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It is not accidental that Hill begins with desire. Success always begins with desire. Most people want to be successful. Wanting success is a waste of time. Worse, it just produces frustration. Only a burning, all-consuming, fervent and passionate desire will produce the exceptional results that make up true success. Wanting is best understood by its second meaning in the dictionary: lack. To want for something is to lack something and so long as you merely want success, you will lack success. Wanting is mere wishful thinking. Desire, on the other hand, is an extremely potent force. It is a supreme motivator. It is a metaphysical principle of creation. Desire is an energetic emanation of the human spirit that enacts the law of attraction. Desire is the metaphysical equivalent of gravity. Desire draws to you the thing desired, or the elements that will constitute the thing desired. Desire is the fuel that ignites the fire that transmutes thoughts into things. The sad truth about most people who claim to want success is that they actually do not desire success. What they desire is comfort and security. The path to real success often demands that you give up comfort and security in order to gain rewards greater than mere creature comforts and minor financial security. For years, I wanted to be a millionaire. I wanted and wanted to no avail. It was not until, one day, in my frustration and anger, I graduated from wanting to truly desiring success, and, as a result, I was almost magically catapulted into millionaire status. It was the burning passion of fervent desire that pushed me out of my comfort zone of mediocrity and security and empowered me to achieve real success. It was my desire that enabled me to get past the fear of failure and get past the frustrations of obstacles to achieve the success I had wanted for so many years. You must have or develop a burning passion for success. Without it, you are highly unlikely to achieve it. Get passionate or stay home. This is critical…your desire must be specific. It must be attached to a clear and specific ideal, a clear and consistent thought picture of what success means to you.

Hill says, “all thoughts that have been emotionalized (given feeling through desire) and mixed with faith, begin immediately to translate themselves into their physical equivalent or counterpart.” What he alludes to, but does not fully explain, is that it is our beliefs themselves that either empower us to soar to previously unimaginable heights or chain us to the lower echelons of achievement. Not only must you have a burning desire for a specific thought of success, but you must also have the faith or belief that success is not only available to you as an abstract, but it is your birthright and all you need to do is claim it as your own and it shall be yours. Your faith in your ideal and your faith in your right to the havingness of this ideal is crucial to your being able to end up having it. Most people have their faith or belief formed by the evidence of what has already happened or been made manifest. As a result, they find it difficult to believe in things that are not historically proven. If what has been historically proven for the masses and for you personally (thus far) is mediocrity, then without the belief in the potentiality of success as being ‘as real as’ the actuality of mediocrity, you will not be able to achieve the imagined ideal of success. Hill also goes on to say that autosuggestion or repeated affirmations can enable faith and belief. He does not address the issue of core beliefs that can, despite all affirmations to the contrary, imprison a person in lack and limitation. Hill, himself, was fortunate that his association with Carnegie, and the other self-made successful people that Carnegie introduced him to, enabled him, over time, to discard any core beliefs he may have had about wealth or poverty and success or failure and to take on new core beliefs. He was, in effect, brainwashed by his own research into the principles of success so that his core beliefs became those he wrote about. You may have to do the same…brainwash yourself…cleanse your mind of any limiting core beliefs you may hold so that new empowering beliefs can be installed. “Faith is,” indeed, to quote Christianity’s greatest salesman, Paul, “the evidence of things not (yet) seen.” Doubt can turn a molehill into a mountain. Faith can move mountains. Know this…there are two separate energetic vibrational outputs of human consciousness that lead to creation, or conscious manifestation, when they are braided together. The first is concrete, specific, repetitive, idealized thought combined with desire (the emotionalized thought that Hill refers to). The second is firm, profound belief in the actuality of an ideal combined with intentionality of behavior. Have faith. It shall come to pass. You must have both electromagnetic braids of consciousness happening at the same time: Thought plus desire. Faith plus intent.

Hill emphasizes in this chapter, for the second time in the book, the crucial importance of having clearly defined written goals that are repeated, preferably out -loud to oneself throughout the day. Now he goes further and states that it is very important to affirm one’s goals and ideals at some quiet time, such as just before falling asleep. He may have been unfamiliar with meditation techniques or may have been reluctant to encourage their use in a time when such things were seen as a part of eastern mysticism and as being out-of-sync with his obvious Christian beliefs. Here is why the quiet time is ideal for auto-suggestion or affirmation. When you intentionally think about, repeat and affirm your ideals, you are planting the seeds that will grow to bear fruit. When your mind is busy with all kinds of distracting thoughts, or worse, non-contributory or negative thoughts, you are planting your seeds amongst an abundance of weeds. When your mind is still and focused, you are, in effect, preparing fresh and fertile, weed-free, ground in which to plant your thought seeds. In addition to preparing the ideal mental ground to plant your thought seeds, meditation also stills your mind so that intuition can be accessed, insight can be attained and your connectivity to the absolute can be ascertained. Since all creativity springs from the potentiality of the infinite and absolute, it only makes practical sense to become as intimate with the infinite as you can manage. Meditation is the well-worn and proven method of achieving this intimacy. Repeated affirmation of ideals and goals is highly effective. It is even more effective when done in a meditative state. It is even more effective when you use insight, obtained through meditation and contemplation of self, to come to know and consciously choose which core beliefs you will hold, discard or take on. You are fortunate beyond measure in comparison to those who lived when Hill originally wrote Think and Grow Rich. Not only is the ignorance of and prejudice against meditation almost gone from the educated people of today, there are now several advanced techniques enabled by scientific understanding and application of brainwave states and their relationship to mental activity. We have all been, in a sense, brainwashed by our parents, our teachers and our societal groupthink to hold certain expectations and certain beliefs. Choosing to enact what Hill calls autosuggestion and affirmation is choosing to do your own intentional brainwashing (or what Leary, Bateson, Lilly and others have called ‘meta-programming your own bio computer’) in order to program yourself for success. Hill proposed writing down your ideals and goals on 3×5 cards and carrying them with you. I support this. There is something magical in writing (not typing). Today, however, you can also record your goals, ideals and affirmations into MP3 files and listen to them while driving, walking or standing in line at the bank to deposit your developing wealth. Your own voice, repeating, over and over again, your affirmations of your ideals and goals will implant these into your subconscious tape loop that runs in the background 24/7.

The Steps will continue tomorrow!! Master the Fundamentals of Business. The fundamentals as you think of them, are not Marketing & Advertising per say. These steps must be accomplished first, before specific action of Marketing are taken in your Business!