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Mach II

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Starring
YOU

Richard Bliss Brooke

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Copyright© 2000 by High Performance People, L.L.C.

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contents

I. My Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
II. Success Secret One: Self-Motivation . . . . . . .21
III. Reviewing the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
IV. Visions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51
V. Your Movie is Real . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61
VI. The New Screenplay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67
VII. Who Are You to Play Small? . . . . . . . . . . .75
VIII. Shooting Mach II Starring You . . . . . . . . . . .85
IX. The Movie of Your Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95
X. Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103

On Inspiration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116
About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118
Vision & Self-Motivation Workshops . . . . . .120

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forward
Maybe you are like I was, somewhere in between a little confused to completely
in the dark about what I wanted to do with my life. And, if I did figure that out…
how I was going to pull it off? I really wanted to be successful, to contribute, to
be respected, to be secure, and to have financial freedom. But I didn’t know how.
The rules for doing so didn’t work for me. Good grades, college, a family business
or career counseling. Instead, I was fortunate to hook up with some people who
had powerful alternatives, and given my history, I was fortunate to finally listen to
them…the results have been staggering.
I had to hear this information a lot of different ways before I heard it in a way that
I got it. I expect that when you study the flow of these secrets, you will get it too.
Then, all you have to do is hold on.
—Richard Brooke

This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a
mighty one. That is being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of
ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making
you happy.
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I
live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I
rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no “brief candle” to me. It is a sort of splendid
torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly
as possible before handing it on to future generations.
—George Bernard Shaw

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This book is dedicated to


Kurt and Jeannie Robb—
in honor of their gift of life.

The original title of this book was “Mach II with your Hair on Fire”. The purpose
of the title was to indicate the pace and momentum one could attain using the
techniques in this book. On this the fourth reprint and rewrite we changed the title
to better reflect the process, although for those looking at it for the first time it may
not make a lot of sense!

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my story

“The American Pioneers had to


become successful entrepreneurs…
the Indians would not hire them.”
Richard Brooke
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Richard and sister Debbe trail riding in Yosemite, California in 1961.

I
grew up on a cattle ranch In the fifth grade, a girl I liked
in Chowchilla, California. sat with me at a movie. We held
At the age of four, I stole hands. The very next day, she
a pair of sunglasses from “dumped me.” I decided I wasn’t
Red’s Market. When my mom good enough for the women
asked me where I got them, I told I liked.
her the truth. She made me take
them back and apologize to Red. In the sixth grade, we moved
I was totally humiliated. I decided from the ranch to the city. The
telling the truth was painful and cool guys (the ones all the girls
not a smart thing to do. liked) wore powder blue Levi’s

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cords. I was still wearing K-Mart those sunglasses, I was a compul-


jeans—the ones with the dou- sive liar. I could have decided lots
ble-patched knees. I decided I of different things about those
was not cool. I asked my mom to early events. Why I decided what
buy me the Levi’s. She said, “No,” I did, I have no idea. The point
or “Not now.” I decided I was not is, my creative childhood inter-
cool enough. pretations of those circumstances
became the truth for me—a truth
that could have lasted for the rest
My Core Beliefs About Me — of my life.
Ergo My Personality

Telling The Truth Is Painful Graduating high school (by


cheating off Stan Callan’s civ-
I Am Not Good Enough
ics final), I started my profes-
I Am Not Cool sional career pumping gas at
Pearson’s Arco at the corner of
G and Olive Streets in Merced,
California. I also lived at the gas
Just like millions of other kids station—in my pickup camper
my age, I formed a personality to with Chinook, my faithful, yet
cope with life as I perceived it. obnoxious, dog. Eventually (after
As a result of a few silly everyday I failed to lock the front door
circumstances, I created a belief of the gas station two nights in
system and a way of behaving to a row), my ambition led me to
go along with my beliefs. It was Foster Farms, the largest poultry
hardly a winning personality; processing plant in the world. It
low self-esteem, driven to belong was a union job that paid $3.05
and be accepted—and, thanks to an hour, complete with benefits,

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seniority, vacation, and best of most other people. I refused to


all—retirement. I jumped at the let anyone I considered less com-
opportunity. My job was to cut petent than myself ever tell me
the chickens into parts as they what to do. I worked my way up
flew past me on the production to teaching people how to cut up
line…millions of chickens…bil- chickens. But, it didn’t take long
lions of chickens. That’s what I for my dynamic personality to put
did for 450 to 530 minutes a day. me back in my place. I just told
Production people live their lives my boss, Wayne, that he should
in minutes. go to hell—and I said it in front
of his boss, Mr. Hoyt. That’s all it
Although I was a hard worker, took to put me back on the line.
ambitious, and intelligent, there Regardless, I loved the chicken
were some aspects of my person- plant and still love the people
ality that held me back. I disliked with whom I worked. At that
time, I fully expected to spend
the next forty years of my life
working there, building seniority
(POWER), vacation time (FUN),
and clicking off the years to
retirement (FREEDOM). I thought
I was really cutting it—life, not
chickens.

That was 1977.


I was 22.

Foster Farms chicken plant. 1977

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The Rest of the Story and our company on its cover.


SUCCESS called us “Millionaire
What you’re about to read may
Makers” and did a feature article
sound arrogant. However, it’s true
on how the people we work
and necessary to make the point.
with and trained built “overnight
empires.” And they did—and still
I made my first million before the
do…not overnight, but many of
age of 30, advancing to the top sales-
our top sales leaders have built
leader position in a $60 million
businesses worth well over $1
Network Marketing organization
million. Several have become
made up of more than 250,000
multimillionaires. SUCCESS
sales people. At age 31, I became
Magazine has featured our com-
the Executive Vice President.
pany three more times since then.

At age 33, I accepted the oppor-


In 1993, Sterling & Stone
tunity to “turn around” a Net-
Publishing asked me to co-author
work Marketing company. This
The New Entrepreneurs: Business
company, when I joined it, was
Visionaries for the 21st Century.
in a death spiral and technically
bankrupt. It was almost $1 million
in debt with no cash, no assets In 1994, I was nominated Inc.
and no credit. With the help of a Magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year.
tremendous staff and my partner,
Randy Anderson, we turned this In 1995, our company was seen
company into a role model for on NBC’s Dateline, ABC’s 20/20
the Network Marketing industry. and CBS’s Good Morning America.

In March 1992, at age 37, In 1996, Working At Home


SUCCESS Magazine featured me Magazine co-featured me on their

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cover about how to get rich work- my habits. I changed my attitude.


ing from home. I changed my clothes. I changed my
opinions about me and about you.
In 1998, I was inducted into the I changed what I read, what I
Network Marketing Industry’s watched on television, and what I
Hall of Fame. listened to. I changed those deep-
rooted decisions about who I was
I’ve been to every state in our and who I would become. It wasn’t
country, at least twice, as well easy, but it was just as simple as the
as twenty foreign countries. I’ve decisions I’d made early on. I just
been the featured speaker for decided to be different and do differ-
countless groups numbering in ent things and then I kept deciding
the hundreds, and several times, those new decisions over and over
in the thousands. Although not and over again, until they caught
every area of my life has been hold. And then, all I did was hold on!
wonderful, my health is great, I
love where I live and what I do
Change is possible for all of
and I am blessed with dozens of
us. You may have heard lots of
loyal and loving friends.
clichés about how we cannot
change who we are…but just
I hope by now you’re asking:
ask yourself…have you changed?
“What happened?”
What events or insights in your
life have changed what you
Here’s what happened… believe and how you act? This is
a good place to list them. Think
I changed. I changed my thoughts. about people that have come and
I changed the people I paid attention gone in your life, events—some
to. I changed my mind. I changed joyous, some tragic. Think about

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wisdom you have gained. Have In May 1977, while still work-
you changed? If you have, you ing in the chicken plant, I was
can change even more. I sug- introduced to a financial and
gest that if it is on purpose and personal development opportu-
by design, you and I can change nity by one of my friends, Steve
more in the next year than we Spaulding. The concept was
have our whole lives. And in the called Network Marketing. The
next ten years, we can become a company was Worldwide Products,
wholly different person manifest- Inc. Ironically, Steve was the guy
ing wholly different results. who got me the job at the chicken
plant. I think he introduced me
to this new opportunity because
Change is not only possible, it is
he felt sorry for me.
inevitable. The only question is,
who is going to design it? What There were several of our other
has changed you? buddies getting involved: Dave
1. and Dan Austin, and the magnifi-
cent Jack Acker, now deceased.
They were all friends who lived
2.
in the small ranching town of
Merced, California. Although
3. great guys, they were all seasonal
workers at the local Ragu Spaghetti
Sauce cannery, and—having
4.
mostly avoided any higher
education at all—weren’t the
5. most credible bunch of fellows
to follow into a financial oppor-
tunity. We were told that if we

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followed the company’s plan, we But boy did I ever want to earn
could earn more than $60,000 per $60,000, more than anything in
year—part time! the world! This posed a prob-
lem: I wanted something I didn’t
In 1977, the only people in the expect would ever happen. The
world who earned $60,000 per leaders of this financial opportu-
year were: nity were prepared for me and
my dilemma. Apparently, it
• Doctors or lawyers. was common. They conducted
intense training courses designed
• Extremely well-educated
to resolve the problem. Their star
professionals.
trainer was a man named Kurt
• People given a successful Robb.
business by their parents.
• Those who inherited a lot of On August 3 and 4, 1977, we
money. all—the guys and I and forty
• Those lucky enough to have strangers—sat in the Ramada
powerful connections in Inn in Bakersfield, California, and
landing a super job. listened for hours as speaker after
speaker jumped up and down,
I knew this to be true. telling us that we really could
earn $60,000 a year—no problem.
I knew I wasn’t any of those
people, therefore… And then came Kurt Robb.

I knew I would never earn Kurt told us how he used to work


$60,000 doing anything! for Ma Bell in an Oklahoma
factory…that although he was
content there, he wasn’t

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achieving all he desired…and So we listened.


then, at the urging of his wife
Jeannie, he quit and joined her in What we heard about was a
a Network Marketing venture…. system—a “specific, proven
procedure,” Kurt insisted—that
He said he had the same prob- would bring anyone anything
lem we did—that he wanted they wanted. A simple system
something he didn’t believe he that had actually been used for
could have. Jeannie
believed he could
achieve anything.
But Kurt told us he
didn’t believe it. So,
they struggled and
struggled, trying any-
thing they thought
could break them
out. Eventually,
after applying
what he was about Jim Acker, Dave Austin, Steve Spaulding, Bill Lane, Richard
to teach us, Kurt Brooke, John Callahan on their first cruise to the Bahamas.
broke through his self-
imposed limitations and became thousands of years to support
an extraordinary success. Kurt human beings in achieving their
and Jeannie were now traveling greatness.
the world, helping other people
achieve their dreams, and having As he laid out each step; what it
the time of their life doing it. was; how to use it and what result

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was sure to come, I saw something est self-made people in America.


about succeeding that had never He interviewed each of them to
occurred to me before…that determine the success principles
you and I can achieve just about they shared. From his work, Dr.
ANYTHING we set out to achieve, Hill wrote the classic bestseller,
and it has little or nothing to do Think and Grow Rich. In addition,
with luck, education, money or he wrote a series of manuscripts
connections. This was completely called The Science of Personal
mind-blowing for me. It went Achievement.
against everything I knew to be
true. So, I thought to myself: If Literally hundreds of “personal
this is true, why doesn’t everyone growth and development”
know this? books have been written using
the principles from Hill’s works.
Why isn’t this a required course Mach II Starring You is just one
throughout our school years? more—it’s my attempt at com-
municating this extraordinary
How could algebra (whatever concept in a way that helped me
that is) be more important than understand it.
this?
Five years later, I began study-
One of the people Kurt stud- ing under Lou Tice, founder of
ied with was Napoleon Hill. the Pacific Institute in Seattle,
Dr. Hill authored one of the Washington. Mr. Tice’s teaching
most important success books provided far greater insight into
of all time. Commissioned to Dr. Hill’s earlier work. Through
do so by steel magnate Andrew Mr. Tice, I came to understand
Carnegie, Napoleon Hill lived in how to teach what I had been
the homes of 500 of the wealthi- taught.

