The Mental Success Formula

MENTAL SUCCESS FORMULA

By Paul Hissin, Ph.D.

Editing Contributions: Justina Walford & Daphne Taylor Street with Street Media and Publishing Photos & Design: Kim Sabate Publisher: iLoveBooks, Canada Copyright © 2023 Paul Hissin, Ph.D. All rights reserved.

Foreword 1: Les Brown FOREWORD 1

HAVE YOU BEEN HUNGRY Les Brown

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ave you been hungry before? If you are anything like me, I tell it to everyone around me, I’m Hungry! The announcement is not for the mere sake of me speaking out loud, but it is for everyone around me to think of something for me to eat immediately. It becomes a priority and nothing matters until I get what I want.

When you are hungry, everything about you shifts. Your mood becomes irritated, the only thing you can think about is finding a fix for the hunger problem, and you are not satisfied until you get something to fill you up. Modern folks call it being hangry, because you are angry and have a sense of urgency about yourself until you are no longer hungry.

As a young boy who grew up in poverty, I know the feeling of hunger all too well. I watched my mother skip meals for myself and my adopted siblings countless times as we all feasted on small, strategically measured portions of food. Sometimes my empty and growling stomach at night would serve as bedtime tunes putting me to sleep quickly so that I could avoid the misery and agitation of experiencing hunger pangs.

Then there were other times I’d lay awake with an undying craving for something. I did not know what that something was, but I knew there was something, somewhere that could solve my hunger problem. Pacing the floor, I could not rest until I looked everywhere, opened every closed door, and told anyone willing to listen, I am Hungry for more. My pain of unfulfillment and restlessness turned into purpose and my purpose positioned me to prosper to lead a life that has impacted so many only by the grace of God. If you want to achieve your dream, conquer a new goal, or do something outside of your comfort zone, YOU GOTTA BE HUNGRY! Being hungry means pursuing your passion with a sense of urgency, being unstoppable, and never giving up. Imagine how much we would achieve if we had the same focus and energy we had if we were trying to fill our stomachs. You have the skillset to alter your life by redirecting your energy in different ways. Think about it, no one has ever had to coach you on what to do when you are physically hungry…you instinctively know how to solve 1

it, and you do, otherwise, you would be uncomfortable and eventually die a slow and agonizing death.

I’d like your permission to ask you a personal question; what keeps you up at night? Sure, sometimes it is stress, bills, worry, and more, but what vision have you had for yourself that brought you a sense of wonder and happiness, yet, due to life or a sense of defeat and perhaps a series of failures that you have not pursued it?

I use a formula that is simple and easy to follow. This along with other practices has helped me spring into action and get results for my life…

H-Hope-Never lose hope. Humans can live 40 days without food, four days without water, and four minutes without air, but without hope, you are trapped by despair. Yes, your life will experience trouble, heartache, and pain, but hope gets you to a place where joy and happiness resides. Find a place of hopefulness to see the possibilities in life and not just the problems.

Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present. John Maxwell.

U-Unstoppable-You must create an unstoppable spirit about yourself. Learn to make NO your vitamin. In fact, every time I received a rejection, I was excited, why? Because I knew I was closer to a yes and a breakthrough. Develop a spirit of unrelenting persistence, patience, and purpose. Once clear on your purpose, in spite of challenges, you will find yourself firm and steady in pursuit of your dream. You will be unstoppable indeed.

N-Now-Do it now. Many times, we make the assumption that we have plenty of time to pursue our goals. Procrastination is the arrogant assumption that God will give you a chance in the future to do something you are called to do now.

What small steps can you take now? Maybe it is making a list of accountability partners to keep you focused. Or perhaps it is writing out a business plan, whatever it is, begin…not on Monday, New Year’s Day, or your birthday, but now…begin now!

G-Grateful-I will warn you, the moment you say yes to something new, life’s challenges and distractions will do everything possible to throw you off of your game. Smile and be grateful, why, because you know you are on the right track. Life’s troubles do not follow folks who are not going to make a difference in their lives, communities, or the world. I can attest, when you say yes, cancer may strike, your family may fall apart, and you will feel like giving up, but having the spirit of gratefulness even when turmoil is at hand will confuse life’s problems. Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more?

