Category: Economy

Inspired by Chapter 15 of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

FEAR?

Just like there’s no crying in baseball, there’s no
fear in the apple orchard. So we’ll make our last visit
to the orchard near the end of this.

But there’s plenty of Fear in network marketing – and
most of it should not be there.

Most people do network marketing every day, but they
just don’t get paid for it – and they’ve been doing it
since about age five.

They recommend and promote things they like. At age
five, it’s stuff like toys, candy, breakfast cereal,
and fast food restaurants. Later it’s movies, music,
shows, games, vacation places, auto repair, hair
stylists, babysitters, etc.

They do it all their lives – and love doing it – but
they never get paid for it.

Then they join a network marketing company who says,
“Keep doing it and we’ll pay You for it”.

…And something happens. They say, “I can’t sell! I
don’t know how to sell! I hate sales!”

“Wait a minute! Haven’t You been doing this all Your
life for free?”

“Well, yes, but now I’ll get paid for it – and I can’t
do it!”

What IS this? It’s a psychological disorder I’ve named
N.M.I.A. – Network Marketing Induced Amnesia. It’s a
FEAR Disorder. Fear of Rejection.

We have no Fear of Rejection when we recommend a
plumber (unless maybe the plumber offers to pay us for
referrals).

So what’s different? Only an imagined image in our
subconscious minds. There is no other difference in
REALITY, just our own Perception.

Ah, the famous Salesman Alarm – a program in the
Subconscious Mind that sounds something like, “Whoop!
Whoop! Whoop! Dive! Dive! Dive! Shields Up! Run! Save
Yourself! Hide the Children!”

It must have evolved from the Wild Carnivore Alarm
(part of the Survival Program). Somehow, over time,
we’ve replaced the sabertooth tiger with the
salesperson.

Do we feel like salespeople when we talk about our last
vacation, the great sale we found at a store, or the
great deal we got on a car? No, we feel great!

So, why the FEAR regarding our network marketing
company? It’s not REAL, it’s a phantom in our minds –
that’s all.

FEAR is habit taught to us. Almost the entire twentieth
century ran on the fuel of Fear. All major nations
taught their citizens to Fear their neighbors – they
were “evil” and “dangerous”. War and the threat of war
drove the engines of the world’s economy.

In the lull between the World Wars, Fear of Poverty
took center stage and begat the Great Depression. War
got the nations moving again.

The exception was the 1990’s – with the collapse of one
of the superpowers and the era of optimism born in the
1980’s – the decade was one of peace and prosperity for
most of the world.

But there is a balance – a great pendulum swinging back
and forth, preventing systems from reaching extremity.
All systems have cycles – up and down, forward and
back.

In an amazing display of Greed, leaders of systems
conspired to artificially prevent the pendulum from
swinging back – through lies and over-valuation of
assets. When the pendulum finally did swing back, it
swung back with a vengeance – and we witnessed the
destruction of their systems at the end of the last
decade, and the birth of a new era of Fear of Poverty.

New would-be tyrants fan the flames of this Fear daily,
attempting to seize a level of control which could not
be sustained in the last century.

As the pendulum swings forward again in the
twenty-teens it will be an era of HOPE. The Merchants
of Hope are leading the way.

THE DEVIL’S WORKSHOP

There is an old saying, “One bad apple spoils the whole
bunch.” It’s not just an urban legend.

Harvest is a critical time at the apple orchard. All
the prior seasons of toil – watering, fertilizing,
pruning, treating for pest and disease attacks – can be
undone without careful sorting at harvest.

When the apples are stored in containers for transport,
we must be careful to discard all blemished apples. If
an apple has mold growing on it, then the mold spores
will spread throughout the container.

A small cut in one apple hastens its ripening process –
leading to rot. A ripening apple exudes ethylene, a
gaseous hormone. The presence of ethylene in the
container excites the ripening process of the other
apples. As each ripening apple adds more ethylene to
the concentration, the effect compounds.

