Chapter 1
Think And Grow Rich

Hello Team

Napoleon States
Truly, "thoughts are things," and powerful things at
that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a BURNING DESIRE for their translation
into riches, or other material objects.

When taking a look over the past few months of my life
I can very clearly see the pattern of the translation
of thoughts into material form. I have reached a point
in my life where I want to own my life and am willing
to do whatever it takes to get there.

In this decision I have come to see many things I must
change in my day to day life in order to reach my
desires. I have lived in a poverty consciousness for
so long that nearly everything in my life has followed
the pattern of negative, poverty consciousness which
in translation has left me with a negative poverty
lifestyle.

Since I have joined Mentoring For Free and have began
to use critical judgment I now look at the outcome I
desire instead of the outcome which I fear, each of
these thought patterns carry with them a strong
emotion which direct me to the outcome I live with.

In this process of retraining my mind to think of the
positive outcome I desire instead of the negative out
come I fear I sometimes find I have to look at things
several times before I see I am looking at things all
wrong.

I have confronted some things in my life recently
which have needed to be changed for some time now.

Some of these things are so serious that they could
have at any time changed or even ended my life as I
know it forever. When I first began to analyze the
situation and how I should change it I only came up
with one answer, "I would have to leave everything
I truly love and begin to build a life without them".

With this thought in mind I began to see everything
slipping away.

After about the millionth time I really thought things
through I decided to think about what I truly desire
in the outcome instead of what everyone else would
think of me if I stayed with it and tried to change
it.

As I started to think it I started to feel the emotion
which it carried with it. I have since been staying
consistent in thinking of my desire instead of my
fears and I have truly seen everything begin to fall
into place and start changing to follow the pattern
my thoughts have set forth to translate into
material form.

I have made changes in my life and in my family's
lives which no one would have thought possible and
I did it in a very short amount of time by thinking
myself into the situation I desire to be in.

I will be staying plugged into the mental cleanse
calls and turning in each lesson this time through.

I have made the conscious decision that I will not
miss a lesson even if I don't feel as if I have
something as good to say as the rest of the Team
and as I follow with this great Team I will grow
stronger with each chapter.

It is a huge process to change 32 years of what I
was taught to think and live, but with persistence
I can change anything I desire all by changing my
thoughts.

Thanks To Everyone
Larry Unruh
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Thoughts are Things -

Hills states that when opportunity comes it has a
sly habit of slipping in by the back door and it
is often disguised in the form of misfortune or
temporary defeat.

This past Friday morning I was giving the opportunity
to put into action what I have been learning.  I must
confession, I did not start out using my thoughts in
a positive  direction.

I am a Flight Attendant and was on call this weekend
(Fri. Sat. Sun). My "on call" duty time starts at mid
night Friday morning.  I live in Kentucky and work in
New York City. So, I have to commute to work.

I had just arrived at my apartment in New York on
Thursday night around 10:30 PM. I was just getting
settled to sleep the night and the phone rang. It
was Scheduling calling me to tell me that I had a
trip.

I had to be at Kennedy airport by 2:00 AM to work a
flight to Paris, France. At that moment it time I was
looking at this as a misfortune.

I had not had any sleep, I had just gotten there, taken
off all my make-up, and was ready for bed and I was not
on duty yet. WHY ME!  I did some mental ranting and
raving, obviously not practicing the mental cleanse.
Then proceeded to get ready to go back to the airport.

When I arrived in the area where we brief before the
flight, all of use where on the same page. Ranting and
raving about being the ones "picked" to work this when
we where not on duty.

When had not sleep, we had been up since early morning,
etc, etc,....Then one of the flight attendants stopped
us all in our tracks.  She said we needed to be looking
at this from a different point of view.

What if you had received a call in the middle of the
night, been told you had won a trip to Paris, France.

Your hotel was paid for, you where going to get feed
all the way over and all the way back. You had 2 hours
to be at the airport and you would be in Paris for 15 -
17 hours.

Your hotel was walking distance to the Eiffel Tower
and you had time to go there and have night out in
Paris.

How would you be feeling then? Happy, thrilled beyond
belief. You could not get to the airport fast enough.

Right then it hit me, I had a wonderful opportunity.
I changed my attitude instantly. I also learned that
I have a great deal of work to do on my thoughts.