R-Results-Is it working? Are you making a difference? Are you being honest with yourself and your impact? This may be one of the hardest, most 2

difficult points to articulate. I would often say, even a broken clock is correct at least twice a day, but if there is a better way or a more cost-effective method that can save you money, stress, and time, then you may have to consider doing a shift. We know, you cannot see the picture when you are in the frame, and if you are not seeing positive results, it does not mean you are a failure, it just means your method may need an adjustment in order to get maximum results.

Y-You-No one can do you but you. Imagine if you will, being on your deathbed – and standing around your bed – the ghosts of the ideas, the dreams, the abilities, the talents given to you by life. And that you for whatever reason, you never acted on those ideas, you never pursued that dream, you never used those talents, we never saw your leadership, you never used your voice, you never wrote that book. And there they are standing around your bed looking at you with large angry eyes saying we came to you, and only you could have given us life! Now we must die with you forever.

The question is – if you die today what ideas, what dreams, what abilities, what talents, what gifts, would die with you?

The world is waiting on you. Stay HUNGRY and pursue your greatness like never before. See you at the top!

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ABOUT LES BROWN

As a renowned author, speaker, television and radio personality, Les Brown has risen to national prominence by inspiring others to shake off mediocrity and live up to their full potential. With no formal education beyond high school, Les has distinguished himself as an international authority on harnessing human potential.

Born a twin in low-income Liberty City in Miami, Florida, Les and his twin brother were adopted when they were six weeks old by Miss Mamie Brown. As a single woman with a big heart, Miss Brown had very little education or financial means. With young Les’ inattention to school work, his restless energy, and the failure of his teachers to recognize his potential, Les was misdiagnosed as educable mentally retarded. Suffering for years by the label and the stigma, Les was nevertheless driven by his passion to learn and his hunger to achieve his goal as a radio disc jockey.

In a humorous twist of fate and cunning, Les rose from a hip-talkin’ morning DJ to a broadcast manager; from voracious reader to author; from community activist to community leader; from political commentator to

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three-term state legislator; from a banquet and nightclub emcee to a premier keynote speaker for Fortune 100 companies.

Award-Winning International Speaker and Television Host In 1986, Les entered the public speaking arena on a full-time basis and formed his own company, Les Brown Enterprises, Inc. Aimed at individuals and organizations, the company provides motivational products, personal development programs, speaker development workshops, keynote presentations and interactive business trainings.

In 1989, Les received the National Speakers Association's highest honor: The Council of Peers Award for Excellence (CPAE). In addition, he was selected one of the World's Top Five Speakers in 1992 by Toastmasters International and became the recipient of the Golden Gavel Award.

Commencing in 1990 and recording the first in a series of six PBS specials, Les launched You Deserve which was awarded a Chicago-area Emmy. It became the leading fundraiser for pledges to PBS stations nationwide.

In 1993, Les became the host of his own nationally syndicated daily television talk show, The Les Brown Show, in which he focused on solutions to the day’s challenges rather than the problems.

Bestselling Author and Radio Personality Recognized internationally, Les is the author of four bestselling books: Up Thoughts for Down Times, Live Your Dreams, and It’s Not Over Until You Win and, Fight for Your Dreams.

A leading authority in understanding and stimulating human potential, Les’ electric and powerful delivery, stage presence and personal insights have built his international brand of “It’s Possible.” Les' customized presentation is driven by his approach to each unique audience. Before he gives a speech, he builds a speech. The end result is that Les teaches and inspires each audience to new levels of awareness and achievement.

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Foreword 2: James MacNeil FOREWORD 2 EVERYTHING IS PERFECT AND EVERYTHING IS IMPROVING! James MacNeil

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ead those words again slowly, “Everything is Perfect and Everything is Improving!” and ask yourself, could this be true? Your brain wants to reject it in light of hatred, war, and suffering. “Everything is Perfect and Everything is Improving!” is a mantra and a “koan.” A koan is a paradoxical riddle designed to, when meditated upon, invoke enlightenment.