Likewise, giving Power to the NEGATIVE INFLUENCE OF ONE
PERSON can undo all the toil of stripping away the
layers of puke to uncover the FIRST SENSE.

Your Friend and Servant,

Ken Klemm – Florida, USA

P.S. It is time now to officially retire the apple
orchard. I have learned much from the orchard, and I am
grateful!

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!

Inspired by Chapter 13 of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

Even an apple tree has a “brain”. Where is it? In the
roots? In the trunk? The whole tree? Just in the DNA?
Maybe the whole orchard together?

I don’t  know.

I’m really stretching to keep this apple orchard theme
going…

Oh well, two more lessons and I’m done with it!

I’ve realized that ALL things have CONSCIOUSNESS at
some level. There’s a big clue there to the nature of
the Universe, I think.

Anyway, the HUMAN BRAIN – amazing! We know a heck of a
lot more about it now than when old Pole Hill wrote his
book – most of  it within the past decade.

(Jerry, I don’t think Hill would respond to Pole or
Nap. He was Greener than grass – Greener than You and I
put together. Just look at Chapter 7 or 15 for
evidence. He would insist on Napoleon. I had a friend
named Napoleon who called himself Pole, but he was
hammered Blue.)

Oh, I won’t bore You with a discussion about the
workings of the brain – there are plenty of books and
articles on that.

But Human THOUGHT – that’s the thing!

What is it? How can it be transmitted and received
across thousands of miles in less than an instant? How
can prayers be answered before they are asked? What is
this medium called ETHER as the ancient Greeks named
it?

We know as much about the properties of THOUGHT ENERGY
as we do about gravity – next to nothing!

We only have an abundance of evidence that it EXISTS.

WHO answers prayers, anyway? Some mysterious entity out
beyond the galaxies?

Or do WE answer them ourselves? Are we part of a
COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS connected to the high and
low-level Consciousness of all things?

In October of 2007 the City of Atlanta was experiencing
a severe drought. Lake Lanier was running dry. They had
a three month supply of drinking water left. It was one
of the major news crises du jour.

One Friday evening George Noory asked the listeners to
his nationwide radio program to pray for rain for
Atlanta. Many folks around the world scoffed at the
experiment, but – nevertheless – it rained off and on
in Atlanta for several days.

Now, did the Thought Energy of the participants somehow
create photons that patterned themselves into hydrogen
and oxygen atoms? Or did the Energy ATTRACT existing
atoms to converge and become molecules of water vapor?
Or was it pure coincidence?

Who knows?

I’m more interested in the LANGUAGE OF PRAYER.
Effective Prayer, that is.

COMPASSION.

PASSION – an interesting word.  Although its meaning
has evolved through the ages, its root means INTENSE
SUFFERING. Hill touched on Mutual Suffering as one of
the top ten mind stimuli in one sentence from Chapter
11. I wish he had explored it further.

COMPASSION is sympathy and concern for the suffering of
OTHERS.

I’m certain many folks in Atlanta had been praying for
rain for THEMSELVES to no avail.

But when others, with no direct emotional attachment to
the outcome, prayed for Atlanta – the rains came.

What does this have to do with business and network
marketing?

E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G!!!!!!

Your Friend, Servant, and Former Stroke Victim,

Ken Klemm – Florida, USA

P.S. Whose prayers are YOU answering today?

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!

Inspired by Chapter 12 of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

The apple tree has an operating system – its DNA is
what it is and does not change. Input the right
nutrients, water and sunlight, and the tree will output
good apples. Input the wrong amounts or types of
nutrients, etc. – and the output will be wrong.

A computer has an operating system in its hardware. The
operating system does not change – it is what it is. If
You replace the system, then You essentially have a
different computer.

You can purchase or write software to handle input for
the system to process. You use input devices to give
the operating system things to do via the software –
keyboard, mouse, tablet, microphone, camera, scanner,
etc. AND modem and ethernet. (You should use careful
filtering with those last two. Stuff coming in that way
can make Your computer very sick because it comes from
other folks.)

