Category: Self-Development

Dedicated to the Memory of Sarah Anne Thompson

I have not posted in awhile (busy life), and this is way out of sequence.

Inspired by Chapter 14, The Sixth Sense, of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.

I call it the FIRST SENSE – because it is strong when
we are born and diminishes as we grow, due mainly to
Suggestions of others received through our developing
five physical senses.

Hill’s little book, TGR, is a guide to uncovering our
buried Sense. The first nine chapters lay the
groundwork of mental skills needed in preparation. The
next four chapters introduce Hill’s philosophy of the
Chemistry of the Mind. After THIS chapter on the Temple
of Wisdom, Hill concludes by exposing the things that
erect a wall between us and our First Sense.

Yes, I said “little book”. Tackle Hill’s “Law of
Success in Sixteen Lessons” sometime. Now, THAT is a
big book. TGR only scratches the surface.

Now, I believe my friend Sarah Thompson had uncovered a
strong First Sense.

Earlier this year, Sarah narrowly escaped two brushes
with death with the aid of some very brilliant
surgeons. Most people believed the miraculous events
signaled a new lease on a long life to come.

But Sarah left many clues in private conversation that
she knew otherwise. Her remaining time on Earth was to
be short.

She was criticized for craving certain “comfort foods”
during her recovery. But Sarah lived in the NOW and
wanted to enjoy her moments to the fullest.

I have seen folks spend weeks, months and years sitting
around waiting to die. A horrible waste of moments!

This was NOT Sarah. She spent her final days SERVING
others.

Just a couple of weeks ago we were packing the
belongings of a neighbor who was moving. Sarah showed
up to pitch in, admonishing me, “If You needed help,
why didn’t You call me?”

I replied, “You are still recovering from open heart
surgery.”

But Sarah was a SERVANT. She truly had a Servant’s
Heart. Her final week was filled with teaching,
coaching and mentoring – both to a worldwide audience
and one-on-one.

Sarah was in one of her favorite places (her kitchen)
engaged in one of her Passions (cooking), when the Lord
suddenly called her home.

She left this world with many projects and plans still
on the burners. Although she experienced many amazing
events and places, many joys and sorrows in her life,
Sarah still had a quite full Bucket List when she died.

Many consider it tragic that one should die with a full
Bucket List.

NO!!! A tragedy would be dying with an EMPTY BUCKET
LIST!

A life without hopes, dreams and desires is no life at
all.

I’ve heard the oft-repeated phrase, “Don’t die with
Your music still in You.”

Well, for many, many years now I’ve been letting my
music out – both literally and figuratively.

So, am I done?

Oh, HELL no!!!

I love You all and will NEVER stop BELIEVING IN YOU!

Your Friend and Servant,

Ken Klemm – Florida, USA

P.S. Every day is a new song, every week a new
symphony.

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!

“You can’t always get what You want”

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

“You can’t always get what You want” ~ Mick Jagger

You don’t always get what You need either, but You
ALWAYS get what You EXPECT.

Expectations and Beliefs…

They are hard-wired into Your Human Operating System –
or SUBCONSCIOUS MIND. I mean they are Neural Pathways –
dense bundles of neurons, brain cells. More on this in
Chapter 13: The Brain.

Some Expectation and Belief sets have been in place for
enough generations so they are programmed into human
DNA. Others are planted by repeated suggestion.

Example – Two fifteen-year-old boys: One went to Sunday
school and church every week since age three, the other
never has. One day after biology class, a teacher tells
the two there was once carpenter in Nazareth born of a
virgin. The one who recited the Apostles or Nicene
Creed every week for twelve years accepts it as fact,
while the other cannot wrap his head around it.

With Your puny Conscious Mind You may say You want
this, this, and that – but You stand no chance of
receiving things that do not fit into Your Beliefs and
Expectations.

Your Conscious Mind is easily entertained, but Your
Subconscious does all the heavy lifting. It’s Habits
determine how You react to events, what You hear when
You listen, whether or not You recognize opportunities,
etc.

