Decision- The Mastery of Procrastination

A grown-up DECISION is one made with both HEAD and
HEART – not just one or the other. My good friend Don
Smith from Denver said there are three elements:

CHOICE, COMMITMENT, and ACTION.

It takes a long time for apple seedlings to grow-up and
become an income-producing orchard, and the effort does
not stop there – the orchard must be maintained.

Choice without Commitment is not a Decision. Commitment
without Choice is dangerous. If there is no ACTION,
there was no DECISION.

How about Action without Choice and Commitment? Sounds
insane…

Inspired by Chapter 8 of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

Alright, to be honest with You, I’m really getting
tired of this apple orchard!

I thought I made a good, sound DECISION when I started
it. I mean, apples are about the most popular and
versatile fruit – all the things made from them
(Chapter 6), and folks love to combine them with other
fruits like cranberries.

I have a contact with a great wholesale buyer who
purchases most of my crop. They have a streamlined
operation, so they can afford to pay me the best
possible price for my apples. Over the past few seasons
I’ve been amazed at how much more they’ve been willing
to pay as their company has grown in size. They have a
long-term business plan, so I know they will be here to
buy apples from my children long after I’m gone. I know
the owners of the company personally, and I trust their
integrity beyond any doubt.

But the blizzards this year have made it really hard to
get out to the orchard, and I need to check the trees
for diseases and treat them if needed. What if we have
a long, cool spring this year? Then the blossoms will
come late and the apples will not mature in time for
harvest. To top it off, my idiot neighbor ran down a
section of my fence last week with his tractor!

Wait a minute! I just got a pretty, glossy brochure in
the mail about PEARS! It’s says pears are going to be
the next big fruit. Everybody is going to want candy
pears, pear sauce, pear butter, pear cider, and even
pear schnapps. The new phrase will be, “Mom and Pear
Pie!”

I can get in on the ground floor. Woo-HOO!

Uh, oh… Isn’t growing pears a lot like growing
apples? The trees require the same climate and have
similar challenges.

Wait a minute! Here’s a brochure from Florida about
ORANGE groves! Oranges rank up there in popularity with
apples. Plus I wouldn’t have to deal with blizzards
anymore…

And, if I get bored with oranges, there are always
lemons, limes, and grapefuit. Maybe even pomegranates.

Uh, oh… Didn’t they have a lot of frost damage down
there the last two years?

Maybe I could try something sexy and exotic like
papaya, kiwi, or passion fruit. Hey, I like the sound
of that… PASSION FRUIT!

Maybe I ought to just get out of the fruit business
entirely. At least THAT would be a grown-up DECISION.

A grown-up DECISION is one made with both HEAD and
HEART –  not just one or the other. My good friend Don
Smith from Denver said there are three elements:

CHOICE, COMMITMENT, and ACTION.

It takes a long time for apple seedlings to grow-up and
become an income-producing orchard, and the effort does
not stop there – the orchard must be maintained.

Choice without Commitment is not a Decision. Commitment
without Choice is dangerous. If there is no ACTION,
there was no DECISION.

How about Action without Choice and Commitment? Sounds
insane… but unfortunately describes most people in
the world: Folks who allow circumstances and
manipulation by others to determine the course of their
lives. They have NEVER MADE A GROWN-UP DECISION.

Perhaps people PROCRASTINATE for FEAR of making a
MISTAKE. For a Critical Thinker, there ARE NO MISTAKES,
just LESSONS LEARNED.

Hill says, DECIDE PROMPTLY, and CHANGE Decisions
SLOWLY. I would rather work with five people who Decide
Slowly but never waiver, than 5,000 who Decide Promptly
and give-up just as Promptly.

Your Friend and Servant,

Ken Klemm – Florida, USA

P.S. The POWER of DECISION: Studies on the effect of
prayer show that the square root of one percent of a
population can affect change in the entire population.
Explains how a tiny group of folks could seed a
movement, among people resistant to abandon the safety
and security of the Crown, to form a new,
SELF-DETERMINED nation.

Likewise, 8,000 of us – together in HARMONY, speaking
the LANGUAGE of COMPASSION – can change the entire
world!

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!

Keys to Economic Freedom

The SPIRIT of SERVICE is not PASSION. It is COMPASSION!
Wherever we SERVE and LEAD, there is HOPE.

