life. Then the story turns into something else entirely. She begins to pray, and she begins to experiment with something specific. Rather than praying the way she was taught, she starts testing what happens when a person speaks a definite sentence out. Out loud with conviction about a situation and then behaves in every way as somebody would whose situation was already settled. She keeps records. She tries it on money. She tries it on lost objects, on jobs, on lawsuits, on illness, on weather. She does this for 13 years, and then in 1925, at the age of 44, she takes a manuscript to the publishers In New York. They turn it down. So she publishes it herself. The book is called The Game of Life and How to Play It, and it is 170 pages of ordinary people getting extraordinary results by saying specific sentences out loud. It never goes out of print. It reaches Europe, then further. The people who follow her report finding her books in improbable places. in remote towns and countries where nobody was distributing them, passed hand to hand. She starts teaching in New York, and the meetings fill just like in Neville Goddard's day. When she dies in 1940, one of the most significant spiritual teachers in America, a man who fills Carnegie Hall and the Hippodrome with thousands of people, takes the notes she left behind, assembles them into a final book And writes the foreword himself. His name is Emmett Fox. Her husband built her a theater and wrote her 3 leading roles. When he left, she found the actual leading role of her life, and it was one she wrote herself, and it is still being performed 100 years later by people who have never heard her name. Today we go through her entire system— every law, every technique, every decree, and every story So you walk away with all of it without having to read the books. But I do recommend you read the books. A few things about her background that explains the confidence, because she writes with an authority that has to come from somewhere. Florence Scovel is born September 24th, 1871, in Camden, New Jersey. Her family is old and it is prominent. Her great-grandfather is Francis Hopkinson, who signed the Declaration of Independence and who was also the earliest documented American composer Of song. She educated at Friends Central School in Philadelphia, then at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, which at that time is the most serious art school in the country. So she comes from money, from lineage, and from training. And then she spends the first half of her adult life inside the most exciting art scene in America, married to one of the most central figures of it. None of that is what made her. What made her is what happened after all of it went away. And I want to note something about the voice, because it is the reason her books outlived nearly everybody writing beside her. Emmett Fox describes it exactly in the foreword he wrote for her. One secret of her success was that she was always herself— colloquial, informal, friendly, and humorous. She never sought to be literary, conventional, or impressive. For this reason, she appealed to thousands who would not have taken the spiritual message through the more conservative and dignified forms. She writes the way a woman talks to you across the kitchen table. The other New Thought eras of her era wrote in register that sounds enormously dated now— elevated, formal, sermonic. Hers could have been written last week. Because she was funny, and funny ages slowly. She was an illustrator by profession, and it shows in everything she wrote. She thinks in pictures. Every principle in her books arrives attached to an image you can see, and the images are the reason people remember her teaching decades after reading her once. She opens her first book by refusing the premise everybody else was operating on. Most people consider life a battle, she says. But it is not a battle. It is a game. That single reframe does more work than it appears to. A battle has an enemy. A battle is exhausting. It is survived rather than enjoyed, and it produces a person who is permanently braced. A game has rules. A game can be learned. A game can be played badly on Tuesday and well on Wednesday, and nobody dies either way. And a game implies something else. Which is that somebody wrote the rules and the rules are knowable. Her whole system follows from that. She states the first rule immediately, and it is the law of giving and receiving. Whatever man sends out in word or deed will return to him. If he gives hate, he will receive hate. If he gives love, he will receive love. If he gives criticism, he will receive criticism. If he lies, he will be lied to. If he cheats, he will be cheated. Nothing mystical in the mechanism. Whatever leaves you comes back to you, and the interval between the sending and the returning is the only thing that varies. Here is her first image, and it is the one that reveals she was a visual artist. She quotes Proverbs: Keeping thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life. And she notes that the word being translated as heart means imagination. Then she gives you the picture, stating, the imagination has been called the scissors of the mind, and it is ever cutting, cutting day by day the pictures man sees there. And sooner or later, he meets his own creations