Napoleon Hill’s Thought for the day
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"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, 'I'll try again tomorrow.'"
Mary Anne Radmacher
Author and Artist
"Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know. "
—Jim Rohn
"We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere."
Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, Inspirational Writer
"Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said." —Jim Rohn
"The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there."—Jim Rohn
"You've got to walk right into what you want and not look at what you don't want. Stay focused on the goal."
Calvin LeHew
From Flying High: A True Story of Shared Inspiration.
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David H. Paul- St. Cloud, MN USA
For the first time in two years of participating in this 30 Day Mental Cleanse mastermind, I am writing my lesson learned right "from the cuff". I am going to just give you my thoughts on imagination, and how I am using my creative imagination, as best I can, to create the life and business I have always wanted.
Last week, my friend Matt Geib highly recommended that I read the book "The Slight Edge" by Jeff Olson, and he asked me to focus on Ch. 10 through the end of the book. The message in the end of the book was all about creating goals or dreams that we can Focus on making our reality through taking small, consistent actions every day. So, I found myself writing out my 5 biggest dreams or goals that I want to make my present reality, and all of that process was about using my imagination.
1) I allowed my imagination to just run wild as I thought about how great it would feel to earn the pin level of Diamond in my company and how amazing it would feel to celebrate my success with my friends and team at our annual conference. 2) I thought of how proud I am of my son, that he has earned his driver's license and how he as focused on how awesome and fun it feels to be handling the responsibility being a licensed driver. 3) My imagination really ran wild as I experienced the images, sensations and feeling of taking all of my kids with me on the MFF cruise with Michael and Linda Dlouhy. 4) My imagination was really working overtime as I experienced was my house looks like with new siding, "green" decking and beautiful new flooring. And, 5) I really enjoyed allowing my imagination to take me to my local Ford dealership as I pay cash for my new Ford Flex.
Now, every morning and every night, I take just 15 minutes to read each of my new goals and allow my imagination to run wild as I day dream my way into making each of my 5 goals into my current life experience.
To Your Peace and Prosperity,
David H. Paul
the Follow Your Bliss Guy
Lesson plan from David Paul on chapter 6 for the 30 day mental cleanse.
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Tony Koker - Stoughton, Massachusetts
Imagination at work
I use imagination all the time, when I am trying to solve challenges, issues and problems. The synthetic imagination is the easiest, since it is the use of known ideas and facts, recombined and processed into new constructs. The creative imagination comes from the subconscious, and arrives as responses from the desires we have planted there. Just this week, as I further develop task lists and actions to solve my challenges, issues and problems, I believe I have made significant progress when the creative imagination provides missing pieces to the puzzles. There are three specific areas where this can be illustrated from my experiences this week.
The first area involves my mind set when interacting with other people, an external focus. Having begun to develop a skill to understand whether a person is direct or indirect is part of the synthetic imagination. Being grounded as an indirect myself, I have to rely on my imagination to envision the thought process of someone who is direct. I have to rely upon the creative imagination to provide insight into this process. Although I believe I can operate in the process of a direct, it takes a lot of energy and focus, and even then, I have to have faith that my creative imagination provides the answer as it is needed. I may have to tweak my self-talk, or auto-suggestion a little, if I find that my creative imagination needs to work overtime to another solution, if, as often happens, I come up with the answer in hindsight, after the interaction is well concluded.
The second area involves my mind set too, but with an internal focus. This is the easiest for me, being indirect, as it is easy for me to think through tasks and form action plans. The challenge, here, for me, is that it is much more difficult to let go of the planning and consider it good enough. I can easily get stuck trying to make it perfect. Realizing this seems to make this piece less daunting, but if not for my creative imagination I'm sentenced to a prison cell, in my mind, where I regurgitate the known ideas and facts over and over again ad nauseam.
The third area also involves an internal focus and addresses my mood, or how I am feeling. I can be at peace, silencing the annoyances to the point of ignoring that stimulus for action. Although pleasant, I certainly won't be able to move forward without some stimulus. If I am totally engaged in turmoil, like that experienced on Mondays, when the big change occurs from being in a rhythm of self-motiviation, to that where I have to embrace the desires and goals of others and the demands this places on me, this can result in overload or crisis. A balance has to be maintained, where there is sufficient tension and stress to motivate and drive forward, but managed in a spirit of positive emotions. I constantly call upon my creative imagination to resolve this challenge.
For all of these areas, my self-talk provides the underlying focus which is fed to my subconscious. My subconscious, in turn, provides responses from the creative imagination in tune with my desires. Otherwise the ideas brought forward may be off the melody, so I have to keep focused on fueling my mind with the rhythm of thought, the vibration of harmony upon which _I_ choose to devote my energy and efforts.
with gratitude and in service,
Tony, Lisa, Michael and Amanda Koker
Lesson plan from Tony Koker on chapter 6 for the 30 day mental cleanse.
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Ben Miranda - Los Angeles, California
CHAPTER 6
IMAGINATION: THE WORKSHOP OF THE MIND
The Fifth Step toward Riches
Albert Einstein says, “Imagination is more important than Knowledge.”
OK. I have learned that General knowledge and Specialized Knowledge produces an Educated Person and he or she gets results through the assistance of his or her “Master Mind” group.
Now in this lesson, Master Napoleon teaches us:
• Imagination produces Ideas. They are the beginning of all “fortunes”
• Imagination is “the farm” in which all man’s “seeds” are planted, e.g. plans.
• Imagination makes possible to give form and shape Desires.
• Plans and Desires convey to take Action with Total Imagination.
As well, Master Hill calls attention about the role of IMAGINATION in human being growth. He makes a clear distinction between the two main types of imagination, that is “synthetic imagination” and “creative imagination”.
1. Synthetic Imagination takes place when old concepts, ideas or plans are arranged into new combinations. It is a sort of the manipulation of effects, a re-invention. It works with the material of experience.
2. Creative Imagination is the form of imagination that helps create basic concepts or new ideas. It is causal that creates effects, an invention, an art. It works in direct communication with Infinite Intelligence.
At this point, do we have a real distinction between these two imagination’s functions? To me this distinction is a critical understanding. Imagination, my inferring, is a global, integrated, independent mental function that produces unexpected ideas, that sparks plans and adds value to our Action, as the innate ability and process of inventing or rearranging them.
Throughout our human history, the human being has used the creative imagination to convert Ideas in the starting point of all fortunes and wellness.
The moral and teaching is that We must revive our own imaginative faculty and make alert through use. Please do not damp anybody’s imagination including ours. Never underestimate a person with a Vision.
Think, visualize, fantasize, dream, and create. Creation is identical to a battery. Positive is active-Creative Imagination. Negative is passive-Synthetic Imagination. Connect the two perfectly and you have power. The Power of Knowledge Applied. Be a Linchpin!
“Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.”
- Bruce Lee
Thanks MFF’s friends, Masters, Mentors (…) for this incredible mastermind group that helps people own their lives.
Sincerely with love, honesty and gratitude,
Ben
Los Angeles, California, USA.
Lesson plan from Ben Miranda on chapter 6 for the 30 day mental cleanse.
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