All events are neutral, neither good nor bad. Example:
The Yankees Win the Word Series – good news for some,
bad news for others, non-news for most who view
baseball as a pointless game.

Your Subconscious interacts with the Universe all the
time, even while You sleep. HOW it acts is determined
by Your Emotional Fuel – how You think and feel most of
the time.

The Law of Attraction, again…

You attract Positive vibrations (what You PERCEIVE as
Positive) when You vibrate Positive Thoughts and
Feelings most of the time. The opposite is also true.

Occasional brief flashes of Anger or Fear are probably
okay, as long as Your DOMINANT THOUGHTS and FEELINGS
are based in The 8 Positive Emotions.

How to adjust the hard-wiring of Habits, Beliefs, and
Expectations? See Chapter 4: Auto-Suggestion.

Your Friend and Servant,

Ken Klemm – Florida, USA

P.S. “My life IS my message.” ~ Gandi

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!

The Law of Attraction

Inspired by Chapter 11 of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

In “The Strangest Secret”, Earl Nightingale said, “You
become what You think about most of the time.”

If that were true, then, when I was a teenager, I would
have become a slender girl with long, shapely legs,
long, silky brown hair, and sparkling green eyes.
I think Earl meant to say, “You get what You think
about most of the time.”

Indeed, THAT is true. The young lady I took to my
senior prom fit the above description.

However, THINKING is not enough. There are two other
critical elements.

Most people believe The Law of Attraction does not work
– but it HAS to. It’s a LAW!

You need not believe in the Law of Gravity either, but
it works every time. The Law of Lift is senior to
Gravity – but, when You exhaust Your fuel, Gravity is
waiting to embrace You with open arms.

The Two Critical Elements

FEELING and BELIEVING.

EMOTIONS power THOUGHTS. However You FEEL – the Law of
Attraction works to reinforce that Feeling. So, those
who live in “a crappy town” attract things, people,
events, and reactions to those which reinforce “crappy
town” every time.

BELIEF is critical for Achievement. Without it, The Law
of Attraction delivers the product of disbelief. Belief
is covered thoroughly in other chapters.

The Most Powerful Feeling a human being can experience
is the combination of SEX, LOVE and ROMANCE.

My most perfect moment happened when I was age sixteen.
It was the most intense combination of those three I
ever felt in one moment. I strive each day to recapture
that moment in my mind and heart.

I ATTRACT stuff that reinforces the FEELING of my
perfect moment.

Most folks have too many goals: They want wealth, good
health, quality relationships, nicer house, better car,
boat, etc. More stuff than they can possibly BELIEVE
in.

Far simpler would be a goal to FEEL GOOD RIGHT NOW.
Guess what would be attracted to reinforce the Feeling?

Your Friend and Servant,

Ken Klemm – Florida, USA

P.S. The HOW is not as important as the FEELING. The
How is way off Your radar screen anyway. When it
approaches closer, it will be seen.

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!

It Takes A Team

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

It Takes A Team

When geese fly in a V formation, the lead goose flying
point has tough job. He has no lift from the other
geese, so he must struggle to create all his own lift.

The geese at the rear of the formation have the benefit
of lift from all the others before them. If the same
goose always flew point, then the flock would not
travel very far with each flight. They would be limited
by the leader’s stamina.

Yet the flock will fly many miles nonstop because when
the point goose tires, he falls back to the rear and
another goose takes over point. The entire flock
rotates thus, sharing the burden and giving the other
geese a break to recharge.

The geese constantly honk while in formation. I don’t
know if this is for navigation, observation,
encouragement, or just idle chatter to pass the time –
but I’ve never heard a flock argue while airborne.

Their honking is not in perfect unison, but it
HARMONIC. There is no dissonance.

Dissonance is like vibrating C, C#, D, and D# together
– annoying, but vibrating C, E, G, and A is HARMONIC
and rather soothing.