I invite you to expand your consciousness and reconsider your perspective on the meaning of life and the meaning of the universe because, according to Max Planck, the originator of Quantum Theory, “when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”

The “problem” with the traditional perspective on our world, our sciences, our religions, and ourselves is a “problem mindset.” We have approximately 10,000 religions, countless spiritual belief structures, and innumerable sciences and they all have this fatal flaw in common: they assume the “problem mindset.” Who says sunshine is better than rain, more money is better than less money, and a life of ease is better than one with drama and trauma? The rain dancers, the happy poor, and those who have transformed themselves through difficulties into positive world change agents would suggest that this universe exists with the “Yin Yang” duality that allows every blessing to be a curse and every curse to be a blessing. The only real problem, therefore, is not in the world but in our judgment of the world and of ourselves producing a fundamental state of discontent.

Judgment causes separation psychologically and spiritually. The most commonly used Greek word for “sin” in the Bible is “hamartia” which means “separation.” The problem mindset is one of judgment, which causes separation from DivineLove, other people, and our higher selves.

Welcome to my monstrously reduced and absolutely audacious explanation of the universe, the spirit world, and the purpose for this existential experience we call life, which is my attempt to prove that Everything is Perfect and Everything is Improving, including YOU. 6

Let's begin at the beginning! Our quest as a species to understand ourselves, our universe, and the spiritual realm began with Astronomy and Astrology.

ASTRONOMY AND ASTROLOGY What we now call “Astronomy” is the first of the sciences appearing in the earliest records of our history, from Ancient Mesopotamia, India, Egypt, Greece, and China. In these ancient worlds, astronomy and astrology were one — a single, unified approach to explaining the universe. There was no distinction between what we now refer to as science and spirituality.

As the abundance of theories and frameworks expanded in each region of the world, these streams of thought split like a major river into countless streams when researchers would expand on one element thereby building it into its own distinct body of thought producing various sciences, spiritual traditions, and religions. These divisions with specialized knowledge and focus dramatically increased efficiency, depth, and development. From these origins we now have the aforementioned religions, spiritual belief structures, ancient traditions, and varieties of sciences.

SCIENCE AND RELIGION Each science, religion, and spiritual stream brings its unique treasures to the whole. The Age of Enlightenment in the 17th century and the Scientific Revolution of the 18th Century drove an important wedge between science and religion creating what Stephen Jay Gould called "Nonoverlapping Magisteria" (or NOMA) — that is, two distinct realms of inquiry, investigation, and authority, one focusing on facts and the other on values. This division between science and spirituality was the best thing that could have happened for our scientific progress. Until then, it was too easy for scientists to hide behind the “God” answer to all remaining mysteries. The separation demanded deeper scientific understanding by removing the “God of the Gaps” option (that is, appealing to God as the explanation wherever and whenever there is a gap in our scientific knowledge). Each religion and spiritual stream, by seeing itself as The Truth, forced them to seek the answers to everything within their unique framework and belief system.

When finite minds seek to understand infinite mysteries, they will likely appear to disagree. Disagreement, or perceived disagreement, provides the opportunity for next-level understanding, and that excites me greatly.

Sadly, these sciences and spiritual traditions have been built in the “problem 7

mindset” which causes judgment and separation and therefore perceives differing perspectives as threats and justification for aggressive disputes with an “either-or” binary position rather than a “yes, and” inclusive position.

We, as individuals and as a species, are on the same team, and we can lovingly and openly bring our gifts of insights and perspectives to the whole and openly and curiously learn from each other. We unlock the vault of infinite knowledge when we seek the truth in love and speak the truth in love.

THE UNIFIED FIELD THEORY The idea of a “Unified Field Theory” is an exciting quest to fully understand the power of the universe. A group of scientists began attempting to formulate what they called The Unified Field theory in 1912, and they were soon joined by Albert Einstein. In physics, there are believed to be four fundamental forces in the universe: gravity, electromagnetism, strong nuclear, and weak nuclear. At the time of this writing, there are physicists who speculate the existence of a fifth force called “quintessence” (remember this word). When a force is described by a mathematical formula, the formula representing the force is referred to as a “field.” The unified field theory, therefore, is a quest to create a master mathematical formula that describes all forces in the universe. Albert Einstein’s proposed Unified Field Theory, which was a marriage of The Theory of General Relativity and Electromagnetism, has been generally concluded as unsuccessful.