Inspired by Chapter 7 of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

Oh, this chapter…

A bit overwhelming – but, if enough folks get this one
from their head to their heart, it will change the
world! The moneymaking secret Hill mentions in the
Author’s Preface is splattered all throughout this
chapter.

Not just a semester’s course, but an entire college
degree could be based on the contents of Chapter 7. The
principles of ORGANIZED Planning are here, Yes – and
also the principles of LEADERSHIP, the TRUTH about
ECONOMICS, a major wake-up call and reality check, and
the SECRET OF MAKING MONEY.

Most people believe the treasury makes money…

NO!

The treasury makes CURRENCY – ink on paper and little
metal alloy disks with hardly any INTRINSIC VALUE, but
most of it is no more than electronic bookkeeping
entries in databases.

SERVICE is what MAKES MONEY! SERVICE gives currency its
VALUE. This is why Hill devotes the bulk of this
chapter to it.

Alright, what do gold and silver have in common with
apples? You are going to love this…

They, and all raw materials, are 100% FREE for taking!
Go find it… and it’s Yours.

Certainly gold and silver are rare compared to apples –
that just means they are harder to find.

You can grow Your own apples, and make all the apple
products I mentioned in the last chapter Yourself. Your
COST is Your TIME and Your EFFORT.

Pioneer families living on the frontier of wilderness
were completely self-sufficient. They built their
shelters with the materials they found, made their own
tools, furniture, clothing, toys, and gathered their
own fuel for their energy. They hunted or bred their
own livestock, and gathered or grew their own fruits
and vegetables.

They supplied their own entertainment too. They told or
acted out stories, sang and played instruments of their
own making, and created art.

The bottom line: All their raw materials cost nothing!
Their EFFORT made the stuff useful to them. Their
EFFORT created VALUE.

As more and more families gathered in a vicinity, folks
began to SPECIALIZE. As before, all the materials were
free – but they SPECIALIZED in the SERVICES they
performed, and the goods they PRODUCED.

Folks traded goods and bartered services, negotiating
the VALUE of each EFFORT.

As civilization grew more complex and folks more highly
Specialized, trading and bartering became nearly
impossible. A barber may have no direct use for the
services of an administrator of information technology
systems, for example.

CURRENCY was the elegant solution or, as economist Dr.
Walter E Williams calls it, Certificates of Performance
– evidence proving we have SERVED each other, and have
earned a claim against the PRODUCTS of our LABOR.

Walter E Williams Video

Hill’s example of the 20-cent breakfast for two (1937
price) is an excellent illustration of this. I could
travel, gather and process all the ingredients myself –
and enjoy my breakfast three years from now, or pay the
dime for the SERVICES of all those willing to do it all
for me – and enjoy breakfast today.

Without PRODUCTION, Currency has no VALUE.

Imagine this scenario: The treasury prints up a bunch
of currency and distributes it to all citizens – and
nobody has to do any work to earn it.

What, I ask You, could You possibly purchase with such
cash? No one is mining, farming, manufacturing,
transporting, stocking, or marketing. What is there to
buy?

I am told gold has intrinsic value due to its rarity –
but without PRODUCTION, what could I purchase with it?

Currency is backed not by gold, but by PRODUCTION.
Credit is issued on the PROMISE of future PRODUCTION.

Monetary systems function well until they become so BIG
that the negative energy of GREED sucks the systems
dry. Hence the meaning of, “The love of money is the
root of evil.”

Those gripped by the INSANITY of GREED destroy systems
for short-term gain in their electronic balance sheets.
Then they groan about the loss of purchasing power of
each unit.

All industries are connected, as are all currencies.
Weaken one, and all will fall.

When the ancient empires fell, the world did not end.
When the Roman Empire fell, the world did not end. When
the British Empire or the Soviet Union collapsed, the
world did not end. Things change – always do, but the
world goes on.

The cure is not replacing one BIG thing with another
BIG thing.

The cure is right here – the VALUE of our MINDS and
what we PRODUCE with them – and how well we LEAD in
SERVICE.

Quantity, Quality, and – above all – SPIRIT.

The SPIRIT of SERVICE is not PASSION. It is COMPASSION!
Wherever we SERVE and LEAD, there is HOPE.

