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Welcome to Mind Chatter #123, the October 1, 2003 Interim Report.
In these Interim Reports, I leave out the "extras" we add to the full
mid-month issue of Mind Chatter, and just share with you an article
I've written or my thoughts on a particular subject.
On October 16, you'll receive a full issue of Mind Chatter.
How to Create Whatever You Want
by Bill Harris
For many years I've been noticing how stuck many
people feel about their inability to manifest the
results they want in their life. Sometimes it is
basic security, money, things that eludes us.
Sometimes it's a loving relationship. Sometimes
it is the development of a skill. Or, it could be
the healing of past trauma. Very often, we feel
discouraged about our inability to manifest these
things in our life, even to the point of negating
whole idea of wanting or achieving things.
Sometimes people get so discouraged they decide
it's wrong, not spiritual, not "good," to want
things, to achieve, or to create big things in
their life.
I've decided to do something about it.
I have to admit one of the big thrills of my life
is manifesting whatever it is I want to create in
the world. At first this was mostly around what I
wanted for myself, but as I've become more
successful it has swung around more and more to
being about what I can do for others. I have a
burning desire to help others experience the
incomparable thrill of creating something in the
world and seeing it work. Until you have done
this (in my opinion) you are only half alive.
Some call it self-actualization.
I remember my grandfather (a very brilliant
self-made man) telling me that nothing could
match the feeling of making your own money,
creating your own success, and that being given
money or things did not bring the satisfaction of
creating them for yourself.
I thought he was nuts, of course. "Just give it
to me," I thought. "I don't care how I get it. I
just want it."
I now know he was right. Part of what he was
saying was that the having is great, but the real
thrill is in the creating. It's nice to have
money and things, but (as they say) things don't
create happiness (though they do make unhappiness
easier to bear). Ultimately, the knowledge that
you have to power to manifest whatever you need
brings not only satisfaction, but a solid sense
of security.
The truth is, most people have never been taught
how to achieve what they want. It isn't taught in
schools, and few parents teach it to their
children (probably because few know how to do it
themselves). There are many wonderful books about
it (I highly recommend Think and Growth Rich by
Napoleon Hill, which I have read about 40 times
over the years), but to really learn how to
manifest what you want in the world it helps to
have some coaching and feedback from someone who
has done it and knows the rules.
Hill studied achievers (the top people in the
world in his day) for over 20 years before
publishing his first work on the subject, a
12-volume set called The Law of Success, based on
extensive interviews with and study of 620 of the
world's most successful people. One thing Hill
discovered (this always fascinated me) was that a
measly 2% of people really knew where they wanted
to go and then did what it took to get there. 98%
let circumstances dictate how and where their
life went!
How, then, can you be part of the 2%? I've
decided to teach you how to do it -- if you want
to -- and how to experience the absolute thrill
of being a creator of whatever it is you want to
create. This is your chance to do good for
yourself, and then to spread it around to others.
I've been working on this idea for at least eight years. Here's how it started:
In 1992 I started a class in my home for people
who wanted to become more successful. It
continued for several years. Each class contained
about 15 people, and met one evening a week for
about 6 months, for about 2 1/2 hours at a time.
One by one, I took each person through a
checklist of items a person needs to handle in
order to be able to create whatever it is they
want to create in the world or in themselves. If
you handle these items in your life, you will
succeed at whatever you do.
These checklist items can be summed up, however, in one sentence, one rule:
"If you think like a successful person, and act
like a successful person, you will be a
successful person."
This rule applies to anything, whether to
creating a company, making money, becoming a
better parent, having a good relationship, being
a more spiritual person, learning a skill, being
happier, mastering a sport, overcoming an
adversity -- anything.
I'll bet by now you're dying to know what the
checklist is, aren't you? Well, I'm not going to
make you wait any longer (though it takes much
instruction to understand and implement
everything in the checklist). Here is my
checklist of the things you need to handle in
order to succeed at anything:
1) You need to know exactly what you want. You
must create a clear, succinct, specific goal
statement. Your mind cannot help you create
something unless it knows exactly what it's
supposed to create.
2) You need to determine what the price is that
must be paid to achieve what it is you want
(there is always a price), and be willing to pay
it in full.
3) You must create a plan of action and
immediately begin working the plan, improving it
as more information becomes available.
4) You must determine what a person who would,
could, or has achieved what you want to achieve
believes about achieving that goal, and also what
you believe about achieving that goal. You must
rid yourself of the beliefs you have that are
holding you back and adopt the beliefs of the
person who is successful. In other words, you
must develop the resourceful beliefs necessary to
achieve your goal.