The Law of ATTRACTION is all about VIBRATION. Whatever
DOMINANT THOUGHTS and FEELINGS I transmit, other
vibrations come back to REINFORCE the Dominant Feeling.
The vibrations may not be in perfect unison, but they
are similar enough to be Harmonic.

Your Friend and Servant,

Ken Klemm – Florida, USA

P.S. Thank You Michael, Linda, and all members of my
MASTERMIND for the sweet HARMONY and for recharging my
batteries!

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!

Decision Without PERSISTENCE Is No Decision

Inspired by Chapter 9 of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

Decision Without PERSISTENCE Is No Decision.

How many times in my life have I been caught up in the
hype of the moment? The crash of the cymbals, the
momentary triumph, the roar of the crowd at convention?

It is easy to make vows at moments of emotional height,
to feel invincible, like I can accomplish anything.

But what happens when the hype wears off? Same old,
same old?

This chapter addresses the overlooked element in any
success formula – be it Hill’s Hidden Secret, The Law
of Attraction, The Strangest Secret, The Greatest
Secret, or The MFF Recipe – the CONSISTENT Daily Effort
applied to each step – The Slight Edge Curve.

“Success is the PROGRESSIVE Realization of a Worthwhile
Goal or Dream.” Not the big, noisy triumphs everyone
notices, but the daily focus and toil.

“Failure” is a habit of flawed thinking, as is
emotional disappointment with a “No”. When questioned
about his 10,000 “failed” experiments to make a
marketable incandescent light, Edison replied, “I
SUCCESSFULLY discovered 10,000 ways that do not work.”

How excited with anticipation Edison must have felt
after 9,900 experiments, KNOWING he was getting really
close to a commercially viable outcome!

Your Friend and Servant,

Ken Klemm – Florida, USA

P.S. I go to sleep each night with gratitude and
anticipation as if it were Christmas Eve, and wake each
morning with thrill and wonder as if it were Christmas
Morning.

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!

NO ACTION? NO DECISION.

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

Sitting at my desk, I decide to pick up my pen. If my
pen is not immediately in my hand, then I did not truly
DECIDE to pick it up. I have unconscious competence in
the task of picking up pens – I don’t have to THINK
about how to affect it.

PROCRASTINATION.

Why is it so hard to DECIDE to call my own clients?
It’s so much easier when my Coach calls them with me
(translate – FOR me). I keep asking for “the script”.
My Coach tells me there is no script.

So, how did HE become so good at calling clients with
no script? Maybe, at first, all he could do was pick up
the phone and say, “Hi!”

After he practiced that for awhile, maybe he progressed
to, “Hi, my name is…”, and built from there.

ACTION WITHOUT THOUGHT IS DANGEROUS.

There’s flip-side to being DECISIVE – making hasty
decisions without sufficient knowledge can, and usually
does, end in disaster. I hope one would be rationally
aware of the law of gravity and the law of lift before
deciding to step off the roof of a tall building.

I’ve had new partners join my MLM business in a fast
pace fashion, with only days elapsing between my
meeting them and their joining me. Regardless of their
Personality Color, they soon become overwhelmed by the
amount of information presented by my MLM company, my
Team, and my generic Team Building and Personal
Development Systems.

APPLIED KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.

The least stressful process I’ve experienced for both
me, as Sponsor, and my new partner went something like
this:

1. They went through the MFF Recipe at their own pace,
when THEY were ready.

2. They began participating in the Mental Cleanse, and
began growing as a Person.

3. They began sampling my products as a customer,
quickly developing a Belief in the products and began
recommending them to others.

4. They joined MFF Pro, and began developing the skills
of attracting new clients, building relationships, and
achieving a Servant’s Mind-set.

5. They joined my Team as a stronger person, with a
belief in the products, a few customers, a few
potential future partners, and a clear understanding of
the Recipe System.