in his outer world. Scissors cutting continuously all day. We're whether you are attending to them or otherwise. That is a working definition of the imaginative faculty from somebody who spent 20 years with a pen in her hand making pictures for a living. And she follows it with a warning that carries real weight. She describes a man who feared a specific disease, a rare one difficult to contract. He pictured it continually and read about it constantly. It manifested in his body. Her phrase for what killed him: he died the victim of a distorted imagination. The scissors cut whatever picture you hold up to them. They have no opinion about which picture it is. Her model of the mind has 3 levels, and she is precise about each one. The subconscious is power without direction. It is like steam or electricity, and it does what it is directed to do. It has no power of induction. Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly is impressed upon the subconscious mind and carried out in the minutest detail. The conscious mind she calls the mortal or carnal mind. It is the part that reports on appearances. It sees death, disaster, sickness, poverty, and limitation of every kind And it impresses the subconscious. The direction of that is worth tracing. The conscious mind looks at the world, reports what it sees, and hands the report downward as an instruction, which means most people are running a loop where the current conditions produce the report and the report produces the next set of conditions. The superconscious is her third level, and it's the interesting one. She says the superconscious mind is the God mind within each man and is the realm of perfect ideas. In it is the perfect pattern spoken of by Plato, the divine design, for there is a divine design for each person. Her claim, and it's the one people find most moving in all her work, there is a place, she says, that you are to fill and no one else can fill, something you are to do which no one else can do. A perfect picture of that exists in the superconscious. And then she tells you how it shows up, which is the part I want you to hear. She says, it usually flashes across the conscious as an unattainable ideal, something too good to be true. In reality, it is man's true destiny flashed to him from the infinite intelligence Which is within himself. The thing you dismissed as too good to be true was the transmission. That impossible picture that arrives occasionally. The one you set aside as unrealistic. The one you have never said out loud to anybody because it would sound ridiculous coming from somebody like you. She's telling you that is the design arriving. And she's blunt about the cost of missing it. Stating, many people, however, are in ignorance of their true destinies and are striving for things and situations which do not belong to them and would only bring failure and dissatisfaction if attained. Some people are working extremely hard towards something that will disappoint them on arrival because it was never theirs. Her decree for finding it: Infinite Spirit, Open the way for the divine design of my life to manifest. Let the genius within me now be released. Let me see clearly the perfect plan. That's the thing. She was one of the very best affirmation writers, and I've repeatedly used all of her affirmations. They are magical. Sometimes you hear an affirmation and it's like, eh, but these affirmations are amazing every time I read them. Now we get into the material she is most famous for, and it's genuinely unsettling once you start watching your own speech. Her position is that the subconscious accepts every statement you make about yourself at face value, including the ones you're joking about. She gives 3 cases, and I'll give you all 3. A woman she knows played dress-up as a child and always pretended to be a widow— black clothes, a long black veil. People found it clever and amusing. She grew up, married a man she loved deeply, and he died a short time later. The picture of herself as a widow was impressed upon the subconscious mind and in due time worked itself out, regardless of the havoc created. Another woman asks her why life has become one of poverty and limitation, since formerly she had a home and beautiful things and plenty of money. They trace it back. The woman had grown tired of managing her home and had said repeatedly that she was sick and tired of things and wished she lived in a trunk. Her own words when she realized it: Today I am living in that trunk. In summary, she had spoken herself into a trunk. Another woman with a great deal of money joked continually about getting ready for the poorhouse. Within a few years, she was nearly destitute. Then the sentence that has probably changed more behavior than anything else she wrote: The subconscious mind has no sense of humor, and people often joke themselves into unhappy experiences. Run that against your own vocabulary for a week and it becomes uncomfortable fast. Every time you say you are hopeless with money, every time you introduce yourself as somebody who is terrible at relationships, every time you make the self-deprecating remark that gets the laugh, There is a mechanism underneath you taking notes, and it recognizes no distinction whatsoever between a joke and an instruction. Her image for how it stores all of this