The teachers told him – in front of the entire class – he would never become successful. Tom dropped out of school, humiliated and chagrined. Tom decided to prove them wrong. When he became old enough he went out and started selling vacuums. Tom sold 17 a day. Tom memorized all of the information each customer gave to him – because he never learned to read.
Tom never told anyone he was illiterate until, at age 55, he announced it, with tears in his eyes to an astonished audience, while being honored at the Horatio Alger Awards. Within one year he had learned how to read. Tom crusades with me now to eradicate the slavery called “illiteracy”.
You see, anything is possible. Just like Tom, the only thing standing in the way of your success is you – your beliefs about what’s possible, your attitude towards yourself, your desire to achieve what you really want. You are the only barrier that is keeping your dreams at bay.
What's Exciting About Using Our Mind Is that We Can
Short Circuit All the Excuses Thrown Up by Our Fears
THIS WEEK'S ACTION STEP
Our minds determine our success or failure. Your mind is your ultimate strength and weakness. Everything begins and ends with your thinking.
I came up with six ways to develop mental muscles. When practiced they can give you the power to accomplish your goals.
1. Read, Read, Read - Read something besides magazines and the daily newspaper. They’re mostly filled with negative images and information that creep into your brain mind continuum and fester negatively. Read books that motivate and inspire you.
2. Mastermind - Share your mind with someone, or a group, who are moving in the same positive direction as you are. Two or more minds concentrating on the same goal is an extraordinarily powerful force.
3. Seek Out A Mentor - I recommend you get mentors in each area of your life for your entire life. Keep having your mentors challenge you.
4. Listen to CDs and Cassettes - This is one of the most important habits you can create for yourself. Continuously listen to motivational audio CDs and cassettes. Listen to them until you can practically repeat them verbatim. This process will recondition your mind to think only of abundance and positivity.
5. Attend Seminars - To reinforce a positive way of life, sign up for and attend motivational seminars. There you will meet inspirational people (and possible mastermind members) and learn new ways of achieving your goals.
6. Turn Off the Television - On average, the television set in an American home is on over 7.2 hours a day. Just like any bad habit, it needs to be broken. The television is filled with energy that is put out into the room. It becomes its own entity.
That’s it! Just six easy steps. These six steps will help you to re-energize your spiritual batteries and clear the haze out of your mind to help motivate you to decide what you really want to do.
“When we use our minds creatively and constructively, it doesn't matter what we haven't done, what we haven't said or where we haven't been. The only thing that matters is how we engage our mind by telling the conscious what we want to do.”
