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.
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