is perfect, and it is entirely of her era, stating, Man has ever a silent listener at his side, his subconscious mind. Every thought, every word is impressed upon it and carried out in amazing detail. It is like a singer making a record on the sensitive disc of the phonographic plate. Every note and tone of the singer's voice is registered. If he coughs or hesitates, it is registered also. A silent listener at your side cutting a record, recording the coughs and the hesitations along with the song. And then she gives you the remedy, which is one of the most forceful decrees in her entire body of work. Speak this out loud with power and conviction. I now smash and demolish by my spoken word every untrue record in my subconscious mind. They shall return to the dust heap of their native nothingness, for they came from my own vain imaginings. I now make my perfect records through the Christ within, the records of health, Wealth, love, and perfect self-expression. She calls those 4 the square of life: health, wealth, love, and perfect self-expression. Complete the square and the game is won. Here's the story that made her famous, and it contains most of her method in one place. A woman comes to her on a hot summer day, worn out, dejected, and discouraged. She has $8 to her name. Shin's response is to bless the $8. Then she asks the question that turns out to be the whole thing: follow intuition. Have you a hunch to do anything or to go anywhere? She seems to have a hunch to go home. Her home is in a distant city. It is a place of lack and limitation, and she has barely enough money for the fare. Every reasonable instinct says, stay in New York and find work. Shin tells her, then go home. Never violate a hunch. And she speaks a decree over her: Infinite Spirit, open the way for great abundance for her. She is an irresistible magnet for all that belongs to her by divine right. The woman goes home. While calling on somebody there, she reconnects with an old friend of her family. Through that friend, she receives thousands of dollars. Shin says the woman told her afterward repeatedly to tell people about the woman who came with $8 and a hunch. Never violate a hunch. That is one of the most useful foreword instructions in the entire literature. And she meant it operationally rather than poetically. Her position is that intuition means intuition, being taught from within. And that it is the unerring guide. Her diagnosis of why manifestation stalls is compact and it is correct, stating, nothing stands between man and his highest ideals and every desire of his heart but doubt and fear. When man can wish without worrying, every desire will be instantly fulfilled. Wish without worrying. That is the whole practice stated in 3 words, and it is enormously difficult, which is why the rest of her system exists. And she reframes fear in a way I have found nowhere else. Fear, she says, is only inverted faith. It is faith in evil instead of good. A person who is afraid is a person with tremendous faith posited in the wrong direction, which means the fearful person has the capacity already The energy is present. The conviction is present. The vividness of the picture is present. Only the direction requires changing. That is considerably more encouraging than being told you lack faith. Then there is her magic purse. This one shows you exactly how she constructed her decrees, and the construction principle is the important part. A woman comes to her with $2. Speaks this: We bless the $2 and know that you have the magic purse of the Spirit. It can never be depleted. As money goes out, immediately money comes in under grace in perfect ways. I see it always crammed, jammed with money— yellow bills, green bills, pink checks, blue checks, white checks, gold, silver, and currency. I see it bulging with abundance. The woman replies that she feels her bag heavy with money. She is so filled with faith that she hands Shin one of her $2 as a love offering. Shin accepts it, and she explains why in a single line that tells you everything about how seriously she took this. She could refuse it only by seeing lack for the woman, and it was important that she hold the picture of plenty. Shortly afterward, the woman received a gift of 6 Now the construction. Shin tells you exactly why that decree worked. The affirmation of the magic purse is very powerful, she says, as it brings a vivid picture to the mind. It is impossible not to see your purse or wallet filled with money when using the words crammed, jammed. The words were chosen because they force an image. Then the principle underneath all of it. The imaging faculty is the creative faculty, and it is important to choose words which bring a flash of the fulfillment of the demand. Choose words that produce a flash. That is the design rule for every affirmation you will ever write. A statement that produces no picture produces no result, regardless of how true it is or how many times you repeat it. Crammed and jammed produce a picture. Abundant financial flow Produces nothing at all. And immediately after that, she says something that appears to contradict it, and the resolution is one of the most sophisticated things in her work. She states, never force a picture by visualizing. Let the divine idea flash into your conscious mind. Then the student is working