Unified Field Theory has given rise to many attempts to produce a grand unified theory including String Theory and M-Theory and, most notably, The Theory of Everything which seeks to merge Einstein's Theory of General Relativity and Max Planck's Theory of Quantum Mechanics. At this time, The Theory of Everything has yet to be proven successful.

THE REAL THEORY OF EVERYTHING My assertion is that any theory of “everything,” to be complete and successful, must include the spiritual/metaphysical dimension (the prefix “meta” in the word metaphysical means that which exists before, after, and/or beyond the physical world).

When the human quest for understanding began, there was an assumption that everything was connected — from the basic elements of the universe to the human soul and the spiritual realm. Albert Einstein, founder of the Theory of General Relativity, and Max Planck, the founder of Quantum Mechanics, agree.

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Albert Einstein believed in the existence of a divine force that permeates and rules the universe. He felt understanding this force, however, was “too vast for our limited minds.” When asked what he believed about God, Einstein stated, “We see a universe marvelously arranged, obeying certain laws, but we understand the laws only dimly. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that sways the constellations.”

Max Planck (the founder of Quantum Mechanics) stated, "As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear-headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force… We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.”

THE SPIRIT WORLD The spirit world is both transcendent and immanent which means it exists beyond the parameters of time, space, and matter, and at the same time, it penetrates and permeates the entire physical universe. The spirit world created the universe including time, space, and matter.

THE UNIVERSE—WHAT IS EVERYTHING MADE OF? Our understanding of matter, all that physically exists, started with the classical elements of water, earth, fire, and air. There were many deep, rich, insightful, and lasting efforts to uncover and understand a “fifth element” or “quintessence” (still more to come on this).

The quest to understand “what’s that made of?” finally produced the periodic table in 1869. Scientists have identified 118 elements, made up of atoms which are made of a nucleus, protons, and electrons.

Thirty-one years later, in 1900, Max Planck went even smaller to the subatomic level and birthed Quantum Theory. The word “quanta” means “how much?” The question Planck was asking and answering was “what is the minimum amount of energy that could be gained or lost by an atom?”

Planck named this minimum amount the “quanta” (plural of quantum). For example, one photon of light carries exactly one quantum of energy.

According to Wikipedia, we now have the following subatomic elementary particles: “Six ‘flavors’ of quarks: up, down, strange, charm, bottom, and top; Six types of leptons: electron, electron neutrino, muon, muon 9

neutrino, tau, tau neutrino; Twelve gauge bosons: the photon of electromagnetism, the three W and Z bosons of the weak force, and the eight gluons of the strong force; and The Higgs boson.”

Thus, humankind moved from believing in four elements (earth, wind, water, and fire) to five elements (adding quintessence) to 118 elements (the periodic table) while also observing that these elements are all really just made up of the same three atomic elements (protons, neutrons, and electrons), and then we discovered numerous subatomic particles.

Nevertheless, behind it all, something is constant…

EVERYTHING IS ENERGY Einstein’s most famous formula, E = mc2, fundamentally asserts that energy and matter are interchangeable as they are different forms of the same thing. All matter is made up of atoms and subatomic waves and particles which, according to Einstein and quantum mechanics, are all made up of energy. These subatomic particles and subatomic waves are better defined as “energetic occurrences.” These energetic occurrences are the building blocks of every atom which are the building blocks of every element. Therefore, Einstein and the scientific community, in general, have concluded that everything is energy.

The Harvard and Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics agrees that the universe is made up of energy. This energy is subdivided into 27% dark matter, 68% dark energy (the term “dark” means it's currently unobservable and thereby unavailable for research and study), and 5% “visible” matter and energy. The universe is made up of energy, some in physical form and some not, some observable and some not.

The fact that our greatest astrophysicists are currently only able to observe 5% of the known universe is a helpful reminder that humility, curiosity, and openness are the only reasonable postures for this discussion.

ENERGY IS A SPIRITUAL SUBSTANCE Quantum physics has produced over one hundred years of truly shocking experiments and conclusions to date which reveal, amongst many things, that energy, the building block of the universe, is a spiritual substance.

