Chapter Nine: Mastermind

This is a very short chapter but it is one of his most recognised concepts. The importance of meeting with like minded people ad honing in on each others goals. We are not to run this race alone. We are to share and help each other. Therefore stop trying to find the answersa lone. Draw on the strength of these people around us.

Plans are useless unless we put them into action. Just like money is useless unless we put it to use. Money sitting at home in jar has no use...put it into an account and gain interest and then its useful.
An idea that has no action is just like the money in a jar.
Put the ideas into a plana dn then start organising and implmenting htem. lets make 2009 a great year. You have the ideas. You have the goals. break them down. make it relevant. make it personal. Stop thinking...start doing.

SAtart flying.

money must be attracted. It cant be yelled at scoffed at. It must be attracted to us. We are not to beg..demand excellence in all you do. Do the plan and watch the money flood in. This is the moment.

Till we meet.

Fraser ...make it incredible

Chapter Eight: Persistence

How are you all going out there in the wide world. I hope that the ideas of Mr Hill are inspiring you just as much as they have and still are doing for me. I still remember the first time i read think and grow rich. I thought it was a good read but nothing great...or nothing to write about. Hoever a few months later i just thought i woukd revisit it and have a look. Nonetheless i havent looked back since.

This is an amazing chapter.
Hill reminds us to look back at creating our chief aim and being specific in what we do and what we focus on. it is stime to stop drifting on the high seas and make a b line for the shore of choice. There will be times that we have hinerences and there will be times we hit a road block. But how passionate are we? Will we stop and give up at the fist sign of a hindereance? NO!!! smash it down. refuse to wander any more. B e like David and Caleb in the bible and be of adifferent spirit. refine the areas of achievement in your life. Let nothing touch your mind oter than fuel for the fire that burns in your heart.

Every seed we follow will reveal its self in physical if we persist long enough.

Hill highlights four keys:

1. Definite purpose backed by desire
2. Definite plan expressed in continious action
3. Mind closed to all negative thoughts
4. Mastermind team

Today is new years eve. My partner has gone out with our friends and i ham here alone. What a joy it is on the crest of another year...on the eve of a great begining.

Jim Rohn comments make money while others are resting. I am formulating plans and laying the seeds in the garden of the mind as other people are out drinking and doing their own thing.

But i have no New Years Resolutions. I have goals which through persistance will be achieve. When i reach the top i will set new and bigger goals. I am getting better and beter every day. Even if it is 1% it means i am moving forward.

Don't waste this day. Don't waste this thought. Make your life of tomorrow today.

Have a fabolous N Y's. I hope that you take time to plan, think and create an incredible 2009.

Till we meet..Fraser

Chapter Seven: Decision

lack of decision is one of the key reasons people do not achieve success.
This chapter highlights thta we need to hold onto the organised plan and consultm only closely with our master mind team. Dont be swayed byt the news bulletin and the negative talk around you.

We were at the markets in the weekend just gone and we were next to another couple who complained all morning about it being slow. Not for us. We had our best market yet. The two of us were flat tackers keeping up. This is supported by Wallace Wattles as he comments that we must stand by our product and it doesant matter where we are but success must find us if we transmit the correct frequency.

We have been blessed with our own mind. It is our responsibilty to fill it woith ideas and thoughts that support our CA. Dont relay and wait for otehrs. Viualise the life you want.

It is important that we reach decisions quickly. It is one of the key charactertictics of a highly successful person.
This too is highlighted in the last issue of the success magazine with the book blink talking about being prompt in our decision making.

This is the day that we have. Make it great. Dotn wait and let things get in the way. Comit to making it great.

Fraze!!

Chapter Six: Organised Planning

That is the amazing thing with Dr Hill, each chapter builds on from the other and captervates and motivates the reader to action.
This is the longest of all the chapters in the book. When i first read the book i found the chapter hard to wade through but now as make my way through the book i thoroughly enjoy the contents of the chapter.

In a nutshell the key message of the chapter is that when we have an idea we need to channel the thinking into organised plan/s to achieve that aim.

If we have a plan and try it and find it fails...so what. Just thats one less thing trhat doesant work. The key is to replan and start out again.
Early in the chapter he states that our achievement can be no greater than our plans are sound.


