Think and Grow Rich Mastermind lessons for Ch. 6 Imagination
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I am constantly amazed at the personal growth that I see in folks who particpate in the Mentoring for Free 30 Day Mental Cleanse- These are a few of the lessons submitted for Chapter Six - Please read these carefully, ponder the meaning and hopefully you will walk away with a clearer perspective of yourself.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Chapter Six ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The effective use of our Imagination is required,if
we can visualize it we can do it,whatever it is that
we so desire.
However I know that for me to use my powers of vis-
ualization to become successful then I have to
develop pure harmony with my constant focus, my
auto suggestion and my visualization.
If I can visualize clearly my burning desire and
keep it in constant focus through the use of
imagination and visualization then I can achieve
that which I truly desire. If my use of vis-
ualization is sporadic then my achievement levels
will be sporadic.
The message that Hill is strongly telling us in
this chapter is that we need to as the saying goes
“think out of the box”.We can not allow the unused
muscles in our minds to lie dormant any longer.
We have to stretch them because what I now know is
that there is an answer for every question, is a
solution for every problem a work around for every
slight inconvenience. We can let nothing obstruct
our path to success and if we put our imaginative
powers to work when we are “inconvenienced” then we
will always be the ones that find solutions to
problems not the ones that are stopped by problems.
I was “working” too hard to believe - I was not
using my visualization everyday, not practicing
what I knew would work - Why I found it difficult
to belive it to be this simple I now know since I
have begun the daily practice of visualization tied
in harmony with my daily self talk that not only
are is it easier for me to complete tasks I can now
clearly see that I am on the right path to success
I know that I can achieve that which I focus on and
I can have my true desires all I have to do is begin
with belief, use my own internal powers of vis-
ualization, which grow stronger day by day and connect
those together with my self talk
Thank You Michael, Linda and the Mentoring For Free
Team for seeing me through this…….
Your Fried for Life
Sarah Thompson
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Chapter 6
Imagination: The Workshop Of The Mind
Synthetic imagination is used by people who arrange
old thoughts, ideas, concepts into new combinations.
This creates nothing and produces a long and slow
road to becoming successful. Creative imagination
is used by people who want to achieve greatness
and want to become successful in the quickest
amount of time by following a blueprint of achieving
that path done by others before them.
Creative imagination can be achieved by exercising
your body, mind, and soul…… The 30 Day Mental
Cleanse stresses eliminating negative chatter,
saying and practicing positive self-talk, and reading
“Think and Grow Rich”.
Like anything else that must be mastered on a daily
basis, soon the creative imagination will soon work
once it’s practiced every day.
The great ones such as Henry Ford, Thomas Edison
use creative imagination to help them achieve personal
and financial success.
The group from Mentoring For Free also uses creative
imagination. They are the ones who never miss a phone
call and are always on the 30 Day Mental Cleanse calls.
I joined Mentoring For Free in February 2008 and during
my second stint on the 30 Day Mental Cleanse, I have
used positive self-talk and get on the phone calls.
Using positive steps learned from the calls and the
lessons, I too believe that I can own my own life that
only others dream about. I myself will do whatever
it’s necessary to achieve that goal while associating
myself with a “Master Mind” group who feel the same
as I do and have taken the same path before me to
help me achieve the same success that they have.
If they can become successful in network marketing
which is the greatest vehicle in helping me own my
own life, then I should do the same and become
coachable doing what is needed to become like
them which means being with like-minded people
such as myself.
With creative imagination and like minded people,
most of the majority will use synthetic imagination
which I guess is okay for them but not for me. They
will travel the long road to becoming successful then
live in poverty when they retire not owning their own
life that they dream but not having.
Creative imagination produces a life of your own that
you get to experience thanks to network marketing
while synthetic imagination produces a life that you
never get to experience living in poverty during
retirement due to working a job for wages that barely
covers expenses.
The best things that I learned about learning how to
use and master creative imagination for myself is to
be in on all the Mentoring For Free calls and the 30
Day Mental Cleanse.
