I’m a part of a Mastermind Group that is currently working it’s way through Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich. This week’s exercise was to read Chapter Six, Imagination.
One of the things that struck me most about it was the story of the man who finally made a decision and took action after 2 years of thinking about it.
I used to be that man. As a matter of fact, I’ve owned Think and Grow Rich for a long time. I’ve read it, over and over and over again. I’ve thought about it, over and over and over again…
But I wasn’t growing rich. What’s the deal here?
I now know why. I wasn’t Thinking AND Growing Rich. I was Thinking ABOUT Growing Rich. (That’s not an original, by the way, but I don’t know where I got it.)
As a matter of fact, one of the comments my wife has made to me in the past was “How about think and get a job????”
And she was right.
Something that’s been coming up for me quite a bit lately is the idea of stability. On the Mastermind calls that I’m taking part in, Michael Dlouhy has said more than once not to quit your day job until you are earning at least 3 times your current salary in your business.
In Simpleology 102, Mark Joyner talks about the phenomenon of stability.
In Wealth Beyond Reason, Bob Doyle talks about our negative emotions attracting to us more of the same. If a person quits their day job without absolute certainty that they are going to be at least OK financially, they are going to get caught up in massive fear if (usually when) the money doesn’t start rolling in that they had hoped would.
The key word there is “hope”. It isn’t about hope… it’s about certainty. It’s about knowing that you are deserving of everything that you want out of life, and taking action to get you there. And that certainty has to run deep.
Turning our thinking around does take time.
But only as much time as we let it take.
And taking action can really help us turn our thinking around.
What are your thoughts?
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Hey Lyman,
I know exactly what you’re saying. When I got my first AdSense check, I was so proud, then the wife said “That pays your internet bill for the month, what about the rest of the bills?”
I can’t do the physical labor I once did, so she understands that I have to make this work.
Since it now is making (albeit small) an income. She is bearing with me.
I’m not sure if that stayed on topic, but that’s my story and I sticking to it.
Joe
Joe,
Seems pretty on topic to me!
My own disabilities are mental/emotional. Just as real, but a little trickier to deal with, because the very act of wallowing in them as disabilities can aggravate them. So I don’t wallow, but I do recognize them, and work on them on a daily basis.
OK, now I’m going off topic…
“Topics??? We don’t need no steenking topics!”
Lyman,
BTW, on topic, this is going into my Good Reads for Sunday, hope you don’t mind.
It IS a Work at Home Topic…
J.
Uh… mind???
Thanks, Joe! I’m honored.
Keep a good job up!
kkkkoaaa,
Thanks!