according to the divine design. Choose words that produce a flash and then stop straining to hold the picture. The distinction she is drawing is between construction and repetition. A person straining to visualize is working from the conscious mind, building a picture out of what they already know how to want, which limits the result to the size of their current imagination. A person who speaks a decree and then relaxes is opening a channel and permitting the superconscious to hand down something better designed than anything they could have assembled. That is why her decrees almost always end with the same phrase, under grace in perfect ways. You name what you want, you release how it arrives. She develops that into a full teaching in the posthumous book, and it opens with a declaration I would put on a wall. I have weapons ye know not of, she says. I have ways ye know not of. I have weapons ye know not of. I have channels ye know not of— mysterious weapons, mysterious ways, mysterious channels. And then the diagnosis: the trouble with most people is that they want to know the way and the channels beforehand. They want to tell Supreme Intelligence just how their prayers should be answered. People pray while issuing routing instructions. She calls that limiting, the Holy One of Israel. And whatever your theology, the mechanism is clean. Specifying the channel restricts the delivery to the channels you happen to know about, and you know about very few of them. Her prescription is the expectancy of a child. A child waits with joyful expectancy for his toys. A child asking for something at Christmas holds no opinion whatsoever about supply chains. The expectancy is total, and the mechanism is somebody else's business. Entirely. In her final book, she builds an entire teaching around one image, and it is her best. Everybody has a city they cannot enter, and inside that city is their success, their divinely designed good, their heart's desire. And everybody has built a wall around it themselves. Her question: what kind of wall have you built around your Jericho? Then she names the most common material. Often it is a wall of resentment. Resenting someone or resenting a situation shuts off your good. If you're a failure and resent the success of someone else, you are keeping away your own success. Resenting somebody else's success is a mechanism for keeping your own way because the resentment is a statement about what happens to people and you are a person. Clearly, she could have resented her husband after he divorced her, but obviously she learned from this and taught others why resentment was the block. Her decree to dissolve this was, what God has done for others, he now does for me and more. She gives that to a woman consumed with envy because a friend received a gift. The woman receives an exact duplicate of the gift plus another present on top of it. And the decree for the wall itself, the walls of lack and delay now crumble away and I enter my promised land. Under grace. The woman she gave that to reported a vivid picture of stepping over a fallen wall and received her demonstration almost immediately. She names the other building materials too, and they are worth checking yourself against. Living in the past, complaining of your misfortunes, and one that surprises people— talking too much about your affairs, scattering your forces— brings you up against a high wall. She describes a man of real brains and ability who was a complete failure. He lived with his mother and aunt, and every evening he came home and told them everything that had happened at the office— his hopes, his fears, his failures, all of it. Her instruction: You scatter your forces by talking about your affairs. Don't discuss your business with your family. Silence is golden. He stopped. His mother and aunt were in despair because they loved hearing everything. He was soon given a position at $100 a week, which was a lot back then, and within a few days he was earning $300. Her whole line on the subject: success is not a secret, it is a system. And the components she names are unromantic: courage, endurance, interest in what you're doing. There's a story attached to that last one that I want to give you because it's verifiable, because it's charming. She sails to California through the Panama Canal to speak at various centers, and at the captain's table she meets a man named Jim Tully. Tully had been a tramp. He called himself the King of the Hobos. He was ambitious. He picked up an education, and he had a vivid imagination, and he began writing stories about his own experiences. He dramatized tramp life. He enjoyed what he was doing, and he became a genuinely successful author. One of those books was made into a motion picture. Her analysis of what opened the door for him— dramatizing his life, being interested in what he was doing— he made the most of being a tramp. He had the least promising material available to a human being, and he made it interesting. And the interest was the entire mechanism. Her summary: That is the secret of success— to make what you are doing interesting to other people. Be interested in yourself and others will find you interesting. And then there is Eddie, who I love. She goes to a movie theater to meet a friend and stands near a boy selling programs. He's calling