Category: 30-Day Mental Cleanse

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

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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!

Specailized Knowledge – Personal Experiences or Observations

Inspired by Chapter 5 of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

So, You want to go into the apple business?

GREAT! Where will you go to learn all about apples, how
to plan an orchard, the tools You will need, and where
to get them and how to use them, etc?

Is there an Apple University? Well, there are many fine
schools who have an agriculture department – and lots
of books available.

Maybe You already have an apple orchard, but You’re
having some challenges.

Where will You turn for help? Visit some orange groves
in Florida? Nice vacation maybe, but it’s apples and
oranges!

What about pineapples? Kind of SOUNDS like apples…

No?

How about the U.S. Apple Association? …Better.

Maybe You should look to Your local state apple growers
association. After all, growing apples in Washington is
probably a little different than growing them in
Wisconsin or Virginia.

But why would other apple growers share their tips and
SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE with You? Why would they
cooperate with a competitor?

Because there is a big demand for apples and the things
people make with them. Helping You with Your orchard
makes the apple industry stronger.

If something goes really wrong at Your orchard, it
could adversely affect the industry in the entire
region, possibly even nationwide. Consumer health,
confidence, etc.

So, these folks are Your BEST source for help. Not only
are they actually DOING what You want to do, they also
have a vested INTEREST in Your SUCCESS.

The only place apple growers compete is at local,
county, and state fairs.

Mentoring For Free is the MLM growers association.

Don’t want a big, massive orchard? Just a few trees?

GREAT! We will help You too – ESPECIALLY You. Because,
actually, YOU ARE THE HOPE FOR THE WORLD!

Your Friend and Servant,

Ken Klemm – Florida, USA

P.S. By now You may think I have a passion for
apples… Not really, but I SAW an orchard once. I even
had a wild apple tree in my backyard.

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!

AUTO-SUGGESTION – Part 2

The Awesome POWER of SUGGESTION.

Watch this – this is fun…

Try really hard the rest of today to NOT think about a
red-faced koala bear who is having a bad hair day!

Inspired by Chapter 4 of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

The Awesome POWER of SUGGESTION.

Watch this – this is fun…

Try really hard the rest of today to NOT think about a
red-faced koala bear who is having a bad hair day!

Having fun yet? Your poor SUBCONSCIOUS MIND cannot
resist my harmless little Suggestion.

Go ahead… try REALLY HARD to STOP thinking about that
little koala with the bad hair and the red face.

OK, how many of us parents have said a stupid thing to
our children like, “Whatever You do, don’t touch that
vase!”

Or worse: “If You touch it, You will break it!”

Then we dumb-ass parents wonder why the child broke the
vase!

WHO planted the SUGGESTION in their little Subconscious
Minds? Left alone, the child may have never even
noticed the vase.

How many times have we said to someone, “Don’t hesitate
to call me.” – then wonder why they never call?

Their Subconscious Minds hear and act on, “Don’t call
me” and “Hesitate to call me.”

Meanwhile, how are we doing with the koala?

This is EXACTLY why You should avoid watching
television and listening to radio while You are seizing
OWNERSHIP of Your MIND.

Advertisers and programmers use fantastical images and
SUBLIMINATION (koala, anyone?) to plant SUGGESTIONS
into Your Subconscious.

Much of what we THINK is news, education, and
entertainment is actually masterfully crafted
SUGGESTION.

How else would masses of people embrace SUPERSTITIOUS
myths such as Global Warming?

Why in the world would talented folks spend their
precious time and resources instilling a myth?

A CRITICAL THINKER would ask, “Who stands to gain
billions of dollars from the public’s reaction to the
hoax?”

I have worked long and hard to flood my Subconscious
Mind with my own SELF-SUGGESTION through my SELF-TALK
and association with my MASTERMIND Group. And I am
enjoying benefits of that work.

Yet I must still guard against the attempted Suggestion
of others, especially of those who mean well for me.

The night before last week’s Mental Cleanse calls, I
had an amusing conversation with my baby cousin. (Well,
I was in high school when she was born.)

She is a licensed pharmacist who likes cuddly little
things like koala bears. Part of the conversation went
like this:

COUSIN: “What kind of health insurance do You have?”

