Think & Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill is a treasure known to most network marketers. When studied with a mastermind group, it also breaks the ground so that you can find the treasure buried deep within YOU. Discover YOUR treasure by signing up with the 30 Day Mental Cleanse. Each week we read a chapter from the book, and then write down our thoughts, comments, and lessons learned. Here are my thoughts from this week’s chapter.

The 3rd Step Toward Riches

All my life I have been looking for The Key… that one thing that will open up a whole new range of possibilities and make my future less fraught with obstacles and struggles. Equally strong is the imagery of being in a bottleneck… If I could just get through this, and come out the other side, I could breathe again, and actually get somewhere.

I thought homeschooling was the key to my children’s future, ensuring them the very best education possible. Sure, they did well, but I spent 19 years barely keeping my head above water. Now my three youngest boys are doing very well in public school… and my sanity is now intact.

I thought network marketing was the key to our financial security. That IS true, but I was going about it the wrong way. Twenty-five years in and out of various MLM companies left me feeling like a failure. Yet I couldn’t leave it alone… the quest for the key drove me onward.

I tried numerous generic methods for building a network business online, and only ended up spending more money we could not afford. Nothing worked. Of course it had to be me. That many “successful people” couldn’t be wrong.

And then one day, when I opened a MySpace page, on the advice of my latest guru, I came across several excerpts from Success in 10 Steps. That was my introduction to Michael Dlouhy. And I knew I had found my key.

That was last May. At that time I would have thought I had come into Mentoring For Free at a fairly high level of personal development, because much work had been done in that area through EFT, kinesionics and other methods of handling the stresses that had been bombarding our family. And yet I have struggled majorly with my mental cleanse lessons each week. It is never easy, and often things don’t come together for me until after the afternoon call has started.

This is my third time through Think and Grow Rich… and I have found the key that will move me forward in Mentoring For Free and building my home business.

Hill calls this chapter the “keystone to the arch of this philosophy.” It is what holds the “Think and Grow Rich” philosophy together. Without it the entire structure comes tumbling down. And the key in this chapter… that one thing that opens up a whole new range of possibilities for me is…

I have ABSOLUTE CONTROL over the material which reaches my subconscious mind.

The garden of my subconscious mind has been overtaken by weeds. I see now that many desirable plants are there, but they are hidden… choked by obnoxious weeds. I have the power and the means for clearing the space around those tender plants, exposing them to the sunlight and nourishment without competition… and then going on to pull all the other weeds threatening them, and replace the weeds with many more good plants.

How will I do this?

By combining my Self-talk with the concept of the Power of Now. The Power of Now is already helping me to clear the space around the plants… and my Self-Talk will do the rest.

I will feed my subconscious mind by mixing my Self-Talk with all of the emotion and feeling that is now being used in less profitable ways.

I will VISUALIZE what I want from my home business, seeing myself in possession of it.

I will DEMAND that my subconscious hand over the plans I need to to achieve my goals.

I will EXPECT the answer to come, and will be on the lookout for it.

In other words, I will be ON THE ALERT, watching for that flash of inspiration. I will take it as a direct telegram from God, and will put it into action immediately.

~ Willena Flewelling