Mental Prisons

Some time ago I did a show on Habits. They play an important role in your life. Like many aspects of your life, habits can be considered both a blessing and a curse. Robert Russell in his magnificent little book "You Try It" wrote that habit was God's way of making good automatic in your life.

I had a wonderful friend in Atlanta, the late Dr. Jay Dishman, who wrote an excellent article about habit in his monthly newsletter dated February 1985. I have shared Dr. Dishman's article with thousands of people around the world. Today I want to share it with you. Here goes!

"Recently I visited Alcatraz Prison. Once it housed the most hardened of criminals. Today it is open to tourists under the direction of the United States Parks Department. Many men have tried to escape Alcatraz; no one is known to have succeeded. As I listened to the tour guide explain the impossibility of escape, I thought of other prisons equally confining but where the doors are never locked, no guards walk the halls, and escape is encouraged and possible. That prison is Habit."

Our habit is thinking about ourselves and our environment as a jail or a paradise. We need but to look around us to see people who are rich emotionally and materially because they think and feel rich. We also see people who are laden with emotional and material debt because they think lack. Some are inspired with vision, others are encumbered with doubt. Some are moved by ambition, others feel safer in monotony. Some reach for the mountain tops, others huddle in the pits. Some seek opportunity, others wait for it to knock. The sad fact is that more people are confined by their thoughts than are fed by them.

Negative thinking shuts us in a prison, but there is a way out. The apostle Paul said, "Be transformed by the renewal of your mind." Paul knew a lot about prisons, both physical and mental. You renew your life by renewing your mind. You renew your mind when you change your habit of thinking.

Dr. Jay Dishman helped thousands change their habit of thinking in his lifetime. Now hopefully he has helped you.

Bob Proctor

MOMENTS THAT CHANGE YOUR LIFE

How would you like to come over to my house for dinner? I'm serious.

How would like to sit in my living room and have me brainstorm with you on how you can create great wealth?

Does that appeal to you... seriously, would you like to do that? I would like you to and I want you to listen up and listen carefully because I'm going to show you exactly how you and I can spend time together.... but you have to be ready.

Hello and welcome. This is Bob Proctor with your Monday Insight Lesson for the week.

A number of very special events have taken place in my life in the last few months that have led me to want to share with you a personal story... the story is about me... about a critical moment in my life... where and when my entire world changed.

A lot of us believe that a change in a personal life takes a long time. What I'm going to tell you will help you understand that it is actually a matter of moments that caused my life to shift. And I can assure you that it will probably be a moment that will cause your life to shift. This, in fact, could be that very moment.

I was unhappy, sick and broke when I picked up Think and Grow Rich back in 1961. And in the preface of the book, Napoleon Hill said there's a secret in this book and if you can find the Secret.... you can have anything you seriously want... at that time, all I wanted was some money.

I wanted to pay debts. I would receive calls daily about the money I owed. I didn't care about saving it; all I wanted was to just get those people off my back. I wanted $25K and I set a goal to get it in 10 years. You know, I really didn't believe it. But in an ACTION moment I did what the book said. I wrote it on a card and carried it with me everywhere. I read it frequently every day.

That caused me to start to think differently and stop thinking of "debt." Because I started to think about wealth, I started to hear people talk about it. I was prepared to do anything honest to earn money. Someone said there was good money in cleaning floors. I thought "I'm not proud, I'll start cleaning floors." I borrowed some money to get a few mops, a cleaning machine and I began to look for offices to clean.

Pretty soon I was earning an extra $100 a month, and then it was $500, then $1000, then $2000. I mistakenly thought the answer to becoming wealthy for me was to clean more offices. Up to that point I was working myself to exhaustion. Then a WAKE-UP MOMENT... I passed out on the street. When I regained consciousness, there was a crowd of people around. A police officer was there along with an ambulance attendant. They must have thought I had died. They wanted to take me to the hospital. I convinced them otherwise but I knew something was wrong.

