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MyPowerfulMind.com Newsletter
March 17, 2005
Welcome to the first MyPowerfulMind.com newsletter. In this edition you will find the following: An Introduction to the newsletter and the MyPowerfulMind.com web site. What is coming up in the next few weeks. How to get your copy of a free book. An article about the way in which we react to ideas that come to us. An article giving a new look at Time Management. ---------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION: This newsletter is in plain text, so that everyone can read it, no matter what email software they are using. It may not look as pretty as some newsletters but I hope you feel that the content more than makes up for that. You can also read it online by going to http://www.mypowerfulmind.com/newsletters/newsletter/1793373/13963.htm Please forward or pass this on to anyone you know who may be interested. If you have received it from someone else you can subscribe to your own copy by going to http://www.mypowerfulmind.com/page/page/1793373.htm and entering your email address in the subscription box. If you prefer you can just go to www.mypowerfulmind.com and then click on the Newsletter box on the top lefthand side of the page. ---------------------------------------- WHAT IS COMING UP: The next 'The Power of the Mind' training will start in Helsinki on Saturday 23rd of April. There will be free introductions to this training at the Harmoniahuone office on Tuesday 5th April and also on Tuesday 19th April, both at 5pm. To find out more about this incredible training program go to http://www.mypowerfulmind.com/page/page/1819535.htm Tony will be in Oulu (Finland) from 9th April to the 17th April. On the 9th and 10th he will be at the Harmoniahuone stand at the Inspis-Messut (Well-being and inspiration fair) in Pohjankartano. Please call in and say hello. On Monday 11th Tony will have a free presentation from 5.30pm about the training that he is offering, and Sari will do the same from 7pm. You are free to attend one or both sessions. Don't be concerned that you may not understand enough English for this - The language will be simple and someone will help you if you need it. This will be held in the Tetrantilat building, M?kelinkatu 31, in the centre of Oulu. The room is on the basement level. (The ? should be an a with dots!) On Thursday 14th April from 4 - 6pm Tony will run a short training session on 'An Image of the Mind'. When we think of something it usually brings a picture of that thing into our mind. That picture helps us to understand the thing we are thinking of. But if we start to think of our mind, most of us do not have a clear picture of what the mind is. In this training you will build a picture that you can use to understand your mind. This training is 20 Euro per person, or 29 Euro to attend this and also the training on Friday 15th. Once again, the English language will be simple, and there will be someone that can help if you need it. Click here http://www.mypowerfulmind.com/catalog/item/1740628/1256852.htm to book on Thursday's training or here http://www.mypowerfulmind.com/catalog/item/1740628/1256885.htm to book on both Thursday's and Friday's training. This will be held in the Tetrantilat building, M?kelinkatu 31, in the centre of Oulu. The room is on the basement level. (The ? should be an a with dots!) On Friday 15th April from 4 - 6pm Tony will run a short training session on 'Self Image'. What is it, what does it do, how is it formed, and how do we change it. Our self image lives in our sub-conscious minds, so we are not consciously aware of it, but it contains the auto-pilot which guides our lives. This training is 20 Euro per person, or 29 Euro to attend this and also the training on Thursday 14th. The English language will be simple, and there will be someone that can help if you need it. Click here http://www.mypowerfulmind.com/catalog/item/1740628/1256866.htm to book on Friday's training or here http://www.mypowerfulmind.com/catalog/item/1740628/1256885.htm to book on both Thursday's and Friday's training. This will be held in the Tetrantilat building, M?kelinkatu 31, in the centre of Oulu. The room is on the basement level. (The ? should be an a with dots!) On Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th, 10am to 6pm, there will be a two day training run by both Sari and Tony. More details soon, but book this in your calendar now. You will not want to miss it. Tony's English language will be simple, and there will be someone that can help if you need it - Sari will present in Finnish but there will be some help with that if you need it. This will be held in the Tetrantilat building, M?kelinkatu 31, in the centre of Oulu. The room is on the basement level. (The ? should be an a with dots!) ---------------------------------------- FREE EBOOK: The Go-Getter, A Story That Tells You How to be One, by Peter B. Kyne When I was first given a copy of this