out to people who walk past without buying. Suddenly he turns to her and says that this is no racket for a guy with ambition. Then he delivers unprompted discourse on success to a woman who wrote 3 books on the subject, stating, most people give up just before something big is coming to them. A successful man never gives up. She brings him a copy of The Game of Life on her next visit. The girl at the ticket office asks to read it while he sells programs. The man taking tickets leans over to see what it is. 3 weeks later, she comes back and Eddie is gone. He had moved into a new job that he liked. Her line: his wall of Jericho had crumbled because he refused to be discouraged. Then there's the open door. This is a small masterpiece of practical technique. A man asks her to speak the word for his right work. She gives him a decree drawn from Revelation: Behold, I have set before thee the open door of destiny, and no man shall shut it. And she notices something. It fails to make much impression on him, so she improvises and adds a phrase that is entirely her own, and it's the reason I wanted this story in this episode: And no man shall shut it, for it is nailed back. Her description of what happened: The man was electrified and went out walking on air. Within a few weeks, he was called to a distant city for a wonderful position that came about miraculously. The original sentence was scripture correct, and it produced nothing because it produced no picture. Nailed back is a carpentry image. You can see the door and the nails, and the fact that it is closing, it is now physically impossible. She added 4 words and the whole thing came alive. That's an illustrator working. She kept adding detail until the picture appeared, and the moment the picture appeared, the man's state changed, and the state produced the result. Use this on your affirmations. If a statement leaves you unmoved, the problem is almost never the truth of it. The problem is that it has yet to produce an image. Keep adding detail until you see something. Then there is a technique she calls casting the burden. This is her technique for the situations where you've tried everything and remain stuck. It's the most practically useful in her catalog. Her observation is that a person under a heavy burden becomes unable to think clearly, and the inability to think clearly is what keeps the burden in place. So the instruction is to hand it over, cast this burden on the Christ within, and go free. She has people repeat it until they feel the relief physically, and she reports that the relief usually arrives suddenly rather than gradually, often with a sense of lightness in the chest. And her account of what follows is the interesting part. Once the burden lifts, the person can suddenly see the situation clearly, and frequently the answer that had been unavailable for months becomes obvious within days. The burden was the blindfold. Her decrees for it: I cast this burden on the Christ within, and I go free. The Lord goeth before me, and my way is made easy and successful. An entire chapter of her first book is given to non-resistance, and it is the hardest of her teachings to practice. She's one of the best at teaching it. Her position is that resisting a condition holds it in place. Whatever you push against, you are connected to, and the connection is what supplies it. The application is specific. She instructs people to stop fighting the situation, stop rehearsing the injustice, Stop arguing the case and simply speak the word and step back. Her decrees here are quiet ones. I am undisturbed by appearances. Nothing can oppose my good. I am now in perfect harmony with the divine plan, and nothing can prevent its fulfillment. The distinction she draws is between fighting a thing and dissolving it. A person who fights it is engaged with it, A person who dissolves it withdraws the attention that was feeding it. And then there's the watchman at the gate. In the final book, she names the practice that ties everything together: the watchman at the gate of thought. Her instruction is to station a guard at the entrance of your mind and to permit nothing through that you would be unwilling to see manifested. Every thought is a request. Every word is an order. The watchman decides which ones get filled, and her standard is high. She includes the passing remark, the muttered complaint, the joke, and the offhand comment about your own prospects. Practically, the watchman does 3 things: it intercepts the sentence before it leaves your mouth, it substitutes a decree in place of a complaint, and it refuses to discuss the trouble with anybody who has no power to change it. Her final book contains a chapter with the title Look with Wonder, and it is the gentlest thing she ever wrote. The instruction is to look at your own life with wonder rather than with assessment. Her decree: I look with wonder at that which is before me. Her observation is that the state of wonder has no fear in it whatsoever, and no calculation, and no comparison. A person in wonder is receiving rather than judging. And she connects it to expectancy, which runs through everything she taught. What do you expect? She devotes a chapter to that question in the same book, and her position is that expectation is the actual operating instruction well beneath