Want It? Imagine It!

"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it" - William Arthur Ward

A Forgotten Ability?

Did we all know about a powerful success system when we were children?

It came quite naturally for us when we were young. We talked about how things could be instead of what was, of exciting adventures, happy scenarios, and favorable outcomes. When adults chanced on us doing this, they just smiled.

It was a time when we indulged our imaginations as only kids could.

But when we grew up, we were told that this was something we needed to leave behind. We were told that we needed to be more realistic. And that normally meant allowing outward circumstances to define for us what we couldn't do.

Problem is, we learned to see only limitations and restrictions. This was a far cry from what we used to do as kids, when outside appearances didn't really matter. Then, we imagined we could do anything.

"In imagination, there's no limitation" - Mark Victor Hansen

Well, it's time to recapture this creative ability again. In the midst of harsh realities, we need to develop this child-like capacity to imagine and believe.

Imaginary Help To Survive

Have you heard the story of Vietnam veteran, Major James Nesmeth?

During his tour of duty, he was captured and became a POW for 7 years. Isolated and imprisoned in a very tiny cell, he realized he needed to do something to preserve his sanity. But without books, TV, computers, musical instruments or any of the modern conveniences that we have today, what could he do?

He turned to the only resource available to him - his IMAGINATION!

Cooped up in a space about 4.5 feet high and 5 feet long, he imagined himself in his favorite golf course and playing golf. In his mind, he smelled the fresh grass, felt the grooves of his club handle, savoured the cool breeze, saw himself going through his swings and finishing a full 18 holes of golf. Daily, for 7 years, he did in his imagination what he couldn't physically do.

The day came when he was finally released and returned back to the US. One of the 1st things he did was act out what he saw himself visualizing for the past 7 years. He went to his favorite gold course and started actually playing what he could only do in his imagination.

But do you know what was most amazing than him actually doing what he only imagined?

Without having touched a golf club in 7 years, he played a great game of golf. He improved his game by 20 strokes and shot a 74 - as if he had been actually practising golf for 7 years!

Making Imagination Work For Us

Let's not neglect this creative ability which we all have. Let's train our imaginations to work for us.

• Let's see ourselves overcoming our difficulties, instead of failing.
• Let's see ourselves accomplishing our goals, instead of falling short.
• Let's see ourselves becoming more productive, instead of self-destructing.

We used to be good at it when we're young. We can be good at it again!

"One's ability to imagine is directly proportional to one's ability to be successful" -- L. Ron Hubbard

Cheers!
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Our Breakthroughs Start From Within

In his book, "Think and Grow Rich," Napoleon Hill states,

"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

At first glance, it looks too simplistic.

The first time I read that, my initial reaction was, "Really? That's all I need to do - think and it will become a reality?" It does sound like a "mind over matter thing," doesn't it? Some might even think this is a scene from the movie, "Bewitched."

But it's none of those things. The quote is talking about "attitudes."

What is our attitude when we are faced with difficult and seemingly impossible circumstances?

Do we react in a negative way? Do we say to ourselves, "I can't do anything. The problems are too great. I see no way out. My hands are tied. It's hopeless!" Or do we face it with a positive attitude and say from the inside, "This mountain looks daunting, but I'm going to look for a way to overcome this. One way or the other, I'll go through this, over this, or under this. And if i have to, then I'll move this mountain - even if it means doing it one rock at a time!"

Whether we think we can or we can't, we're right.

When we say we can't, our mind shuts down and doesn't look for solutions anymore. But when we say we can, the creative processes of our mind go to work looking for answers.

This reminds me of a story about an elephant trainer.

When the elephant was still small, he'd tie it to a tree. The small elephant would struggle, but because it wasn't strong yet, it would fail. It would continue to fight against its bondage, but it fail everytime.

One day, it would be convinced that escape was useless. In its mind, the rope became impossible to break. It would no longer try to escape.

Eventually, the elephant would grow into its full stature with the strength to move large logs and even uproot trees. But the moment it's tied to a small stake, it will not even try to resist it anymore.

It will not make any effort for it to break free from the flimsy stake. This mighty elephant would just passively remain there, accepting its fate.

Why?

You see, even though the full-grown elephant was stronger than the rope tied to the small stake, in its mind the rope was stronger than him.

And so it is also with us.

In our circumstances, do we see ourselves able to break out, to succeed, to finally overcome, and to achieve our goals and desires?

If so, then that's half of the battle won.

We need to see that it can be done.

We need to be convinced that it can be achieved.

We need to act on the possibilities we see.

Then we can finally experience the breakthroughs we've always fervently hoped for!

Here's hoping that this simple foothold can lead to some serious favorable outcomes in your life!