Then I too can finally sat that Iown my own life then
teaching like-minded people such as myself how to
do the same but only if they are willing to become
coachable like myself.
Cordially,
Paul Rosen
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~lesson 3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Chapter 6 Imagination
When I think of the synthetic imagination I think
of Michael Dlouhy always talking about stopping the
chatter in our mind. So if we are watching TV, or
listening to radio talk personalities our thoughts
are not really our own are they?
We think and act on what we see and hear. It is very
difficult to come up with a new idea if all we have
to use is the combination of others negative thoughts.
If we start now by collecting positive thoughts from
those around us, or even our own positive ideas, how
much more powerful would that be in creating a new
idea. Negative thoughts bring out negative ideas.
I do not think anyone will be truly successful by
thinking negative thoughts or having negative ideas.
So, if we surround ourselves with the good positive
thoughts and ideas of others, won’t we be able to
achieve success much sooner?
Michael and others tell us of their history and the
sometimes terrible things that happened in their
lives. We hear it weekly on the mental cleanse calls
from all sorts of different backgrounds, upbringings.
This is part of our cleanse, but do you believe
Michael or any of the others want you to feel sorry
for them or want to create a negative thought in you
head? NO!! ……….Just the opposite!
What they are doing is bringing out in the open their
actual success story of how they are overcoming such
a battle. It helps me to know there are people out
there that have actually gone through things I have
gone through and to know they are overcoming their
obstacles.
I do not feel sorry for them, I feel alive with the
thought that we all can make it thorough anything,
if we surround ourselves with this type of master
mind group.
It said that we use the synthetic imagination all
the time. We come up with new ideas from older ones
floating around our brains. So if we make sure we
are using the positive ideas floating in our brains
what great new ideas we can come up with.
Now lets take a look at the creative imagination.
My son is a brilliant boy with a wonderful creative imagination. He is 11 years old and invites new
ideas daily. As an adult in my own thoughts, never
aloud, I think “ya right like that’s ever going to
happen”.
As adults we forget how to have that creative im-
agination. We forget how to think outside the box.
My son does it daily and without even knowing it,
I put a negative spin on all his ideas.
I felt terrible about that when I first realized
what I was doing to his great ideas. So now when
he tells me of his next great invention, I help
him by making him write down the idea and help
him think of ways to achieve what he is trying
to do.
By doing this with him I am not only encouraging
him to be creative, but I am opening up my own
creative imagination.
Go back to childhood and think of some of the
things you wanted to achieve as you grew. Have
you succeeded at any of them? If not really look
deep into yourself and see what you can do with
those old ideas to make new ideas.
Children do not usually have the burden of the
responsibilities that we adults have, so it is
easier for them to come up with creative ideas.
Try to think like a child again. Stop worrying
about what your future holds for you and work
at it one day at a time. It is not so easy to
do, but it is possible!
You can achieve any goal you put into your head.
Do not think of what you don’t want, think of
what you do want.
We all can become the successful people we want
to be, but only if we use the resources we have
right in front of us. We all have great ideas
and desires, we all want something we do not
have right now.
But we also all have the power inside ourselves
to achieve it! I get more excited every time I
do a lesson plan. I know I am going to succeed
and I know it will be with the help of all of
you hear in this mastermind group.
By hearing and really learning from each persons
lesson they turn in and read on the call, I am
growing mentally every day.
Rhonda Wudarczyk
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~lesson 4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hi Michael
Chapter 6
Imagination
Hill says there are two types of imagination. The
one reorganizes known data into plans < He calls
this Synthetic And states it is the one most used
for changing the desire for money into it’s
practical equivalent The other type is creative
and this is employed when there is no known concept
for what is desired He says this requires practice
to re awaken and is never really lost
So to me.. as we work with MFF and the system we each
take the knowledge that is obvious and begin to create
a plan to acheive our desire but what we need to work
on is our creative imagination because for many of us
we are stretching beyond the obvious to desires that
we have never envisioned .