Therefore I sign to You as always…

Your Friend and Servant,

Ken Klemm – Florida, USA

P.S. I cannot OUT-SERVE the UNIVERSE, for I am part of
it! As are You, my fellow Merchants of HOPE.

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!

IMAGINATION: THE WORKSHOP OF THE MIND

Inspired by Chapter 6 of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

CREATIVE IMAGINATION – form a conscious image of
something, and with enough EMOTIVE FORCE, manifest it
into physical reality.

The first apple seed was certainly creative.

SYNTHETIC IMAGINATION – form a conscious image of
something involving existing physical stuff, and with
enough EMOTIVE FORCE, manifest it into a new thing.

I think a lot of things came about just by messing
around with stuff, others by deliberate design.

Look at all the varieties of apples: Baldwin, Cortland,
Delicious, Empire, Golden Delicious, Green, Macoun,
McIntosh, Northern Spy, Russet – to name a few.

Stuff made with apples: candy apples, caramel apples,
apple pie, apple tarts, apple turnovers, apple strudel,
apple cobbler, apple crisp, applesauce, apple
preserves, apple jelly, apple butter, apple juice,
apple cider, apple cider vinegar, applejack, apple
schnapps, and much more.

I look at the things around me in amazement all the
time. From the simplest things: carpet, furniture,
doors, windows, walls, etc. – all began with someone’s
IMAGINATION.

More amazing stuff: I used to move my recorded music
collection around in many heavy boxes. Now the whole
mess is stored in a tiny thin box that fits in my shirt
pocket.

My entire library of books is stored in a thing about
the size and weight of a small writing tablet.

Years ago, if I wanted to phone someone from the road,
then I had to find a payphone and drop a dime. Years
before that, if I wanted to talk with someone, then I
would have had to meet with them in person.

Publishing was once a major endeavor. Now I mash a few
buttons…and what I’m writing is published!

Most amazing: The POTENTIAL, the possibility of all
things past, present and future existed many thousands
of years ago.

My theory: If it can be IMAGINED, then it can be
MANIFESTED. If it cannot be Manifested, then it cannot
be Imagined.

It matters not how fantastic the IMAGE – with an
Insatiable DESIRE, Firm BELIEF, an ORGANIZED PLAN, and
PERSISTENT Action – it WILL MANIFEST.

There is not much difference between MANIFESTED REALITY
and IMAGINATION. My concept of Reality is almost
certainly different than Yours.

If I show 10 people the same scene from a movie, then I
might get as many as 10 different Emotional reactions,
ranging from “hilarious”, to “warm and moving”, to
“glorious and triumphant”, to “sad and depressing”. It
depends on each individual’s point of view.

If I say the name, “Adolf Hitler”, then the most common
reaction I get will be something like “evil
monster/madman”. Although, 75 years ago, some might
have said, “visionary”, or “charismatic hero”, or
“savior”, or “messenger of hope”. Some of those same
folks may have said a few years later, “dangerous
mistake”. A few years earlier, “a house painter from
Austria.”

If I say the word “God” to 1,000 people, then 1,000
different IMAGES will appear in their minds. All 1,000
Images are REAL, true and correct.

I FOCUS my daily activity from a point where the thing
I am working on is already completed.

The Case of the Martial Artist, the Skeptic, and the
Quantum Theorist:

Three different REALITIES concerning an encounter with
a concrete block.

The martial artist says, “I can break this block by
focusing my CONSCIOUSNESS to a point BEYOND the block.
MIND OVER MATTER.”

The skeptic, focusing on the point of impact, says, “He
will break all the bones in his hand when he hits the
solid block – unless he has a trick block. MATTER OVER
MIND.”

The quantum theorist says, “Both hand and block are
composed of photons at the quantum level – their
solidity is an Illusion. A true believer without DOUBT
could pass his hand THROUGH the block, damaging
neither. MIND AND MATTER ARE THE SAME THING.”

Whose REALITY is true and correct?

ALL THREE ARE!

Your Friend and Servant,

Ken Klemm – Florida, USA

P.S. Let us be careful here. This principle works for
both creation and destruction.

Originally published at 30DayMentalCleanse.info

Ken Klemm

 ============================

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!