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Although Napoleon Hill had Steve Spaulding are masters in


already passed on, and Kurt their trade today. Dave is one
Robb himself tragically died nine of the highest paid Network
months after I met him, both Marketers in the world and an
men had dedicated their lives to independent distributor for health
showing others how to find free- care products. Steve is one of
dom and success through those the best motivational speakers
principles. And their work did and trainers in the industry. Both
not go unrewarded. have contributed their gifts to
tens of thousands of others.
None of us ever went back Something quite magical hap-
pened that day in Bakersfield.
to the cannery or the
And I share these stories with
chicken plant. you in the hope that you will
open your mind to the possibili-
Every one of our lives ties these techniques offer you.

changed that weekend.


If five guys from a small town
Jack Acker passionately pursued
can break out, so can you.
his dreams with us for about five
years, impacting everyone he It’s no fluke that a group of
touched with his gifts of laughter, minimum wage, lower-than-
fun, and a wicked golf game. We low self-esteem, directionless,
lost Jack to cancer. Dan Austin high school buddies found their
used his experience as a stepping magic and power and learned
stone to a successful industrial how to turn it up full blast. Mach
film business—mostly filming II Starring You is about you mak-
brother Dave. Dave Austin and ing the same powerful discovery.

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Here’s how… Nightingale and Wayne Dyer,


plus a host of radical and obscure
Every worthwhile experience, teachers as well. My experiences
lesson, and new idea I’ve ever working with these people, as
had was the result of a relation- well as my own success, have
ship I had with another person. supported every aspect of this
The greatest gift of life lies in the sure-fire system for success. This
diversity of other people and our stuff works—and anyone who
relationships with them. has succeeded “on purpose” has
used it—knowingly or not.
Since that eventful day long ago,
I have created the opportunity to My intention in writing this book
study literally thousands of people is to contribute some ways of
engaged in the pursuit of their communicating these ideas that
own success. These people have have helped me understand and
spanned every socioeconomic implement them. I intend for this
group, religion, race, occupation to be a quick-and-easy inspira-
and geographic location imagin- tional read. It should be reviewed
able. I have studied with some of and given to those you wish to
the most popular success coaches support in their quest for success.
of our time; from Lou Tice of the
Pacific Institute to Tony Robbins
I have focused all that I have
of Robbins Research in La Jolla,
learned into one pivotal concept
California. I have listened to or
and procedure I call vision and
read the works of most gurus,
self-motivation.
teachers, and masters in-between;
including Stephen Covey, Spencer Without it, nothing else will work.
Johnson, Bob Proctor, Brian Tracy,
Og Mandino, Richard Bach, Earl With it, nothing else matters.

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A t the pinnacle of his success, Kurt Robb was suddenly and tragically
killed in the rugged surf of Hawaii. Jeannie was with him. It was
their first success-spurred, “no expense spared” vacation.

Kurt’s teachings had such a profound impact on my life that he instantly


became one of the most important people in it. Then he left—for good.

While Kurt was alive and training me, I never implemented anything he
taught me. I was “getting trained,” “working on it,” and “preparing.”
When I first heard of his death I reacted by quitting—feeling that without
him always there to help me get ready, I couldn’t go on. Hours after
quitting, I realized that my reaction was a cowardly dishonoring of Kurt’s
gift, and that I could only honor his contribution by becoming, from that
moment on, a source for others. No longer could I be “getting ready.”
I had to implement and teach others to do the same.

My life changed dramatically that day. That day, I committed to be the


source for myself and others, to do what I knew could be done.
success secret one:
self motivation

“You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.”


Wayne Gretsky
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Don’t Worry—Think Happy ing everything you want, comes


APATHY. This book is simply
This book is about motivation— about accelerating the momentum
Self-Motivation. It’s about starring of your every success for the rest
in, directing and producing the of your life! People are happiest
movie of your life—with power- when they are in the process of
ful results. It’s about taking your achieving… when they’re accom-
desires, hopes, dreams and aspi- plishing something that’s tremen-
rations and turning them into dously important to them. It’s the
roaring fires of accomplish- anticipation of getting the intend-
ment. And, it is also about how ed result…knowing you’re on the
to do this all by yourself…any- right track… moving forward…in
where you want…anytime you momentum… that makes you hap-
choose… for the rest of your life! piest.

So much of what the great athletes do to accomplish the impossible is done through
visualization. Mach II captures exactly how it works; why it works; and how anyone
can use it to do great things in their life.
John Elway—Super Bowl MVP

However, this book is NOT about Do you remember when you


achieving everything you’ve ever bought your first car? Do you
wanted. That’s not a place you will remember how you felt in the weeks,
ever want to get to—not that you days and hours leading up to the
ever could. For along with hav- purchase…the period of time when

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you knew you


were going to
get it, but you
were still working
on financing or
delivery? Do you
remember the high
of anticipation?
These feelings
are the essence
of my definition
of success.

Do you remember the promise Achieving the result itself has


you made to yourself and others such short-lived pleasure.
about how the car would never
see rain, you would never eat in The essence of being truly alive
it, or abuse it in any way? comes with falling in love with
the pursuit of your dreams…always
Yes…and then what happened stretching…always in momen-
after you got the car? Do you tum…always expecting the best.
remember how the feelings slowly This is Winning.
diminished? If you were like me,
This is Success.
it only took a couple of weeks
before you were driving through
This is Living.
mud, eating a burger and fries and This is Happiness.
yes, back in those days, puffing This is Mach II Starring You.
away on a cigarette. And SELF-MOTIVATION is your key.

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The Four Great Lies achieves all three. How many


people do you know who even
of Success
have two?
1. Desire Creates Success
A Social Security study conducted
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
revealed that of 100 people who
started working at age 25, by the
age of 65…

63 were dependent on Social


Security, friends, relatives
or charity.
Most people confuse motivation
29 were dead.
with desire. We think because 3 were still working.
we want something bad enough 4 had accumulated adequate
we will have the energy to get capital for retirement.
it. Yet, how many people do you 1 was wealthy
know who have a strong desire
for a great deal more in their lives?

And…how many of them have


had that desire for a long time?

How many are achieving it?


The fact is, almost everyone has
desires for health, wealth, and
happiness— and almost no one

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With forty years to plan and work been working hard their whole
for their future, only 5 percent— life? If you worked twice as hard
just five people—were financially as you do now…if you worked
successful! twice as many hours every day…
would you be successful? (Or would
Desire has absolutely NOTHING you be divorced and dead?) Does
to do with motivation. Desire hard work necessarily have any-
only creates the yearning for thing to do with success? I am
something but not any of the not advocating not working hard.
actual magical energy it takes to It just does not necessarily lead to
stay on the path towards it. you getting what you want. It is
a great asset but not the answer
2. Hard Work Creates Success we have been led to believe it is.

3. Being a Good Person Creates Success

Do you want to be successful?


Then work hard! But haven’t you
been working hard? How many
people do you know who have

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Be a good person. I am not advo- Yet the world is filled with edu-
cating anything else. But what cated derelicts. Education does
does being a good person have not insure anything. It confirms
to do with success? How many that we know how to study and
successful jerks do you know? pass tests. The age-old truth of
Haven’t you seen the evidence getting great grades and getting
that “money has no conscience”? into the best college is as good a
It doesn’t care where it goes. strategy as working hard and being
Neither does health and in many a good person. But it will not nec-
domains of knowledge, neither essarily lead you to the good life.
does wisdom.

4. Getting a Good Education THEN WHAT DOES LEAD ME TO


Will Lead to Your Success. GETTING WHAT I WANT IN LIFE?

The Secret to Success


If thousands of people have found
the secret to success, then it’s
got to be Self-Motivation. Self-
Motivation is that mysterious
concoction of belief, confidence,
positive expectations and cre-
ativity—a seeming abundance of
physical, mental and emotional
energy—that naturally propels
Again I am not advocating getting us to our goals. Check it out for
as good an education as you can. yourself.

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If you could get yourself motivated energy focused on creating an


enough… intended result.

And keep yourself motivated Motivation is the energy which


enough… LEADS us TO ACT and causes us
to ATTRACT:
What do you think you could
achieve? Physical Energy
Courage
Let’s start out by defining
Motivation.
Enthusiasm
Persistence
Motivation is a powerful blend of Creativity
physical, mental and emotional

dir e c t o r ’ s no t e s
S?
WHAT IS SUCCES
you want,
forward toward what
• Success is moving being in
ing in th e pr oc es s of achievement, and
be
love with the process.
er wanted.
Su cc es s is no t ge tti ng ever ything you ev

tion—
success is Self-Motiva
• The first secret to to
al energy that leads us
that emotional, intern
act powerfully.

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Look at each of these separately Let’s take Creativity, for example—


and ask yourself: the most powerful form of moti-
vation. The only thing standing
• If I could generate and sustain between where you are now and
enough Physical Energy, could where you want to be is a series
I accomplish what I want? of problems. Problems such as:

• If I could get and keep enough Not knowing how to do some-


Courage, could I? thing…

• If I could get and keep enough Not having enough time…


Enthusiasm…enough Persistence…
Not having enough resources
enough Creativity, could I?
or support…

director’s notes SELF-MOTIVATIO


N.
VISION CREATES
how we
is a contrast between
• To the degree there lves
rfo rm ing no w an d how we envision ourse
are pe
pours forth.
performing, motivation
flows
and natural effect. It
• This is an automatic
or not.
whether we want it to

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Not having the money… new and different ways of doing


things…a different way of saying
Not being able to get people to
things…even a brand new way of
do what you want them to do…
SEEING things.
All of these are examples of things
that can prevent you from accom- Creativity is not the exclusive
plishing what you want. We all property of genius. Creative
have many examples of such
problems. Solve these problems,
thought is the direct result of
and you break through to success. being MOTIVATED.

Now, look back over your life to We all have the ability to gener-
a time when you successfully ate creative thoughts whenever
achieved a goal you had. Think and wherever we want.
back a little bit further to just
before you accomplished that par- The same is true for physical
ticular goal. Notice the problems, energy, courage, enthusiasm
obstacles and challenges you met and persistence. These energies
and overcame along the way? and decision-making abilities
are available to us on demand,
How did you do it? Obviously, you in extraordinary quantities. Our
solved those problems, but where emotional state and our state
did those solutions come from? of mind determine when and
The solutions came about because how we unleash them. Take a
of ideas you had. Ideas are the moment to reflect on the times
results of your creative thought. in your life when you have called
When you’re motivated enough, on them and they were there.
you will come up with ideas…

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••• •••

These Are Your Successes.

