Year: 2012

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.

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Meyer, David USA Boise

Hello!
Imagination! Something that can become neglected in our society that focuses most of our energy on physical reality. The bible says for us to pray for things and believe they already have happened. The bible is the best selling book on the planet and says we can move mountains if we just pray and believe it has already occurred. What type of praying is this? It is using our imagination. It is focusing on a reality we want more than the reality that we currently are living in.
I came up with an idea about a year ago that I wanted to start looking at different quantities of money from $10,000 to $1 million dollars. I had them on my desktop so any time I looked at it I was looking at large sums of money. I did this because I wanted to expand my mind to the possibility of more abundance and prosperity. I wanted to stretch my imagination. I came to the conclusion that as long as I thought of those amounts of money as more than I could ever make then that is what I would continue to experience.
I loved the comment Ken Klemm made recently about the 30 Day Mental Cleanse. He said if you want to truly see the benefits of this powerful group then "be here in a year". His words were powerful because I know that I want to quit. I want to quit doing this because it is hard work and because it is different than just watching television and seeing what other people created with their imagination. So many hours wasted in front of a machine designed to show us the results of Thinking And Growing Rich, but not actually experience it for ourselves. From the actors, to the producers, to the directors, to the people on American Idol and all these shows. They are all using their imagination to create something special in their lives.
We can watch them or we can do the same for ourselves. If we choose to work on building ourselves up then we need to stop watching them and start watching our thoughts and working out our imagination like an Olympic athlete.
We all deserve the very best in life. Let's make sure we are all here in a year to make sure we are committed to ourselves and seeing what we can create in our own lives. So many people don't believe in themselves so they think they are worth $7 an hour or $10 an hour or $12 an hour. I think we are worth more than we could ever even imagine. There is no limit to what we are worth...only the limit we set in our minds. Only the limits we create in order to let others know that we do not believe in ourselves.
Thank you all for sharing your thoughts, ideas, words, inspiration, love, and motivation with each other. I leave this post with a couple of affirmations to help you stretch that imagination and think and dream BIGGER!
I provide value to others worth more than one million dollars.
I have the ability to attract one million dollars.
I am worth a million dollars.
I joyously accept a million dollars into my life.
I rejoice in being a millionaire.
I release all of my past beliefs that have prevented me from becoming a millionaire.
Money is energy in manifest form. I now draw that energy to myself by freely releasing my talents to the world.
I am eternally grateful for the honor of being trusted with a million dollars.
I have the talent and knowledge to create a million dollars.
I make concrete actions toward creating a million dollars.

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Willena Flewelling - Alberta Canada

Chapter 6: Imagination
Napoleon Hill says:
Man can create anything which he can imagine.
The creative imagination functions only when the conscious mind is vibrating
at an exceedingly rapid rate.
Man's only limitation lies in his develoment and use of his imagination.
When I was growing up and in school, not one teacher ever encouraged me
to write. My grades in composition never ever suggested the any talent lying
within me. I don't remember what sparked the desire to write. But whatever
it was, it changed my life forever. I began writing a journal on New Year's Day
1968, when I was 14. Not one of those puny diaries from the store, either.
My journal was a 3-ring binder full of lined paper. It took me two years to fill
it, because for a long time I wrote only a few sentences a day. I was afraid
to reveal my true feelings even in my personal, private journal, because I was
afraid one of my brothers would find it and read it.
I am a writer. 28 binders full of handwritten pages, and untold thousands of
words in Word documents, testify to that fact. So...
Why am I not published?
Why don't I have the imagination to come up with interesting stories?
Why am I not using my writing more in Mentoring For Free?
I'm going to make a confession here. I have NEVER found it easy to write my
mental cleanse lessons. Week after week, I determine to write my lesson on
Thursday or Friday, and week after week I squeak in under the wire on
Monday or Tuesday night. Why? It's not because I don't think about it and
read or listen to the chapter early enough.
The answer to that is the same as the answer to why I am not a published
author today. Whether it's fiction, ebooks, emails, or my mental cleanse
lessons, I don't believe I have the imagination to come up with interesting
stories.
Talk about a pack of lies!!! Long ago I discovered that I can imagine all kinds
of negative scenarios. When my husband or child is late coming home... when
I think I've forgotten to turn the stove off before leaving home... when the
house creaks and groans at night... when my business is not growing the
way I'd like... oh yes, I can think of plenty of negative scenarios. So why not
positive?
The reality is, I have a very vivid imagination, but it's tightly bound and
restricted by my fears and false perceptions. The only time I have allowed
it free reign is to let it feed on the negative programming from the past, to
grow those fears and false perceptions till they're WAY out of proportion.
I have often heard Michael say,
"YOU own your success! It's inside YOU.
It's up to YOU!
But you must stay close to the fire!"
I have no trouble staying close to the fire. I very seldom miss a call, and I
soak it all up like a sponge. It's the first part of it I've had trouble with.
There is a desire in my heart... an idea in my mind. Like Mr. Hill, I may need
to coax it, nurse it, and entice it to remain alive. And as I do that consistently,
my idea will gradually become a giant under its own power, and it will coax,
nurse and drive me!
"Ideas are like that," says Mr. Hill. "First you give life and action and guidance
to ideas, then they take on power of their own and sweep aside all opposition."
I believe that now, and I am taking action on it.
I want to thank you, Michael, for being so insistent that we "stay close to
the fire" and "be here a year from now". I would encourage who is discouraged,
to do exactly that. No matter how slow or ineffective you think you are, stick
close to the fire, because that is the first step to success. Everyone gets
discouraged every now and then. But for goodness sake, say your self talk
so you won't have to stay in that state any longer than necessary!
Willena Flewelling
Alberta Canada