Cheers!
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Three Keys To Succeeding

I was reading through some articles, and I found one that gives common sense advice on succeeding. Although his particular field is internet marketing, the principles he talks about can be applied to just about any area of our lives. May this article help you on your way to building a successful life.

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Three Keys to Succeeding This Year
(c) Charlie Page
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When it comes to succeeding online - whether that means starting your own online business, earning money as an affiliate, or something more, there is a world of confusion.

Create a niche site, some say. But that's easier said than done.

Publish an ezine, say others. But what would you have to say?

Become a super affiliate we often hear. Again .. HOW?

In the years I've been online I have been blessed indeed to be able to learn what I needed to know to succeed. Sometimes I learned from others examples. Sometimes I learned from watching others mistakes. And sometimes I learned from painful (and costly) trial and error.

Based on all of that, I'd like to share with you three keys that I believe can help every one of you succeed this year, and beyond.

---> 1. KNOW YOURSELF

The good thing about the Internet is that there are so many different ways to make money.

And the bad thing about the Internet is that there are so many different ways to make money. ;)

So what's a boy (or girl) to do?

Know yourself. Respond to what feels right, what sounds right to you.

Remember what you learned as a youth -- if it sounds too good to be true it probably is.

Nowhere is that more true that on the Internet where scams and snake-oil salesmen abound.

So, how *specifically* does 'knowing yourself' help you succeed online?

Here's how.

If you are losing sleep over the ability to pay your bills and need some very fast money you may be much better off getting a second job for a while than 'starting an online business'.

I know -- that's not the advice you are used to hearing. But it's the advice I would give my daughter.

There ARE situations where trading time for money makes *very* good sense - times where the efforts you make MUST bring a return or you will lose everything.

A bird in the hand still beats two in the bush, and making any real money online when you are just starting out is hard. Very hard.

The truth you are not being told is that the "overnight success" "here's a picture of my PayPal account" "look at my shiny new race car" stories are by FAR the exception ... IF they are even telling the truth.

You know that in your gut, so trust yourself when the voice in your head says "better think twice".

Here's another example.

If you are staying up until the wee hours of the morning viewing site after site that sound too good to be true then you are headed for trouble.

Someone is about to pick your pocket.

It might be with the promise of huge commissions or of doing all the work for you (why would they do that?) but one way or the other they are going to take your money. So be careful. Very careful.

---> 2. GET OFF THE OPPORTUNITY TREADMILL

What does that mean? It means stop looking for the next big thing and start looking for the next real thing.

Specifically, if a business you are considering does not make sense to you but is asking you to 'trust them' please don't.

Business online is just like business offline. Those who stick with things succeed. Those who jump around don't.

Nowhere is this more evident that in network marketing. I've read, but not confirmed, that the average person starting out in network marketing stays with the program they choose for less than 90 days.

My friend, no one succeeds at anything new in less than 90 days ... especially if they are doing that business part time.

So, forget the word 'opportunity' for a moment and focus on the word business.

Here are a few clarifying questions that might help.

Is the business you are considering delivering a real product?

Does that product help people achieve meaningful goals?

Do you understand how the business works?

Could you explain the business to your best friend and be comfortable?

WOULD you share the business with your best friend and still be comfortable in the friendship?

If you answered yes to all of these questions you have the beginning of a basis to go into a business.

If not, run.

---> 3. FOCUS

We touched on this above but it is *so* important that I want to hover here for a moment more.

To succeed online (or offline for that matter) you will have to focus on *one* thing at a time.

* Focus your attention
* Focus your resources
* Focus your passion
* Focus your time

If you learn to focus your resources in this way on *one* thing and prove that it is for you (or that it is not for you) you will succeed faster. Period.

How can you focus?

Think of something you want to accomplish. It might be a business you are considering or a new site you want to build or a way to advertise a product.

Now examine that from the outside in and then the inside out and then examine it again.

Ask questions. Be a skeptic. Check out testimonials to be sure they are real. Ask people who have succeeded with the idea you are pursuing.

Now go further and Google something about the idea to see what people are saying and to check the validity of any sites you might be considering.

Once you *know* that you want to move ahead take action and give it your all.

Only then can you know what will work for you!

One last word - the fact that something doesn't work the first time does not mean that it will not work.

Nowhere is this more evident than in the world of advertising where beginning advertisers wrongly think they can run one ad and have it succeed.

Professional advertisers know that it takes testing - and patience - to make an ad campaign work.

If your first attempt at something fails consider analyzing why and trying again before moving on to something else.

Use your focus to discover how to do better on the next try. The list of people who failed on their first try and then went on to greatness is legion.

I hope that this year is your best year ever.

May it be so for us all.

