The
title of the book is thinking Grow Rich, the idea is applied to accomplishing
any goal that you desire now here’s the all-encompassing idea in order to do
great things, whether it be to accumulate great riches or any other goal for
that matter, we have to enroll and harness the power of our subconscious mind
and that is what we will discuss in this post going forward now why do we need
to do that well we all have two minds inside of us, the conscious and the
subconscious.
However,
in terms of sheer power the subconscious mind is orders of magnitude more
powerful than the conscious mind there is literally no comparison if the size
of the conscious mind is the size of a microwave oven the subconscious mind is
the size of the Milky Way, it’s extremely powerful and the computational
resources it as are humongous millions of times more powerful than the
conscious mind, so in order to accomplish your big goals, you need to harness
the power of your subconscious mind by programming it with the goal that you want,
and how do we harness the power of the subconscious mind and program it for
what we want well given the nature of our subconscious mind, and the conscious
mind it is not easy to program the subconscious mind, but it is entirely
possible and this book is all about understanding precisely how to do that.
So
let’s understand the basics of the subconscious mind, and then we will talk
about the keys to program it for massive success firstly even though, the
subconscious mind is way more powerful than the conscious mind, it is still
being controlled by the conscious mind our conscious mind is the master of our
subconscious mind. the subconscious mind is like a garden while the conscious
mind is the gardener the conscious mind is sowing the seeds of part while the
subconscious is working to bring those thoughts to fruition.
Second
of all we have to understand that our subconscious mind is always working and
for most people it is working against them now you might be wondering why the
subconscious mind would work against you, well it is because of the thoughts
and emotions that are dominating your existence every single moment, every
single day, if your thoughts are dominated by negativity fear poverty failure
well the subconscious mind is busy making those thoughts a reality for you, and
hence it is working against you.
On
the other hand, if you are feeding your subconscious mind deliberately design
thoughts, and feelings of riches success positivity well the subconscious mind
gets busy making those thoughts a reality for you, now the challenge is that if
you do not actively plant deliberately chosen thoughts, and emotions in there
it will work on the thoughts it receives as a result of neglect, and
unfortunately those are not usually positive uplifting thoughts you are
constantly being bombarded with negativity all around you.
Thirdly,
the subconscious mind is objective it does not distinguish between positive or
negative, it does not distinguish between a penny or a million dollars, it will
take whatever thoughts and emotions you think and feel and get busy making them
a reality whether positive or negative, okay so now that we understand the
subconscious mind a little better, how do we get about programming our
subconscious mind for great success, how do we create thatburning desire that
literally turns on the power of the subconscious mind in our favor, and makes
us unstoppable.
Well,
here are the five keys to do exactly that first of all we must have a definite
purpose, we must become very clear on what we want on the specific goal, we
want the clear the purpose or the end goal, the easier it is to get there only
when we are clear about our goal can we program that goal into our subconscious
mind, if you provide your subconscious mind with no clear purpose or goals you
will get no real power from it it will be like a giant ship with immense power
but without any destination to aim for so what’s the use of a ship without a
clear destination.
A
lot of people have these wake calls about maybe becoming rich or losing weight,
but those goals are so big that it’s almost useless you have to be very clear
you have to have a very clear goal, a very clear dollar amount that will help
you harness the power of your subconscious mind, because it allows you to focus
your effort and it gives you a clarity of direction, clarity of making
decisions, the second key to programming your subconscious mind is to use the
power of artists suggestion now order suggestions are deliberately designed
statements or commands you give to yourself, also known as affirmations.
Once
you know what you want, you must repeat that command to your subconscious mind
over and over and over and over and over again, no end to it, there’s no end to
maintaining your garden, and you have to keep on doing this you never stop
doing it, so you keep on repeating these affirmations to yourself, these are
the suggestions to yourself over and over again, the third key to program your
subconscious mind is to use the power of emotions to direct your subconscious
mind, now it is not enough to think about your calls, and just repeat them you
must mix those thoughts of your calls with emotions, the emotions you want to
feel when the goal will be accomplished the subconscious mind only understands
the language of emotions, emotionless thoughts do not affect the subconscious
mind, that is a fact it does not understand the sub just does not understand
the language of logic or reason.
So
any language you use in order to program your subconscious mind has to involve
emotions, you have to feel the feelings in order to be able to program your
subconscious mind, you must mix your thoughts with positive emotions or
thoughts mixed with negative emotions will unfortunately reach your
subconscious mind by default, and thoughts mixed with emotions have a magnetic
force to them in the sense that they attract similar thoughts and emotions,
positive emotions will keep on attracting more of those positive thoughts, more
of those positive emotions.