The trip gave me the opportunity to share a product
that helped keep every crew member going for the long
haul.

We did not leave New York until 3:30 in the morning and
landed in Paris at 4:30 PM their time. We had all been
up for over 24 hours. I also had the opportunity to
make some marketing videos in front of the Eiffel Tower,
create new friends and potential customers.

Thanks Michael and Linda for giving me the opportunity
to learn and grow.

Your friend,
Debi Talbert
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I read chapter one last night before going to bed.This afternoon I found myself thinking about this man that
I saw the other day and felt the need to write it down
on paper.

It is amazing to me how for some reason everything is
so clear in my head.  In the past I always had such a
hard time putting my thoughts on paper.

It is almost as if it isn't coming from me but from
within me. Anyway's here is a story about a man. I
bet he's a red.

He walked in the door a "handsome man" in his grey
business suit. His cell phone in his ear.  There was
a cheerful greeting from the person behind the counter
"Good Morning!". The greeting was ignored.  But I'm
sure this guy must be really important if he is
conducting business while shopping.

I observed him from a distance, something about him
peeked my curiosity. ...... As he was lost in his
conversation, he made irritated faces as he moved
around the people in the room.

Couldn't they see that he was an important business
man?! I mean he is obviously on the phone, step out
of his way.  After he made his selection and moved
to the front counter he sat his items down and threw
his credit card on the counter never looking at the
cashier and never stopped talking to his client.

 The cashier smiled and asked him if he found every
thing okay and the man turned his back to her as if
she wasn't there.  After she handed him receipt and
wished him a good day he made what sounded like a moan.

I'm not sure but I think it was a thank you.  He left
the store and started walking accross the street and
almost walked right in front of a car, but the car
stopped as he yelled at the driver.

I found myself wanting to run after him and say
"Mister! You forgot something.  You forgot there is
a beautiful life going on and you are missing it."

I'm sad for him. He just doesn't get it.  His life
is passing him by.

Thank you God for letting me observe this man and
making me realize how much I have grown and how blessed
I am.  We are what we think about.

I know the kind of thinking this man does.  That used
to be me.

A few months ago I made a decision to go back to work.
It hurt my ego because I thought that I would never
have to go back to work but I knew it was something
that I had to do.

I choose to believe that my going back to work is
simply a temporary set back and an opportunity to
grow as a person.

This man missed out on a great opportunity to meet
a terrific person, for I was the cashier behind the
counter.

Your friend for life,
Wendy Krick
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Chapter 1

I am so glad and thankful to be here. To start al
over from chapter one. I followed faithfully from
chapter 11  to the end. Now I am ready to start the
learning process on becoming FREE of mental anguish
and concentrating on success instead of failure.

For years my believe was to contemplate success but
envision failure...Why one might ask. Well just because
I have learned that expecting the worst and hopping
for the best was the way to think.

If I expect the best and it doesn't happen then I
am not disappointed, because I expect the worst.
Yeah well it use to make sense it doesn't anymore.

I have stopped 3 feet  from the gold I have more
then once I think. No more, it doesn't matter what's
going on I will keep keeping on no matter what.

Instead of letting depression set in when failure
occur I will analyze and strengthen my position
and p[re[are for success. I have been expected
great results for the last 4 month I am expecting
riches to come to me in abundance just because it
is the only way I can see it now.

I have much to learn though. All my life I work
real hard, constantly, now I learn that I can be
come rich with little to no hard work.

I really need to understand this principle and I
am open to suggestions. I never really understood
the word "impossible". When ever I was told some
thing was impossible I had to try it and see by
myself.

I have done many things just because it was im-
possible. And has life went on I realized that
these impossible things were only impossible
because I stopped 3 feet short of the gold.

Mostly listening to the best of friend that tells
me " you can't do this" . What a waste of time.
There is many things here I don't yet understand
but I believe I can succeed so I will stay in as
long has it take to understand.

I am learning to control my thoughts I am learning
that I am the master of my fate and the captain of
my soul.

By interacting with the participants in this group
I will learn the proper way and will finish what I
started. I will succeed and I will live to enjoy it.

And so are all of you here.

Thank you Michael and Linda for creating a journey.
My hope is to get together with you in person.

Love to all
Bernard Tritz
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Thanks to all contributing authors.  Your insights on Chapter One are most appreciated!

Henrietta
The Mentoring Mom

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