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Charlie Page helps people succeed online. How can he help you? Find out now at his main site or call his toll free number. http://www.RealWorldTactics.com
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It's a simple article, but quite powerful. I especially appreciate what he said about knowing ourselves and focusing. Seems basic, but many times overlooked. I suggest that we look for ways to apply these tips to our lives.

To greater heights!

Cheers!
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Courageous Choices

Going through my readings, I came across an old friend - a poem that was the subject of discussion during my college days. Our professor encouraged us to explore whatever insights we glimpsed through this simple poem. Here's the poem;

The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.

I don't recall exactly all the things we talked about. What I remember was that we were trying hard to impress each other -- And we succeeded! Ha-ha-ha - after all, we were young, brash, and impressionable!

Anyway, looking at this poem again, there are some insights I can appreciate.

When faced with diverging paths, we should not just stand staring at which one to take, we must eventually choose.

Life is filled with major decisions that need to be made.

- What career to take
- Who to marry
- To start a business or to continue with your present job

Choices. Each one has its own pros and cons. And while it's true that we need to evaluate each one carefully, we cannot linger in the valley of indecision indefinitely.

Although we can learn as much as we can about each choice, we cannot know everything about them. While we can try to imagine possible outcomes, we cannot see everything that will happen based on whatever path we decide on.

But this is not a reason to stand still. We must eventually commit to a path so we can finally move forward.

"Think before you act and then act decisively. Fortune favors the brave" - Brian Tracy

In choosing, we should not be afraid to take risks.

In the many options we face, it's natural to pick the safer one. To take the path everyone has taken gives us a measure of comfort and security. I've done it. You've done it. Who hasn't?

But there are times when the well-trodden path isn't always the best one to take. There are times when we need to go against the tide.

If everyone wanted to stay in their comfort zones, we wouldn't have inventors, explorers, visionaries, and adventurers. We'd probably be still living without electricity, medical breakthroughs, modern conveniences, scientific technologies, and other things we've taken for granted. We'd think the world's still flat. America wouldn't have been discovered. It would still be the dark ages for us.

So, when the time comes for you to take that riskier path, don't be afraid to do so!

"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar" - Raymond Lindquist

Cheers!
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When Can Right Believing Still Fail?

"In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead" James 2:17 NIV

How important is believing the right thing?

Very (!), considering that what we believe normally affects our lives. Take for example, the "Placebo effect" concept. It says that, if we believe we will receive positive benefits from a particular medicine, then most likely, that is how it will turn out for us. EVEN IF what we believed as beneficial medicine is nothing more than sugared water - something that has no medical qualities at all!

So it's vital that we believe the right thing. I'm all for it. Given a choice, I would rather believe the right thing rather than the wrong one, wouldn't you agree?

HOWEVER, is it possible to believe the right thing ... and ... still fail?

To answer that, let me tell a story which I heard many years ago. It's about a man who was rescued from the ocean. Apparently, he had been adrift at sea for many days. When he was spotted and brought aboard a ship, he was in very bad shape.

Although very weak, he was happy at being rescued. He kept smiling and telling anyone who cared to listen about his good fortune at being saved.

After the ship's doctor examined him, he told the captain that the man was suffering from extreme starvation. He needed to eat immediately. If he didn't eat within the next twenty minutes, he would die.

The captain instructed that a simple meal be brought to him at once. However, even though the food was brought to him, he was still chatting with everyone. The captain interrupted him and said, "Sir, we can talk later if you wish. But right now, you've got to eat. The doctor told me that if you've got to eat within the next ..." he looks at his watch "... uh, ten minutes ... that's right ... ten minutes have gone by since the doc said you needed to eat to survive."

"Yes ... yes ... thank you! Thank you! I believe if I eat this, I will not die but live!" He exclaimed. "Do you guys hear that? I really thank you for helping me! I thought I was a goner, but now I have another chance!"

"Sir!" The captain broke in, "You need to eat now. The doc said ...."

"Yes, yes! I know. If I eat this, I believe I'll live and not die. But I'm just so happy I need to tell all you guys. I had no one to talk to all those days at sea. So I just gotta tell you guys. But don't you worry, I'm gonna eat this. Know why? Cause I believe when I eat this, I'm gonna live!"

He just kept talking ... and the minutes kept ticking. The captain kept pleading. But the man just kept on and on. Finally, with a 2 seconds to go, the man said, "I believe that if I eat this, I will not ... not ... not ...." He falls down - dead!

Absurd story, right? Yeah, but it sure makes its point!

The guy believed right, that if he ate the food before him, he would not die but live. So why didn't he live?

Because He DIDN'T ACT ON THE TRUTH HE SAID HE BELIEVED!

Conviction without follow-up actions is meaningless and delusional.

To put a different spin on a movie director's mantra,

"LIGHTS!" - When you get a "light-bulb" moment.

"CAMERA!" - When you focus on the goal before you.