book, I read it from cover to cover in one sitting. It is easy to read and entertaining, but also paints a lasting picture in the mind about the character of a Go-Getter. Most of us have some sort of intuitive idea of what a Go-Getter is like, but it is a difficult quality to describe. When I came across this story, first published in 1921, I felt that it succeeded perfectly in describing the way that a Go-Getter acts. When Napoleon Hill was studying hundreds of successful people, and analysing the characteristics that they had in common, he found that they all had, among other things, the ability to make decisions and then act on them, and they also had mentors that they could go to for advice or to compare themselves with. Many people do not understand two important facts about mentors. A mentor does not have to be personally known to you, and does not have to be alive, or even a real person. That may sound a little far fetched, but let me explain. Ted Turner built a media communications empire and in the process made himself a billionaire. He is both admired and despised, but whatever we think of him, no-one can deny that he is a Go-Getter. When Ted Turner was studying at university his father, a practical and successful businessman, was frustrated that Ted chose to study Greek classics. He could not see how that study would help Ted become successful in his life. What his father did not understand, was that Ted was studying the legendary heros of Greek mythology - the characters that siezed opportunities, turned defeats into victories, and overcame great obstacles. These characters became some of Ted's mentors, and by studying them, Ted conditioned his mind to get the same sort of results in his life. When you have read this short story, you will have Bill Peck as one of your mentors. When you are faced with obstacles in your life, and you wonder how a Go-Getter would handle them, you will know enough about the character of Bill Peck, to understand how he would have reacted. Then you understand how a Go-Getter would react, and you are able to choose to act that way yourself, if you wish. This version of the book is almost identical to the original publication, but I have made a few changes to modernise the language in places where the original words are no longer in common English usage. To get your copy of this book, go to http://www.mypowerfulmind.com/page/page/1653420.htm and enter your email address in the box at the bottom of the page. You will receive an email telling you how to get the book. Enjoy this short story, but don't stop there. Use it to improve the results that you are getting in your life, by having a Go-Getter as a mentor. ---------------------------------------- HOW WE REACT TO IDEAS THAT COME TO US: Much of the time when a new idea comes to us, we handle that idea and move on, without ever becoming consciously aware of the process. During the times when we are consciously aware of the process of handling a new idea, we often reject that idea without understanding why we rejected it, or sometimes without even understanding that we did reject it. How can this be? To understand this, lets briefly review a few of the mechanics of how our minds work. When a new idea comes to us, it comes into our conscious mind. It can be as a result of our own thinking, or it can be from an outside source. Immediately, and sometimes before the new idea is even properly formed, our sub-conscious mind starts to evaluate that idea. Now this evaluation is happening in our sub-conscious mind. That means that we are not consciously aware of it, but it is happening anyway. So how does our sub-conscious mind evaluate an idea, sometimes before the idea is complete, and without us being aware that this is going on. To understand this we need to understand a characteristic of our sub-conscious mind. Our sub-conscious mind has no ability to reason. If that is so, how can it evaluate a new idea? Well one way is to ask itself, does this new idea fit with what I already 'know'. If it does, then the new idea will not be immediately rejected. If it doesn't then the sub-conscious mind will send a message to the conscious mind to say that this new idea doesn't fit. Usually at this point, the conscious mind will believe what the sub-conscious mind is saying to it, and reject the idea. There are a number of problems with this. What if the information that the sub-conscious mind is evaluating the new idea against, is wrong? A common example of this is when a new idea comes into our conscious mind, and our sub-conscious mind starts to evaluate it. The sub-conscious mind says, 'I already know that'. Now that 'I know that' message is sent to the conscious mind, and what happens then? Often the conscious mind stops considering the new idea at that point, and moves on to something new. But did the sub-conscious mind really know that? Maybe sometimes, but often the new idea is not even properly formed yet, so how could the sub-conscious