whatever a person says they believe. Most people affirm one thing and expect another, and the expectation wins every time. And then she talks about Snow White. I want to include this because it shows how her mind worked and because almost nobody knows it exists. The final chapter of her final book is titled The Inner Meaning of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The Disney film had come out in 1937. She was in her late 60s, and she sat down and wrote a metaphysical interpretation of it as the closing chapter of her life's work. That's a woman who read the entire world as instruction— scripture, folklore, a French film with Maurice Chevalier in it, a boy selling programs at a movie theater, a Chinese proverb about a shopkeeper, a fog at sea. She looked at her material, whatever it appeared, and she never once worried about whether it was dignified enough, which is exactly what Emmet Fox said about her. And then her decrees were collected. Here's the working set gathered from across the books so you have them in one place. Infinite Spirit, open the way for great abundance for me. I am an irresistible magnet for all that belongs to me by Divine Right. I have the magic purse of the Spirit. It can never be depleted. As money goes out, immediately money comes in, under grace in perfect ways. My supply comes from God, and there are large sums of money that are mine by Divine Right now pouring in under grace in perfect ways. For the right work, she would say, behold, I have set before thee the open door of destiny, and no man shall shut it, for it is nailed back. Infinite Spirit, open the way for my right work under grace in a perfect way. For the divine design, she stated, infinite Spirit, open the way for the divine design of my life to manifest. Let the genius within me now be released. For a blocked situation, she declared, the walls of lack and delay now crumble away, and I enter my promised land under grace. I cast this burden on the Christ within, and I go free. The Lord goeth before me, and my way is made easy and successful. For envy and resentment, what God has done for others, he now does for me and more. For fear and appearances: I am undisturbed by appearances. Nothing can oppose my good. There are no fogs in Divine Mind, so let the fog be lifted. I give thanks for the sun. For clearing the record, she would declare: I now smash and demolish by my spoken word every untrue record in my subconscious mind. They shall return to the dust heap of their native nothingness. I now make my perfect records of wealth, health, love, and perfect expression. For guidance, she would declare, infinite intelligence, give me a definite lead. Reveal to me my perfect self-expression. Show me the way. And the one that closes everything: I look with wonder at that which is before me. Now, how do you actually use this? Her system, in the order she would have given it: one, Watch your speech for a week. Write down the things you say about yourself, the jokes especially. The subconscious has no sense of humor, so the jokes are instructions. Smash the record. Speak the demolition decree out loud with power and conviction. She has insisted that it be spoken aloud because a spoken word reaches the deeper mind in a way thought never does. Third, build decrees that produce a flash. Add detail until you see something nailed back, crammed, jammed. If a statement leaves you cold, it has failed to produce an image, and you keep working until it does. And 4, end every decree the same way: under grace, in perfect ways. Name the outcome and release the route. 5, follow the hunch immediately, and even when it looks unreasonable. The woman with $8 went home to a place of lack because a hunch told her to. 6. Cast the burden. When you are stuck, hand it over rather than pushing harder. The relief comes first and the clarity follows, and the answer arrives after that. 7. Find the wall. Ask what is built around your Jericho— resentment, past dwelling, complaint, or scattering your forces by talking— then dissolve that specific one. And 8, look with wonder. Expectancy is the operating instruction. Whatever you expect is what you have actually asked for. In 1912, a woman in Greenwich Village was left by a husband who had built her a theater and written her 3 leading roles. She was 41. She had a career as an illustrator, an old family name, and a life that had just been removed. She began speaking sentences out loud and writing down what happened. 13 years later, she carried a manuscript to publishers in New York and they turned it down. So she published it herself at 54, and it has never been out of print in 100 years. She taught in New York until she died. Her books reached places nobody sent them. And Emmett Fox, who filled Carnegie Hall, gathered up the notes she left behind and finished her final book for her. She spent the second half of her life proving that a person can speak their way out of a situation. She started with her own. Watch what you say about yourself this week. Something is taking notes, and it has never once understood a joke. Before we go, I want to invite you to join the Reality Revolution tribe. You can find the link in the description. It's at skool.com/realityrevolution. We have weekly group coaching sessions. 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