YOU are an infinite storehouse


of physical energy.

YOU are an infinite storehouse


of courage.

YOU are an infinite storehouse


of enthusiasm.

YOU are an infinite storehouse


of persistence.

YOU are an infinite storehouse


of creative genius.

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OF ELEPHANTS AND FLEAS
Have you ever wondered how Eventually, a simple strand of
the circus keeps a 4,500-pound rope is all it takes to restrain the
elephant tied up with only a flimsy, huge creature.
little rope around one of its
huge ankles? Fleas—as the positive mental
attitude guru Zig Zigler has taught
Simple conditioning. us—are trained in a similar fashion.
The trainers put their fleas in glass
When the elephant is a little baby jars and secure them with a cover
(weighing only a couple hundred on top. As the fleas try to jump
pounds), they secure one of its out of the jar, they continuously
hind legs with a heavy steel chain. bang their heads on the lid.
Every time the elephant tries to
wander off, the chain jerks the The flea trainer knows when his job
animal back. After a while the is done because the fleas—expect-
elephant’s ankle gets raw and sore. ing to be stopped by the lid—will
If it continues to tug at the chain, jump no higher than the cap of the
it experiences more and more pain. jar regardless of how much they
want out. Then the lid can come
It doesn’t take too long with off. The fleas have decided that
this kind of conditioning for the jumping high is painful.
elephant to decide that tugging
equals pain. You and I are a lot like fleas.
reviewing the script
the one that’s already in place

“Restlessness and discontent


are the first necessities of progress.”

Thomas Edison
••• •••

Whether You Know It Or Not…


Whether You Want It To Or Not…

Your heart beats 103,680 times a day.


You breathe 23,040 times a day.
You generate 3,000,000 nervous impulses a second.
Your stomach develops an acid strong enough to dissolve nails.
Your entire body runs on very small, electrically charged particles.
And all of this is happening whether you know it or not…whether
you want it to or not…and, you already have visions that motivate
you to do what you are already doing.

O
ne of the primary uncon- idle speed, chasing its tail in a
scious functions of the vicious circle of mediocrity. Don’t
human mind is releas- ask me why about all of that; I’m
ing, on demand, sufficient levels in total wonderment. But the fact
of Self-Motivation. Your mind, is, your mind does produce this
through your vision, creates and effect for you. Your script is already
produces enthusiasm, persistence, in place—it’s even self-monitoring.
physical energy and, most impor-
tantly, creativity. This is a natural, The following statement com-
ongoing process. You are either municates this as best I can:
aware of this gargantuan power
and manage it to produce your To the degree that there is a
intended results, or you allow it contrast between what we have
to run rampant—amuck and aim- decided should be happening
less—usually at little more than (visions) and what is happening

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••• •••

(current results), MOTIVATION should be happening). There is


naturally, effortlessly, powerfully a contrast between them. So, the
and infinitely flows. thermostat signals the heater to
produce heat (motivation) until
It does this instantly, as soon as it the temperature hits 70 degrees;
recognizes that a contrast exists. at which time the thermostat
signals the heater to stop. The
The best analogy for how this temperature in the room starts
works is a thermostat. to cool back down almost imme-
diately. When it drops below 70
Let’s say the actual tempera- degrees, motivation, in the form
ture (what is happening/cur- of heat, begins to flow and the
rent results) is 65 degrees, and warming-up process begins
you set the thermostat at 70 again. Back and forth, back and
degrees (what you’ve decided forth, the temperature rises

dir e ct o r ’ s n ot e s
?
WHAT IS VISION
tivation)
A vis ion (fo r th e pu rposes of creating mo
• mindset.
ctation, a belief or a
is the same as an expe
s; the
how we see ourselve
• A vision is simply e way
with ourselves and th
conversation we have av or.
s in any given ende
we feel about ourselve
EATE A VISION?
HOW DO YOU CR
. It is not
and will have, a vision
Ever ybody has had, lacing the
e; it’s a matter of rep
a matter of getting on u toward
e one that propels yo
one you have with th
Mach II Starring You your goal. 35
••• •••

and falls, constantly in search Victims of their own mind crimes.


of 70 degrees. (Thank you, Bob
Lemmings leading themselves
Proctor.)
off the cliffs of resignation,
despair… hopelessness.
So, too, when what is happening
in your life contrasts with what
Your mind doesn’t care about
you decide should be happening,
what you want—or what you’re
the “thermostat” in your mind
willing to work hard for. It only
releases motivation to bring the
cares that you perform in accor-
two together to create alignment.
dance with what you expect
As the two come together, moti-
for yourself. If that requires an
vation is momentarily reduced,
adjustment up or down, one
only firing up again as they drift
step forward or two steps back,
apart.
your mind doesn’t mind. It’s like
a script that is already in place.
If there is no difference between
what is going on and what you
expect to be going on, you have There are Three Basic
no motivation.
Forms of Vision

There is nothing for your mind to Positive:


pursue. Your vision is aligned with
your goals.
You have no need for physical
energy, persistence or creativity. Neutral:
Your vision is not aligned with
You are, in a word, apathetic. your goals, but rather is a
Some people call it lazy, others reflection of your current results.
bored.
Negative:
Lost souls in the sea of humanity. Your vision is not aligned with
your goals or your current results,
but rather the results are even
further away from where you
36 want to be.
••• •••

ON FIRE, APATHETIC, OR WORRIED?

A positive vision A neutral vision will A negative vision


will motivate you to create apathy or only (worry) will actually
achieve your goals. enough motivation to motivate you to sabotage
sustain the status quo. all current results.

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••• •••

An article in the Wall Street the contrary: The kids the


Journal put it this way: teachers thought were bloomers
included students from every
“The power of expectations in ability level. The only difference
the classroom is downright scary. was in the mind and expecta-
In a typical experiment, elemen- tions of the teacher, yet those
tary school teachers were told expectations produced clear aca-
that one group of kids had done demic differences.”
extraordinarily well on a test that
predicts intellectual ‘blooming,’
and so would make remarkable
Why Diets (and other
academic gains. The test seemed things) Don’t Work…
prescient: After a few months,
the ‘bloomer’ it identified had Motivation is not the only force
achieved statistically significant that can lead you to action. It is
gains over the other students. In the only thing that can sustain
reality, there was no such test. To you. Sometimes your reality can

dire c t o r ’ s n o te s
ON IS?
YO U KN O W WHAT YOUR VISI
HOW DO
s consistent
Your actions are alway
Look at your actions. you
ur vis ion s. Yo u are on the path to where
with yo
envisioned going.

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••• •••

be altered by force or by the powerful motivation is needed


impact the motivation of other to bring you right back in line
people has on you. with what you really thought
would happen—even if those
For example, what happens if, thoughts are not what you want.
through hard work, desire,
circumstances, or just plain luck, In this example, although you
you create a result that differs did lose the weight and looked
significantly from what you nor- great, you were still expecting
mally would expect. Let’s say to be overweight. Sooner or
you’ve had a particularly good later, you were destined to be
month in business and you back where you started—out of
earned twice as much money shape and overweight—simply
as you normally make. Or, per- because that’s what you were
haps you developed this burn- motivated
ing desire to get back in shape to do. Remember, this is all natural
physically, so you watched what and automatic. It’s instinctive. It
you ate and worked out consis- does not matter what you want
tently for a whole month. You and work hard for. You get what
lost weight and looked great. you expect.

But then what happens? In sports, when this happens, it’s


called choking.
You gain back the weight you
lost—and then some! Here is how this system played
out in my money-making
Why? efforts. When I started out in
my new $60,000 a year Network
Unless you quickly change your Marketing opportunity, I started
decision about you, your mind with a decision that I could not
will unleash whatever subtle, yet make that kind of money. I wanted

Mach II Starring You 39


••• •••

to make it. I hoped I could make and earned $4,000 my third year.
it. I wished somehow I would get You see, even though I wanted
lucky. And, I didn’t want anyone to earn $60,000 and I did every-
to know that I didn’t think I thing I could think of to do it, I
could do it, so I tried. was working against an anchor
dropped years earlier. A life-
I worked real hard; I invested limiting decision like, “I wasn’t
everything I could get my hands good enough.” (Remember the
on. I traveled everywhere, learned girl who dumped me in the fifth
everything I could, and I made grade?) “I didn’t need anybody.”
$12,000 my first year. Then I A bad position to be in when
made another $12,000 my second you’re supposedly building a
year. (This is the same income I network of thousands.
earned as a chicken cutter.)
So, finally, after losing everything
Then I got tired of working so I had, including my home, three
hard, so I took it a little easier cars (repossessed), and all my

director’s notes s are based solely on


what
Most people’s vision r most
have be en ex pe riencing. Experience, fo
th ey s by that
and we bind ourselve
of us, is “the truth,”
truth.

40
••• •••

credit, I finally hit bottom and I become a positive thinker. With-


woke up. You see, even though out a relentlessly positive outlook,
I had been taught what to do to you can neither see nor recruit.
succeed, “I didn’t need anybody,” Your business will shrivel and die
including some of the greatest at the first onslaught of adversity.
minds of our time. I “tried” to
make myself succeed. I tried to Like the legendary UCLA basket-
force it without changing what I ball coach John Wooden, veteran
thought about me. In my despera- networkers understand that suc-
tion (faced with returning to the cess comes not from avoiding
chicken plant a failure), I decided problems, but from dealing with
to implement what Kurt Robb each problem courageously.
had taught me three years earlier. “Things turn out best,” says
Wooden, “for the people who
I went to work on my head—my make the best of the way things
thoughts—what I held to be turn out.”
true, literally changing my
mind about what I had decided I was a typical negative thinker.
about me. It worked. Within six Although my parents were afflu-
months, I was earning $10,000 ent, college-educated ranchers in
per month—within two years I California, my downbeat attitude
was earning almost $40,000 per made success in life a long shot.
month. Think about that: $4,000 My parents divorced when I was
a year to $400,000 within two 17. I hated school. I didn’t study
years! and skipped a lot of classes. I barely
graduated with a D average, and
Richard Poe, in his book, Wave so I didn’t even try for college.
3: The New Era in Network
Marketing, suggests the reason for For a while I thought it might
my positive change. He says that be nice to be a forest ranger.
to succeed in MLM, you must But then, a ranger told me that

Mach II Starring You 41


••• •••

I would need to get a college down my goals and to study


degree first. Even then, the rang- motivational books like Think
er warned, only 300 applicants and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill.
were selected per year out of
3,000. “If you read this book,” the
instructor promised, “and read
A nanosecond after he told me other books like it and listen to
that, I decided that I couldn’t tapes by successful people, you
be one of those 300. Of course, will begin to think the way they
I was right. I couldn’t, because I do. And, once you start thinking
believed I couldn’t. those thoughts and believing
those beliefs, you will become as
Everything changed for me successful as they are.”
when I developed the willing-
ness to train myself to think like I thought it was baloney. My
a problem was that I “knew” that
successful person. success had nothing to do with
my thought process. Success
Of course, most people lack the came from getting straight As
success thought process, initially. in college and having a Rolodex
But I had an even worse prob- filled with influential connec-
lem. I lacked the willingness to tions. Everyone knew that. But, I
acquire the success thought pro- read the book anyway.
cess. And that will stop anyone
dead in their tracks. At first, I hated Think and Grow
Rich. It might as well have been
The first time I was confronted written in Greek. I took over a
with the science of motivation, year to slog through the slender
I rebelled. In training sessions volume, which many readers
for a fuel additive company, my devour in a matter of days. The
instructor urged me to write thoughts in this book were so