I found a quiet place to relax and think. A REFLECTIVE MOMENT. A voice in my head said, "If you can't clean all of the offices Bob, then don't clean any of them." I got other people to clean them for me. In a relatively short period of time, I was cleaning offices in Toronto , Montreal , Boston , Cleveland , Atlanta and London England .

Needless to say the money began flowing. Although I left that business many years ago, the concept of multiplying an income has stayed with me. You MUST have Multiple Sources of Income (MSIs). You need to be in an environment that's conducive to Multiple Sources of Income (MSIs) and I've created such an environment and I'm excited to share this new creation with you today on this Monday lesson. And if you GET IT, you will understand it certainly is a powerful lesson.

You see the lesson I learned that day when I passed out on the street helped me to earn millions of dollars and will do the same for you if you see the genius in the idea you are about to be introduced to - it's called the Chairman's Club. www.lifesuccesschairmansclub.com

You might want to know why I called it the CHAIRMAN'S CLUB. Every Chairman has MSIs. They are also part of an environment that continually breeds new sources of income. If you have a desire to live the way a Chairman lives, do the things they do, earn what they earn. You are going to love my latest creation and it can definitely have the potential to earn millions of dollars for its members. Other members will be helping you just as you will be helping them. A famous author, Debbie Ford recently said, "People that help people live in a different world." Debbie Ford is right.

The Chairman's Club isn't a fantasy... it's a reality. Given all the press about economic uncertainty and the shifts in wealth creation, the CHAIRMAN'S CLUB could not come at a more opportune time.

And of all the lessons I've recorded here on Insights, I would have to say that this one has the greatest potential of all of the lessons I taught here. It's certainly one of the most valuable I have ever learned.

I know you are starting to get interested in this idea. I'm sure you can see that the idea that had such an impact on my life can also alter yours. There's nothing like this on the market, heck, I even will invite you to my house for dinner... I have a complete explanation on how the Chairman's Club operates. Go immediately to www.lifesuccesschairmansclub.com and put your email address in there and I will send you everything you need to know. This is a DIRECTIVE MOMENT. I'm giving you a directive so we can enjoy a better, more dynamic, more creative future and we will be doing it together.

Membership in this exclusive club starts off with just 49 other people... just 49. My business partner and I spend an entire day with you helping you develop an MSI-consciousness. They will be moments you will never forget. Then to create even more memorable moments, I invite you to my home for dinner and socializing... creating even more moments you will never forget.

We've already done this once; the first 50 people came from Germany , USA , Canada , Singapore , UK , Australia and other parts from around the globe. They were blown away. As you become a chairman in this club, you will discover that we have a system that allows you to progress at the speed of light. This is the age of the Internet. We move at that speed. The speed where things happen in an instant - where wealth is created in moments - not lifetimes.

It might be as simple as a conversation with 2 or 3 people in my study, looking at the various books in my library. Or maybe it's when I pull one of those books off the shelf and give you an impromptu lesson on what I have learned from that book and how you can apply it. It's making a Learning Moment.

It could be a Connection Moment. Maybe while eating a scrumptious dinner in my dining room, you turn to the person next to you and find out that they have the exact solution or precise contact to alter the entire course of your life.

You've got to find out about this - just go right now to: www.lifesuccesschairmansclub.com

Sincerely,

Bob Proctor

Can You Recognize A Hoarder?

­­­­­It is easy to spot businesspeople who follow the Rule of Gold. They are often very good at selling but very weak in customer service. Their products are made as cheaply as they possibly can be. They don't honor their refunds - or they just barely honor them - and they pride themselves on creating profits by cutting costs.

If you could hear these entrepreneurs talking privately about their customers, you would think: "Gee, I'm glad I'm not buying from them. They see customers as either suckers or enemies. When they make speeches - even public speeches - they speak about business as if it were a battlefield."

Business should not be like war. It should be like love, like loving your neighbor.

Remember, most of your profits will come from back-end sales, which means that the easiest way to grow your company is to develop good, long-term relationships with your customers and produce really good products for them.

