IMAGINATION: THE WORKSHOP OF THE MIND

CHAPTER 6
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
The Fifth Step toward Riches

IMAGINATION: THE WORKSHOP OF THE MIND is indeed just that. An extra room in my home where plans are drawn out and the destiny of my future is created. Just think of it, it is a wonderful place to come and collect my day dreams and then craft them into reality.

I have discovered over time that the dreams that I carefully plan out and the put action to in real time have a way of becoming reality. Those that sit on a shelf in a corner of my workshop and pop in and out of my mind never seem to come to fruition.

Hill say's, "MAN’S ONLY LIMITATION, within reason, LIES IN HIS DEVELOPMENT AND
USE OF HIS IMAGINATION." How does one develop imagination you might ask . Here is what I have discovered. Now that I am "older and wiser" I revisit my childhood from time to time and re-call the hours of activity outside playing with my friends and using our imagination to create a world of what ever we desired right down to collecting sumack leaves for our money and we had plenty of it and could buy what ever our hearts desired and our minds could imagine.

We didn't have television, computers,i Phones and the like to alter our imagination. The world evolves and changes and it is a good thing if we don't allow ourselves to be controlled by it. That's exactly what happens as we grow older, we allow the gadgets to take over our brain and we stop dreaming and imagining what is possible and instead we only hear the chatter and the noise of the world as it goes speeding past us.

It's not too late for anyone, no mater what season of your life you find yourself. Hill says,"Your imaginative faculty may have become weak through inaction. It can be revived and made alert through USE. YOU CAN DO IT!(I can do it!) IT HAS BEEN DONE BEFORE! Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes. Ideas are products of the imagination.

Michael had an idea and created the Mentoring For Free community. We all have an idea that is waiting for us to give it permission to become. Like the clerk who risked his entire savings, IDEAS CAN BE TRANSMUTED INTO CASH THROUGH THE POWER OF DEFINITE PURPOSE, PLUS DEFINITE PLANS.

I love this chapter because it gives me so many ideas and stimulates my imagination. I'm thinking it should be a required daily read especially when we fall victim to the thought that network marketing doesn't work. Nothing works when we let our imagination and our ideas die.

Thank You Michael and Linda for your continued support and this fabulous system and community that stimulates my imagination and the use of it.

Judy Narum
in Minn e snow ta

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Specialized Knowledge

Chapter 5 - Think And Grow Rich

Hill is very clear - if you want to pursue the "grow rich"
part of his philosophy, you must specialize - and you
must become single - minded in pursuit of your specialty.

If you know your aim or purpose and are committed to
it, it is only logical that you will want to learn all you can
about it.

Napoleon Hill and his co-author W. Clement Stone, devised a
formula called R2/A2, a method for gaining knowledge that
also has a relationship with the law of attraction.

R2 = Recognize and Relate. A2 = Assimilate and Apply
In order to attain any goal in life first, you must learn to
recognize, relate, assimilate and then apply the principles
from what you see, hear, think and experience.

The blueprint then, for gaining knowledge, is treating
everything in your life as a source of creative ideas.

The IDEA is the main thing.
Back of all ideas is specialized knowledge. IMAGINATION
is the one quality needed to combine specialized knowledge
with ideas into an organized plan that yields the desired
outcome.

Sounds simple enough when you read it. I have lots of Ideas,
always have, ever since I was a child. It's what keeps me going and
moving forward.

My personal experience........
Some of my ideas have materialized and some have not.
Interesting, now that I think about it. One of the latest ideas
was to have a home that was designed exactly the way
I wanted it.

My Imagination was running full steam ahead
as I began to organize my plan. With pencil
in hand and graph paper ready the idea began
to take shape. Once I had all my ideas on paper,
it was ready for the specialized knowledge of
a contractor to make it happen.

I am now living in the home that was once an
idea in my mind. Specialized knowledge may
be found just around the corner - any corner...
You can make it happen when the desire is
strong enough. I did it once, I can do it again.

For me, Mentoring For Free is the specialized
knowledge that will take my desired idea to,
successfully build the most incredible team of
like minded leaders in the history of network
marketing, easily and consistently through
education and team work, to it's tangible
existence.

But.....It's up to me to prepare and execute the plan.
My observations.......staying close to the fire, being
coach-able and moving into action, will, without a
doubt in my mind, take my business and my personal
life to the next level of experiencing the time freedom
that is possible when you follow a proven duplicatable
system. Mentoring For Free has been that system for me.

Friends Forever,

Judy Narum
"Be A Mentor With A Servants Heart"

The Workshop of The Mind

In his book "Think And Grow Rich" Hill writes,
" Imagination is the workshop of the mind....
Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

While I have not yet made my fortune, I am
at the beginning point and what better place to
be than at the beginning. The possibilities are
endless...

I am living proof that man can create
anything which he can imagine. The odds
of me succeeding in anything have been
unfavorable to say the least.

As I look back over my life, times
have been financially hard for my family all
of my life, but I realize now that this is a mind set.

There have been many challenges along the
way. But today, and from this day forward,
I want to focus on what is possible and how
to give it concrete form.

I have imagined being successful in what ever task
I take on and I have been. Some have been more
challenging than others, but I have grown in
understanding and wisdom. Many lessons have
been learned and that I am grateful for.

Yes, even at the age of 65 years young there are
so many possibilities to imagine. The list is endless
and I plan never to run out of ideas to imagine all
that is possible.

My creative imagination is what has gotten me to
this place and time in my life. And now, better late
than never, I'm discovering that I need to work on
developing a thing called synthetic imagination.

Hum mm, 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.

Wait a minute, I think I've heard this before and read it
before, but something is different this time. I have
arrived at a new understanding of putting my imagination
to work by physically building a plan of action and working
that plan consistently. Yes, I'm actually seeing results.

The simple act of writing out my plan and following it step
by step every day is easy to do and it's easy not to do.
The choice is all mine, do I want to stay where I am or
do I want something better?

Sure, it takes discipline, sure life gets in the way, but it's
taking that first step in a series of steps that will enable
me to convert the thought into it's physical form.

Like the infant that crawls to reach his desired destination,
and does, I too with determination, definiteness of purpose
and the desire to create anything which I can imagine...
will be given concrete form. It's time to stop thinking and
start doing. I like this quote at the end of the chapter:
"Success Requires No Explanations...Failure Permits No Alibis"

Thank You Michael & Linda for your Imagination in developing
and creating this tool that cost nothing to use has change hundreds of lives.
I am forever grateful!
Your friend for life,

Judy Narum
mentorjudy@gmail.com


Quotes I Like:

"No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it."
Napoleon Hill

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
Thomas A. Edison

"Cherish your vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements."
Napoleon Hill

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
Norman Vincent Peale

"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."
Zig Ziglar