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••• •••

contrary to my beliefs, I rejected Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas


them. That book and I were like Edison, in order to gain their
repelling magnets, like water off secrets. The results of his epic
a duck’s back. survey were revealed in Hill’s
classic books, The Law of Success
If only I knew what I was rejecting! (1928) and Think and Grow Rich
(1937). Hill had discovered that
In the early years of this cen- all great achievers build their
tury, the legendary steel mogul success around a single, simple
Andrew Carnegie had imparted principle, which alone had the
to Napoleon Hill—at the time, a power to transform a pauper into
struggling young journalist— a billionaire. But, I didn’t want to
what Carnegie believed to be the hear it. I thought I knew better.
secret of his success. Hill then
spent the next 20 years inter- I might have gone through my
viewing over 500 other wealthy whole life rejecting this life-giving
and successful men, including information. But, as so often

d ire c to r’ s n o te s
THE LIFE CYCLE
about
enough positive input
Occasionally we get W e fall
e change to pay off.
a change to expect th d we
tivation pours forth, an
into a new vision…mo .
eeding here and there
leap into action, succ

Mach II Starring You 43


••• •••

happens, I was saved by a personal Until that point, I saw myself as


crisis. Few things are more con- a permanent student. I had put
ducive to action than having your off actually using Robb’s tech-
back to the wall. I found that out niques because I thought I still
the hard way. My greatest despair had more to learn. But now, my
led to my ultimate salvation. teacher was gone and there was
no more excuse to wait. I decid-
For the first years of my Network ed if it’s to be, it’s up to me.
Marketing business, I had relied
for emotional support upon a man I set to work mapping out my
named Kurt Robb. Robb was the goals—something Robb had
head sales trainer for my company told me to do years before. I
and I idolized him. In training started every day with a chapter
classes, I hung on Robb’s every of Napoleon Hill or a bracing
word, soaking up inspiration. dose of some other motivational
When I was down, Robb would book or tape. I read As a Man
always pick me back up. I saw Thinketh by James Allen, Psycho-
him as my hope and having him Cybernetics by Earl Nightingale,
around was my security blanket. Og Mandino’s The Greatest
Secret in the World, The Magic
Then, one day, Robb was killed. in Believing by Claude Bristol
A freak wave hit him on the and many more. All day long, I
beach in Hawaii. His head struck would repeat positive phrases
a rock and he drowned. I was to myself, programming my sub-
devastated. conscious mind to expect suc-
cess. At night, I closed my eyes
I realized then that I had a choice. and visualized myself closing
I could choose to quit because sales, recruiting top performers
I’d lost my mentor. Or, I could into my downline, and raking in
honor him by taking what he’d scads of cold, hard cash.
taught me and implementing it.

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••• •••

At times, I felt like an idiot. Was words and actions show that he
this really me? The perennial knows where he is going.”
skeptic? The cynic? Was I really
behaving like all those wacky I had learned the secret to suc-
“positive thinkers” I’d mocked cess—that single, simple principle
and teased for so many years? about which Napoleon Hill had
written more than 50 years before.
Yes I was. And in no time at all, It was the power of goal setting.
my new regimen began to bear
fruit—big fruit. I expressed my Most people have goal setting
new philosophy by quoting confused with desire. People
Napoleon Hill: think that if you write down all
the things that you desire, that’s
“The world has the habit of goal setting. It’s not. Everyone is
making room for the man whose a goal setter and a goal achiever,

dire c t o r’ s n o te s
E TRUTH.
EXPERIENCE IS TH
we
we expect. Therefore,
And the truth is what tus quo.
d to be motiv ated to only maintain the sta
ten

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••• •••

whether consciously or not. Goal I could never manage to land the


setting only works when your goal “Big Fish”—that top-level sales
becomes your MIND SET OR performer who would catapult
EXPECTATION. If all you do his lucky sponsor (me) to over-
is think of things you want and night riches.
write them down your “wanter”
will be working really good but But as I began to take charge
your “getter” will still be asleep. of my own daily thought pro-
Goals have to become beliefs and cess, to interrupt my negative
expectations. You have to believe thoughts as they appeared and
what you want is actually inevitable. to consciously evict them from
my mind, something happened.
In the early days, I expected to My beliefs began to change. I
fail. That was my unconscious began to expect success. I felt
goal, and I “achieved” it again more powerful even though I
and again, much to my dismay. was not producing any better
results. I felt more at peace and
When I tried to recruit someone safe. I felt optimistic. I was hav-
into my downline, I’d say some- ing a little more fun. I was man-
thing like, “Gee, I don’t know if aging what I was thinking and
you’d be interested, but maybe what I was thinking was chang-
you’d like to hear about this part- ing how I felt….both to me and
time opportunity….” how I felt to others.

Deep down inside, I didn’t really Then I met Jerry Schaub.


believe that anybody in his right
mind would sign up for my down- Jerry was just another prospect
line—and it showed. My recruits that agreed to hear my pre-
were few and far between. Most sentation. Just like hundreds
failed to excel and dropped out before. But I felt different both
after a short time. Try as I might, to me and to this prospect…just

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••• •••

enough different for him to see sense something was wrong, and
the opportunity and feel it all then put me off. But now, my
the way to his bones. energy level matched the words
I was saying. People pay much
I went through the same sales more attention to who you are
presentation routine that I than to what you’re saying.
always did. But he looked down
at my yellow pad of scribbles These ideas have been around
and said, “I can do this. Just show for centuries. All you have to do
me how.”And he meant it! is use them.

Jerry Schaub was a tiger. Over


the next year, he recruited hun-
dreds of people into my down-
line. I earned $100,000 in com-
missions from Jerry’s sales in that
one year alone. My confidence
soared and I went out and found
myself three or four more Jerry
Schaubs in the next year.

I became a master recruiter. I wasn’t


using any new technique. I was
selling the same opportunity I’d
been selling for four years. The
only thing different was my will-
ingness to train myself to think
like a successful person.Before
I began to change the way I
thought I was simply projecting
too much doubt. People would

Mach II Starring You 47


••• •••

W hen I graduated from high school, I weighed 198 pounds, and


I’m certain I was at least one-half inch taller than I am today at
5 foot 9 and change. The boys made fun of me in the locker room.
I hated going to the beach; hadn’t seen my shoelaces since I was 4.
Few sports. No girls. I’d been fat my whole life.

Sometime in my mid-20s, I lost enough to weigh-in at 170-something.


What a thrill! The first thing I did was run out and put my once
36-inch waist into a slim-cut pair of 32-inch Wranglers. They fit! Well,
almost. My gut hung over the front, sides, and back, and I tugged at
the zipper turning blue while holding my breath…but I was in! Jeans…
slim cuts…cool….

I did that one for years. Too tight jeans. Too fat John.

It only occurred to me while reading a rough draft of Mach II…what


was really goin’ on. Those slim-cut jeans weren’t a celebration of my
expectation of who and how I really was—FAT!

And you know what?

I weigh 160 pounds now with pecs, triceps, and other assorted
weight-lifting bumps and curves. But, unless I keep a slim, healthy, fit
image of myself in front of the mirror in my mind every single day—in
my head and heart—I’m fat and I’ll eat, drink and behave my way into
staying so.

— John Milton Fogg

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visions

“We hope vaguely, but dread precisely.”


Paul Valery
••• •••

How You See Yourself


How you see yourself is through
a series of pictures, like scenes
from a movie, which you visual-
ize in your mind’s eye. This movie
contains vivid scenes of your
expectations, of how you imagine
you will perform, or of what will
happen in any given situation or
set of circumstances. And, you
have a unique and different set of
pictures for each and every
conceivable kind of situation
you might encounter in your life.
They are all based on the deci-
sions you have made about you.

You have literally thousands of


visions. One for every situation in
which you can envision yourself.
You probably have a vision for:
• Your health
• Your weight
• Your body size
• Your relationship with your spouse
• Your business

When you think about these


things, you see a dominant film,

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you hear a dominant dialogue, Let yourself flow with it. Watch
and you feel a certain way about the movie. Let yourself FEEL
what is true and inevitable. how it would feel. LISTEN to the
voices, yours and others. Hear the
THESE ARE YOUR VISIONS. sound-track of your life at that
moment. Do that right now. Take
Do the following exercise to see one minute. Stop. Check your
for yourself: watch…give yourself 15 seconds.

Take something that you want— This exercise can be one of the
anything that’s important to you most important moments in this
and that you truly desire. Close book. Don’t cheat yourself like
your eyes and visualize yourself I did. Do the work. Don’t turn
in possession of this; already hav- the page until you do the work.
ing it…already doing it…already Close your eyes. In one minute,
being it. “Tune in” the movie of open them and answer the fol-
you in that specific situation. lowing questions:

1. On a scale of 1 to 10, was the picture you saw clear?


(1 being a blank or snowy screen, and 10 a crystal clear, wide-screen, four-color,
Dolby surround-sound movie vision.)
(Unclear) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (Clear)

2. On a scale of 1 to 10, did you feel a sense of positive or negative expectation


regarding whether that result would (not could) actually happen or not?
(Negative) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (Positive)

3. On a scale of 1 to 10, did you feel you really deserved it?


(No) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (Yes)

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••• •••

Total up your points! are created by input you’ve


received, which comes to you
24-30: There is a high probability as conversations or experiences.
that you are on your way. HANG This conversation originates
ON! from one, or all, of the following:

20-24: Something is standing Outside input—such as what peo-


in between you and what you ple have told you.
want. You will want to do some Experiences you’ve had—“the facts.”
aggressive vision work to free
this up. And, you may be mak- Your internal dialogue—your own
ing some progress. conscious mind chatter.

16-20: You may want this but you


really only expect for things to
stay the same as they are now.
You must reinvent your beliefs
about this goal.

Below 16: Not only do you not


believe this will happen, exactly
the opposite could happen.
Worry is a vision too. And, you
can replace worry with a vision
of success.

The decisions you have made


about yourself create the picture
you held in your mind throughout
the last exercise. Your decisions

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••• •••

The input you receive is just like the elegant ones that create the
programming a computer. With- motivation to lead us to break
out software—the input—a through our barriers to success.
computer is useless.
Let’s look at the three kinds of
So, in a very real sense, we ARE our software we’ve been using to
programming—our movie script. program ourselves.

Our minds are the most intricate,


powerful computers imaginable.
Other People’s Input
They’re literally worth billions Whether from our parents, rela-
in what they can enable us to tives, friends, teachers, television,
accomplish. Just ask Bill Gates. the clergy, music, books, newspa-
(His net worth at the time of this pers, movies, magazines, etc., one
writing is more than $40 billion, major source of our beliefs of what’s
give or take a couple.) This self- expected of us was formed by input
made billionaire has not only from outside influences. And, the
created a fortune producing more respected and admired the
powerful software products, it’s source, the more quickly we adopt-
his own mental software pro- ed that input as “true” and believed
grams that are worth billions of it unquestionably.
dollars.
Here are some examples of other
The problem with our “computer” people’s input:
is that we’ve let just about every-
one we’ve ever met program it! NEGATIVE
• Don’t put all your eggs in
Worse yet, we let ourselves program one basket.
it. And, we usually don’t know
• You’re not good enough.
the first thing about how to write
functional programs—much less • Why can’t you be like ______?