5) You must develop the values that support
achievement of your goal, and rid yourself of
values that either do not support it, or are in
conflict either with the goal itself or with
other values that do support it (for example, you
might value both risk-taking and security, and
this conflict must be resolved or it will create
problems).
6) You must create resourceful internal
information sorting processes (this one is too
big to explain here, but it is a biggie). These
are largely unconscious processes, and have to do
with how you decide what incoming information to
delete, what information you decide to focus on,
in what ways you might distort incoming
information, and how you create internal
generalizations about that information.
There are resourceful ways to do this and
unresourceful ways to do this. Having
unresourceful methods in this department is one
way people sabotage themselves without knowing
how or why. Some of these include noticing what
is possible in a given situation rather than what
"has to be" or what is impossible, and focusing
on and moving toward what you want, rather than
focusing on and moving away from what you do not
want.
7) You must develop the internal strategies for
making decisions, becoming motivated, becoming
convinced, becoming reassured, and learning (and
a few others), that allow you to create the
internal states and the external results you want.
8) You must know how to deal with adversity,
"failure," and setbacks so as to turn them into
opportunities. There will be no straight shot to
success, and you have to know how to deal with
the challenges that come up and make them into
ways to move forward again. Every adversity
carries with it the seed of an equivalent or
greater benefit, and you have to know how to find
it.
9) You must develop the personality traits that
support success in whatever it is you want to do,
and eliminate the personality traits that do not
support it.
10) You must learn how to control your state of
mind, so as to create motivation, faith,
self-discipline, ability to focus, certainty,
persistence, and other resourceful states, and to
avoid or shift out of fear and discouragement and
other unresourceful states.
11) You must gather around you the resources,
both material and human, that will help you
achieve what you want. The creation of the human
part of this is sometimes spoken of as creating a
mastermind group.
That's it. If you handle all of this, you will succeed at anything.
You're probably saying, "Okay, Bill. How am I
going to do all of that? This is not an easy
list."
Well, I'm going to help you, and here's how. I
have created an extensive on-line course that
will take you through each of these steps, and a
whole lot more, showing you how to handle each
one. I can't promise it will be a snap to make
these changes, but it can be done. I did it, and
you can, too. Step by step, you can get yourself
to the point where you DO think like and act like
a successful person. If you're already
successful, mastering this checklist will just
increase your effectiveness and your results.
How do I know this will work? First, these
principles come from study of the most
successful, high-performance people in the
history of the world. To my knowledge, no one has
every succeeded without doing these 10 things.
Sometimes people do some or all of them
unconsciously and naturally, but they still do
them.
Second, I've tried it on myself and it worked for
me. Third, the people who took my class and dealt
with each item on this checklist (about 60 people
over a two-year period) all went out and started
creating things right away.
And finally, I have over 900 people who are in
the middle of the telecourse version of these
lessons, where I speak to them by phone twice a
month, giving each lesson, and these people are
absolutely raving about the course. If you're
interested, you can see some of their comments by
clicking the link at the bottom.
It does work, I promise. What's more, if you take
the course, and do the homework, and you aren't
satisfied--in fact, if you aren't thrilled--you
get your money back. and besides that, the
tuition is VERY reasonable.
There are actually three courses, with 12 lessons
each. You listen to one lesson every two weeks
(though you can go at a slower pace if you like),
do a little homework, and then go on to the next
one. If you have any questions, comments,
requests, complaints--whatever--you will have a
special, private email address so you can contact
me whenever you want, as often as you want, so I
can help make sure you get all the benefits from
these courses.
In addition to the success-oriented material I
mentioned above, these three courses will also
cover, in depth, exactly why you might be
creating mental, emotional, and spiritual issues
that you don't want, and how to get rid of them
forever. It will also cover a lot of material
about spiritual growth, what it really is, how to
find out who you really are, and how to get to a
place where you really are happy, peaceful, and
successful, all the time.
This is the most detailed and most practical
training I've ever given, and I know you'll get a
lot from it, as the 900+ people who are in the
telecourse version would all tell you.
I did a free preview call last Monday night about
this course. giving those who called in all the
information. We've decided to post this call on
the website, so those who missed it can listen
online, or download the call and listen. Then, if
you like what you hear, you can sign up and begin
the course.
This free preview call, just in itself, has a lot
of valuable information even if you don't take
the course, so please listen to it if you're at
all interested in anything I've promised in this
article.
I look forward to talking to you and helping you
learn how to get whatever you want in life.
It IS possible, I promise.
Here's the link to listen to the free preview lesson:
http://www.centerpointe.com/life/preview/
Be well.
Bill Harris, Director
Centerpointe Research Institute
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