Imagination Isn't a Fantasy - Donna Kunde

Donna Kunde - “The Business Owner’s Bookshelf”

PROFIT RADIO..."Grow With Us"
 
Introduction
“Man’s only limitation within reason lies in his development and use of his imagination.” Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

Building on last week’s episode on your Success Instinct, I think it is fair again to start with the well known statement, “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t, you are always right.” A person’s ONLY limitation lies in the development and use of IMAGINATION. 

Last week we introduced the idea of a success instinct that each of us has. The higher our self image is, the better our success instinct works. When we strengthen our self image we also strengthen our success instinct, making it easier to obtain our desired results.  

This week we are exploring the Intellectual Faculty of Imagination. Imagination is the first key to activating your success instinct and literally the workshop of the mind where the impulse of thought and desire are given shape, form and action. 

I encourage you to listen to this series with an open mind and be willing to receive new ideas. Then continue the conversation in a special group I have created just for you in our IBGR Entrepreneurs' Community Network  called The Business Owner's Bookshelf where I have put downloadable copies of two of the books we will be exploring. The easiest way to listen and engage is inside the IBGR app for Android or iOS. See you on the inside...


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Objectives - The WHY
We are always using our imagination. The difference between success and failure is often found in the imagination of the business owner. Imagination Isn't a Fantasy. We are continually creating in our minds and those creations - Constructive or Destructive - always show up in our results. 

Key Issues - Owner Perspective:

1. Imagination is the first key to your success instinct. 
2. We have both Constructive Imagination and Destructive Imagination
3. When in the creative process, we can use Synthetic Imagination or Creative Imagination
4. Our Self-Image determines our results by using our Success Instinct for us or against us.

What You Need to Know - The WHAT

• At a very young age you were taught that you have 5 senses: see, hear, smell, touch, taste; and programmed to gather information from the outside in. Since that early programming you have been trained to think and experience the world through those five senses. These physical senses are tools and resources for us to experience our physical world.
• We simultaneously live on three planes of existence: we are spiritual beings, living in a physical body, gifted with an intellect. 
• There are 6 intellectual faculties that lead to success: perception, will, reason, intuition, memory and imagination.  “I’ve come to the conclusion that it was not an abundance of generalized or even specialized knowledge that led them to great wealth and success. It’s that they had developed their intellectual faculties to such a degree that they could create, manifest or attract whatever they wanted in their life.” and “Man’s only limitation within reason lies in his development and use of his imagination” -- Napoleon Hill
• You are ALWAYS using your imagination! But there is a right way and a wrong way.
• Constructive and Destructive Imagination: “We act, or fail to act, not because of “will,” as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination. A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.” Your nervous system can’t tell the difference between real or imagined. 
• Synthetic Imagination is the arranging of known concepts, plans, or ideas into new combinations. There is no creation but instead works with experience, education and observation
• Creative Imagination works automatically once it acts on a new thought or idea. We always act and feel according to the images our minds hold not according to what things are really like. 

What You Need to Do​​ - The HOW

1. “Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye and you will be drawn toward it.” -- Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick. Work up to 30 minutes a day of quiet, undisturbed time to work on your imagination. 
2. Continue to strengthen your success instinct by ​imagining your future success. Do this by creating mental pictures of your success. Your present success instinct was built on your own imagination and interpretation of yourself in the past through interpretations and evaluations that you placed on your experiences. 
3. Create future memories by using the theater of your mind to practice your success. Add as many details as possible, including your five senses of sight, sound, taste, touch and feeling. 
4. Substitute your newly created future memories to play in your imagination as you build your business and replace the destructive imagination pattern with these new images. 
5. Listen to the Business Owner’s Bookshelf Series
6. Download the IBGR Business Growth App
7. Make sure you leave some thoughts in the comment section below. We are interested in continuing the conversation.

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