So
your job is to minimize the inflow of negative, and disempowering thoughts and
emotions and to instead program your subconscious with deliberately designed
positive and empowering thoughts, emotions and feelings, and when we can
consistently do that that’s when we have the key to unlocking our subconscious
mind okay the fourth key to programming your subconscious mind is
visualization, and acting as if in order to program our subconscious mind, we
must see and feel the goal as if the goal is already accomplished that you
already have what you desire ask yourself how would you act if you had already
accomplished your goal, how would you feel, what would you do, what feelings
would dominate your mind.
The
key to visualization is to actually be able to see and feel yourself as having
already accomplished the call rather than thinking of it as a distant
possibility, so if you have a goal of making a million dollars by December 31st
of next year, visualize yourself o December 31st as having already accomplished
that call, don’t think of it as something you would like to accomplish in the
future, that is creating the feeling of not having the goal right now, instead
feel that it is December 31st of next year right now and you have already
accomplished the call.
I
really cannot emphasize this point enough, so you might want to just rewind and
see this point a few times because it’s loaded with great wisdom right here,
okay the fifth key to programming your subconscious mind is persistence, and
repetition so what is the price of being able to harness the power of your
subconscious mind it is as Napoleon Hill says it it is everlasting persistence
and thoughts, mix with emotions, mix with faith endless repetition of that
desire, mixed with positive emotions and mixed with faith, no matter what the
circumstances, no matter what you see externally in the world, there’s no lower
price we can pave we must consistently persist and repeat these thoughts over
and over and over again, we must decide to programmer subconscious mind and
there is no end to it, we have to do it over and over and over again.
So
the amazing thing is that as you begin to increase your thoughts about that
goal and you mix it with your positive emotions, and what will happen is those
thoughts and those emotions will begin to attract more of such thoughts and
emotions until you become completely charged with this thought pattern with
these emotions, ok so we just talked about the five keys to programming your
subconscious mind however there is one power strategy that literally puts this
whole book on steroids this strategy makes the above five steps automatic, and
that strategy is to burn the boats now let me tell you the story of Spanish
Conqueror Hernan Cortes back in the 1500s to really explain what it means to
burn the boats.
When
Hernan Cortes warships arrived on what was then the Aztec empire, he had clear
intentions of fighting the Aztecs, and conquering that area of what is now
modern-day Mexico however he quickly realized that his army was badly
outnumbered almost of the ratio of one to 100, and he saw that his soldiers
were starting to hesitate and thinking of retreating in case the war did not go
according to plan so in order to get the very best out of his soldiers, in
order to get them to win he ordered his men to burn their pots, and once the
ports were born there was no way of retrieving the soldiers knew very clearly
that they only had two options either win or die.
There
was no other way out do or die, and that created a burning obsession inside of
them to win and to live, and that is why his army went on to win the war even
though they were outnumbered one to hundred now that is the power of burning
the boats, it quickly gets us to harness the power of our subconscious mind
because when our survival is at stake the subconscious mind brings all its
power to on a given situation in those situations, we become unstoppable, so if
you want to create a burning obsessive pulsating desire for something, if you
really want to program your subconscious mind with your goal you need to cut
off all other paths of retreat you need to cut off all other possibilities.
You
have to go all in just one option, and sometimes these situations are
externally manufactured for us for example you are running out of money in your
venture, and you have a clear deadline by which you must make the business work
,or the business will die, many great entrepreneurs have actually created at
those moments as the ones that really turn their businesses around, at other
times we have to burn the boats ourselves when there are no external
manufactured situations available to us, and one of the ways you can do that is
to publicly commit to a goal or another way, to do that is to create real
deadlines with real consequences.
If
the goal is not accomplished, whatever you do to burn the boats make sure that
it leads to a state of burning obsession where you are almost obsessively
thinking about the goal, you need that fire you need that obsession, you need
that in order to program your subconscious mind, and that is what will trigger
you to greatness, so there you have it an in-depth understanding of thinking
courage, so just to recap what we learned was that in order to accomplish our
greatest goals we must enroll and harness the power of our subconscious minds,
just trying to use the conscious mind to accomplish our goals is not enough,
and we talked about the five keys to harness the power of the subconscious mind
and then we also talked about the one power strategy that literally makes us
unstoppable.