Your Friend and Servant,

Ken Klemm – Florida, USA

P.S. I like the low-stress method. I think we’ll both
live longer.

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!

CULTURE OF SERVICE

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

CULTURE OF SERVICE

Performing SERVICE for others is the root of all
commerce and economy – locally, regionally and
globally. It is what gives currency its VALUE. Doing
things for others they would rather not do for
themselves.

Here is what is interesting: Most folks with an
EMPLOYEE MENTALITY believe they are owed a check just
for showing up.

If I were Your boss, I would first ask, “What SERVICE
did You give this week?”

If You replied, “I brought You Your coffee all week,”
my answer would be, “That is a common courtesy. I would
not expect You to pay me for brining YOU coffee.”

Now, if You replied, “I kept the floors and aisles
clean all week,” my answer would be, “Well done, good
Servant! You provided an attractive and safe
environment for our customers. You have indeed earned a
claim against the services of Your fellow men and
women. There is dignity in ALL Service. ”

LEADERS VS. MANAGERS

One of the things that really frosts my drawers: When a
Leader builds a team under someone, or an employer
hires someone to supervise a team – and the supervisor
tells the leader, “These are MY people now. Leave them
alone!”

A Manager says, “Do this and don’t do that!”

A LEADER says, “Watch what I do – and if it works, then
I will help You do it too.”

A Manger dreams up schemes and throws other folks into
the fray like cannon fodder.

A LEADER FOLLOWS a proven, blazed trail and leaves
breadcrumbs along the way for others to Follow.

Your Friend and Servant,

Ken Klemm – Florida, USA

P.S. Managers tell their Student/Clients, “You need to
post Lessons.” LEADERS post Lessons.

(Reminds me of the guy who asked a passerby at a fork
in the road, “Hey! Did You see a crowd of people come
by here awhile ago?”

“Yeah, a really BIG crowd!”

“Would You please tell me which way they went? I am
their leader.”)

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!

The Nature of Imagination

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

The Nature of Imagination

1. If it can be IMAGINED, then it can be MANIFESTED.

2. If it cannot be Manifested, then it cannot be
Imagined.

My theory, anyway.

The Secret of the 30-Day Cleanse Revealed (If this
might scare You, then please stop reading.)

The primary responsibility, and most difficult task, of
an MLM Sponsor is guiding a new distributor’s mind-set
away from EMPLOYEE MENTALITY and into ENTREPRENEUR
MENTALITY. This is the chief aim of Personal
Development.

Now, I’ve been around the industry awhile – and just
like the inadequate team building guidance – my
personal development training consisted of being handed
a copy of Think and Grow Rich and being told to read
it. Every sponsor and up-line in every company I was
ever with did this exact thing with me.

Several years ago, Michael Dlouhy IMAGINED a System
anyone in MLM could duplicate to build a lasting team.
Of course, a key component had to be Personal
Development – and of course, it needed to involve Think
and Grow Rich, the granddaddy of all such books.

In the Publisher’s Preface, we are admonished to read
the book more than once… and to form a STUDY GROUP, a
MASTERMIND ALLIANCE!

To quote myself, the Subconscious Mind is the HUMAN
OPERATING SYSTEM. Unlike software, which can be deleted
and replaced, the Operating System is hard-wired.

Replacing the Employee (Slave) Operating System with
the Entrepreneur (Owner) System requires a complete
CLEANSING of the old System. Thus the 30-DAY MENTAL
CLEANSE.

Every instruction for the Cleanse is carefully designed
to flush out old thought habits and replace them with
new, Mind-Owning Habits. (When You OWN Your Mind, You
OWN YOUR LIFE!)

Every PARTICIPANT needs to submit a Lesson Learned in
writing every week on the chapter we are studying.
Michael must read every one and select several for
discussion on the weekly conference calls.

For six long years, Michael had to select only a few
lessons, format them for his auto-responder, and send
them out to the list by Wednesday morning every week.
This task consumed countless hours, caused undue stress
on Michael’s family relations, and no one benefitted
from reading ALL the lessons besides Michael.

