Hi,
Following Sarah Gerber's post on EDENITE FELLOWSHIP about sharing in the dream of the world we want to create, here is some great advice on how to turn that dream into reality as well as our own personal dreams and goals:
This is from the book "The Money Encyclopaedia" by Eddie Solomon.
Every big project begins with an idea. The human mind is incredibly powerful. If you know what you want and if you want it strongly enough, you will achieve it. You would not have a desire, unless you were capable of achieving it and turning it into reality. Every one of us has our own limitations and our desires are regulated by our abilities. Anything that you desire, with all your heart, rest assured that it can and should be done.
Your desire is nothing more than an accurate picture of what you will one day become. A good way to determine whether you really have a desire. Examine how you are trying to convert it into reality. If you go after that which you think you desire hesitantly, reluctantly or in an attempt to play it safe, you don't have a desire at all.
You must say: this is what I desire, and I will achieve it, I will never go back. You must be able to accept mistakes and more importantly to learn from your mistakes. It takes that sort of desire to be able to help you and pick you up after the falls you are bound to face. The only people who are afraid of mistakes are those who never achieve anything. For the success orientated individual, there is no such word as impossible and no such reality as failure.
The desire is given shape and action with the aid of the imaginative faculties of the mind. Whatever the mind of man can imagine and believe, it can be done.
So the idea comes first, followed by a desire and with the aid of the imagination, you can see yourself fulfilling your desire.
The next step is to start making a decision. 5,000 men and women who experienced failure were surveyed and disclosed the fact that one of the major causes of their failure was that it was hard to make a decision. This is not only a statement or theory. It is a fact. Procrastination, the opposite of decision is a common enemy that must be conquered. A further survey of 200 people who accumulated wealth well beyond the $1 million mark revealed that every one of them had the habit of reaching decisions promptly and changing their decisions slowly after careful consideration if required. People who fail to achieve success have the habit of reaching decisions slowly. When you make up your mind, stay with it. Most people are influenced by the media, by their friends and relatives, they permit others to do the thinking for them. Close friends and relatives often handicap on through their own belief that is not founded on certainty or proof and through ridicule. Some people often carry an inferiority complex all through life because some close person destroyed their confidence through unfounded opinions or ridicule.]
Once you make a decision and stick with it, you will be implanting your desire in your subconscious mind. The subconscious mind consists of myriads of impulses that reach the conscious mind through any of the five senses. All the impulses are then recorded in the subconscious mind without you noticing them. They can be recalled or withdrawn like a file in a filing cabinet. You are not aware of what goes on in your subconscious. Psychoanalysts use subconscious to refer to a zone between the conscious and the unconscious. When you are conscious you aware of what goes on around you; when you are unconscious you are not aware of anything.
You can voluntarily plant in your subconscious mind any plan which you desire to accomplish and turn into reality. The subconscious mind works day and night through a method unknown to man. You cannot always control your subconscious mind but you can implant in it any desire which you wish to achieve. The subconscious will then lead you to the most practical way to achieve your desire. The subconscious mind is extremely powerful, although we do not know very much about it. The best way of turning your dream into reality is to hold in your conscious mind a clear and definite picture of yourself already having accomplished your goal, then project it on the motion picture screen of the mind; see yourself doing the things and having the things you would have when your goal would have been achieved. Do this as often as possible. By doing so, you have implanted in your subconscious mind all the necessary ingredients that will help the subconscious to lead you towards achieving your goal and making your dream a reality. The subconscious mind will then get through to your conscious mind and will give you the ideas to help in materialising your dream.
The success that great men and women have achieved may seem miraculous to the average man, but it is nothing more than turning their dream into reality through the subconscious mind. Time means nothing to the subconscious mind. An individual may achieve more in 5 years through the help of the subconscious than he or she may achieve in 20 years.
The subconscious mind is never idle, it is constantly working. Your personality depends entirely on what you implant in your subconscious mind. If you neglect to plant desires, it will feed on the impulses that reaches it as a result of your neglect. Everyday impulses are reaching your subconscious without your knowledge. Some these impulses are negative, some are positive. You are now required to impede the influx of negative impulses and let only positive impulses enter your subconscious. When you achieve this, you will possess the key to your subconscious mind.
One fine example of turning dreams into reality is CONRAD HILTON, the business tycoon behind the worldwide Hilton chain of hotels. In his book "Be My Guest", Conrad Hilton says: "You've got to dream. The type of dreaming that appeals to me has nothing to do with a reverie, an idle daydream. It isn't wishful thinking. What I speak of is a brand of imaginative thinking backed by enthusiasm, vitality, expectation, to which all men and women may aspire. It has to be backed by work and faith, or it has no hands and feet. To accomplish big things I am convinced you must first dream big dreams."
Conrad Hilton mentions that he started from the bottom of the heaps with 38 cents in his pocket and a mountain of debt. The Great Depression of the 1930's did not prevent Conrad Hilton from dreaming, he further mentions in his book: "I was a grown man and then Great Depression of the 30's tossed my own life's work from a tidy little mound of success into a bottomless pit of debts, humiliations, and mortgages. Men were jumping from hotel windows, my hotel windows, but mother was perfectly calm. - Some men jump out of windows -, she said. - Some go to church. Pray, Connie. It's the best investment you will ever make. - "
In the midst of the great depression, Conrad Hilton saw pictures of the newly built Waldorf Hotel. One of the world's most distinguished hotels with such luxuries as a private railroad in the basement, a private hospital for guests, six kitchens, two hundred cooks, five hundred waiters, and two thousand rooms. This was taking place in 1931.
At the time Conrad Hilton was deeply in debt. He was beating his way around Texas, where he lived, ashamed of himself, under a ten-gallon hat. He was surviving on borrowed money and he had so many court judgements against him that a "gun-toting" constable was trying to find places to hang them up.
Despite the Great Depression and all the judgements against him, Conrad had his biggest dream. He wanted to own the Waldorf. As he mentions: "It was a presumptuous, an outrageous time to dream." But fifteen years later, in October 1949, the Waldorf - the greatest of them all - became a Hilton Hotel. Remembering his early hard days in Texas, Conrad mentions: "Going even further back, what could have seemed more impossible than that the gangling youngster who swam in an irrigation ditch, worked fourteen hours a day in a general store in an isolated, sunbaked town, doing business with Spaniards, Mexicans, Indians, rough trappers and miners, would one day whirl around a dance floor in a white tie and tails with some of the loveliest and most distinguished ladies of the world?"
Best wishes,
Dario Western
2 Peter: 2:12 "People who only insult anything they do not understand
are not reasoning beings, but only animals born to be caught and killed,
and they will quite certainly destroy themselves by their own work of
destruction, and get their reward of evil for the evil they do."
are not reasoning beings, but only animals born to be caught and killed,
and they will quite certainly destroy themselves by their own work of
destruction, and get their reward of evil for the evil they do."
"Conformity is an excuse for the gutless" - Jim Morrison
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