mind be sure that it 'knew' that. Unfortunately when the conscious mind gets the 'I know that' message, it usually stops receiving or processing the new idea, and that means the opportunity to learn something new is lost. Why would our sub-conscious mind act in a way that stops us from learning? To answer that, and to understand in detail how this process works, you will have to attend my 'Power of the Mind' training, or perhaps wait for another article in the future, but I do have space to briefly discuss what we can do about it. How can we interrupt our sub-conscious mind so that it does not stop us learning from new ideas, when we are exposed to them. I suggest that there are two easy ways. Firstly, when we hear our sub-conscious mind saying 'That doesn't fit', or 'That can't be right', or something similar, we can simply say to our sub-conscious mind 'Thank-you for that information'. This means that we have decided not to act on the message that our sub-conscious mind was sending. Our conscious mind is then free to continue considering, reasoning and thinking about the new idea. The second thing we can do is ask our conscious mind to think about the new idea in a way it may have not done before. Usually our conscious mind thinks 'Is this idea right?', or 'Is this idea wrong?'. Instead of those questions we could ask 'Could this idea change or improve my life in some way?'. This allows us to look at a new idea in a completely fresh way, without being influenced by all the things that we have learnt before, or that we already 'know'. It was Will Rogers who said many years ago that "it's not what people don't know that hurts them. It's what they do know that just ain't so." ---------------------------------------- A NEW LOOK AT TIME MANAGEMENT: Last week I had the privilege of spending some quality time with a dear friend. Unfortunately we live on opposite sides of the world, so we do not spend a lot of time together, but when we do get together it is an uplifting experience. Paul, and his wife Glenys, have just finished moving into a beautiful new dream home that they have built. It was the first time that I had seen it, and after showing me through the house we went outside and looked out over their land. Paul pointed out where the large spa pool would be, and how there would be a lake over there, where the Monet bridge would be, and how the paths would be laid out. I recalled how when we had last met, almost a year before, Paul told me that they had found a piece of land and bought it, and they were going to build their new dream home, a Quaker barn on it. He had described to me how it would look, what it would be made of, and especially how his new workshop would be laid out, and now he had just shown me through the actual completed building. It reminded me of something I first heard from Jim Rohn, many years ago. Jim said something to the effect that humans were the only species that could start something after it was finished. What did he mean by that? He meant that we could completely build something in our mind before we started physically building it. So how does this relate to time management? Imagine if someone had visited Paul when he was just starting to build the house. All the materials are there on his land, and the visitor asked Paul what he was building. Imagine Paul had answered that he didn't really know, but he would just see what it turned into when it was finished. Do you think that Paul would now be living in his dream home? I very much doubt it. But many of us live our lives by just seeing how it turns out. We would never just collect up some building materials and start putting them together and see how it turns out. But we do get up in the morning, do whatever we are in the habit of doing during the day, and then go back to bed, and repeat the process day after day. We build our lives by taking whatever comes to us each day, and putting it together to see what it turns out to be. Consider how much more productive it would be if we didn't get up in the morning until we had decided what we would build with our day. We would usually move ourselves a step closer to our goals each day, in spite of what the day threw at us. When we are born, we all start out exactly the same, with essentially the same potential. From then on we use that potential differently, and achieve different results. By understanding how and why we achieve different results, we can take control of our results from this day on, and change the whole direction of our lives. The 'Power of the Mind' training gives a deeper understanding of how we can establish worthwhile and meaningful goals, and then move toward achieving them day by day. Go to http://www.mypowerfulmind.com/page/page/1819535.htm to find out more. ---------------------------------------- That is all for this newsletter. Until next time I wish you all the best, and Expect Success. Tony McGlinn
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