ME: “Self insurance.”

COUSIN: “How often do You see Your Doctor?”

ME: “I check on him every four months, whether he needs
it or not. He cares for people very dear to me.”

COUSIN: “How do You pay for the visits?”

ME: “Cash.”

COUSIN: “You mean You don’t have ANY insurance?”

ME: “Life and Auto.”

COUSIN: “No HEALTH insurance?”

ME: “I’m not planning to get sick. When was the last
time You heard me complain about anything?”

COUSIN: “I can’t remember. But what if You…, or what
if You get…., or what if…?”

ME: “Stop that! If You only knew how much effort it
took me to get my head out of the ‘what if’s’ of the
future and the ‘if only’s’ of the past, and learn to
live in the ‘what IS’ of the present…”

COUSIN: “Alright. Suppose…”

ME: “Suppose nothing! That’s another way of saying
‘what if’.”

My cousin is beside herself because her 40th birthday
is next week (poor baby), and she is concerned she has
done nothing meaningful in her life thus far.

Yeah, I told her about the two best times to plant a
tree: Best – 20 years ago, second best – NOW.

She needs a Mental Cleanse:

Cut-off all external sources of chatter for 30 days and
spend quality time with Your OWN MIND, get to know WHO
YOU ARE, and discover Your LIFE’S PRIMARY INNER
PURPOSE.

Drink at least 1/2 ounce of water for every pound of
Your weight everyday to help Your brain cleanse and
build new thought patterns.

DESIGN and INSTILL Your own DESIRED thought patterns by
using AUTO-SUGGESTION (SELF-TALK) hundreds of times per
day as if Your life depended on it – it DOES!

You must shut-off ALL external sources of SUGGESTION
for 30 days. It takes 25-30 days to break an addiction,
or to replace one habit with another.

Watch television ONCE during the period, and You must
rest Your timer back to zero – and begin again!

Your Friend and Servant,

Ken Klemm- Florida, USA

P.S. To stop thinking about the koala bear, flood Your
mind with Your SELF-TALK.

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!

AUTO-SUGGESTION – THE MEDIUM FOR INFLUENCING THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND

Inspired by Chapter 4 of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

I often mused that Hill should have put this chapter
with Chapter 12, The Subconscious Mind. Why HERE, after
the chapter on FAITH?

AUTO-SUGGESTION induces FAITH, and FAITH empowers
AUTO-SUGGESTION. They feed each other.

Everything we BELIEVE is the result of SUGGESTION
planted by others – instilled, drip by drip, over time.

Most people feel a swelling of POSITIVE EMOTION when
they hear their national anthem played. Americans can
recite the Pledge of Allegiance instantly – without
thought.

Catholics can recite the Ave Maria and Pater Noster in
their native tongue (perhaps in Latin as well). Can the
same be said for our SELF-TALK?

Tom “Big Al” Schreiter teaches how to use “commercial
talk” to influence the SUBCONSCIOUS MINDS of others.

Wild, untamed apple trees spend much of their resources
growing branches to reach wide and high – seeking more
sunlight.

The owner of an apple orchard plants his trees far
enough apart so they need not compete for sunlight. He
prunes his trees to allow them to reach wide, but not
high. The grower SUGGESTS to them, “Spend Your
resources growing more APPLES!”

The same is true with spruces, pines, and firs. In the
wild they attain all sorts of fantastic shapes and
heights, befitting the spot they find themselves in.

A close friend of mine owned one of the largest tree
farms in New England. His many thousands of trees were
planted far enough apart, like an apple orchard. His
staff sheared the trees at every stage of their growth.

My friend SUGGESTED to his trees, “You need to be
symmetrical. You are Christmas trees.”

Who created dogs?

Show me a dog who was not nurtured with constant human
SUGGESTION, and I’ll show You an animal who has
rekindled its wolf nature.

Through SUGGESTION, apple trees BELIEVE they will
produce more apples, evergreens BELIEVE they are
Christmas trees, and wolves BELIEVE they are dogs.

What do I want MY Subconscious Mind to BELIEVE?

AUTO-SUGGESTION, SELF-SUGGESTION, SELF-TALK!

We’ve been doing SELF-TALK all our lives.

