A Motivated Mind
is necessary for personal growth and development

A motivated mind is the product of discipline whether the discipline is innate or acquired through experience or the study necessary for personal growth and development. Therefore, if you are disciplined in thought and deed a motivated mind is often the outcome as embodied in the classic James Allen ( 1864 -1912) book “As a Man Thinketh” or to use the complete quotation in the book "as a man thinketh in his heart so is he".

However, the same message to a motivated mind is found much earlier in history, in fact, in the Biblical passage in the book of Proverbs “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he”.

Great advice in any age but the text goes on “Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of your words” and then, in masterly fashion follows with these timeless words of wisdom “A pply your heart to instruction, and your ears to knowledge”, Surely music to the ears of a motivated mind.

These quotations encapsulate why many Personal Development authors draw a limitless fund of analogies from the Bible. In fact, many of the great Self-Improvement and   Personal Development writers often say the Bible is the greatest Sales Training manual.

And you can see why when you consider the Sales Training element inherent in the Parable of the Sower and the Parable of the Fig Tree. For, in essence, here is the distilled wisdom that experienced sales people learn the hard way.

It is this. All selling is based on arithmetic because there is an irrefutable relationship between the number of contacts and the number of sales. Further, if a sales person is not performing after Sales Training then, as in the Parable of the Fig Tree, root them out and re-plant something that will flower and bear fruit.

And that, of course, means there must be Personal Development resulting in consistent well planned prospecting activity. Knowing what to do is the simple part of the equation – doing it, day after day, even though it’s easy, requires perseverance from a special kind of person...one with disciplined and a motivated mind.

Personal Development will undoubtedly lead one to the conclusion that to be successful one needs to look at how the Mind and Body fit into the equation. The condition of our physical body is the result of what we feed into our mind. For if we are to have a motivated mind we must discipline ourselves to control what we put into our bodies. It is a fact that sickness and ill-health like everything else can be attributed to our dominant thoughts.

For some a motivated Mind and Body bursting with health  and vitality will be enough. Others, especially as they grow older, will become aware of the dark at the end of the tunnel. And for this reason many people will tune in to a Spiritual Growth...though not everyone will leave it until the later stages of life.

Serenity of spirit comes from a motivated mind and a disciplined one that is a manifestation of a matured experience and Spiritual Growth.

Even though we progress in our Spiritual Growth most of us want a higher standard of living which comes from a well thought out and properly planned Wealth Building program.

If we follow this path of Wealth Building we must have a motivated mind as well as a disciplined one - for all our failures and achievements lie at our own door; we have total and absolute responsibility for our thoughts.

Our own Business Strategy of life is inextricably linked to our thought processes for, without an intelligent purpose, there is no significant accomplishment. Each of our lives must have an all-encompassing purpose which will guide our own Business Strategy towards the goal of our personal Wealth Building.

But Wealth Building is not the be-all-and-end-all of life for many a well-rounded individual will have a disciplined approach to Personal Development and a healthy Mind & Body Spiritual Growth pattern to life. However, affluent or not, if they achieve their goals it will be the outcome of a disciplined approach and a motivated mind.