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1. “The Quantum Leap” — The term “quantum leap” refers to the occurrence when an electron, while circling the atom within what is called a shell (consistent circle) transitions to another shell with no movement and no time lost, simply disappears from one location and reappears without delay in another location, thereby transcending the rules of time, space, and matter understood in classical, Newtonian physics. Although the term “miracle” is generally associated with metaphysics, this miracle occurs within the realm of quantum physics at the subatomic level.

2. “Quantum Entanglement” — The term “quantum entanglement” refers to a physical phenomenon that occurs when a pair or group of subatomic particles comes into contact in a way such that the quantum states of these particles become, in a way, as one. When these entangled particles are separated, even by a large distance, the actions of either one is instantly mirrored by the other. This discovery was vehemently challenged by Einstein because it appeared to violate his conclusion that nothing moves faster than the speed of light, yet these entangled subatomic particles appeared to be communicating faster than light. The conclusion is that they are not “communicating,” but they are, in a sense, one entangled particle existing in two locations, thereby transcending the laws of time, space, and matter. Einstein called quantum entanglement “spooky action at a distance.”

These subatomic particles, made of energy and behaving outside of the rules of classical physics and the Newtonian laws of time, space, and matter, reveal that the energy, that which makes up this entire universe and everything in it, including you, is a metaphysical, or spiritual, substance.

WORLD RELIGIONS—THEISM, PANTHEISM AND PANENTHEISM Traditional theism holds that God is the life and love-giving benevolent force that created the universe. While he may continue to interact with it, he remains clearly distinct from it. This has been the most traditional and familiar concept of theology.

Pantheism is the belief system with which Albert Einstein most aligned. Pantheism (literally, all-God-ism) holds that physical reality and divinity are one, that everything in the universe is part of an all-present divine benevolent force, a “universal substance, material as well as intelligence, that fashions all things that exist out of its own essence,” or put simply, God is 11

the universe. The fact that the universe is made of energy and energy is a spiritual substance clearly supports this concept.

Panentheism (literally, all-in-God-ism) holds that God is the universe and transcends it. Panentheism embraces the traditional concepts of theism, which hold that God created the universe and exists beyond the parameters of it, as well as pantheism, which sees God as the universe. This may be seen as a new idea, based on the latest insights of quantum physics, but ideas of panentheism appear in various forms in most religions and sects, including Sikhism, Hinduism, Sanamahism, Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

“Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: ‘Ye must have faith.’”

Max Planck Founder of Quantum Physics The scientific community generally agrees that the universe is made up of energy. Quantum physics has proven that energy is a metaphysical substance. World religions generally agree that the universe is made up of a divine substance, benevolent and loving force, or God. It’s therefore reasonable to conclude that the entire universe is made up of a life-giving, spiritual substance. Some call this Qi, Chi, Ki, Prana, Pneuma, Mana, Lüng, Ruah, Vital Energy, Heavenly Father, Divine Mother, Brahman, the Tau, the Almighty, the Holy Spirit, DivineLove, or simply, God. THE SPIRITUAL REALMS, DIMENSIONS, HEAVENS, AND QUINTESSENCE What connects this physical world, made up of a spiritual substance, to the spiritual world? This physical time/space experience can be viewed as a temporal dimension, a construct, a temporary manifestation within the spirit world. The question, therefore, is, how can we become more fully awakened to the spirit world, the metaphysical reality, and all its dimensions while experiencing this time/space existence? This awakened state is known in spiritual traditions as Enlightenment, Entire Sanctification, Regeneration, Spirit-baptism, Spirit-filling, Moksha, or Wu. What can we know about the ever-present, yet generally undetectable, spiritual dimensions?

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world. The word aether, meaning “pure air,” became synonymous with quintessence both in spiritual and scientific applications. (Aether was also the name of a god in Greek mythology.) The term aether was used in scientific application to “fill in spaces” where scientific understanding was incomplete, including the substance that filled the vacuums of space to allow light to travel which they called a “luminiferous aether.” The belief in this luminiferous aether continued until disproved in 1920 with the help of quantum physics which revealed that photons have both wave and particle functions.

