Desire – The Starting Point Of All Achievement

Inspired by Chapter 2 of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

What force enables the apple seedling to ATTRACT the
RESOURCES it needs to become a mature apple tree?

It has a “PASSION” to produce apples: That is its
DEFINITE, singular PURPOSE.

Not pears, oranges, bananas, or anything else – APPLES!
This is built into its DNA, along with the plans on how
to do it.

Is the tree’s purpose to make money?

NO! …APPLES!

People may purchase some of its apples throughout the
years, and money will be made as a result,

But the tree is laser-focused on making apples. Apples
are its WHY!

People may BENEFIT from consuming the apples, and for
that they will pay. The money is a way of measuring the
tree’s PRODUCTION and the BENEFITS it has provided
others.

I was once confused about something:

In Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill talks about money
consciousness, the burning desire to attract money, and
the FORMULA for manifesting it.

But, in Success in 10 Steps, Michael Dlouhy talks about
a WHY that will make You cry, and it has NOTHING to do
with making money!

Huh?

Well, OK – gold cannot give You a hug. Gold cannot look
at You with tears in its eyes and thank You for
impacting its life.

I get it!

I’ll stop mincing words now. I am both a spiritual
being and an organism.

I, the spirit, have an INNER PURPOSE, a DRIVING FORCE,
a WHY. This is what really motivates me to do all I do.
I SERVE – Gold cannot.

I, the organism, have gifts I can employ to BENEFIT
others who will compensate me. This is my OUTER
PURPOSE.

When my Outer Purpose is in HARMONY with my Inner
Purpose, then my Outer Purpose is infused with PASSION.

A chef without PASSION for food, and pleasing others
with it, will never create great restaurants.

I must take inventory:

1. What is my SINGULAR PURPOSE, the one that DEFINES my
BEING? (No tears, no PASSION!)

2. What gifts was I given in this life?

3. How can I best use those gifts for the BENEFIT of
others?

4. What is my specific plan of action to utilize those
gifts?

5. What specific goals do I have to measure my
PRODUCTION and keep me ENTHUSIASTIC?

Your Friend and Servant,

Ken Klemm – Florida, USA

P.S. If my gifts have benefitted You today, please tell
me. Your words are my compensation.

Originally published at 30DayMentalCleanse.info

Ken Klemm

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TRUTH CANNOT BE TAUGHT,
IT CANNOT BE BOUGHT,
TRUTH MUST BE DISCOVERED!

That is why, at Mentoring For Free, We Teach You HOW to
Think, Not WHAT to Think.

FREEDOM MEANS SEIZING OWNERSHIP OF YOUR MIND!

Thoughts Are Things

Thoughts are Things? Really? What kind of “Things”? Can
You see them? Touch them? Hear them?

Where do they come from? Where do they go and hang out?
What do they do?

Thoughts are kind of like an apple seed…

Inspired by Chapter 1 of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

Thoughts are Things? Really? What kind of “Things”? Can
You see them? Touch them? Hear them?

Where do they come from? Where do they go and hang out?
What do they do?

Thoughts are kind of like an apple seed…

Would it be OK if I asked You a question?

How many apples are in one apple seed?

Stop! Before You get philosophical with me, I’m asking
a LITERAL question here…

Go ahead, break one open. Do You see any apples in
there?

NO!

So what IS in there? A tiny bit of organic material.
Not much to look at, but this stuff is amazing! It
contains two things:

1. A tiny germ of the mysterious force called LIFE –
dormant at the moment, waiting for something to happen.
Not just ANY thing, but the RIGHT thing.

2. A pattern, a blueprint, an IDEA, a POTENTIAL, a
DREAM!

Take another apple seed, but don’t break this one open
and ruin it!

Plant thus little guy at the RIGHT depth, in the RIGHT
soil, in the RIGHT climate, and give it some water.

The little speck of dormant life force wakes up and
says, “Hello!”

It ATTRACTS the water You poured along with some
minerals from the soil, and sucks it in through its
shell. It grabs these RESOURCES and begins weaving the
beginning of a root system.

A tiny, barely visible root system, but soon the root
busts out of the shell and ATTRACTS more RESOURCES to
itself.

It keeps weaving until one day it is ready to shoot a
little sprout through the soil’s surface.