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••• •••

• You can’t do that. Experience


• What are you…nuts?
A second powerful source of beliefs
• The economy is headed comes from your past experiences.
for trouble. These are real, live testimonials—
• It’s dangerous out there. proof positive of who you are and
Be careful. what you are actually capable of
• Why do you keep screwing up? doing. How can you argue these
“facts” with such compelling evi-
• Just keep your nose to the
dence? There is a way to use only
grind stone.
good and replace the bad.
• Don’t get your hopes up.
• What makes you think you Check out these examples:
can do that?
NEGATIVE
POSITIVE • You’ve always had a weight
• We love you no matter what. problem.
• You can do anything you set • You’ve never earned more than
your heart and mind to. $___ in your life.
• You are the smartest. • You have problems with
• You deserve nothing but relationships.
the best. • Every time you’ve tried
• We are with you all the way. something new, you’ve failed.
• We are always here for you.
POSITIVE
• Dream big. Life is worth it.
• You have succeeded at other
• Live life to its fullest. things that were new for you.
• You are so beautiful. • You have increased your
• Everyone loves and admires you. income at times before.

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••• •••

• You have faced fear before and told yourself about the input you
done it anyway. received from other people.
• You have learned new things
and excelled at them. For example, you recently read
an article about how bad the
• You can change. You have before.
economy in your area was and
what a bleak future lay ahead
Self-Talk for local businesses. The input
you received was limited to the
The third—and potentially the
above subject, and you read it
most powerful influence in the
only once. But what did you add
creation of your beliefs—comes
to it as you talked with yourself
from the thoughts and feelings about what you thought and felt
you tell yourself about your own about what you had read?
experiences, and what you’ve

Think Yourself Strong


You may not need to actually go to the gym to get the benefits of a gym
workout. Just imagining yourself there may do the job. Dave Smith, a
sports psychology researcher at Manchester Metropolitan University in
England, gathered 18 men and had six of them contract their pinkie fingers
as hard as they could for 20 minutes a day, two times a week. Six oth-
ers were instructed to just imagine themselves doing the exercises. And a
third control group of six did nothing at all. After 30 days, the pinkies of
the first group were 33 percent stronger. Those of the control group were
unchanged. But the men who had visualized themselves doing the pinkie
crunches actually increased their strength by 16 percent.
—NATURAL HEALTH, MARCH 1999

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••• •••

Did you give it any additional you’ve had that’s similar to the
credibility? (After all, it appeared following one, which happened
in a respected publication, and to me?
they—whoever they are—must
know more about it than you One time, when I was playing little
do.) Did you make the gloomy league, I got hit by a pitch. It was
economic picture all the more probably a 40-mile-per-hour
vivid by imagining other nega- “slow ball,” but boy, it really hurt!
tive “what if” scenarios while And I cried. And I was humiliated
combining what you’d read with because my buddies saw me
your own fantasies and fears? cry. The incident happened only
once. It happened when I was in
How often did you take that the fifth grade, but I’ve thought
original story and clarify the about it and relived it at least
details, add to it, expand and a thousand times—especially
enhance it in your mind, giving when I’m playing baseball—
it greater weight, more rich- which oddly enough, is about as
ness and additional credibility? often now as when I jump out of
And, how many times did you burning buildings.
have these conversations with
yourself? Once? Three or four In a nuts-o kind of way, baseball
more times? Dozens? Hundreds? scares the heck out of me now.
Thousands? Look to see if all that I’m afraid of being hit by a pitch.
you added—and the number of Not because I was hit by one
times you reviewed it—did not single pitch, once way back in
far outweigh the true impact of fifth grade, but because I’ve
that single original piece of out- been hit and hurt and I’ve cried
side input. and have been humiliated thou-
sands of times! Do the same
Another example: Can you thing over and over a thousand
remember a single experience times and it makes quite an

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impression on what you expect Prove it to yourself.


will happen the next time. I can’t
even sit on the couch and watch Have you ever cried at a movie?
a ball game on television with-
out being hit by a pitch! Now if I Have you ever screamed at a movie?
were wanting to pursue a career
or even the hobby of baseball I Have you ever laughed at a movie?
would need to replace the “Hit
with the Pitch” movie in my mind All of these moments are vividly
with one of me winning the imagined events that you, your
World Series and I would need to body, your mind and your soul
watch it a thousand times. reacted to as though they were real.

The reason our “rerun” conversa-


tions and self-talk have such a
powerful effect is due to one of
the most profound statements
we can make about the human
mind. It’s truly the most useful
gift given to mankind.

Our mind does not


distinguish between
a real experience
and one that we have
vividly imagined!

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your movie is real

“The truth that makes men free is,


for the most part,
the truth which men prefer not to hear.”
H. Agar
••• •••

T
here are two basic parts it whatever or whomever you
of our mind. Our con- choose. There is no denying it is
scious mind which is there for us to use.
kind of the top of our head…it
provides reason and judgment How many of you saw the movie
and discernment. Our conscious Philadelphia? Do you remember
mind CAN tell the difference Tom Hanks playing the part of
between a real experience and the lawyer that contracted AIDS?
one that has been vividly imag- Do you remember being touched
ined. However our conscious by that story? Do you remember
mind compared to the rest of tearing up…just a little? Do you
our mind is fairly useless in terms remember maybe even trying not
of accomplishing great things. to get emotional but getting so
anyway?
The rest of our mind…our sub-
conscious mind, which includes Do you also remember knowing
our BELIEFS, our FAITH, our all the while that this was just a
COURAGE,ourINSPIRATION,our movie? Do you remember know-
EMOTIONS and our ing that Tom was getting well paid
CREATIVITY. That part of us has to act the part? Do you remember
led us out of the ice age, out of a knowing that he probably did not
barbaric existence into the world actually die, as was shown in the
of abundance we live in today. movie? Has it occurred to you that
And it is this part of us that can perhaps he never even had the
accomplish anything… electric dreaded disease?
lights, airplanes, computers, the
Internet, the end of the Cold This scenario demonstrates the
War, embracing cultural diversity. difference between how our con-
Everything we ever have accom- scious mind “knows” things but
plished and everything we ever those things don’t really matter
will comes from this power. Call much. And, when the power-

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ful parts of us are subjected to a To the powerful part of our mind,


movie that moves us…it moves they are the exact same thing!
us. We respond as though what
was playing in our head and our You see, even a real experience
heart was actually real…even if is no more than a perception of
we don’t want to respond…we do your mind. You have an experi-
anyway…every time. ence and you have a perception
of that experience. Your thoughts
It’s true. and feelings are the vision of
what that experience was for you.
A vividly imagined And, your perception is not the
only true perception of that expe-
experience has the rience. Other people who witness
same programming your experience may see some-
thing entirely different—and they
quality and impact frequently do.
as an actual, “real”
experience. Here’s the key: You MAKE UP
what happened by the thoughts
and feelings you have about
your experience. Think for a
moment of a particular event
that happened to you a long
time ago—something you did
which was stupid or embarrass-
ing—something you called “a
failure.” Now, how many times
did that particular event actu-
ally happen?

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••• •••

Hopefully only once. But how


many times have you relived that
event, vividly picturing every
single detail, every thought, every
feeling and sensation you expe-
rienced? Twenty or thirty times?
Hundreds, perhaps thousands?

Every time you relive that one


event, it has the exact same
impact on you as the very first
time it happened—and the painful and humiliating?
exact same quality. How many times do you think
I relived my perception of that
What do you suppose happens event? What kind of mindset do
when you multiply that quality you suppose that created?
hundreds or even thousands of
times? (And remember, in the All of this—the experience itself…
previous example it was the what you’ve been told about
quality of failure.) Can you see it and what you told yourself
how easy it is to live your entire about it…the thoughts and
life based on the expectations feelings… all the pictures…the
you formed from that one single, movie you created from your
isolated event? self-talk script… and all the times
you’ve seen it over and over
Remember my story of stealing again—all of this goes together
the sunglasses from Red’s Market to create the beliefs you have
at the age of five and how I about yourself…to create the
learned that telling the truth was expectations you have for your

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future. And, the simple, stunning the wheel our whole adult lives.
secret here is… Wanting successful lives and
WE MAKE IT ALL UP! working hard for them, only to
let a miffed 5-year-old determine
Think about that… our destiny.

None of it is true. The script you We have unknowingly used this


are working from has nothing to extraordinary gift to actually live
do with the truth. The only real a small, quiet, safe life rarely
truth here is that you made it all venturing out to grab our own
up! brand of brass ring. A few things
were said and a few things hap-
Is telling the truth really more pened that were so empowering
painful than lying? that we spent the next thirty
years watching those movies
Is it true that any of us are not over and over again.
worthy of a loving spouse?
We can use this gift (and I know
Is it true that anything that ever many of you have) to turn our
happened to you once is the lives on a dime and produce
way you are? more wellness, more aliveness,
more fun, more joy , more love
Well, yes and no. What’s true is and more abundance in the next
that who you are and what you five years than in our last twenty.
will accomplish with your life is a We can accomplish that by hon-
self-fulfilling prophecy. The truth oring this gift on purpose, and by
is what you choose it to be, and design with some mastery of the
if you do not consciously choose, process.
you subconsciously choose.

Most of us have been asleep at

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the new
screenplay

“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.”


Bhagavad-Gita
••• •••

W
e made up all the All we are at birth is a clean slate
beliefs we have about for limitless possibilities.
ourselves. We made
something up based on what So, how do we break through
happened or what we thought to access all of our dreams and
happened or what someone aspirations?
told us happened. And then, we
went about learning to believe First…
in those stories by listening to
them over and over again. We, give up our right to be right
about us.
Babies don’t have any beliefs.
They do not believe the average (You may want to read thatagain.)
person cannot earn $100,000
a year—yet most adults don’t We, give up our right
believe that’s possible for them. to be right about us.
Babies do not believe in E=mc2— Most of us hold on to what we
yet most adults do. believe to be true—about life
and most everything else—as
Babies do not have a particular if there were no possibilities
religious belief—yet most adults for any other truth. Breaking
do. through your barriers to success
requires that you make up new
Babies are not racist or sexist, ideas of what’s possible, so that
capitalists or communists, repub- your possibilities support and
licans or democrats, successes or empower your desires. It comes
failures. Human beings are not down to a new screenplay.
born believing anything.

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Say, for example, you currently face of what you know to be


weigh 150 pounds. You want to true! And, any thought other
weigh 125, but your expecta- than that “truth” (that you weigh
tion and belief is that you weigh, 150 pounds) will immediately
and will continue to weigh, 150 seem to you to be phony or stu-
pounds. How do you know what pid. Obviously, visualizing your-
your vision is? Pay attention to self weighing 125 pounds is not
what you have been doing, eat- true. In fact, it’s a lie.
ing, exercising or not.
Why even suggest it? In this
With what you’ve learned so scenario, what’s possible for us
far, you know you will have to appears useless at best, and at
create a new expectation that worst, a lie. In short, there is no
you weigh 125 pounds. But that possibility. It’s impossible!
expectation will fly right in the

VISION We must start


here to break
the cycle.

