Thoughts are things! Seek to do good and you will find that happiness runs after you! I have been studying this concept since I was introduced to this book by Bob Proctor about 10 years ago...

One of the most common "mistake" of people today is to think that something is impossible, I sure thought that way for years and years... One thing that brought me to think differently was a "failure".

As the book says sometimes it takes failure to gain success. My personal experience is that I tried to get a bachelor's degree (through an online university) at the age of 37 while working full time. I burned the candle at both ends working/studying 18 hours a day until I turned 41. Then, after years of working towards my degree, I ended up with a major depression and was unable to finish my degree being mentally sick for over 6 months.

However, this brought me to really look at my life differently, and through research, I found meditation and started daily practice. Through my own research, I also found people that were not educated (no degree of any kind) but were VERY successful. Bob Proctor was one of them, He introduced this book to me and the rest is history 🙂

I decided (after reading the book) that I would be pushing forward for the rest of my life and stop thinking that I wasn't "good enough".

Today I own a 12 unit apartment building and run a (now profitable) online business that I work on in my "spare time" after my regular job. BUT, my ultimate goal is to Fire my boss and do this online thing a permanent one. That is the ultimate freedom, to be my own boss...I am getting closer each and every time I put in some work towards it.

The "secret" I found in chapter one is to vibrate at the frequency of positive thinking and always dispose of the negative thoughts.

If we hold thoughts of wealth in our minds, the universe will return wealth to us!

"I will fire my boss"

Denis

My professional career began in the insurance industry in 1983. I was always good at Maths and seeing that Actuaries were a rare breed back then, it was highly recommended that I study Actuarial Science.

My degree at University of London was a Sandwich degree, which meant that I had to do a one-year internship at an insurance company under a qualified Actuary. There were not many in the world at that time but my Mum knew the only Caribbean Actuary.

I travelled to Trinidad to intern with him. However, while there, mainframe computers were being introduced and the company purchased their first mainframe from IBM. I made the decision to pursue studies with IBM and qualified as a Systems Analyst and Programmer.

With systems up, we needed to find a way to communicate with our branches and I cam up with the idea that this could happen using the new computers we had acquired. Everyone thought it was an impossible task and no one really knew how.

It took me 6 months of trial and error and many sleepless nights (including a Christmas time when I slept on the floor in the computer room while working on the communication programme.

Then, on the verge of giving up, I was sitting at my desk staring at my screen when I heard a buzz! It took me a few minutes to figure out that one of our branches was trying to send me a message!! The event has gone down in history as being the first computer messaging using mainframes in our country.

I have always walked a different path. Never really one to follow the masses.

This chapter of TAGR is a huge motivator for me at WA. I am a single-parent professional and entrepreneur and once again, through WA, I am amongst the first in my country to take this enormous leap into Affiliate Marketing.

My desire to succeed is immeasurable as I want to ensure that my talented daughter has the emotional and financial freedom to pursue her talents in dance and culture - without fear or worry.

I also want to help - truly help - persons who may not be as well-positioned as we are. WA gives me the tools - technology and revenue to achieve all of those things.

I am determined to succeed.

Be safe. Be well.
Cassi

Well I been thinking my way into winning that Lotto !! Been buying dem d'ere tickets for over 40years ... think I outta I give up !! lol JK
HI Everyone!

I have had more then my share of obstacles in my path over the years and was never really able to stick to anything for a long time because my life kept getting turned upside down. After the last carpet pull, divorce then another job loss (this time plant closure)(I've never gotten fired and only quite one job for a better job), I had lost everything. I had many skills but no expertise, I couldn't get a job. Bored outta my mind and lost, I wound up picking little jobs here and there and it turned into a small business. After about three years I had scraped up enough funds to go back to school. With the odds against me (mature student at 40years old, small children at home and in a course with only a 35-40% pass rate) I dove in head first. I quickly found out I knew very little about IT but I managed to pull off Honours and graduated with a diploma as a Computer Systems Technician. (and the crowd goes wild,!!! well at least my family did). I was really determined, probably the most drive I have ever had towards something and I persevered. Wish I could find that passion and drive again!! Despite the odds and many obstacles I had in those two very long years my thoughts were focused on success. Two jobs and 5 years later I finally got a great job in IT and then became Covid-unemployed!

This chapter reiterates my success that came by my thoughts, my thoughts that I was driven to stop at nothing to succeed, and succeed I did! This is the best my life has ever been, and it stems from that one big accomplishment.

Well, I gotta go do some reprogramming!!

See ya ll in the next chapter!!

Will

Finished reading Chapter 1.

While reading a thought keeps coming to my mind... I need to read this book again and one read is not enough.

