When Bill was 19 years old, he sold hides and skins. He failed miserably. Two years later, he ran for Federal Congress. Again, he failed. In desperation, Bill went to the library to read about success principles. There, he found Hill's book.
Although he read the book three times, he failed to see how to use the success principles. Then, during the fourth reading, something shifted within him, a flash of inspiration, and his life changed.
Years later, after meeting the author, Bill McCall, now the Honorable William V. McCall, now a director of 22 family-owned businesses, and now a man as rich as the people whom he had once read about, narrated the moment his life fell into place.
?I was reading Think and Grow Rich for the fourth time while walking leisurely along a business street in Sydney. And then it happened! It happened suddenly. I stopped in front of a meat market and glanced up. And in that fraction of a second I had a flash of inspiration.
?You see, I was reading Chapter Four entitled ?Autosuggestion.? The subheading was ?The Medium for Influencing the Subconscious Mind.? Now I remember that when I was a boy my father read aloud from Emile Coue's little book Self-Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion.?
?It was you,? Bill said to Napoleon Hill, ?who pointed out in your book that if Emile Coue was successful in helping individuals avoid sickness and in bringing the sick back to good health, through conscious autosuggestion, autosuggestion could also be used to acquire riches or anything else one might desire. ?Get rich through autosuggestion?: that was my great discovery. It was a new concept to me.
?You know: conscious autosuggestion is the agency of control through which an individual may voluntarily feed his subconscious mind on thoughts of a creative nature, or, by neglect, permit thoughts of a destructive nature to find their way into the rich garden of his mind.
?When you read aloud twice daily the written statement of your desire for money with emotion and concentrated attention, and you see and feel yourself already in possession of the money, you communicate the object of your desire directly to your subconscious mind. Through repetition of this procedure, you voluntarily create thought habits which are favorable to your efforts to transmute desire into its monetary equivalent.
?Let me say it again: It is most important that when you read aloud the statement of your desire through which you are endeavoring to develop a money consciousness, you read with emotion and strong feeling.
?Your ability to use the principles of autosuggestion will depend very largely upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning desire.
?When I arrived home, out of breath for running, I immediately set down at the dining room table and wrote: ?My definite major aim is to be a millionaire by 1960.??
The Honorable William V. McCall, the youngest person to be a member of the house of parliament, achieved his definite major aim to be a millionaire four days before his deadline.
Like everything else, change starts in your mind first, and that's where the battle will take place. Your mind will object to changes. "No! I don't want to exercise every day. I don't have enough time! What if I overdo it?" The mind objects to leaving the comfortable environment that it is so accustomed to.
The reason that change is difficult for most people is that we all like to be comfortable, and change interrupts our comfortable routine; it interrupts our comfort zone. Even if our comfortable routine is not bringing us the results in life that we really desire, we choose to remain in the routine, instead of making the decision to change.
It doesn't matter whether the changes are little changes or big changes, your mind will always have some objections to it.
Keep in mind these two things whenever you really desire to change something in your life. First, consistently remind yourself of the goal or reason for the change. For example, say "I'm going to exercise every day so that I can be healthier, have more energy, and live longer," or, "I'm going to spend the time and money to take this course so that I can improve my skills and have more to offer."
You need to keep reminding yourself of the reason why. If you don't, your mind will come back with all kinds of reasons why you don't need to change anything! Your mind will object by telling you that everything is just fine the way it is! But you must take charge of your mind! Make your mind focus on the goal.
And here's the second thing. Be patient. If you're consistent and persistent, the change will come.
If you take a pot of boiling water off the stove and put in four ice cubes, is that water cool enough to drink? No. But if you keep adding ice cubes, over and over, eventually that boiling water will change to ice cold water.
Change takes time. And many times our minds will get impatient during a period of change. There will be thoughts like, "Oh this isn't working, it's just not happening." Or, "I don't see the point in continuing with this." In other words, the mind is suggesting that you ought to quit and go back to where things were nice and comfortable where things were easy and there wasn't so much to do!
When those kind of thoughts pop up, you need to remind yourself of why you have decided to put in this time and effort. In other words, remind yourself of why you desire this change. Remind yourself that change takes time, and that if you're consistent and persistent, you will see the results that you really desire.
And always remember that change is a part of life. Realizing that makes life exciting! With God's help, you can indeed make the change! Don't be afraid of change, embrace it!
The time and effort required for change may vary, but the outcome of reaching the desired destination will far outweigh all the time and effort once you arrive!
Comfort zones are just another resting place on the road of life. They are a place to regroup and expand your foundation. They give you a launching pad for the next exciting adventure of life!
If you're current routine is not bringing you the results that you desire, then it's time to move out of your comfort zone! If it's time for a change in your life!
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