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Chapter 12. The Subconscious Mind
The Connecting Link
THE ELEVENTH STEP TOWARD RICHES
The Subconscious Mind is the storehouse, the filing
cabinet for every impulse of thought and feeling that has
come to it through all our six (6) senses, regardless of their
nature, regardless of whether we even want them stored
or not.
You may voluntarily plant anything into your subconscious
yourself. Quite often we voluntarily place unneeded
thoughts there out of our anger doubt and fear. If you will
be open and honest with yourself you’ll realize you have
been doing this all your life
You can also voluntarily plant thoughts with positive
meaningful purpose. Our subconscious acts first on the
dominating thoughts that have been mixed with emotion
and feeling.
Have you ever noticed how easy it is to be angry, to doubt
your ability, to think that others can be successful at
Network Marketing “but not me”, to be fearful of making
contact with a prospect and worse not following up once
you have, procrastination and more…This type of thought
activity is infused with emotion and feeling.
Have you ever noticed how all these thoughts and feelings
seem like they just show up and take no effort to think or
feel…I can tell you this, it is a natural occurrence, it does not
take effort but it does “take”, robs us of our power. It is
our nature because it is what we have been taught
generation after generation and what we will pass on if we
do not stop it here. We can stop it; it does not matter our
age. We can pass on a new legacy of thought and
manifest our desires to offer proof. We do not have to
show and tell. We just have to do.
The question is, “If this is true, then what can I do?”
Napoleon Hill tells us in this chapter, “we cannot entirely
control our subconscious mind, but we can voluntarily hand
over to it any plan, desire, or purpose which we wish
transformed into concrete form. Read, again the
instructions for using the subconscious mind, in the
chapter on autosuggestion.
Once you understand the subconscious mind and the
possibility of this medium transmuting your personal
desires into their physical equivalent you will begin to
understand the chapter on “Desire” and the “SIX STEPS”
listed in that chapter necessary to develop the burning
desire, the passion and emotion required to cause you to
persist in your quest.
Hill says the thirteen principles will help you acquire the
ability to reach and influence your subconscious mind. He
goes on to say, “do not be discouraged if you cannot do
this on your first attempt. You have not had time to master
“Faith” be patient.”
Most people in network marketing have read “Think &
Grow Rich”. I ask almost every contact I make in this
industry if they have, and almost to a person the reply is,
“Yes, I read that ONCE.” Hill states in another chapter it
might require that you read these principles several times.
You need to feed your mind daily, just like your body. You
don’t eat healthy food just once and call it good, thinking it
will sustain your body, no, you feed it several times daily.
Nor can you read these thirteen principles once and think it
will sustain the necessary elements of your mind to propel
you to manifest your hearts desire. You must feed your
“Mind” daily.
At “Mentoring for Free" among our ten free live interactive
skills calls and personal mentoring we study the Thirteen
Principles of Think & Grow Rich. Participants of the book
study write a personal review of their lesson learned
regarding the weekly chapter and principle. We voluntarily
post this to our forum and share our thoughts live and
interactive several times a week. This is called a Master
Mind group, Principle 9 chapter 10. Maybe the most
amazing thing I’ve found is the only cost for this and the
personal mentoring I receive is my time to participate.
I discovered this forum, first by reading the book “Success
in 10 Steps” written by network marketing legend Michael
Dlouhy. I contacted the person who shared the book with
me and the results of this relationship to my personal
growth and prosperity have been extraordinary.
Just remember, your subconscious mind does not stay
idle, you must tend it, plant the thoughts you want in it and
weed out the others. The following YouTube video link
titled “Stop It” by comedian Bob Newhart will give you a
simple unique and genuine idea of how to take control
back. It is entertaining, humorous but ever so true
http://tinyurl.com/2fy6fn (copy & paste to your browser).
As a network marketer you are trying to take control of
your life rather than be controlled be sources outside of
you. To do so you must prepare yourself to control your
inner audience. You must understand the method of
approach. You must speak its language Hill says.