The primary use of the terms aether and quintessence now describe an ever-present, yet undetected, set of spiritual realms, dimensions, or heavens. This idea of a multi-dimensional reality with spiritual planes and unseen realms reappears throughout spiritual history in various forms and various faith traditions. These spiritual planes are called “Akasha” in traditional Indian cosmology, “Ku” within Japanese Godai tradition, and “The Heavens” from ancient Mesopotamia religions along with the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

The number of planes, dimensions, heavens, or levels of spiritual consciousness is quite varied as are their descriptions with the most common number being seven.

Here’s a brief introduction to two of these dimensions that will unlock your Perfect DreamLife: 1. Pure consciousness, the quantum field, the unified field (spiritual use of the term, not the Einstein version), atman, quintessence, the aether is where we go when we transcend this time/space egoic experience through deep relaxed meditation. Dr. Joe Dispenza says, “When you can become no body, no one, no thing, nowhere in no time, you become pure consciousness. This is the door to the quantum field.” The creator of Transcendental Meditation (TM), Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, said, “The unified field is fundamentally a field of consciousness. The field is known as atman, meaning ‘pure consciousness,’ or ‘self,’ since the unified field constitutes the deepest reality and hence the true identity of everything in nature.”

2. Collective consciousness, the astral plane, akasha, or the Akashic record — according to Theosophy, “the Akashic record is a compendium of all universal events, thoughts, words, emotions, and intent ever to have occurred in the past, present, or future in terms of all entities and life forms, not just human.” Computers and mobile phones today enjoy virtually limitless access to supercomputers and the storehouse of human history and understanding. These devices are called “thin-clients” meaning that they do not require the storage 13

capacity or computer power to accomplish what requires monstrous storage and supercomputing by freely accessing these supercomputers around the world. In a similar and sexier way, we have access to connect to all living things from all time as well as infinite wealth, wisdom, and power.

MAKING SENSE OF IT ALL! WHAT’S THE PURPOSE FOR THIS UNIVERSE AND OUR EXISTENCE? Based on this monstrously reduced overview of science, religion, and the spiritual traditions from the beginning of recorded history up to and including the most recent insights of quantum mechanics and the spiritual interpretation of those insights, we can form some conclusions.

The spiritual traditions and religions generally agree that the universe was created by, and is governed by, a benevolent life-giving energy often referred to as “God,” herein referred to as DivineLove, and that divine energy transcends time, space, and matter. The scientific community generally agrees that the universe and everything in it is made up of energy.

Quantum mechanics has proven that this energy transcends time, space, and matter. Therefore, I feel it’s reasonable and obvious to conclude that science's “universal energy,” which transcends time, space, and matter, is the same “DivineLove” energy of religion and spiritual traditions.

Religions and spiritual traditions have committed to mastering methods of connectingg with DivineLove and the multidimensional spirit world, through meditation and prayer. They teach us that we can achieve states they call enlightenment, awakening, entire sanctification, regeneration, spirit-baptism, spirit-filling, Moksha, or Wu, referring to the moment or process by which we accept that we are spiritual beings currently existing in this physical form and we choose to reconnect with DivineLove.

The next reasonable question is, why? Why was this universe created? Why were we created? What’s the purpose for our ability to connect to DivineLove and have infinite wealth, wisdom, and power flow to us and through us?

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OUR SPIRITUAL IDENTITY We are spiritual beings living in physical form. I believe the curious case of consciousness is sufficient to suggest, if not prove, that we are spiritual beings. In all our scientific quest for understanding, including neurosciences, we have yet to solve the mysteries surrounding our consciousness. We don’t know where it comes from, where it begins, or where it resides.

Our consciousness appears to be able to jump the timeline and foresee things which we later refer to as experiencing “deja vú,” and we “know things” we have never experienced or have never been taught. The spirit world transcends time, space, and matter. Therefore, jumping the timeline alone would strongly support the conclusion that we are spiritual beings.

“You are not a physical being having a spiritual experience, you are a spiritual being having a physical experience!”

Dr. Wayne Dyer THE MASTER PLAN The Greek philosopher Epicurus (341-270 B.C.E.) was the first to summarize the primary problem confronting anyone who wants to believe in a good and loving God. His framing of the problem has become known as the Epicurean Dilemma. Here’s a rough glimpse at his reasoning: Most God-believers want to believe in a God who is both allpowerful and all-loving, but how can this belief fit with the world we experience all around us? Our world is filled with hate, crime, violence, and all kinds of evil and suffering. If God is all-powerful (“God is great”), he must have the power to do what he wants, and if God is all-loving (“God is good”), he must want to eradicate evil and suffering. So, why does evil exist?

