Something jumped at me as I read Haanel this week. Mind you, something jumps at me everyday when I read Haanel, but this one hit me stronger.
“Do not confuse imagination with Fancy, or that form of daydreaming in which some people like to indulge. Daydreaming is a form of mental dissipation which may lead to mental disaster”.
“Constructive imagination means mental labor, by some considered to be the hardest kind of labor, but, if so, it yields the greatest returns, for all the great things in life have come to men and women who had the capacity to think, to imagine, and to make their dreams come true”
The Master Key System, Charles Haanel, Chapter 8, section 12-15
I am grateful that by concentrating on the laws of the mind, Masterminding with my tribe and the rest of the MKE team, doing the “childish” exercises, the readings, the sits, and keeping the watchman at the gate well fed, well rested, and alert,
I’m finding controlling my thoughts easier and easier with every day that passes. Staying focused and keeping the Main thing, the Main thing.
Tying together the exercises, blueprint builder, the laws of the mind, OG, Emerson, Haanel, the webinars, masterminding, blogging, and all the tools provided in the MKE page…..forget about it, the old blue print doesn’t have a chance as long as I keep doing the work!.
And yes, that old blue print is fighting like crazy not knowing it lost the war before the war even started. I’d be crazy to stop now and go back to being a daydreamer!
Doing that would be like taking myself out to the local home improvement store and buying the bags of concrete to re-enforce the concrete I’m trying so hard to bust out of; that would be crazy wouldn’t it?
Great post Pedro! Wonderful job highlighting and tying together how the old blueprint doesn’t have a chance.
But hit me stronger. Yep, it hit me too. 🙄
Love this sentence; That old blue print is fighting like crazy not knowing it lost the war before the war even started. 👌
Yes Pedro, I feel the fight and like you I am keeping my watchman at the gate alert. The exercises are adding to the Law of Growth – ‘what ever we think about grows. What we forget atrophies’
Pedro…appreciating your final 2 paragraphs elegantly bringing home the final death knell to the subtle…not so subtle role of the daydreamer. What did I just hear? A huge chunk of concrete smashing to the ground. Nicely done.