There is a better side, a superior side, a beautiful side to everyone and everything. By learning to look for the better and higher qualities in persons and things we ally ourselves with these and not only produce better ideas and more constructive ones, but improve ourselves at the same time by more de­sirable and up building attitudes.

A major requirement in getting an idea is to believe that it is possible. In other words, we said something above about faith. Before you can do anything, you have to believe it can be done. This more than anything, sets the mind in motion to find the way. Your mind always takes its cue from your beliefs. If you believe it cannot be done, your mind will produce the reasons why it cannot. If you believe it can, your mind will be equally proficient in showing how it can. That is a necessary step in releasing creative power.

Of course to get an idea you must be receptive. A dog on Fifth Avenue, New York, may be surrounded by all the idea material which the creative thinker sees. Receptiveness is what you as a human being can make of it. Before you can do anything, you have to believe it can be done. This more than anything, sets the mind in motion to find the way.

You cannot harbor in your mind such negative attitudes as fear, worry, resentment, jealousy, anger, anxiety and the like, and at the same time expect to receive any inspiration from the finer portions of your being. The creativeness of a person is of the same substance as universal creativeness. You must ask this creativeness within for what you want, visualizing it as clearly as possible in picture form. Then you must still your mind in an attitude of faith, expectation and confidence that you will get your reply. You can’t pour grain into a sack unless the sack is open to receive, and your subconscious cannot pour ideas into your mind unless your mind is receptive.