Now the REAL fun begins! The sprout can ATTRACT solar
ENERGY, and convert it to extract carbon from the
carbon dioxide it inhales – then exhale the remaining
oxygen for animals to breathe.

The baby apple tree has no idea where its future
RESOURCES will come from, nor does it care. It will
ATTRACT them when needed.

Some of its water may be snow crystals on the top of
Mt. Everest at this moment. Some of its minerals may
come from the fallen leaves blown by the wind from a
forest miles away. Some of its carbon may come from the
breath of a nearby dog’s great-great-grand-puppy.

All the RESOURCES that will one day be THIS TREE are
somewhere in some form. The tree will ATTRACT them
always.

And, yes, for many seasons this apple tree will produce
an abundance of apples – with the aid of insects who
will fertilize its blossoms.

And, yes, each of these apples will contain within
multiple seeds – each with the same pattern, blueprint,
IDEA, POTENTIAL, DREAM.

Thoughts, nurtured with the right DESIRE, the right
FAITH, the right LOVE, are kind of like that.

Look at what they did to water crystals!
mffaudios.com/water

Your Friend and Servant,

Ken Klemm, Florida, USA

P.S. My biggest recent A-HA: I’m Edwin C. Flippin’
Barnes! Have been all my life, but that’s another bunch
of stories.

Originally published at 30DayMentalCleanse.info

Ken Klemm

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TRUTH CANNOT BE TAUGHT,
IT CANNOT BE BOUGHT,
TRUTH MUST BE DISCOVERED!

That is why, at Mentoring For Free, We Teach You HOW to
Think, Not WHAT to Think.

FREEDOM MEANS SEIZING OWNERSHIP OF YOUR MIND!

8 Positive & Negative Emotions

The POSITIVE EMOTIONS are associated with CREATION –
advancing health, wealth, imagination and inspiration.

The NEGATIVE EMOTIONS breed DESTRUCTION – illness,
disease, poverty, close-mindedness.

CREATION…or DESTRUCTION. Which set do YOU choose to
FUEL Your MIND?

The POSITIVE EMOTIONS are associated with CREATION –
advancing health, wealth, imagination and inspiration.

The NEGATIVE EMOTIONS breed DESTRUCTION – illness,
disease, poverty, close-mindedness.

CREATION…or DESTRUCTION. Which set do YOU choose to
FUEL Your MIND?

In Chapter 12 of Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill
listed the 7 Positive and the 7 Negative Emotions. The
chapter deals with the Subconscious Mind, but Hill
dropped this list in there, and I feel compelled to
write about them.

Here is the list…

Positive:

DESIRE
FAITH
LOVE
SEX
ENTHUSIASM
ROMANCE
HOPE

Negative:

FEAR
JEALOUSY
HATRED
REVENGE
GREED
SUPERSTITION
ANGER

On May 5, 2009 Michael Dlouhy added PROSPERITY to the
Positive side, and LACK to the Negative side.

Basically, EMOTIONS are STATES of MIND which are felt
as ENERGY in the BODY. EMOTIONS MOVE us, MOTIVATE us,
compel our MOTION.

Human Beings are the only animals who can TRAP and hold
EMOTIONAL ENERGY in their bodies and TRANSMUTE, or
convert them into other ENERGY and STATES of MIND.

The POSITIVE EMOTIONS are associated with CREATION –
advancing health, wealth, imagination and inspiration.

The NEGATIVE EMOTIONS breed DESTRUCTION – illness,
disease, poverty, close-mindedness.

The best way for me to understand these emotions is to
compare, what I believe are, their opposites:

DESIRE is the PASSION for achieving, acquiring,
creating – whether it be a new skill, an invention, a
new level of achievement, whatever – to manifest
something from an idea.

The opposite of DESIRE is JEALOUSY – the envy of the
achievement of others. It seeks to DESTROY others’
accomplishments, rather than to build one’s own.

FAITH is simply KNOWING, beyond all Doubt. We reach
this STATE by living in THE NOW – the bottomless depth
of the Present Moment, where ALL is KNOWN.

FAITH’S opposite is FEAR – the STATE associated with
the UNKNOWN. Living in the past and dwelling on the
future elicits this Emotion. Past and future are both
distorted concepts of reality – we do not KNOW the
future the way we know THE NOW, and the past is clouded
by our memories and the labels and judgements we’ve
placed on them. What we do not KNOW, we FEAR – and we
TRANSMUTE its energy into the other Negative Emotions
when we TRAP it.