…Huh?

…YEAH!

Everything we have convinced ourselves about – we have
been saying over, and over, and over again!

I CHOOSE a SELF-TALK of my own design. It has the 3 P’s
– PERSONAL, PRESENT, and POSITIVE.

Why Personal and Present? Because it’s about what I
BELIEVE. The phrase, “I AM,” takes care of those.

Why Positive? Because it WORKS!

Uh-oh! …Put Negative in there, and that will work
too.

I’ve got to speak the right LANGUAGE though.

Oh no! There’s a LANGUAGE?

Yes, my Subconscious Mind and the CREATIVE FORCE it’s
connected to understand a specific LANGUAGE.

The CREATIVE FORCE has many names: Universe, Source,
Infinite Intelligence, Father in Heaven, Mother Nature,
The Force, Devine Matrix, Zero-Point Field, Quantum
Field, The NOW, and others – but one LANGUAGE.

Your Friend and Servant,

Ken Klemm – Florida, USA

P.S. Yes? Oh! Of course! The Language? HUMAN EMOTION.

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!

CHAPTER 3 – FAITH

Inspired by Chapter 3 of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.
An older lesson written 9/22/2010 – my birthday (woo-HOO!)

CHAPTER 3 – FAITH
Visualization Of And Belief In Attainment Of Desire

Here is some of what I’ve learned or realized so far
about Faith.

Some of this is going to be Green stuff. Well, Luther
Brotherton DID accuse me of being a quantum physicist.
But I promise, as my writing coach tells me, to include
some word pictures and a story or two.

I would usually begin with…

FAITH is the SUBSTANCE of things EXPECTED, the EVIDENCE
of things NOT SEEN.

…or some similar poetic tripe.

Listen, Faith is NOT wishing, hoping, dreaming,
yearning, planning, or any of that kind of stuff.

You see, I’ve lived most of my life trapped in the
flat, illusional, horizontal dimension of psychological
time – a prisoner of my Egoic mind. My thoughts were
dominated by the word/concept [IF].

The FUTURE: “What IF…?”; “What if it rains on
Sunday?”; “What if someone gets sick?”; “What if my
check doesn’t arrive before the bills are due?”; and
on, and on, and on…

The PAST: “If only…”; “If only I had taken that other
course, job, route, etc.”; “If only we hadn’t gone to
New Hope that night, or if only we had returned 5
minutes earlier or later, then that 21-year-old father
would not have died in the car accident we were in.”;
“If only I had not volunteered to umpire that one more
softball game in the Fathers Day Tournament, then maybe
I wouldn’t have had the stroke.”

Good Lord, those last two were 35 and 10 years ago!

My Ego is built on identification with past glories and
accomplishments – but also on identification with the
PAIN of GUILT and REGRET.

It is also identified with WORRY, WAITING, and FEAR
about the future.

None of this past or future stuff is ultimately REAL –
they are all phantom projections of my Egoic mind
trapped in time. (Not Clock Time, mind You. We need
that so we can all be together for the Mental Cleanse
Call and stuff. I’m talking about Psychological Time.)

AH! FAITH is the opposite of FEAR. There’s a clue!

But that still doesn’t tell us what Faith IS.

I cannot affect what happened a moment or more ago, so
why feel its PAIN?

I cannot deal with the future right now, so why feel
its FEAR?

The only thing ultimately REAL is the PRESENT MOMENT.

Should I be injured right now, the Pain alerts me
something’s wrong. Should I be physically threatened
right now, the Fear gives me energy to cope with it.

Pain and Fear are only useful in THE NOW… AH! Another
clue!

So, the horizontal dimension of psycho-time is
infinitely FLAT.

But, the Vertical Dimension of THE NOW is infinitely
DEEP!

REALITY and TRUTH Discovery can only exist in THE NOW.

Digging deep for the Truth: My good friend and personal
mentor likes the word picture of the onion – peeling
away the layers.

We all inherited our own Onion – and FAITH is inside
it. We must peel away the layers of DOUBT and the
psycho-time junk (the layers of Egoic Mind Chatter) to
get to it.

I discovered there are infinite layers of the Onion.
It’s like there’s some kind of reverse black hole at
its core. Beyond inherent FAITH there’s more, More,
MORE.