Money has no emotions. It does not think or talk...but it can hear when a mans desire calls it to come. It is through organised plans that man is able to call riches to himself.

the chapter has a checklist of causes of failure which are very useful on the eve of the month and or new year. they are almost another blog addressing each area. Powerful stuff is hidden in this trreasure.

I was just listening to Jim Rohn on last months Success mags disc and he mentions the key term why not? Why not transfer your ideas to be rich...why not you beig rich, why not?

Thats very much the crux of this chapter? Why am i not rich? Simply put the CA into an organised plan and watch money heed your call.

Until next time keep geting better and better.

Chapter Five: Imagination

WOW!!!!What Man can imagine he can create. It is in the mind that man creates his future. Nothing arround us came into existance without first flowing through the mind of someone.

Dr Hill talks about 2 kinds of imagination

• Synthetic

This simply works with present material

• Creative

This has direct links to the infiite intelligence and this allows us to have be creative.

what we fuel our mind with is vital. It is through the flooding of material that we have a chance of becoming that which we dream about.

Dont just think about drream set the mind to work and forge out a plan and make it happen., It is the small quiet hours and when no one else is looking that our minds come into play. Run over the images of the thingfs you want. be creative, make it happen. refuse to allow things which distract your mind from tyhe CA. Hone in on the CA through the use of imagination.

Ideas are great but they must be acted upon. Decide this day what you will do and create the life you wish. Allow nothing to enter the mind thta distracts you from the goal you have set your self. Set the sails high for this is the hour we set sail to the new port, new destinations...new unventured waters.

Chapter Four: Specalised Knowledge

How did you get on with the focus of the mind on the chief aim. Were you able to hone in on the things you desire?
Its been an amazing week here. We had a good market with our bags on Sunday and then today i was contacted by the local paper and i had a photo and i will be in the paper on Friday promoting our product.

This is great work as a result of the principles that Mr Hill talks about. I continually feed my mind with images of what we are doing and or becoming.
In days and years gone by i used to say yes i will go and do everything. Thats the way to not go about seeking the life you desire. In this chapter it highlights the importance of seeking the knowledge of what you desire. Don't just wait but read, listen, talk to people to gain the skills, links, believe to attian your CA.

Success and failure are both a result of a habit..what are you doing..thinking of what you want or being distracted. Hone your mind in on your CA and fill the thoughts with steps and things to attain it.
Henry Ford and others who have attained success all started where you and i are...with an idea. However he took it and applied speaclised knowledge. If he didnt have the knowledge he used his master mind team to fill in any blanks. what are you and i doing? Where are we going. Have i clarified my CA and continued to refine and maintain my thoughts on the life i desire. Its not enough to merely think...lets be proactive and create it in our minds, actions, believes and the very essence of who we are.

This is our day. This is my day. I will succed. I am asuccess. Everything i touch turns to gold. I love the feeling of waking each day and knowing i have been blessed with another gift of one more day. I am rich. I am a millionaire. I am the best i can be and no thing and no ione is going to stop me being the besst.

I love this chapter because it is making the links between thr images in my head and the feelings pulsating through my finger tips.

Until next week make it an inspiring week.

Chapter Three: Autosuggestion

Sorry that i have been late in posting the blog on Chapter 3. I have allowed things to be put ahead of the task at hand.

Wow i adore this chapter in Mr Hills book. What we fill the mind with is what we see in the flesh. The mind is the forming station and the body which carry out the manifestation are the consequences of this. I stumbled across a meeting this week where they were talking about rather than looking at what is making you worry focus on our breathing and still the mind which is right where this chapter kicks in.

It is not enough to simply stand in front of the mirror and say i am rich i am rich i am rich. It is vital that we support this with mental images and that we fuel the fire with emotions. We must have a purpose and drive to see that come through.

What are you and i filling our minds with. Everything we see feel and hear was first created in the mind. Henry ford was a man just like you and i until he decided to take acxtion and follow the ideas in his mind. What are we creating....stop the jumping and tossing and froing of ideas and laser beam them into a chief aim. What do you and i want. What thoughts are we fostering to help us achieve this?
Nothing will change till we replace the images/ thoughts in our mind. If you havent got a dream board ready then get it done this weekend. Look at the emotions that it stirs. It isn't the money we want its the opportunites that it provides...freedom, fresh air, time with loved ones.

