“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
~ The Bible
Happy Tuesday everyone! I hope you all enjoyed a relaxing holiday yesterday, and are ready for a great week!
With multiple check-ins last week, the days seemed to go by in a blur. There wasn’t much time or energy to devote to anything else. It left me feeling tired and a bit rattled. And it left me with more administrative tasks, which further left me feeling a off-track ….
So I very much appreciated a motto shared out on Facebook yesterday:
“I AM in gratitude for the fantastic week coming my way full of love, blessings & miracles!”
When I have weeks where nothing seems to get accomplished, it’s easy to fall into negativity. The mind can start telling us all kinds of non-sense.
This is the time to make sure we are keeping up with our gratitude journal. For every pitfall we may be experiencing, there are just as many, if not more blessings.
To quote Oprah Winfrey: What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life.”
I’ve been thinking alot about my Desire to Gold statement. I’ve honed my budgets and goals.
A while back, I posted a 
handy chart entitled “How Much is Your Time Worth?”
As I understand my worth, to be very honest, when it’s presented on an hourly basis, it becomes absolutely overwhelming. I think, how am I going to achieve this? But here’s a little secret. When I’ve looked at the chart on a weekly basis, instead of an hourly or daily basis, things begin to look feasible. Ideas begin to jump at me …. I can cover that!!
Folks, this in entrepreneurship! Unless we’ve gone to school to become a doctor, lawyer, or maybe an accountant, the big hourly salaries just aren’t going to be there.
I recall JB Glossinger, the Morning Coach, saying that even doctors run up against a wall of increasing their worth. There are only so many hours in the day that one can bill for their time.
For me, Napoleon Hill’s chapter on Charisma and Creativity comes at the perfect time. I would strongly encourage anyone reading this post to read this chapter for yourself.
Again, an on-line downloadable PDF copy of T&GR can be found here:
http://www.soilandhealth.org/03sov/0304spiritpsych/030413.hill.think.and.grow.rich.pdf
The first half of the chapter is devoted to understanding the stimuli to which the mind responds most freely. Maslow, in his widely known Hierarchy of Needs, found that beyond the basis life-sustaining needs of food & water, shelter & clothing, and safety, the need for belonging and love came forth. This is then followed by esteem, understanding, aesthetics, self-actualization and transcendence. This also follows very closely the yogic principles of the chakra system.
Hill lists 10 Stimuli: sexual expression, love, desire for fame & fortune, music, close friendship & admiration, a mastermind alliance, mutual suffering through persecution, autosuggestion, fear, and drugs & alcohol.
These stimuli all can be used to temporarily or permanently increase intensity of thought.
Hill’s found evidence that people of achievement tended to have 1) a highly developed sexual nature or charisma that was transmuted into creativity, and 2) that they were motivated by the influence of a mate or love.
Somehow these people learned how to “transmute” their sexual energy from the desire for physical contact into some other form of desire and action, which then lifts one into a state of communing with infinite intelligence.
Hill gives an amazing example of a Dr. Elmer Gates, who created more than 200 useful patents. Dr. Gates set up what he called his “personal communication room”. It was practically soundproof, with little light. It had only a small table, on which he kept a pad of writing paper. He would shut off the lights, and concentrate on the known factors of the invention he was working on. He would stay there, until ideas began to “flash” into his mind in connection with the unknown factors of the invention. One one occasion, the ideas came so rapidly, he was forced to write for 3 hours.
Ideas, concepts, or hunch that flash into our mind can only come from one of 4 sources:
1) The mind of another person who has just released the idea.
2) Your own subconscious mind, which infers experience.
3) From another person’s subconscious storehouse.
4) from Infinite Intelligence.
“In most cases, an inventor stimulates his or her mind so that it functions on a higher-than-average plane, through one or more of the mind stimulants. He or she then focuses on known factors, then creates a perfect picture of the unknown or unfinished part of the picture. This picture is then held in the mind until the subconscious, then relaxes by clearing the mind of all thought, and waits for the answer to “flash” into the mind.”
Meditation, friends, is the answer to genius!
“And there is no other road to genius then through voluntary self-effort.”
“Love is without question, life’s greatest experience. All experiences of love will be different, and all are beneficial. When love guides the emotions, it may lead you well on your way toward creative effort.”
“When the emotion of romance is added to those of love and sexual expression, the obstruction between the finite mind and Infinite Intelligence are removed. Then a genius has been born.”
“The secret of control lies in understanding how to take those very strong emotions, and transmute it into creative genius. For if an individual is driven solely by emotions related to sexuality, that person may be capable of great achievement, but their actions are often disorganized and destructive.”
Fortunately, as we grow older, nature begins to harmonize the emotions of love and sex, so that they may be drawn upon, and applied as a creative outlet, instead of a physical outlet.
Spend some time today, in silence, with a pad of paper and a pencil. And see what Infinite Intelligence might deliver to you. Go in with a heart full of love, and you just might invent something that will change the world ❤
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Corinthians 13:
If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
If I have the gift of prophecy, and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.
But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.
When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.
For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face.
Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