Story time…

Almost 2000 years ago a guy from Nazareth decided to
retire his carpentry business and launch a 3-year
spiritual ministry. Before he sponsored his 12
front-line associates, what did he do?

What did he do?

He went into the wilderness and did a 40-DAY MENTAL
CLEANSE!!!

There was no radio or TV back then, so how much chatter
did he have to stop? I mean 40 FLIPPIN’ DAYS!

I believe he successfully resisted the temptation of
the Ego and went deep, Deep, DEEP into the infinite
vertical dimension of THE NOW – perhaps deeper than any
human soul has ever gone.

During His ministry, it’s reported the retired
carpenter sometimes touched a blind dude, and then the
dude saw – or some lame guy reached out and touched
Him, and then got up and walked.

On these occasions the retired carpenter always said
something like, “By Your FAITH are You healed,” or,
“Your FAITH has made You whole.” Stuff like that. He
never said. “MY Faith,” or, “MY Power,” or anything
like that.

He talked about His Dad a lot, His Father – OUR Father,
the SOURCE.

He taught us FAITH the size of a mustard seed will move
mountains.

Before him, another dude named Gautama Siddhartha went
really deep too. But that’s another story…

I believe folks have been and always will continue to
be moving mountains. Think about it some time.

So, what is FAITH?

OK, now the lesson learned:

Faith is simply KNOWING – right HERE, right NOW. That’s
it. It isn’t complicated.

I KNOW I’m OK at this moment.

I KNOW I’ve learned from past mistakes – and they are
mistakes no more, they are lessons learned.

I KNOW I will cope with future moments coming my way –
I have no problems, just life situations.

Yes, I’m on a journey. I KNOW where I’m going because I
KNOW where I AM RIGHT NOW.

The journey has millions of steps, but… Never mind,
that’s another lesson.

YOU might say I’m a retired Musician/Customer Service
Specialist from Spring Hill, and a front-line associate
of a retired Carpenter from Brooksville who is
conducting a spiritual “ministry” RIGHT HERE, RIGHT
NOW.

Your Friend and Servant,

Ken Klemm

P.S. If You are attempting to read more into what I
wrote than what is there, STOP IT! Just STOP IT!

We are not spreading a religion here. Remember,
Religion is what happens when Egos get their hands into
scriptures – dogmatic brainwashing.

We ARE talking about Spiritual Stuff here. HILL is
teaching us Spiritual Stuff – just in case You hadn’t
noticed.

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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!

 

Faith – Visualization of, and Belief in Attainment of Desire

Inspired by Chapter 3 of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

FAITH, a State of Mind, is simply KNOWING. No
doubt…just Knowing. It exists by living in THE NOW.
Doubt lives in the future and past. What is NOW, I
KNOW. How can I not?

A wild apple tree seedling has FAITH in its water
supply. At its low level of consciousness, it does not
contemplate the possibility of no water in the future.
Water just IS.

FAITH is the result of CHOICE – a DECISION.

A farmer who has a PASSION for apples will plant and
nurture an entire orchard. These are not wild apple
trees – but trained creatures, cultivated with LOVE.
They are spaced so as not to harm each other, and
pruned to maximize their PRODUCTION.

For the apple grower, water is matter of FAITH. When
the CHOICE is made to produce apples commercially,
water is not an option.

Should rain from the sky be inadequate for the
orchard’s needs, the grower will devise a way to bring
the planet’s most abundant resource to the orchard.

There is no doubt, no puzzle. The water issue was
DECIDED when the grower made the CHOICE to create the
orchard.

How do I develop FAITH without a trace of doubt?

I begin by eliminating its opposite – the mind-set of
FEAR. Fear is the emotional energy I hold inside when
my thoughts dwell on the past or the future – the realm
of the UNKNOWN.

What I do not KNOW, I Fear.

FAITH is what IS…NOW!

I was conditioned all my life to question the past and
fret about the future. Changing my mind-set completely
to THE NOW does not happen in an instant. It is a
process.

What is the process, the formula for changing my
mind-set?

Your Friend and Servant,

Ken Klemm – Florida, USA

P.S. Chapter 4 provides the answer. See You there!

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!

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!