LOVE is the pure JOY of BEING – connected to all that
IS. It is unconditional, cannot be lost, and cannot be
destroyed – no more than we can lose the sun on a
heavily overcast day – it still shines brightly on the
other side of the clouds.

The opposite of LOVE is HATRED. Most people mistake an
addictive clinging to an external source of affection
for Love. When this affection is withdrawn, the false
love flips to HATRED – an ongoing cycle of pleasure and
pain.

SEX is the ULTIMATE form of Human Desire, imprinted on
us by the biological imperative to further our species.
We TRANSMUTE its ENERGY into MAGNETISM, CHARISMA, and
GENIUS. It is the HIGHEST SOURCE of CREATIVE ENERGY
within our biological being. The EMOTION of SEX
promotes health, wealth and all good things to all who
receive or send it.

Opposite SEX is ANGER – the Driving Force of
DESTRUCTIVE ENERGY. It is most commonly bred by
trapping, holding and transmuting the ENERGY of FEAR.
ANGER is a toxic poison to all who receive or send it.

ENTHUSIASM is the ENERGY produced when PASSION is
combined with SPECIFIC GOALS. It radiates outward,
attracting resources to manifest its CREATION.
ENTHUSIASM is the ENGINE of PRODUCTION – akin to the
Big Bang which begat the Physical Universe.

ENTHUSIASM’S opposite is GREED – akin to a BLACK HOLE
which sucks in and annihilates all ENERGY and
RESOURCES. Just as the Dead Sea cannot support life
because its waters have no outlet, resources with no
outlet cannot support PRODUCTION. A prime example of
GREED is the irrational seeking of short-term gain at
the expense of the system which produces wealth. The
ultimate result is the annihilation of global monetary
and economic systems.

ROMANCE is the drawing together of harmonious
forces, an attraction of soul-mates like molecules
of the same element. This bonding is the root of all
CREATION.

Opposite ROMANCE is REVENGE – one force
seeking the obliteration of another. Whereas
ROMANCE strengthens both, REVENGE leads
to the DESCRUCTION of both.

HOPE  is the EXPECTATION, without “rational” evidence,
of resources which induce CREATION. It is the natural
progression of Self-Evident FAITH, the wellspring of all
ACHIEVEMENT regardless of the “odds”. Strong HOPE
bends the odds in its favor.

The opposite of HOPE is SUPERSTITION – the belief in
things, without rational evidence, which induce FEAR.
Gossip, conspiracy theories, hastily drawn conclusions
– all generators of SUPERSTITION. It is a tool employed
by those who desire to hold power – enslaving others –
by seeding FEAR and DOUBT. Yup! Religious leaders,
politicians, tort attorneys, media manipulators, and
unsavory marketers – all professions infested with
adept MERCHANTS OF FEAR! (I’ll stop this paragraph
while I may yet have a few friends left.)

PROSPERITY is the STATE OF MIND which EMBRACES ALL OF
THE ABOVE POSITIVE EMOTIONS. It is the result of living
in THE NOW – KNOWING that all the ABUNDANT RESOURCES of
the UNIVERSE are at the disposal of those who RECOGNIZE
they are PART OF IT! I have known folks with limited
financial means who live in PROSPERITY.

PROSPERITY’S opposite, of course, is LACK – bred by
EGO’S denial of SELF – its seeking to be different,
unique, separate from all else. Those so inflicted with
this insanity feel a nagging longing, a sense of
disconnection, incompleteness, dissatisfaction, being
unfulfilled. They attempt to fill the void of LACK by
acquiring STUFF. When the stuff doesn’t fulfill then,
they seek MORE stuff. I have known folks with great
financial means who live in LACK.

CREATION…or DESTRUCTION. Which set do YOU choose to
FUEL Your MIND?

Ken Klemm

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TRUTH CANNOT BE TAUGHT,
IT CANNOT BE BOUGHT,
TRUTH MUST BE DISCOVERED!

That is why, at Mentoring For Free, We Teach You HOW to
Think, Not WHAT to Think.

FREEDOM MEANS SEIZING OWNERSHIP OF YOUR MIND!