EXPERIENCE ACTIONS

Most people
start here.
RESULTS

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••• •••

Consider this: a piece of natural fabric and


The reason you do weigh 150 change it into a different color
pounds is because you believe by soaking the cloth in a dye,
that’s the truth! And because of squeezing it out, hanging it up
that belief, you have been subtly, to dry and set, and continuing
though powerfully, motivated— the process over and over again
to eat just enough, laze around until the cloth ended up the
just enough, and justify it all just color they wanted—the color
enough—to remain that way. they thought was possible to
achieve.
So, what can you do?
At first, there was little, if
Give up your belief in yourself as any, change in the color of the
a 150-pound person in exchange fabric. It took many soakings,
for the possibility of weighing rinsings and settings, and the
125 pounds. Give up your right change of color was gradual.
to be right in exchange for being Although at times the change
successful…in exchange for was hardly noticeable, the new
getting what’s possible. color deepened each time. After
a while, this change accelerat-
ed, becoming richer faster until
Creating soon there was no hint of the
a New Screenplay original color. The old color
of Beliefs was gone and in its place was
the new color.
Creating a new belief is like dying
cloth in the old traditional way. Our beliefs are created the same
Native Americans would take way. This “dying” process with
our beliefs occurs in the mind

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and is known as imprinting. Let’s use the ever-popular weight


We have the extraordinary issue as an example of creating
ability to create thoughts at clarity and detail. Ask yourself
will, and we can imprint those these questions and answer them
thoughts on and into our minds with as much detail and specificity
at will, as often as we choose— as you can:
literally hundreds of times each
day! Like the depth of the color • What exactly is an excellent
of a piece of dyed cloth, we can weight for you?
also control the quality and
• What exactly do you look like
intensity (i.e., power) of the
at that weight?
imprint we create. To the degree
that our picture has clarity and • What’s the shape of your body
detail, and can be expressed and at that weight?
experienced by our senses and • Describe the new lines, curves,
emotions, our mind will respond contours and the definition of
to it as if it is a real experience. muscles you see now?
The richer and more complete • What do you think about when
the image, the greater its impact you see yourself in the mirror?
in and on your mind.
• What does the scale indicate
when you step on it?
Just decide to change your mind.
You change your mind whenever • How do your clothes fit?
you want to. Just do it now! • What do your new clothes
look like? How do you look
In creating new beliefs and wearing them?
expectations, the greater the • How do you feel at this new
clarity and detail, the greater the weight?
quality and power of the imprint.

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••• •••

• Are you doing any new


activities now? What do you
like best about them?
• What are people saying to you
about the new you?
• What are people saying about
how good you look?
• How do you feel about that?
• Do you have any new attItudes?
• Are you more confident…more
attractive…more secure…happier?

You may think that your answers


to these questions sound silly,
very phony or contrived. That’s
fine. Realize that your answers are
providing a powerful clarity—your
answers are filling your mind with
a richness that’s the equivalent of
having a real life experience. In
fact, because so many of us tend
to sail through life, to a great
degree unaware of all that’s hap-
pening around us and even within
us, our answers actually create a
kind of “bigger and better than
life” experience in our minds.

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*de.cide vt. [de-, off, from + caedere to cut] 1. to end (a contest,
dispute, etc.) by giving one side the victory or by passing judge-
ment 2. to make up one’s mind or reach a decision about; deter-
mine (to decide which tie to wear) 3. to cause to reach a decision.

SYN.—decide implies the bringing to an end of vacillation, doubt,


dispute, etc., by making up one’s mind as to an action, course, or
judgement; determine in addition suggests that the form, charac-
ter, functions, scope, etc., of something are precisely fixed (the club
decided on a lecture series and appointed a committee to deter-
mine the speakers, the dates, etc.); settle stresses finality in a deci-
sion, often one arrived at by arbitration, and implies the termina-
tion of all doubt or controversy; to conclude is to decide after care-
ful investigation or reasoning; resolve implies firmness of intention
to carry through a decision (he resolved to go to bed early every
night).

—Webster ’s New World Dictionary


who are you
to play small

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions


that surround him…the unreasonable man
adapts surrounding conditions to himself…
all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
George Bernard Shaw
••• •••

Who Are You to Play Small?


Our deepest fear is not that we as children do. We were born to
are inadequate. Our deepest fear make manifest the glory of God
is that we are powerful beyond that is within us. It’s not just in
measure. It is our light, not our some of us, it’s in everyone. And
darkness, that most frightens us. as we let our own light shine, we
We ask ourselves, "Who am I to inconspicuously give other people
be brilliant, talented or fabulous?" permission to do the same. As we
Actually, who are you not to be? are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates
You are a child of God. Your others.
playing small doesn’t serve the
world. There’s nothing enlight-
ened about shrinking so that other
people won’t feel insecure around —Marianne Williamson
you. We are all meant to shine

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D
o you believe our cre- eties and world leaders. Look
ator would allow us at the people who individually
to have a worthwhile have made more money than
desire and then not give us the some countries. The world is
ability to achieve it? full of abundance, achieve-ment,
influence, respect, love and
That would be mockery. It would health. It is there for the borrow-
be cruel. ing. All you have to do is envision
yourself with it, and it will come.
Dr. Napoleon Hill proved in his
lifelong study of 500 of the most Most of us have been taught to
successful, self-made people in pursue success by identifying
America: what we want to do. We want
new cars and we want to travel
“What the mind of man the world. Our tendency is to go
directly for those things and the
can conceive and believe, money that will provide them.
it can achieve.” And yet, our greatest point of
leverage to achieve anything
Look around the world. Look at and everything we want is not
the people who are eternally what we have, but who we are.
happy and peaceful. Look at the It is who we are, and who we are
70-year-olds who compete in being in the moment, that cre-
marathons and the elders who ates the tangible results in our
are living comfortably past 100. lives.
Look at the heroes and heroines
who have made such a differ- People who are broke or sick or
ence in our lives through their friendless are so because of who
contributions. Look at our soci- they are being. What they have

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••• •••

done to create these results is Examples of Values:


simply an effect that follows • Acceptance
that cause. • Honesty
• Perfection
Your version of Mach II has to • Appreciation
star you. The most powerful • Humor
visions therefore are those that • Pleasure
redefine who you are—envision- • Belonging
ing a person who does deserve • Independence
happiness, health and wealth. • Power
A person who attracts it like the • Comfort
powerful magnet he or she is. • Integrity
• Recognition
The first three cornerstones • Communication
below, as well as the examples, • Intimacy
were provided by Carol McCall • Relationship
and her “Design Your Life” work- • Contribution
shop. Thank you, Carol. • Joy
• Respect
To create a vision of who you • Creativity
would love to become, access • Love
these four cornerstones: • Safety
• Family
I. Your authentic values are… • Order
• Security
Simply those aspects of life that
• Freedom
you treasure. What do you love
• Partnership
about life? What must be in your
• Spirituality/God
daily life?

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• Fun II. Gifts


• Participation
Each of us has one or more natural
• Trust
gifts or talents that are contribu-
• Harmony
tions to other people. You may
• Peace
be in denial about yours, but
• Work
just ask anyone who knows you
well. I believe these gifts were
For example, my Top Five Values are:
awarded to us for a reason—so
• Creativity
that we could share them with
• Fun
the world. And, I believe that we
• Integrity
are our most powerful when we
• Love
are sharing the special gifts that
• Success
we are.
Make sure your visions express
Pick from these or
you sharing your gifts.
make up your own.
Spend some time now
identifying some of
your highest authentic
values. Write them
down here:

1. ________________
2. ________________
3. ________________
4. ________________

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••• •••

Spend some time getting a


Examples of Gifts: sense of one of your gifts and
• Challenge write about it here: ___________
• Honesty ___________________________
• Love ___________________________
• Contribution ___________________________
• Inspiration ___________________________
• Music ___________________________
• Creativity ___________________________
• Integrity ___________________________
• Spirituality ___________________________
• Friendship ___________________________
• Joy ___________________________
• Strength ___________________________
• Fun ___________________________
• Leadership ___________________________
• Success ________________

For example, My Gifts are: III. Life Purpose—


• Fun or The Theme of Your Life
• Creativity
• Leadership Your life theme is:
• Natural
• Passionate
• Joyful
• Fun
• Satisfying
• Unique to you

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Each of us can discover a theme What do you feel the theme of


to our life. It’s kind of like a song your life at its most powerful level
of our life, our personal purpose might be? ___________________
for being here. Life purpose is ___________________________
often confused with grandiose ___________________________
accomplishments such as ending ___________________________
world hunger or discovering a ___________________________
cure for cancer. Although these ___________________________
may be authentic life purposes ________
for somebody, for most of us the
theme of our lives is much sim- IV. Character Traits, Beliefs and Habits
pler. For example: Raising a suc- Make a list of the ten most
cessful family, being a role model desired character traits, beliefs
for the community, inspiring oth- and habits that you will need to
ers to succeed—these might be develop to become the person
authentic, powerful life purposes that attracts what you want.
for many of you. Discovering and
wordsmithing your life purpose Examples of Character Traits, Beliefs
is an ever-evolving project. Start and Habits:
now to think about it and write it
into your vision. 1. I act quickly on things I need
to do.
My life purpose is to live life full 2. I look for the positive and
out, have fun, and inspire others good in everyone.
to do the same. 3. I respect and take care of
my body.
4. I deserve to be successful.
5. I play a little or a lot every day.

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••• •••

Add a few of your own… AFFIRMATIONS


6. _________________________
___________________________ Affirmations are statements of
__ specific goals phrased as facts.
7. _________________________ They are a way to simplify your
___________________________ vision and break it into simple
__ one liners that can shape the
8. _________________________ way you see the world and the
___________________________ way you see yourself “being” in
__ it. You may use affirmations to
9. _________________________ support your vision. Often it is
___________________________ easier to read a set of affirma-
__ tions throughout the day instead
10. _____________________ of the actual vision. Do, however,
___________________________ read and visualize your vision
______ once in the morning and once in
the evening.
Add these new character traits,
beliefs and habits to your new Here are some examples
vision. Design your new screen- of affirmations:
play just the way you see you
I absolutely love myself.
will need to be to win; around
I deserve abundance.
who you are in your desired
future. This will bring you more I deserve happiness.
growth and more abundance in I deserve health.
all areas of your life, more than I am in action every day.
any other single thing you can I am having fun.
do. I love supporting people.

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I love giving people my full attention. Pick some of these or write your
I love listening to people at a level that own. Study them daily.
heals them.
I love vigorous exercise. As you read through this list,
I am healthy and vital. move past any challenge your
mind brings up to an affirmation.
I am wealthy.
That's just the old script, trying
I have freedom.
to tell you what you're not. You
I have lots of free time.
may want to read the list again.
I am massively productive.
I get things done anyway. Can you feel the power of that?
I attract good fortune.
I attract whatever I need.
I am easy to be with.
People love listening to me.
People love being with me.
People follow me with ease
and confidence.
I ooze confidence.
I am safe and secure.
I believe in me.
I believe in my goals.
I know success is inevitable.
Life is easy.
Life is fun.
Life is abundant.