Michael IMAGINED a way to reach more folks, share his
advantage of having all the lessons to read, and
streamline the process.

Sharing his VISION, I thought a public forum website
would fit the bill. But the software needed to give us
ample control to protect Participants and discourage
them from doing things that would lose their focus –
like playing catch-up by posting lessons on old
chapters, jumping ahead, conducting ongoing
argumentative discussions publicly and privately.

When I discovered and examined Simple Machines Forum
software, I knew we would MANIFEST the VISION into
REALITY.

Your Friend and Servant,

Ken Klemm – Florida, USA

P.S. Thank You, Michael, for surrendering Your unfair
advantage – allowing us to read ALL the Lessons.

P.P.S. A side benefit: Every time You post a lesson You
add content to, and increase Your presence, on the
World Wide Web!

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!

EXPERIENCE

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

EXPERIENCE.

Tom “Big Al” Schreiter once told me his training does
not work. He stretches about 75 minutes of teaching
into 3 hours in his workshops by providing all
attendees opportunities to practice each skill they are
shown.

Tom said most people who attend his workshops do not
acquire any SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE because they do not
practice the skills in the real world when they get
home.

If I had a strong BURNING DESIRE to bowl a perfect
300-point game, then I would need to acquire some
SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE. I could read books on bowling,
visit and study some bowling websites, watch videos,
attend webinars and conference calls about bowling. I
could even use one of those high tech, motion capture
video games to practice the right moves.

But, at some point, I’ll have to actually go to a
bowling alley and hurl balls at some pins. I’m thinking
it would be best to have a coach at the alley with me
who has actually bowled a perfect game, or at least
come close to it.

Your Friend and Servant,

Ken Klemm – Florida, USA

P.S. To achieve the highest achievements in my network
marketing company, I should hang around those who have
achieved them. Thank You, Michael and Linda, for
tolerating my intrusion into Your lives. (I hope the
cookies help.)

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!

BELIEFS

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

BELIEFS.

Everybody believes something – even if You believe in
nothing, that is a belief. A belief is a concept deeply
imbedded in Your SUBCONSCIOUS mind, Your brain’s
Operating System.

Where do beliefs come from? How do they get there?

Some You are born with – programs encoded into Your DNA
via many generations of human experience (or perhaps
written in by Your Creator).

The rest are planted via SUGGESTION: Instructions
repeated to You over and over by Your parents,
teachers, preachers, media, etc. until they are burned
into Your Operating System. They are INSTILLED – a
method of conditioning by dripping.

Are You permanently limited by the beliefs Instilled
within You? NO! You can CHOOSE Your own Beliefs.

The trick is: You must use the same method of
Instilling others used on You. The practice is called
AUTO-SUGGESTION, or SELF-SUGGESTION, or SELF-TALK:
Instructions repeated by You to Yourself oVer and over
again.

In order to counter the contrary programming by others,
You must overwhelm them by saying Your SELF-TALK at
least 100 times a day. Only then can You replace Your
Beliefs with the Beliefs of Your CHOICE.

Your Operating System acts on stuff and communicates
with the universe based on its Belief Programming.

The SECRET is revealed yet again in this chapter.

You repeat Your DESIRE to achieve Your ONE DEFINITE
PURPOSE over and over, fueling it with the State of
Mind of having already achieved it (FAITH).

Your Subconscious Operating System will resist at first
– it will probably laugh at You heartily, but suddenly
one day ORGANIZED PLANS will reveal themselves to You.
You must take immediate ACTION on these Plans, and
PERSIST daily.

CONSISTENTLY following these steps is the Special Key
to making it work (The Slight Edge difference).

Your Friend and Servant,

Ken Klemm – Florida, USA

P.S. I spent most of my life obeying the programs
planted by others until I learned HOW to Think. NOW, I
OWN MY MIND and OWN MY LIFE!

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!