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Frank (Sarge) LooSer, Tennessee

I would like to start my lesson this week by highlighting a quote from this chapter which I believe holds the key to this subject. Hill says “Read the entire book through, then come back to this chapter, and begin at once to put your imagination to work on the building of a plan, or plans, for the transformation of your DESIRE into money. Detailed instructions for the building of plans have been given in almost every chapter. Carry out the instructions best suited to your needs, reduce your plan to writing, if you have not already done so. The moment you complete this, you will have DEFINITELY given concrete form to the intangible DESIRE. Read the preceding sentence once more. Read it aloud, very slowly, and as you do so, remember that the moment you reduce the statement of your desire, and a plan for its realization, to writing, you have actually TAKEN THE FIRST of a series of steps, which will enable you to convert the thought into its physical counterpart.” I wonder what the percentage is that actually do this?
The Network Marketing business is like an affordable franchise where the plan has already been established and reduced to paper for us to follow and duplicate. The Mentoring for Free back office system has already been written and developed, reduced to paper for us to follow and duplicate. Where else on earth can anybody regardless of background find an affordable business plan that can make all their dreams come true and still be there for your children’s children?
The reason Hill says to reduce your plan to paper is because that gives it a physical presence in the world. It is no longer just thought energy; you have now placed it in the infant stages of manifestation. Take for example baking a pie in the oven. You don’t see what the heat is doing to the inside of the pie to make the dough rise and the crust brown but once the heat energy is focused it, begins to transform the ingredients in the pan into a delicious eatable pie.
I personally have taken to carrying a journal with me at all times to capture ideas and plans that come to me throughout the day. Putting my ideas down on paper helps me to assess where I'm at, where I have been and where I am headed.
Thanks Michael and Linda for putting together such a wonderful, duplicable, training and lead generation platform called Mentoring for Free. What a brilliant idea you gave birth to. I have noticed dozens of others trying to duplicate your system, but when you look closely at what they are doing you begin to realize they are not follow through with the mentoring for free part. They claim they will help anybody, but before they get the words out of their mouth they have already become impatient and started to pitch you on their deal. Be aware of the Lion dressed in a sheep’s fleece.
With Prosperous Regards
Your Mentor and Servant
Sarge

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Mark Michael, Yucaipa, CA

We humans are an impatient group of people. We want what we want without working for it. I know this doesn’t apply to present company ? What jumped out as a reminder to me was “The creative faculty becomes more alert, more receptive to vibrations
from the sources mentioned, in proportion to its development through USE. This statement is significant! Ponder over it before passing on.” Even Mr. Hill years ago knew what the problems was going to be for many, taking what we learn and USE it!
And in the very next paragraph, he reminds us again with “Both the synthetic and creative faculties of imagination become more alert with use, just as any muscle or organ of the body develops through use.”
And again here “Your imaginative faculty may have become weak through inaction. It can be revived and made alert through USE.”
And once again “Transformation of the intangible impulse, of DESIRE, into the tangible
reality, of MONEY, calls for the use of a plan, or plans. These plans must be formed with the aid of the imagination, and mainly, with the synthetic faculty.”
I do not find it surprising that we are being constantly reminded here to Use what we learn, not just read it and forget it. It is too easy for me to get distracted and off course for my desires unless I use discipline to keep my focus on what I want and the only way for me to make that happen is by repetition.
The use of imagination is something new and totally outside my normal realm of experience for 50 years, so it is no wonder if I do not constantly work with the principle of imagination that I will not have success in building my desire until it is burning hot, which will then let me tap into the power of creation of my thoughts made manifest into the physical.
“Observe that Asa Candler and Dr. Frank Gunsaulus had one characteristic
in common. Both knew the astounding truth that IDEAS CAN BE
TRANSMUTED INTO CASH THROUGH THE POWER OF DEFINITE PURPOSE,
PLUS DEFINITE PLANS.”
Here are two big keys in how we can get what we want!
Mark Michael

Lesson plan from Mark Michael on chapter 6 for the 30 day mental cleanse.

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