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shooting mach ii
starring you

“It is what you choose NOT to see


in your life that controls your life.”
Lynn Andrews
••• •••

Seeing is Believing artfully represents the things you


desire to have, do, or be, and
Every picture tells a story and paste those pictures into your
it’s true that each picture is book. You can max out the power
worth a thousand words. of these images by literally put-
ting yourself in the picture. If
You will want to use photo illus- there’s a particular car you long
trations (whether you take them for, take a camera to the dealer,
yourself or clip them from maga- select the make, model, color, etc.,
zines) to create powerful images— of the car of your choice, and
pictures that support your vision. have the salesperson snap a couple
shots of you in the driver’s seat.
Magnetic photo albums are Paste that picture in your book.
perfect for this purpose. Clip pic-
tures from magazines that accu- If there’s an outfit you desire that
rately describe the possibilities you’ve clipped from a magazine,
as you see them in your future, cut out a picture of your head and
and assemble them creatively on paste it over the model’s face. You
the pages of your "Vision Book." can do this with a house, a mus-
cular body, a scene from a distant
If you want your body to look land, an activity such as driving a
a certain way, check out fitness race car, skydiving…anything.
magazines for pictures of you as
you want to be. Clip pictures of Also, many magazines have sec-
clothes you desire from fashion tions devoted to up-and-comers,
magazines; vacation spots you such as hot new names on the
want to visit from travel maga- business scene, etc. You can eas-
zines; the car you want; the ste- ily create the words and pictures
reo; grown-up toys; anything and that list you as the subject of
everything that accurately and these articles. Put these in your
book as well.

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Make up a paycheck and write Go on with this, making it richer


the weekly or monthly income and incorporating more specific
you desire on it and paste that in. elements that are unique to you
And, don’t forget headlines and and your own life circumstances.
captions. Research has shown the
headline of an advertisement and The point is to add as much detail,
the captions under photographs as many rich, sensory ingredients,
are the most read and remembered and as much passion, emotion and
elements of the ad. Make up your enthusiasm as possible. And again,
own positive, descriptive captions avoid completely any mention of
for your pictures. what you don’t want.

Magazines are filled with power- You can dramatically increase the
ful, positive headlines that you quantity of the imprints your mind
can cut out and use to give your receives—and therefore, their
Vision Book the one-two punch quality and power as well—simply
of both words and pictures. by listening to your own self-talk,

Actor and comedian, Jim Carrey, wrote himself a check for $20 million and kept it in his wallet until
he earned that amount for his performance in the movie, The Cable Guy. This kind of "Vision Work"
is understandable from a guy who once said "It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you
give up on your dreams, what's left?"

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••• •••

self-image, audio cassette tape. The the opportunity. Your script


script should be along the lines of played over and over again will
the previous example, but, of course, each time create a fresh, brand-
it’s your own, “customized” version. new image imprint in your mind.

Many stores that sell audio and Remember, you create and deep-
video supplies have what’s called en all of your beliefs by reliving
“endless loop” cassette tapes. those experiences over and over
They’re used for greeting mes- in your feeling mind. Listening to
sages on answering machines. your self-talk tape is a powerful
These tapes are literally never- way to imprint and readjust the
ending. They will continue balance scales in your mind, in
to play as long as you’ve got favor of the new self-image you
your tape player turned on. now envision.
They come in a variety of time
lengths: 30 and 60 seconds, one-
and-a-half- and three-minute
cassettes. You can also burn
your own compact disk or mp3
to accomplish the same thing.

Compose your script and read


it into your tape recorder. Put
on your best, most enthusiastic
radio announcer’s voice when
you make your recording. Then
play it back when you’re rid-
ing in the car, doing mundane
chores, working out, especially
just before you go to sleep…any
time and every time you have

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Now that you’ve got all of this you’re quiet, alone and relaxed.
wonderful stuff, what do you do That’s when you’re most open
with it? and receptive, and it’s also when
the feeling-awareness of your
At least twice every day—and mind is clear of distractions, which
more often if you will make the allows it to be its most creative.
time—read your script or listen
to your tape, look at your book Here’s a very
and visualize yourself, fully, richly
important caution:
and completely living your vision
and loving it. Initially, you may reject these
images in your imprinting process
Allow yourself to feel how you as false or foolish, or you might
will feel when you are enjoying make some other critical interpre-
your success. The best times tation or judgment about them.
for doing this are when you first DO NOT fight these reactions.
wake up in the morning and just When they surface, simply thank
before you drift off to sleep at yourself for expressing that opin-
night. That sort of waking-dream- ion and replace those criticisms
ing state is one where your mind with your positive visualizations.
is super-receptive to the imprint- (Remember, you make it all up
ing process. anyway, so why not make up
things that empower you?) Just
Each time you read, look or listen continue to go back to your visu-
to any of this material, make sure alizations no matter how many
you are as relaxed and comfort- times you may be derailed by your
able as possible. Of course, you old “judgmental” beliefs.
can
listen while exercising or doing Just do it anyway…remember,
some repetitive or “mindless” if you don’t change your vision,
activity, but it is best done when your old vision will still domi-

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••• •••

nate. So, you are doing it any- 5. Avoid any words labeling what
way, just do it differently. you don’t want. Like:
Stop smoking
Any new vision can become
Lose fat
real to you just by following the
Pay off debts
screenwriter’s model, sometimes
expressed in three questions: 6. Secure pictures that help tell
the story.
1. What exactly is happening? As you visualize, see, hear, sense
and especially feel—physically,
2. What exactly are people saying
intellectually and emotionally,
and how are they saying it?
as well—just the way you would
3. How are you feeling? as if you were actually living the
experience here and now. Take at
With that captured, simply write least several minutes for each dif-
the screenplay of your life. ferent image you are visualizing.
1. Write a film script in exact detail. Throughout your day, whenever
and wherever you can, create the
2 Write it as though it was opportunity to reflect on your
happening NOW. vision. Place pictures on your mir-
3. Write it in the first person. ror, by your phone, beside your
"I am now experiencing this…" bed, on the ceiling, in the car,
above your television—better yet,
4. Specifically write:
tape it right over the television
what you are doing screen! Cover your world with
what others are doing these vivid and powerful remind-
what you are saying ers of your future.
what others are saying
what you are feeling In time, your new vision will
what others are feeling become a habit. It will flow into,

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around and through your mind may work quickly for you or
without you even having to think slowly for you, but if you stick
about it. How long this takes with it, it will work for sure! The
depends solely on the quality of only way the imprinting process
your images and the quantity of will not work is if you quit! If you
the imprints themselves. It may quit, then it will start again with
take you weeks, a month, three your old vision.
months or a year. It will probably
only take you a few days to begin As your new vision TAKES
to see the first positive results. hold, your mindset will elevate,
Rest assured, your vision will take creating that subtle, yet pow-
hold! erful motivation, which will
positively impact all your
This method has NEVER failed actions and behavior. Your
anyone who has done it consis- performance in nearly every
tently. The imprinting process area of your life and work will

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••• •••

change for the better! You will How to Make Your Film
notice that you possess more
and more Physical Energy… Script—Your Vision
Enthusiasm…Confidence… 1. Read your vision first thing in the
Persistence…Passion…Desire… morning and last thing at night.
and Commitment…all of which
2. As you read and look at your
are guaranteed to move your
pictures, pause, close your eyes,
reality steadily and inevitably
and visualize yourself experiencing
toward your possibilities.
your vision.
You Will Break Through Your 3. Allow yourself to feel how you will
Barriers To Success! You Will feel. Simply watch your movie.
Experience the movie Mach II 4. Do this for thirty days straight and
Starring You! your life will change dramatically.

Perhaps this all sounds pretty


silly to you. Perhaps you’re think-
ing it might be a fun project, but
does it really work? Can it really
work for someone like you?
Believe me. It’s not silly—and it
absolutely does work, and it will
work for you!

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the movie
of your life

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Find out


what makes you come alive and go do that.
Because what the world needs is
more people who have come alive.”
HOWARD THURMAN
••• •••

S
ince real experiences play in Tomorrow is the only day which
your memory like a movie, never comes, yet for most people
you’ll want the vision you that’s the only place and time
create to be just like a movie their accomplishments and aspi-
as well. Write a film script of a rations ever exist. The best you
moment in your life when you are can get from this kind of would-
who you would love to be. be, should-be dialog is to affirm
that you’re a fat person who
Your film script will include a full wants to be thin…a failure, fall-
and complete description of the ing short of success.
sets and props…the location and
lighting for each and every scene. Remember, desire alone doesn’t
The script also includes dialog—all cut it. So, make sure your imprint
the conversations that are taking is always in the present tense.
place, plus all the real-time action,
and even how all the people in your
movie think and feel about every-
Wordsmithing Your Vision
thing that’s going on. 1. All phrases are positive.
2. All phrases are present tense.
Two keys to creating a successful 3. Phrases describing you are
film script-imprint include making written in the first person—
all of your dialogs present tense I or we.
and positive. Your mind absorbs
4. Clarity gives the vision power.
what you imagine literally, exactly
Give the details of your vision.
as you imagine it. Therefore, your
film script must be crafted so that 5. Emotions, tone and energy
all your possibilities are already provide clarity. Write about
achieved and in your possession the emotions, the tone and
right now. For example: the state- the energy.
ment, “I will weigh ‘X’ pounds,”
only serves to confirm that you’re Another key is to keep it posi-
still overweight. tive. Dialog or conversation

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••• •••

brings up pictures in our mind. scene is more memorable than


So, immediately after our mind that of assistant greenskeeper, Carl
receives a negative message, such Spackler, played brilliantly by
as “I don’t smoke cigarettes any- actor Bill Murray, when he fanta-
more,” what does it do? Right, sizes about playing for The Masters
there’s the picture of you smoking. championship while he swings at
flowers with a hoe.
Instead, create a positive image of The following text is spoken by
what it’s like for you to be free of Murray, as Carl the greenskeeper,
smoking. verbatim from the movie:

For example: “What an incredible Cinderella story,


“My car, my home, my clothes and this unknown comes outta nowhere to
my breath smell clean and fresh. I lead the pack, at Augusta. He’s on his
am tasting new and fantastic flavors final hole, he’s about 455 yards away—
in all the foods I eat. I breathe fully, he’s gonna hit about a 2-iron I think.
deeply, and every breath I take gives
me increased energy and makes me “Oh he got all of that one! The crowd
more and more happy and alive! is standing on its feet here, the nor-
I am healthy! I am in control! mally reserved Augusta crowd—going
I am free!” wild—for this young Cinderella, he’s
come outta nowhere, he’s got about
Do you get the difference between 350 yards left, he’s gonna hit about a
that imprint and, “I don’t smoke 5-iron, don’t you think?
cigarettes anymore”? Stay away
from negative images by using “He’s got a beautiful backswing that’s—
only positive phraseology (i.e., oh, he got all of that one! He’s gotta
don’t use “don’t”). be pleased with that, the crowd is
just on its feet here, uh—he’s the
‘Cinderella Story’ Now Classic Cinderella boy, uh—tears in his eyes I
The 1980 movie Caddyshack guess as he lines up this last shot, he’s
has become a comedy classic. No got about 195 yards left, he’s got

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••• •••

about a—it looks like he’s got about


an 8-iron.

“This crowd has gone deathly silent,


the Cinderella story, outta nowhere, a
former greenskeeper now—about to
become The Masters champion.