Mr Hill has got us to identify what we want in life and then he has told us to fill the mind with images and now we atre starting to add emotion to that and speak our life into creation. Eliminate gossip and put downs. Be a passion warrior and create dreams of design..become a dream architect. Today is the day..create a life well worth living.

I personally love the Science of Fetting Rich and would encourage you to read a chapter a day as you develop the concentration of the mind in the autosuggestion phase.

keep passionate and make sure we live a life worthy of recording...lets create history and follow the pathway to success.

Chapter Two: Faith

This is a powerful concept taught in this chapter by Mr Hill. We have the power to create a life to order. We have a simple choice. WE can either stay where we are and just live day to day or we can flood our mind with the faith and ideas of what we want and then our mind will start to form the images held in our mind.

The way for us to create faith is through the term auto suggestion. This means thta we are to speak and viusalise the images of what we want our life to become. Most people have the law of autosuggestion working for them but it is in anegative way. Tye are busy complaining and holding images of depresson, fear and doubt. However you and i have aseed of faith inside us that refuses to settle for the average. The average mans there is just as many people ahead of us as there is below us. Therefore make a choice to day to stay still no longer. If you are the same as you were a year ago...then you have gone back wards.

It is time to fill the mind with the images of what you want to be and become..start living the live in your mind. The mind will see it as a fact and will draw things in to being that will help bring it to reality.
It is not enough to merely think and not act. To demonstrate passion and purpose you must also take action daily towards the desire. Jack Canfield talks about doing 5 things daily to help you move towards ther goals you have laid.

What an awesome opportunity we have. Life has given you and i blank canvas...what will we create with it. Are you going to let others fill your page or are you going to planand create a masterpiece. We only have this life once...let us make this week a great week..let make this week memorable.

Fraser

Chapter One : Desire

This is the underpining theme that runs throughout Mr Hills work...Desire. Its only when we are burning with desire that we are ever going to achieve anything. It is not enough to have a mere wish but we must burn with desire. Through several studies of the chapter i have counted 66 times that the word desire is used. In the chapter he highlights his formula to achieve success.

1. Fixate your mind on the exact amount of money you want.
2. Determine exactly what you intend to give in return for it
3. Establish a date for it
4. Choose a definite plan for carrying it out
5. Write a clear conscise statement stating the above
6. Read this aloud twice daily

As you read it is essentail that you see and feel and believe that you are in possession of the things you desire

I personally read Think and grow Rich every three months and every tie i read and come through to the process of working on my chief aim i find that i refine and narrow my focus much like amagnifying glass. Each time it gets finer and finer and as a result hotter and hotter.

The mind must become Mony Conscious. This means that our mind must be fixated on the desire that we see ourself in possession already. It is not enought o merely think about our desire when we remember. The universe sends us signals when our mind starts to drift. When you drop something, hear a loud noise and or are startled it is the universes way of saying hey wakey wakey...pull yout hroughts into line.

In the great book Pyschocybernetics Dr Waltz talks about how the mind does not differniate between the read and the thoughts we support with feelings. He undertook some research which had a basketball team divided into three teams. One group did no practise. Another group did the training each week for amonth and the third group spent the same time practising but only using visualising. At the end of a month the group with no practise had stayed the same. The group that had gone and completed the hoops had improved by 24% and the visualising group had improved by 22%.

What does this all mean? What we have in our minds we become and or as Mr Hill states...whatever the mind can believe and achieve we can achieve. Develop a burning desire and flood the mind with the things that are needed to achieve it.

Dotn flounder a moment longer. It is much easier to stear a moving ship that one that is standing still. Be passionate and strive to make the most out of each day.

This is one of my personal favourite chapters in the book and i look forward to sharing the journey with you as Mr Hill reveals the steps to becoming rich through the classis think and grow rich.

Beginning

I am passionate about Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich. I have reached the point where it is time to merely stop thinking and start acting. I have recently been reading Jack Canfields Success Principles and a key factor is that the difference between the successfula nd those who only ever seem to pursue sucess is that the top people take action.
I read Think and Grow rich once every three months as i feel it is a book that has a life blood of its own. I assilimate its message into everything i am and do.
Over the new few weeks i intend to have a blog highlighting the aspects of the book. I will support these with practical advice on how to apply the messages and examples of how i have used the principles in my own life.
I am remineded of How Mr Hill talks about his son and the importance of creating a burning desire; such as he did when his son Blair was born deaf.

I look forward to having you join me on what will be a great journey.