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Spotlight –“ Power is the Ability to Act to Achieve Goals”
Smart Tips – “How To Think Creatively”
Did You Know? - 6 Foods To Help Improve Your Brain Memory Power
Humor
Motivational quotes
Spotlight - Power is the Ability to Act to Achieve Goals
‘What the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.’ Napoleon Hill
When my wife and I were expecting the birth of our first child, it gave us time to pause and
consider the years past that we had desired to have children.
Conception had not been an easy thing, as my wife had discovered that because of a bout of
mumps just before we were to be married her womb became barren.
But the good news was that we never accepted this, and that child – and the other two that were
to follow in the years to come – was conceived in our hearts and minds long before she was ever
born. Filled with the spirit of faith and belief we knew that a beautiful child would be achieved.
And so that draws me to one of the greatest motivational quotes ever written – ‘What the mind
can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.’
So let’s take a closer look at it by breaking it up into its three components.
1. Conceive
The mind is an amazing invention. Within its bounds there are no boundaries. The imagination
opens up all restrictions and can transform a limited outlook into a glorious panorama of ideas
and possibilities.
One of the greatest places where ideas for my own life and business have been conceived has
been through the habit of journaling.
Having now well over 40 journals from many years of developing the habit of drawing thoughts
from my mind and imprinting them onto a blank page, I have learnt the power of conception
when it comes to a fertile mind.
Ideas come our way on a daily basis but the trouble with most people is that they fail to capture
them.
Conception in the natural world, like in us as parents, can at times be a difficult task, and
requires much faith and patience to see the result.
But one way you can learn to spark and frame ideas is to place yourself in an environment
whereby you are exposed to fresh thinking.
Places to do this are in the idea generating atmosphere created by books. 15 Books That
Destroyed My Mediocre Life is one place to find such stimulating material.
TED is also another wonderful place on the web to be exposed to fresh and modern ideas. By
surrounding yourself with other open-minded and stimulated thinkers, this will also help with the
conception process.
2. Believe
For an idea to take root, the mind must believe. If my wife and I had not firmly believed for
children, we would have yielded to a life of childlessness. However, we refused to accept
anything less than a family and through faith in the Creator of the Universe, what was deemed as
impossible was made possible.
For an idea to come to fruition it must first be embedded in the soil of belief.
I grow vegetables, and the most important part of my vegetable patch is the soil. Some of my
friends laughed when it came to moving house over a year ago. For as part of the move I also
moved all the soil that made up my sizable vegetable patch.
Why would I do that?
Because I had invested a lot of time and money in the development of that soil and I didn’t want
to start from scratch with a new vegetable patch – but rather wanted to take the winning
component of my organic vegetable patch in which to plant new crops.
The results speak for themselves with a constant supply of fresh and crisp vegetables.
This is the same with belief. Filled with belief, your ideas will be empowered to bring the third
part of the successful mind equation.
3. Achieve
Conception and belief created in the mind of man leads to one thing – achievement.
Success is a wonderful reward for someone who has nurtured their mind through ‘the conceive
and believe’ process.
But you must understand that it can also operate in the negative realm as much as the positive.
As you look around at what people drive and even live in, or dress in, you can quickly
understand the nature of the thoughts that they have conceived and believed.
Someone once mentioned to me that you can tell the state of the mind of someone by the state of
their shoes and the state of the inside of their car.
So may I encourage you to conceive and believe good, positive, uplifting, and building thoughts
so that your achievements are strong and sustainable. Ensure a bright and wonderful future for
both you and your family for generations to come by training up your most precious asset – your
mind.
Conceive. Believe. Achieve.
Receive.
So what have you conceived, believed and achieved and are ready to receive?
‘When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.’
Viktor Frankl
Situations come. Situations go. But no matter what situation we find ourselves in, we are given
the wonderful opportunity to not always change the situation or even how others respond to that
situation, but rather to change the way we think, the way we respond, and the very way we live.
Someone recently told me that if you’re standing still you’re actually going backwards.
However, if we create an environment within which we are constantly challenged to change, we
will ever move forward.
So position yourself for constant change by surrounding yourself with books, CD’s,DVD’s,
seminars, associates and mentors who constantly challenge you where you’re at, and provoke
you to change.
To change is to grow. And in order to grow, you and I must change.
Move your focus from trying to change those around you to changing yourself. And watch the
changes that will begin to occur around you. Like a pebble flung into a pond, the ripple effect
will be reflected in a changed world in and around you, because you decided to change.
http://www.motivationalmemo.com/the-3-powerful-ways-your-mind-can-lead-you-to-greatsuccess/
http://www.themindtolead.com/power.html
Smart Tips - How to Think Creatively
Source - http://www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com/how-to-think-creatively.html
Did You Know? – Foods to Help Improve Your Brain Memory Power
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/09/08/cookinglight.food.boost.mind/index.html
Humor
What are you doing?
A woman walked into the kitchen to find her husband stalking around with a fly swatter.
“What are you doing?” She asked.
“Hunting Flies” He responded.
Oh!, Killed any?” She asked.
“Yep, 3 males, 2 Females”, he replied.
Intrigued, she asked. “How can you tell?”
He responded, “3 were on a beer can, 2 were on the phone”.
A blonde girl enters a store that sells curtains.
She tells the salesman, “I would like to buy a pink curtain in the size of my computer screen.”
The surprised salesman replies, “But, madam, computers do not have curtains.”
And the blonde said, “Helloooo…. I’ve got Windows!”
Source: http://www.jokesduniya.com/category/funny-and-hilarious-jokes/page/4/
Motivational quotes
1. All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. - Ellen Glasgow
2. Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without
destroying his roots. - Frank A. Clark
3. Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. - Plato
4. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of
adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. - George Washington
5. The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. - Orson Welles
6. Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the
character and growth of its speakers. - Cesar Chavez
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/growth.html#josGoOsZJM0hfILi.99
http://www.freedomeducation.ca/2010/11/29/101-personal-growth-quotes-to-give-you-a-boost-ofencouragement/