"ACTION!" - Go get 'em, tiger!

"The important thing is to dare to dream big, then take action to make it come true." Joe Girard

Cheers!
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Make Information Profit You!

"Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen." Lee Iacocca

We're living in an information age. Thanks to technology, it's easier to get information now than before. We could get good information, or bad information, but we can never complain of not having information. In fact, what some complain about today is, information overload.

Today, everyone has access to information that will help make their lives better. In just a few hours, I've scanned over some articles providing helpful information. Here are just a few titles I've come across:

"How To Pray For Results"

"3 Things You Can Do To For A Better Memory"

"How To Develop Habits That Lead To Success"

"How To Make Money Online"

"How To Lose Weight And Keep It Off!"

You get the idea. Helpful information that covers every kind of need, whether it's spiritual, physical or material, is available to anyone who has a computer and an internet access!

If that's the case, why is it then that not everyone is being helped by all this available information?

Well, you see, having information, even great and profitable information, is not enough. Info that others are willing to die for, or pay big bucks for, isn't going to do us much good, if all we can say about it is that we have it. Something else needs to be mixed in to make this information profit us.

About 2 years ago, around 30 ladies gathered in our community to learn how to cook gourmet food. It was a "show and do it" activity. They were taught and shown how to make them, and then they actually cooked the food themselves. All 30 ladies received valuable information and know-how concerning these food preparations.

Of the 30 ladies who learned to do gourmet cooking, only 5 made good use of this information. Of the 5, 4 of them used what they learned in cooking for their families. They shared stories of how they wowed their families and friends with the food they served.

The other 1 of the 5, used what she learned in taking orders and getting paid for them. To this day, she is earning some serious money based on that one community activity.

And what about the rest, the other 25 gals who were taught the same thing? Nothing! They did nothing with the information they learned. Consequently, they, their families and friends, and their financial situation did not benefit from the great information they received!

So, what is the one thing that needs to be added to convert information into a profitable experience for us?

ACTION!

Information by itself, no matter how revealing and profitable, will not benefit us unless we act on it!

How many blogs, articles, and newsletters have we read? How much information have we collected?

It's ok to keep learning. But in all our learning, we need to start acting on them.

"Just do it." Nike

Cheers!
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Waiting For Perfect Conditions?

"He who observes the wind will not sow, And he who regards the clouds will not reap" - Eccl 11:4

This was written thousands of years ago, and yet the wisdom it brings us is timeless. This brief statement exposes the mistake of putting off decisions because of waiting for perfect conditions.

Instead of planting, the sower mentioned above kept procrastinating. Why? Well, maybe the wind was too strong, too weak, or it just may not feel quite right. He was not going to do anything unless everything was perfect.

Of course we want to prepare properly for our plans. Of course we want everything to be just right and perfect.

But how perfectly prepared do we have to be to finally act? How perfect should everything be before we decide?

I remember having a talk with someone who spoke of having a lucrative business based on a hobby he was good at and passionate about. Some years ago, he talked about a wonderful service he could provide others for a fee, if only he had the right knowledge and equipment.

He was producing some amazing presentations with just a simple computer and his supposedly, limited knowledge. Fact was, when some people saw what he was producing, they were putting in orders which could have jump-started his business.

But he turned down these opportunities. He said that he wasn't prepared without the right know-how and equipment. Ok, that's understandable. Aside from his raw talent and imagination, he needed training and equipping.

Some saw his potential, and decided to sponsor him so he could finally launch his business. The training wasn't cheap, but they felt he was worth it. Not only did they put up the money for his education, but also upgraded his computer system.

Later on, these sponsors were gratified when they saw that his latest productions were even more awesome than before. But to their surprise, he was still turning down orders!

He just kept saying that although he had learned much from his training, it wasn't enough. He had to know more. Although he had a more powerful computer than before, he claimed he had to have a complete, state-of-the-art system before he could launch his business.

But the problem is, he's been saying this for some years now. The years have gone by, his knowledge and skills have increased, his equipment has been upgraded, and his productions have intensified ... BUT(!), his planned business and its projected profits are still nowhere near reality!

I discussed with him the possibility of starting small. Use what he had available and build from there. The business may not be perfect at the beginning, but it would be a start. I mean, just get it going and get some momentum working for him. Earning while he learns. While he didn't have everything yet, he did have what was necessary to start on a limited basis.

His response? No, not yet. Everything has to be there. Conditions needed to be perfect.

Meantime, time is quickly passing by and still, nothing seems to be happening where his business is concerned.

Fence-sitters may have the greatest and noblest intentions there are. But without decisive actions, they will always be fence-sitters.

Why be a fence-sitter when you could be an achiever, right?

Dream! Decide! Act!

Cheers,
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