Desire Power or Your Energizing Forces — William Walker Atkinson / Edward E. Beals — 1922

Desire may begin as an inward impulse, but what transforms it into sustained action?

In Desire Power or Your Energizing Forces (1922), William Walker Atkinson and Edward E. Beals explore desire as the motive force behind effort, persistence, and purposeful achievement. Rather than treating desire as mere wishing, they examine how it gathers emotional energy, directs attention, and supplies momentum to action.

Issued as the third volume of the twelve-volume Personal Power Books, the work traces the evolution of desire, its relationship to conduct, and the difference between vaguely wanting something and knowing precisely what one is prepared to pursue. Its emphasis is practical: clarifying an aim, strengthening the emotional force behind it, and accepting the discipline and cost required to carry it through.

Topics include emotive power, desire and action, the evolution and attraction of desire, knowing what you want, wanting it strongly enough, paying the price, and the influence of unconscious desire.

Details
Authors: William Walker Atkinson and Edward E. Beals
Original publication: 1922
Series: Personal Power Books, Volume 3 of 12
Length: 176 pages
Available formats: PDF and Physical Book