Your operating system, though very powerful, makes no
judgments about what You or others input – it just
processes everything equally. It reflects back to You
the results of the input via its output devices –
monitor, speakers, printer, etc.

Your SUBCONSCIOUS MIND is Your OPERATING SYSTEM. It
creates Your REALITY by reflecting back to You whatever
You and others input.

EMOTIONS are the POWER SOURCE for Your system.

An interesting thing about Negative Emotions: They are
all EGO-based. All the feelings and energy are directed
INWARD. You, with no outlet, become like the Dead Sea –
incapable of supporting life.

POSITIVE Emotions are OUTWARD Flowing.

Let’s take a look at both sets of Emotions.
Hill listed the 7 Positive and the 7 Negative Emotions.
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 the CONFIDENCE of 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.
The ENERGY of Sex ATTRACTS, whereas Anger REPELS.

ENTHUSIASM is the ENERGY produced when PASSION is
combined with SPECIFIC GOALS. It radiates outward,
attracting resources to manifest its IMAGINED 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
DESTRUCTION 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?

Your Friend and Servant,

Ken Klemm – Florida, USA

P.S.

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!

Originally published at 30DayMentalCleanse.info

Ken Klemm

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Inspired by Chapter 10 of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

How does the MASTERMIND work?

All things are connected and, by nature, seek to
cooperate in HARMONY.

The trees in the apple orchard work together to alter
the pH balance of the soil, the ideal balance for apple
growing. The soil provides anchors for and delivers
nutrients and water to the trees’ roots. In EXCHANGE
for this SERVICE, the trees drop their leaves in autumn
– providing fresh nutrients for the soil.

The soil shelters earthworms who enjoy a diet of leaf
pieces. In EXCHANGE for this SERVICE, the earthworms
aerate the soil and aid in processing the nutrients for
the soil’s fertility.

In spring the trees blossom together creating an
irresistible attraction for bees who pollinate the
blossoms, enabling seed and fruit production. In
EXCHANGE for this SERVICE, the trees give the bees
nectar for their honey-making industry.

Humans working in the orchard ward off pests, treat the
trees for diseases, and guide their growth. In EXCHANGE
for this SERVICE, the trees give the workers oxygen,
shade and, of course, apples!

In all these exchanges, is there some level of
CONSCIOUSNESS at work here? You decide!

We humans, through our nature, likewise exchange
THOUGHTS – and we do it regardless of distance. We do
it instantly, without a delay of even a nanosecond.

On the live call when we discuss this subject, some of
us will look at an image I created. Other participants
on the call will SEE the image BEFORE we look at it!
Indeed, some already SAW the image weeks ago, when I
first IMAGINED it.

I’ll not delve into WHAT is the mysterious force behind
this natural ability. That discussion is for another
day. Let’s just stick to HOW it works.

We are all connected through a common ancestor. I often
ask folks how many races of people there are on this
planet.

I get a variety of answers, but the truth is… There
is ONLY ONE:

The Human Race. We have evolved into many ethnic groups
– diverse due to our geography and cultures. Yet we all
remain CONNECTED by our common bond – right down to our
DNA.

The HARMONIOUS language of our connection is COMPASSION
– the UNCONDITIONAL LOVE we have for each other.

The Force which blocks many from experiencing this
connection is EGO. Ego, the Father of GREED, LIES, and
DISTRUST, erects walls of separation between us –
interrupting the flow of our NATURAL HARMONY.

My good friend Jerry Butterworth would give Ego another
name – and I would agree with him.

Careful studies of the influence of prayer in the
Middle East show that the square root of one percent of
a population can affect the belief and behavior of the
entire population, at least temporarily.

So, doing the math, any two of us – working together in
complete HARMONY – could affect the belief and behavior
of 400 folks without saying a word to them!

Hey! Play with the math and realize the POWER and
POTENTIAL we all have TOGETHER, fellow Merchants of
HOPE!

Your Friend and Servant,

Ken Klemm – Florida, USA

P.S. All great movements – including the USA, Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam – began with a tiny MASTERMIND
group.

Originally published at30DayMentalCleanse.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!