Michael Masterson
From Ready, Fire, Aim

Faith, Belief and Knowing

In every great book there are countless stories of men and women who had great purpose and high ideals; they worked toward and reached incredible goals. Time after time these people came up against obstacles or circumstances that would destroy the average person. These people would find themselves in situations that appeared devastating - they might have lost fortunes, loved ones or possibly had to battle some great physical problem but they never appeared to waiver; it seemed as if nothing could stop them.

You very likely can think of a number of people you know personally or know of, who might be Giants when it comes to producing in your industry.

The record of history in sports is filled with great examples.

What made these people Great was their Belief or Faith - it was unshakable. No one and nothing could disturb or destroy their Faith.

It could very easily appear as if some emotional or capricious God has singled out, reached out and touched these individuals and caused them to do such great things.

Everyone, including YOU, has been touched, blessed, endowed with the tools. You must develop a belief or faith based on understanding, just as these people did for themselves. Their faith was not blind, the bind that is easily shattered like fine crystal with the first knock that comes along. Their faith had a strong foundation based on understanding.

These people are often referred to as being in the spirit, and it is not difficult for them to Believe or have Faith, because they KNOW. They know they can do whatever they visualize. They know they are a dynamic, creative being. They choose the vision and they let God do the work, with and through them.

Bob Proctor
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Words Are Weapons

With four young daughters, 14 and under, I frequently find myself correcting, disciplining, or simply protesting unnecessary and unkind comments certain to anger or wound a sister and evoke counterattacks that fill the air with nastiness.

Hoping to get them to think before they speak in the future, I often ask, "What did you expect to accomplish by that remark?" and "Did it make things better or worse?"

It disappoints and frustrates me that my children are so often unkind to one another and so quick to make foolish comments that have no constructive purpose. Yet it's even more troublesome when adults engage in the same senseless behavior.

It may be a husband's unfiltered remark about his wife's weight or new wrinkles, a parents' comment, "That's why you have no friends" or 'Why can't you be more like your brother?" or an aunt's unwanted advice, "If you want to get married, lose weight."

Sometimes it's the tone or timing of an otherwise proper statement that makes it sting. We have to remember that words are weapons, sometimes weapons of mass destruction.

Verbal assaulters may defend their unguided missiles with claimed innocence: "I didn't mean it that way" when the real question is "How was the remark likely to be received?"

Another lame excuse is "I was just telling the truth" without considering whether that truth needed to be said. Honesty does not preclude tact.

We may not always be able to shield ourselves from the darts and arrows of inconsiderate or mean-spirited folks, but we can resolve to be more thoughtful in our own communications.

We can be more kind more consistently. We can follow the Golden Rule. Remember, character counts.

Michael Josephson
www.charactercounts.org

Gratitude

The first step toward getting rich is to convey the idea of your wants to the formless substance.

This is true, and you will see that in order to do so it becomes necessary to relate yourself to the formless intelligence in a harmonious way.

To secure this harmonious relationship is a matter of such primary and vital importance that I will give some space to its discussion here. I will give you instructions which, if you follow them, will be certain to bring you into a perfect unity of mind with God.

The whole process of mental adjustment and atonement can be summed up in one word: gratitude.

First, you believe that there is one intelligent substance from which all things proceed. Secondly, you believe that this substance gives you everything you desire. And, thirdly, you relate yourself to it through a feeling of deep and profound gratitude.

Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude. Having received one gift from God, they cut the wires which connect them with Him by failing to make acknowledgment.

It is easy to understand that the nearer we live to the source of wealth, the more wealth we shall receive. It is also easy to understand that a soul that is always grateful lives in closer touch with God than one who never looks to Him in thankful acknowledgment.

When good things come to us, the more gratefully we fix our mind on the Supreme Power, the more good things we will receive - and the more rapidly they will come. The reason for this is simply that the mental attitude of gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come.

Wallace D. Wattles