The Secret to a New Life

By J Thomas Smith

The Secret to a New Life (In Twenty-One Days)
This writing addresses issues that will help you live a happier, more harmonious,
and healthier life. The Secret to a New Life is a metaphysical primer. It is a How
to book presented with the beginning metaphysician in mind. But metafizzlers,
those whose journey along the path has gone awry, will also find solace in
these writings. In general, anyone who wants or needs a new thought about
themselves or their circumstances will find the spiritual foundation in the The
Secret to a New Life.
If you hunker down and follow the clear script within these covers and experiment
in the laboratory that is your life, in 21 days you will be substantially, recognizably
different in your outlook on life and in the quality of your livingness.
Jesse G. Jennings, D.D.
Creative Life Spiritual Center
Spring, Texas

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 30, 2011
• ISBN: 9781469115634

J Thomas Smith

J Thomas Smith is an attorney, radio personality, mental health consultant and ordained minister. He has led congregations in Atlanta, Georgia and Houston, Texas. He is host of Dr. J Thomas Smith’s Saturday Morning show and the host of the talk-oriented community affairs program Sunday Morning Live. Both programs air on KMJQ/Majic 102.1 in Houston, Texas. The writings in this book are for the most part, briefs of his Sunday Talks. He seeks to improve the lives of everyone with whom he comes in contact. His only goal is to “Do Good”. He teaches of the presence and the power of God in everyone. Dr. Smith points the way to abundant living. Those who follow his teachings have found a new zest for living. They have found their lives transformed with better health, more happiness, more success, and better personal relationships.

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The Secret to a

New Life

(In Twenty-One Days)

J Thomas Smith

Copyright © 2011 by J Thomas Smith.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2011906161

ISBN:      Hardcover      978-1-4628-5983-2

ISBN:      Softcover         978-1-4628-5982-5

ISBN:      Ebook         978-1-4691-1563-4

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Preface

About the Author

Introduction

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Day Two

How to Understand

What God Is and What God Does

Day Three

How to Use Prayer for

Your Success

Day Four

How to Tune In to Your

Secret Power

Day Five

How to Use Your Secret Power: Meditation Guidelines

Day Six

How to Experience More Success and Happiness

Day Seven

How to Overcome

Personal Weaknesses

Day Eight

How to Develop a

Positive Mental Attitude

Day Nine

How to Win at the Game of Life

Day Ten

How to Have Mystical

Direction in Your Life

Day Eleven

How to Develop a

Spiritually Magnetic Mind

Day Twelve

How to Express God Daily

Day Thirteen

How to Eliminate the Negative and Strengthen the Positive

Day Fourteen

How to Obtain and Maintain Prosperity

Day Fifteen

How to Handle Problems as

They Arise

Day Sixteen

How to Visualize What You Want

Day Seventeen

How to Use Your Body as a Success Mechanism

Day Eighteen

How to Recover When Things

Keep Going Wrong

Day Nineteen

How to Be Born Again

Day Twenty

How to Develop Creative Thinking

Day Twenty-one

How to Bring Positive

Change to Your Life

Day Twenty-two

How to Be Guided by Christ Consciousness

Chapter Six

Acknowledgements

T hanks to Margaret Warfield for granting permission to use selections of her art for the book cover. She is truly an artistic communicator who has been painting for more than 25 years. Her paintings have been exhibited at art galleries, museums, universities and art shows around the country and many points around the globe. She has received numerous recognitions and awards for her work. Many have collected her works for investment and more still simply for its beauty. Now, you have three of her most popular pieces in your hands.

The background is from is an original acrylic painting titled Mountain Top Experience. Your mountain top experiences are times in your life that serve to bring you joy, peace and faith. The main painting on the cover is from an acrylic painting titled Almost There. Whatever your goal, don’t stop now because you are almost there. The back cover art is from an original acrylic painting titled The Touch. The complete collection of Margaret Warfield Art that touches the soul can be seen and purchased at her web site www.MargaretWarfield.com.

Foreword

By

Jesse Jennings, D.D.

I ’ve known J Thomas Smith for many years and we are still young men! Back in the day, as people of our generation like to say, we shared an enthusiasm for the Science of Mind teaching, and together sat through classes together under the tutelage of ministers like the ones we ourselves would become. Our enthusiasm has not waned. Only our venues are different. I am a New Thought pulpit minister and magazine columnist, while J Thomas, previously a pulpit minister, now ministers via psychotherapy, law, and broadcast journalism, as well as authoring this, his first book. He is proficient at everything, passionate about the human condition and compassionate in his service to others. He wants you to know the secret to a new life because when your life gets better, the world around us is better too.