I got great insights and many things are new to me.

Important things that I made a note are...

Thoughts Are Things!

Core - Burning Desire With Definite Purpose

Basic Requirement - With Initiative, faith and will to win we can turn our desire into reality.

An intangible impulse of thought can be transmuted into its physical counterpart by the application of known principles.

One of the common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

More gold has been mined from the brains of men than has ever been taken from the earth.

I am just starting to watch my thoughts and learning about its power. Our thoughts can make us or break us.

My Achievement - By gods grace, I was able to become the month topper in sales in the outbound call center (highest number of sales). However, I invested a lot of hard work to achieve it 12+ hours a day and 6 days a week. But if I was aware of this great information I am sure I would have achieved great results.

Affiliate Marketing - My desire is to qualify for the Wealthy Affiliate Vegas Super Affiliate Conference.

I am going to implement what I learned in this chapter to achieve it. I have the Burning Desire With Definite Purpose...

With Initiative, faith and will to win I will turn my desire into reality.

I want to remind those who are participating in the Think and Grow Rich Book Study Project, I will be rolling out Chapter 2 tomorrow, Wednesday 8, 2020. This will be a shortened period as I will be getting the study back on its original schedule by rolling out Chapter 3 next Monday, April 13th.

The entries have been amazing to read. Let me throw in my personal story on Thoughts Are Things before we move on.

When I read Chapter 1, the message Napoleon Hill taught resonated with me. The following story will explain why. It is long so I commend you if you read it till the end

My profession before I retired was in the electronic display industry. In my career I was an engineer who designed and developed cockpit displays. These are crucial for the pilot to fly the plane safely. Even with all the automatic systems on an aircraft today, the pilot must be able to use the instruments in front of him to fly the plane safely.

Towards the end of the last century, Europe was in the midst of developing the European Aircraft Fighter. They needed a number of high performance LED displays. Remember, at that time LEDs were not as efficient and bright as they are today. Hence we had to drive them harder and manage the heat dissipation effectively. This was the setting where I entered the scene.

During the previous years I had spearheaded automating LED display manufacturing and testing. I felt that our company was uniquely positioned to be a display supplier to the European Fighter Aircraft. But how would our company in the US break into a European market?

Here is where without knowing it I applied the lessons taught in Chapter 1. I thought very clearly that our company could compete in this market. We needed to find a way to connect to companies in Europe who were responsible at a higher level in specifying the types of displays needed.

My profession was in Engineering, not in Business Development. However, my projects involved working with many departments closely including Business Development.

I proposed that we go after this market to a Business Development manager. He was supportive and together we found the companies in Europe who we had to contact. But he was hesitant of taking it further for fear of being turned off.

My perspective was different. With little experience in business, I crafted a business plan that showed that we could make a decent profit in the many millions of dollars. I decided to bypass Business Development and went straight to the CEO to present this to him.

He was so impressed and tasked Business Development to go after the LED displays the EFA required. And the CEO created a new department in Engineering for me to lead. I was tasked of finding engineers to help design and develop these displays.

As the lead engineer I was the one who gave my team of engineers the ideas that they took and converted them to actual LED displays. The packaging of the electronics and the thermal management required the the use of multilayer ceramic structures with circuits embedded within the layers. These were manufactured in Japan, also where the LEDs were produced.

It all began with a thought that we could do it and confident enough that we would win the contracts. And management believed that we could pull this off with me leading the design team.

Can you guess that my new job involved making many trips to Europe? These involved the gamut from contract negotiations to after contract design reviews. I even took my wife on some of them. This was the culmination of my career in this company.

Since LEDs were at the heart of the displays I had to go to Japan on subcontract business and technical meetings.

The following link will take you to a picture of the cockpit of the European Fighter Aircraft.

The main large displays use LCD technology. Around them are smart multifunction LED push buttons the pilot uses to interact with the data.

The rest of the cockpit is filled with a plethora of small LED displays.

https://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/ef2000/attachment/ef20006/

I hope you enjoyed my real life story about converting thought to things.

My task today is how to used Chapter 1 to help me in my affiliate marketing business.

The main challenge is to truly believe I can achieve the success I desire. But first, I need to do a better job in defining what that success means.

Since I am retired and just about living off pensions and social security. my life could be greatly enhanced by having the resources to do many things I have dreamed of.

Like remodeling our home. Buying a luxury car for my wife paying cash. Going on a cruise to Alaska and through the Panama Canal. Also visiting our families located all over the world.

One of my dreams is to have enough funds to finance scholarships to talented kids from poor families.

These are my thoughts. I must never give up in my journey to make my thoughts a reality.