“The negatives voluntarily inject themselves into the
thought impulses, which insure passage into the
Subconscious Mind. The “Positives MUST be Injected”,
through the principle of Auto-Suggestion, into the thought
impulses which an individual wishes to pass on to their
subconscious mind.”
That's how it works!
Russ Aker
Portland, Oregon
Lesson plan from Russ Aker on chapter 12 for the 30 day mental cleanse.
You can participate in the 30 day mental cleanse at http://www.30daycleanse.com
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Stay Focused on the Big Picture by Harvey Mackay
A reader once sent me an email thanking me for a column I had written on getting outside the box. She told me how she had lost focus for a while, but had turned things around. She encouraged me to write a column on staying focused.
I immediately thought of my varsity golfing days at the University of Minnesota many years ago. Back then The Saint Paul Open was one of the top tournaments on the men’s professional golf circuit. Prior to the tournament, I had a chance to meet Gary Player when he was taking a lesson from our team coach, Les Bolstad. Later that evening I went to dinner with the world’s future No. 1 player when he was still an unknown.
The following day at The Saint Paul Open, I saw Gary after he teed off the first hole and ran up to him to say hi. I wanted to tell him what a great time I had the night before. His steely eyes remained focused on the fairway ahead and he never broke stride. “Harvey, please don’t talk to me. I must concentrate. I will see you when I’m finished.”
I remember how devastated I felt, but I learned a valuable lesson on focus. Many years later, when he was world famous, my wife, Carol Ann, and I ran into Gary and his wife in South Africa. I reintroduced myself and reminded him of what happened on the golf course. Gary’s wife told me, “Don’t feel bad. He doesn’t even talk to me on the golf course.”
That’s the focus that it takes to do your best. If you have the ability to focus fully on the task at hand, and shut out everything else, you can accomplish amazing things.
Arnold Palmer, another golfing legend, recalled a tough lesson he learned about focus in Carol Mann’s book The 19th Hole:
It was the final hole of the 1961 Masters tournament, and I had a one-stroke lead and had just hit a very satisfying tee shot. I felt I was in pretty good shape. As I approached my ball, I saw an old friend standing at the edge of the gallery. He motioned me over, stuck out his hand and said, “Congratulations.” I took his hand and shook it, but as soon as I did, I knew I had lost my focus. On my next two shots, I hit the ball into a sand trap, then put it over the edge of the green. I missed a putt and lost the Masters. You don’t forget a mistake like that; you just learn from it and become determined that you will never do that again. Trust me, your friends will understand!
A response Babe Ruth once gave to a reporter sticks in my mind: “How is it,” the Babe was asked, “that you always come through in the clutch? How is it you can come up to bat in the bottom of the 9th, in a key game with the score tied, with thousands of fans screaming in the stadium, with millions listening on the radio, the entire game on the line and deliver the game winning hit?” His answer, “I don’t know. I just keep my eye on the ball.”
In other words: Focus.
How many times have you heard an athlete talk about focus? It’s a topic I also hear about frequently in business. The most common complaints?
Too many irons in the fire. Too many projects spinning at one time. Too many interruptions. Too many phone calls. Too many emails. Too many things to do. Too little time.
The late Peter Drucker, management consultant and author, observed, “When you have 186 objectives nothing gets done. I always ask, ‘What’s the one thing you want to do?’ In Mexico they call me Senor Una Cosa.” (Translation: Mister One Thing)
Decide what’s most important. Make a list every day or every week and prioritize your activities. Scale back the amount of time you spend on meetings; they can be the biggest time-wasters of all. Learn to delegate, and make sure all members of your team follow through on assigned tasks.
Set aside a specific time of day to return phone calls and emails, and keep distractions to a minimum. In other words, set rules about how others use your time. And if you’re not the boss, work with your supervisor to make sure you agree on priorities.