“It looks like a mirac…


It’s in the hole!”
—Tom Clark, USA Today (April 2001)

d ir e ct o r’ s no t e s
TIVATE.
MOMENT TO MO
IT ONLY TAKES A
have
rite ab out a small sp ace in time when you
•W
als.
accomplished your go
g the
W rit e ab out a mo me nt when you are feelin

of success.
most powerful feelings

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••• •••

The following are some examples of visions.


Study how they “create” a vision of success.

“I weigh ______pounds and I’m loving every minute of it! I look fantastic!

It’s great to fit into size ___ clothes that fit me perfectly and hang so
beautifully from my trim, sculpted body.

I swim and sunbathe in the luxury of my new freedom. As I walk down


the beach, people turn and say, ‘Look at ________, (use your own
name) what a great body!’

I love the way I look and so does everyone else!

I’m more active than ever before. I’m doing things most 20-year-olds
can’t do! I bike, play tennis and enjoy working out. When the aerobics
teacher asks who is the most improved person in class, everybody shouts
‘________ is!’

My friends say ______’s the most healthy and fit person they know.
And they’re right! I’m so proud of my lifestyle—and what’s more, I’m
proud to have turned so many people on to eating light and right, being
vital and alive, fit and trim, looking and feeling terrific! People are calling
me ‘The Ambassador of Health.’ They love me for it—and I love it, too.

I am a sterling example of health and creative power for everyone I meet!

I’m making a positive difference in so many people’s lives.

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••• •••

Sample Vision

Life just got a lot easier.

Today good fortune and abundance is showering upon me. I now


have the financial freedom and independence that I so richly deserve.
And now I have the free time to enjoy it. Now I travel...to the exotic
places of the world and I do so in total comfort and ease. I love the
vibrancy of South America. I can hear the music and I can feel the
vibes. The people here are so happy...so grateful and so loving. This
place renews me! I love the Caribbean. The islands, the warm soft
sand, the laid-backness of it all. And the water... a trillion gallon bath
tub full of live toys. I could sleep here forever.

I can enjoy these places because I have secure wealth now. It flows
and flows and flows. Tens of thousands of dollars in net income lifts me
up and carries me where ever I choose to go. I love first class. I love
service. I love the freedom of no limit fun.

These rich rewards come to me out of my development. My passion


for my business. My passion for people and their goals. My passion
for the abundance life has stored up for all of us. I am now the person
others go to for love, for guidance, for coaching and for leadership.
I am the go-to gal and I love it! I feel the freedom. I hear the silence
of the ocean 30 ft under. I hear the rhythm of the music. I hear the
laughter of friends and loved ones "being" here too. I feel the joy. I feel
the safety. I feel the warmth. This is what I have always wanted and
most importantly learned to expect. Fun, Freedom, Friends and Family.
I am all in.

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success

“The important thing is this:


to be able to sacrifice what we are
for what we could become.”
Charles Debois
••• •••

I
n 1983, I purchased a mock- public relations firm to make it
up of the cover of SUCCESS happen. I didn’t.
Magazine with my picture
on the cover. I framed it and Actually, and rightfully so,
hung it on my wall and looked SUCCESS wanted Rich DeVos,
at it every day. My vision at that president of the $6-billion-a-year
time was to be not only rich, but Quixtar Corporation (at that
famous as well. I wanted some- time, Amway), on the cover. He
thing to prove to my friends and has created thousands of million-
faily that I really was cutting it. aires. He and his partner Jay Van
SUCCESS Magazine seemed like Andle have built the number one
the perfect proof. Network Marketing organization
in the world and they are five,
In March 1992, SUCCESS (count them!) five times bigger
Magazine featured the Network than number two! SUCCESS
Marketing industry’s skyrocketing Magazine thought he should be on
success as its lead story. It was the the cover. He, however, did not
first time a mainstream publica- return SUCCESS’s phone call.
tion had done so in the industry’s You may think he did not return
50-year history. Out of 10 million their call because he was too busy,
Network Marketers, they chose or he didn’t care. I don’t think
me for the cover and lead story. so. Rich DeVos did not return
that call for only one reason…I
Now, you may think this hap- had the picture of myself on that
pened because I was the most cover. He, obviously, did not.
outspoken, flamboyant, successful
or famous person in the indus-
try—not at all. Or, perhaps you
think it was because I hired some

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••• •••

A mocked-up cover of SUCCESS Magazine


that I purchased at a fair in Ohio, May 1983.

Mach II Starring You 105


••• •••

Actual March 1992 cover of SUCCESS Magazine. This issue


outsold every issue in the 100-year history of the magazine….

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on inspiration
••• •••

I am a great believer in the power Every creative act involves…a


of inspiration to influence our own new innocence of perception,
powerful visions. The following liberated from the cataract of
are some of my favorites. Reading accepted belief.
and reflecting on their wisdom
—ARTHUR KOESTLER
allows me to feel the way I feel
THE SLEEPWALKERS
when I’m starring in the movie
of my life. You are encouraged
•••
to find and reflect on everything
and anything that does the same
for you.
Be mindful of your thoughts…
—RICHARD BROOKE
Be mindful of your thoughts; your
••• thoughts become your words.

If I feel depressed, I will sing. Be mindful of your words; your


If I feel sad, I will laugh. words become your actions.
If I feel ill, I will double my labor.
If I feel fear, I will plunge ahead. Be mindful of your actions; your
If I feel poverty, I will think of actions become your habits.
wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent, I will Be mindful of your habits; your
remember past success. habits become your character.
If I feel insignificant, I will
remember my goals. Be mindful of your character; your
Today I will be the master of my character becomes your destiny.
emotions.
—AUTHOR ANONYMOUS
—OG MANDINO
THE GREATEST SALESMAN IN THE WORLD

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••• •••

This, therefore, is a faded dream The Masters in the art of living


of the time when I went down make little distinction between
into the dust and noise of the their work and their play, their
eastern marketplace, and with my labor and their leisure, their
brain and muscles, with sweat and minds and their bodies, their
constant thinking, made others information and their recreation,
see my visions coming true. Those their love and their religion.
who dream by night in the dusty
recesses of their minds wake in They simply pursue their VISION
the day to find that all was vanity, OF EXCELLENCE at whatever
but the dreamers of the day are they do, leaving others to decide
dangerous men, for they may act whether they are working or
their dream with open eyes, and playing. To them, they are always
make it possible. doing both!
—JAMES MITCHNER
—T.E. LAWRENCE,
INTRODUCTION TO SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM
•••
1922 (OXFORD EDITION)

••• Amidst the glut of insignificance


that engulfs us all, the temptation
In this life, you get to be either is understandable to stop thinking.
right or happy. The trouble is that unthinking
persons cannot choose, but must
—JERRY JAMPOLSKY
let others choose for them. To fail
••• to make one’s own choices is to
betray the freedom which is our
If we don’t change our direction, society’s greatest gift to all of us.
we are likely to end up where we
—STEPHEN MULLER,
are headed.
PRESIDENT, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
—CHINESE PROVERB

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••• •••

The Four Agreements 4. ALWAYS DO YOUR BEST.


Your best is going to change from
l. BE IMPECCABLE WITH YOUR WORD. moment to moment. It will be
Speak with integrity. Say only different when you are healthy,
what you mean. Avoid using the as opposed to sick. Under any
word to speak against yourself or circumstance, simply do your best,
to gossip about others. Use the and you will avoid self-judgment,
power of your word in the direc- self-abuse and regret.
tion of truth and love. — DON MIGUEL RUIZ

2. DON’T TAKE ANYTHING PERSONALLY.


Nothing others do is because of
•••
you. What others say and do is There are many who are liv-
a projection of their own real- ing far below their possibilities
ity, their own dream. When you because they are continually
are immune to the opinions and handing over their individuali-
actions of others, you won’t be ties to others. Do you want to be
the victim of needless suffering. a power in the world? Then be
yourself. Be true to the highest
3. DON’T MAKE ASSUMPTIONS. within your soul and then, allow
Find the courage to ask questions yourself to be governed by no
and to express what you really customs or conventionalities or
want. Communicate with oth- arbitrary man-made rules that
ers as clearly as you can to avoid are not founded on principle.
misunderstandings, sadness and
drama. With just this one agree- —RALPH WALDO TRINE
ment, you can completely
transform your life.

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••• •••

A midlife crisis is when you’ve A pessimist sees the difficulty in


reached the top rung of your every opportunity. An optimist
ladder only to realize that you’ve sees the opportunity in every
leaned it against the wrong wall. difficulty.
—AUTHOR ANONYMOUS —WINSTON CHURCHILL

••• •••
It is not because things are dif-
ficult that we do not dare, it is The Invitation...
because we do not dare that
things are difficult. It doesn’t interest me what you
—SENECA do for a living.
••• I want to know what you ache
People stumble over the truth for, and if you dare to dream of
from time to time, but most pick meeting your heart’s longing.
themselves up and hurry off as
though nothing happened…. It doesn’t interest me how old
you are. I want to know if you
—AUTHOR ANONYMOUS
will risk looking like a fool for
love, for your dreams, for the
•••
adventure of being alive.
When one door closes another
It doesn’t interest me what
door opens; but we so often look
planets are squaring your moon.
so long and so regretfully upon
I want to know if you have
the closed door, that we do not
touched the center of your own
see the ones which open for us.
sorrow, if you have been opened
—ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL by life’s betrayals, or have become
shriveled and closed from fear

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of further pain. I want to know and shout to the silver of the full
if you can sit with pain, mine moon...YES!
or your own, without moving to
hide it or fake it or fix it. It doesn’t interest me to know
where you live or how much
I want to know if you can be money you have. I want to know
with joy, mine or your own, if if you can get up after the night
you can dance with wildness and of grief and despair; weary and
let ecstasy fill you to the tips of bruised to the bone, and do
your fingers and toes without what needs to be done for the
cautioning us to be careful, be children.
realistic, or to remember the
limitations of being human. It doesn’t interest me who you
know, or how you came to be
It doesn’t interest me if the story here. I want to know if you will
you’re telling me is true. I want stand in the center of the fire
to know if you can disappoint with me and not shrink back.
another to be true to yourself,
if you can bear the accusation It doesn’t interest me where, or
of betrayal, and not betray your with whom, you have studied.
own soul. I want to know what sustains
you from the inside, when all
I want to know if you can see else falls away. I want to know if
beauty even if it’s not pretty you can be alone with yourself,
every day, and if you can well- and if you truly like the com-
spring your life from a sacred pany you keep in the empty
presence. moments....
—ORIAH MOUNTAIN DREAMER
I want to know if you can live
with failure, yours and mine, and
still stand on the edge of a lake

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acknowledgments
John Milton Fogg
jmf@greatestnetworker.com
Thank you, John and Susan, for your friendship, your courage, your coaching, prod-
ding and general badgering to get this book done. And most of all, for what you
have done to bring Network Marketing the right way, along at Mach II.

Carol McCall
The World Institute Group of Companies
(800) 999-9551
www.listeningprofitsu.com
Thank you, Carol, for your infinite wisdom—in unwinding those silly things I made
up that kept me from writing this book…and for your love.

My parents
Lee Brooke Combs, Johnny Combs,
Dick Brooke and Penny Brooke
Thank you for doing the many things I remember, and the many I don’t, that gave
me the foundation to pull this all off…and for always being there no matter what.
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Richard Bliss Brooke, President of ered new distinctions in listening,


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1996
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1998
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••• •••

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