J Thomas is driven by the compulsion to have you really know who you are, and to live, move, and have your being from that place of certainty of God as Universal Cause—and of yourself as the experience God is having of Itself through you. If you hunker down and follow the clear script within these covers and experiment in the laboratory that is your life, in 21 days you will be substantially, recognizably different in your outlook on life and in the quality of your livingness.

You might say, If only it were that simple. But here’s the thing: it is that simple. It is mainly because of its simplicity that the average person, unlike a mystic, fails to recognize that the process of transforming one’s life is done from the inside out. Going within, the mystic consciously seeks to commune with God and through communion, gains awareness, intuition and direct insight into all the issues of life. The practice of meditation or centering heightens ones awareness. Now, the process is laid before you.

I urge you not to just to read, but to contemplate and then launch into action the principles J Thomas Smith has used to change his life and now, lays them out for you. These principles will help you to grow past fear and doubt and to take charge of your destiny. Employ these principles to transform your life and your enlightenment will contribute to the spiritual evolution of our whole species.

—Jesse G. Jennings, D.D.

Creative Life Spiritual Center

Spring, Texas

Preface

F ew people are successful by accident. They plan for it. One of my plans was energized in Los Angeles when I was a younger man of 20. I had recently had a conversation with a popular radio-personality. As his go-fer, I became obsessed with the notion of becoming a radio announcer. I expressed my desire to him. Laughingly, his only remark’s were: How are you going to be successful in radio with a lisp? You can barely talk . . . His comments were not discouraging enough. For with a budget of $10.00, I made my rounds to the neighborhood Goodwill Stores and came away with two kid-type record players, a tape recorder, a bag of marbles and a few gadgets. Next, I returned to my garage apartment where, within a few hours, I converted my living room to a combined speech therapy and recording studio.

For the next six months I nurtured all components of my success machine. By day I functioned as an actuarial clerk. By night, I was oblivious to all things but my speech development exercises and recording activities. Sometime, between night and day, I dreamed profusely.

I mustered and directed large amounts of energy to my mind, telling it that I was already the air-personality that I envisioned. Soon I was eating, sleeping, and loving my obsession, making sure that not one small fiber of distraction interfered with it. How I recall long hours of vigorous diction exercises; home-made commercial productions; the ordeal of projecting my words at the walls around me; and the calamity of carefully forming words of perfect English despite the barriers posed by crackers, or marbles sloshing around in my mouth.

To my dismay, six months of unkept promises, broken appointments, and excuses from programmers ensued until finally, during a low moment, I ventured into a nightclub in Detroit. It was a hot spot and gathering place for social and business sets alike. As I entered the club an impulse led me to the deserted DJ booth. Sporty J was nowhere to be found and the spinning record was fading fast.

I opened with a short introduction and moved quickly to promoting the nightclub activities. Before I knew it, one thing led to another. The music pulsated, the crowd was with me . . . I had full control as my dream machine began to stir again.

Suddenly, during an intense moment of communication with my audience, a figure out of nowhere started toward me. Seemingly, he was just another patron wanting to make a request. As he approached, he fired away with questions: What’s your name? Where do you work? Do you have any experience? Would you like to audition at my radio station? You know all the answers. I was offered and accepted a fulltime afternoon drive slot at the station.

My plan for success led to opportunities in major markets around the country including Los Angeles, Detroit, New York, Memphis, Atlanta, Washington, D.C. and Houston. I’ve work in a number of different radio formats including urban, R & B, gospel, jazz, country, pop, easy listening and news. For a number of years I served as a staff announcer with American Forces Radio and Television Service--being heard in more than 50 countries around the world at the time. My vision began from barely being able to talk to earning the distinction of being named "Air-Personality of the Year on Pop Radio" by Black Radio Exclusive magazine.

Success continued to follow as I voiced and appeared in commercials for various agencies throughout the country. I was selected to project various acting roles for industrial training films and occasional assignments as a commercial product model. Winning ways followed as I served as a columnist and feature writer for several publications writing on a wide range of topics such as mental health, metaphysics, entertainment, nutrition and current events.

Today, one of my firmest convictions is that there are no barriers to education or anything else one wishes to achieve as long as it is legal and in harmony with the laws of Nature. We must pursue things in the way that things work. We can’t get potatoes from lettuce seeds. There is nothing and no one who can keep one from accomplishing that which he or she truly and deeply wants to achieve if one has the capacity and is willing to do what is required for success. Not only that, I believe that once you decide, the power which is God, will guide you to people and resources to help you in your pursuits. This is true, whether you know it or not. While it is sometimes difficult to explain this to the uninitiated, I do believe and know that it is true. It is that conviction and determination that has led me to various academic and professional pursuits and service to the community and various national organizations. It was also that conviction that made me say yes to law school—and pursuing my life-long dream of becoming a lawyer and practicing law.

When I started out, I knew nothing of my Secret Power, but I used it anyway just as you are using It