Stay focused as best you can, and don’t let things happen to you—not when you can make things happen.
Mackay’s Moral: The person who is everywhere is nowhere.
From Jim Rohn's newsletter a wonderful article on focus by Harvey Mackay. Thank you for this wonderful reminder, about being there.
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Who Is Really In Charge? by Jim Rohn
Finally, the elections are over. Some of you are certainly very happy and some are probably unhappy with the outcome and that is to be expected. Every four years we Americans participate in this grand experiment called America and we elect a President to lead us. That of course spurs lots of different opinions and positions and people can become emotionally involved with the outcome.
One thing that I always find fascinating in all elections, but especially the presidential elections, are the many promises that candidates make to the electorate. They promise to make the economy better and to make health care more affordable for the masses. They promise to make the taxes better and to create jobs.
As I think about this, I want to challenge you to consider that while a President may have a general effect on your circumstances, they do not have a specific effect on your circumstances. Let me explain: While they may play a role in what direction the stock market goes, they do not have an effect in how an individual stock goes, or in whether or not you can make money in the stock market. So, while we certainly should vote and participate in the process, we must understand that no single person –other than you – will have an effect on what your individual life outcome is.
Let me give you some more examples:
A President may promise a better economy but you determine your economy. They may affect whether the dollar gains strength or loses it, but you determine what your financial position is going to be. The fact is that even in the worst economies, including recessions and depressions, there are those who will continue to thrive and even become extremely wealthy. In the great depression, there were countless people who, because of their individual efforts, became millionaires. So, no matter what the economy is nationally, you can become wealthy in the next four years. You don’t have to wait for anyone.
A President may promise to create jobs, but the only person who is going to create YOUR job is you! You determine whether or not you have a job. The President doesn’t, the economy doesn’t, and the industry doesn’t. No matter how bad things get, there are always those who have good paying jobs. You choose what kind of person you will be, and how valuable you will make yourself to the marketplace and thus, what kind of job you will have. So, no matter what the job situation is nationally, you can have any job you want in the next four years. You don’t have to wait for anyone.
A President may promise to do something about taxes, but no matter what the tax rate is, you can still build your personal wealth. Much of my wealth came to me when we still had extremely exorbitant tax rates. I have often said that if you want to be a millionaire and the tax rate is 50%, then just make two million. You determine how much you will have left after taxes, not the government. If you don’t like what you have left, make more. Now, am I saying we shouldn’t work to lower tax rates? No, but I am saying that we can be in control of our own lives regardless of the tax rate. So, no matter what the tax rate is, you can earn more money in the next four years. You don’t have to wait for anyone.
A President may promise to make your health care available to you but you can make health care available to yourself! It isn’t that people can’t afford it; it is that you can’t afford it. What is the answer to that? The empowering answer is to do what it takes to put yourself in a financial and career situation wherein it doesn’t matter what the cost is, because you can afford it. Again, I am not saying that we shouldn’t work to make health care affordable for people, but when you leave it in the hands of someone else, then you make yourself dependent upon them, rather than becoming independent.
The fact is that you control your life. You control your destiny. You chart your course. Those we elect are not the givers of our financial lives. I sometimes think that many people think that if we can just get the “right” person elected, then their lives will suddenly take a turn for the better. Not true. You determine the outcome of your life.
Fortunes will be made in the next four years, no matter what. Some people will join the ranks of millionaires. That is amazing. The only question you have to ask is whether or not you will be one of them. People with high skills will always be in demand for high paying jobs. People who have a superb product or service to offer will always be in demand.
Did you vote? That’s great – we should as our civic duty. But the most important thing is not whether your candidate won or lost, but what kind of decision you will make about your own life, your own career, and your own financial situation, no matter who is in office.
Do that, and the world is yours for the taking.
From Jim Rohns newsletter a very powerful truth. Only you can change your own circimstances no one else can.
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