Each of us has to develope the ability to reach beyond
the obvious which we have lived with up til now and
stretch for the things that will take us to new dreams
Thanks for helping us dream ever bigger and better…
Janice Warburton
Mental Cleanse Lesson: Imagination
I am mesmerized by the subtitle of this chapter. I
have read it over and over as if, by osmosis, my sub
conscious and my conscious minds will realize and
accept the truth of what it says. It reads:
“All the ‘breaks’ I need in life wait within my
imagination.
Imagination is the workshop of my mind, capable of
turning mind-energy into accomplishment and wealth.”
It’s only two sentences, but I am drawn to it like a
magnet is drawn to a piece of steel. And I know part
of what I am feeling is “shock and awe”, because I
remember that just a few short weeks ago, I was still
thinking - and saying out loud if the situation
warranted my excusing my lack of production -
I think it would be considered ’self-talk in reverse’
and it sounded something like this: “I’m not good
at that. I just don’t have an imagination; I’m just
not the creative type.”
Now, I realize it was probably more a case of fear
that stifled my desire to even consider that I might
have an imagination or be creative; a fear of not
measuring up to someone’s expectations…or even my
own; a fear of being judged or criticized.
So at some point in my past, I discontinued using
my imagination if I didn’t have to…such as in the
case of an emergency.
Yet I recall that my imagination would be in full
bloom if I was playing with my toddler grandchildren.
We would make an empty kleenex box into five different
kinds of a toy in short order.
Their parents would remark…”Grammy, can you turn
anything into a toy?” The contents of my toy box
includes evidence that somewhere……. I have an
imagination hidden away.
However, the thought of activating my imagination
in the “real world” triggered the fear of what I
had long ago learned to avoid whenever possible -
criticism and judgment.
Not so long ago, Michael continued to tell me that
my self-talk needed to be:It is none of my business
what other people think of me; the only thing that
matters is what I think of myself.”
He would say, “Patti, you need it more than you need
oxygen.” I knew it was true.
Dr. Hill says that my creative imagination works
automatically; but only when my conscious mind is
working at an exceedingly rapid rate, such as when
my conscious mind is stimulated through the emotion
of a strong desire.
A desire is only a thought, or an impulse, until my imagination, synthetic or creative, transforms that
impulse of desire into its physical counterpart.
Dr. Hill also states that my imagination may become
weak through inaction, but it can be revived and made
alert through use. And the statement that really
flashed at me was this: “This imaginative faculty
DOES NOT DIE though it may become inactive through
lack of use.” That was good news!
On this second round through the book on my ‘30 Plus
Days of Mental Cleanse’, I’m realizing and acknowled
ging that my imagination is being revived. My self-
talk keeps me on track and brings me back when I slip
off the track.
My belief in me has grown and my fear of judgment and
criticism jumping out from behind the bushes to say
“Boo” is more infrequent these days.
My imagination is waking up and the Mentoring For Free
system is my “yellow brick road”. The team calls and
the Master Mind calls elevate my conscious thoughts to
a level that prepares my imagination for “take off” and
I find myself giving concrete form to my intangible
thoughts–usually in the form of an email blast to my
prospects or in an ad for ebook downloads.
I’ll keep practicing - who knows how high my newly
revived imagination is capable of flying!
Back to what Dr. Hill said about “the creative
imagination working automatically–but only when
the conscious mind is working at an exceedingly
rapid rate.”
I have proven it to myself in the negative when I
feared the judgment and criticism of others.I was
not stifling my imagination in the slightest…it
was in full bloom then too… working against my
progress..to keep me in my little shell of safety.
Well, look out world cuz this nut is breaking out
of her shell and emails and ad copy are only the
tip of the iceberg for my awakened imagination!
I know it’s capable of much more!
My heartfelt gratitude and thanks go out to Michael
and Linda and my MFF Master Mind friends who make
this a loving, supportive, and safe place to allow
my imagination to bloom again - automatically - IF
I CHOOSE to stay “close to the fire”, say my self-
talk as often as I inhale, and never give up as I
follow the MFF yellow brick road for personal growth
and success. The collective wisdom and support
of this group just keeps lifting me higher… and
the journey together is the highlight of my week!
Friends Always,
Patti Blevins