The error of the Epicurean Dilemma is the presupposition that this universe, this time/space experience, is God’s Divine Masterpiece, the best God can do. That is, the Epicurean Dilemma begins with the assumption that this universe is God’s best; either we accept it as his Masterpiece, or we reject it as a failed experiment. However, the foundational assumption is wrong. This time/space experience is not the Divine Masterpiece but the Divine Master Plan en route to the Divine Masterpiece.

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We are not experiencing the Divine Masterpiece but rather the Divine Master Plan!

PURE LOVE DivineLove in Ancient Greek is agape, and the Judeo-Christian wisdom literature asserts that God is agape. Agape is defined as a creative, life-giving, need-free, unconditional, and deliberate striving for the other's greatest benefit. Just like intimate love between humans produces new life and then forges a new bond of care and nurture for that new life, the nature of DivineLove is to create life and then care for its creation. The purpose, therefore, for this time/space experience is Love. We are created by Love for love. We’re created not simply to exist but to live in a loving relationship with the Divine.

For love to be pure, all parties must freely choose to be in the loving relationship. This universal time/space experience exists with all its complex beauty and tragedy for you, me, and all of us to choose to join DivineLove in the Divine Masterpiece. The terms enlightenment, awakening, and being born-again refer to the process of accepting our reconnection to DivineLove.

Lastly, if this entire time/space experience is simply a cosmic dating process for us to reconnect to DivineLove, why, after the moment of awakening, do we continue to exist here?

LIVING-ON-PURPOSE AS A DIVINELOVE AMBASSADOR The purpose of this universal time/space experience is to provide us an opportunity to freely choose to connect, or reconnect, with DivineLove.

This (re)connection opens the way for many miracles in the individual’s life, including the unveiling of one’s life’s purpose.

Let me illustrate by sharing my personal experience with my DivineLove connection.

When I, at the age of 20, experienced a spiritual awakening, my life trajectory completely changed. I came from a challenging background with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Dyslexia, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), due to childhood trauma. (As an interesting sidenote, I misspelled almost every single word in the previous sentence.) I couldn’t speak in sentences until I was 9 years-old, when I was mercifully sent to a special education speech coach in school. I was functionally illiterate until I was 21 years-old and I still have no college or university degrees. As a child I experienced drama and trauma including being beaten, hung, and almost drowned. I was 16

suicidally depressed when my awakening occurred. I found healing, purpose, and a miraculous life through what I now call Pure Spiritual Intelligence.

As my heart opened to love and healing and my eyes opened to seemingly limitless possibilities, I was overtaken by the desire to share the love. I wanted everyone to experience what I had experienced. I was transformed from a desperate and hopeless person to an abundant person with an uncontrollable compulsion to positively impact the world around me.

My state of abundance at 20 years old wasn’t financial but something else.

The abundant mentality activates altruism and thereby, by serving greatly, eventually produces the abundant reality in various forms. In fact, the word “deserve” literally means “from service.” When we serve greatly, we naturally “deserve greatly.”

With this in mind, friendly people have more friends; the farmer who plants more seeds will likely enjoy a greater harvest, and so it follows that the secret of success in the marketplace is to profitably solve problems because as we serve greatly, we naturally “deserve greatly.”

The wisdom literature of various faiths promises that when we are reconnected with DivineLove, we will experience, express, and expand love, joy, and peace. As we master our connection and our uniquely gifted service, infinite wealth, wisdom, and power begin to flow to us and through us in various forms, and we become DivineLove Ambassadors and world changers.

If you’ve ever felt like you were made for more than the life you’ve experienced, if you know that there’s more to you than this world has seen, you already have a sense of your true nature, purpose, and calling. When reconnected to DivineLove, the past is redeemed; disabilities are transformed into superpowers, and every tragedy turns into triumph by DivineLove using these experiences to fully unlock our ability to touch the world in ways we otherwise couldn’t.

CONCLUSION: EVERYTHING IS PERFECT AND EVERYTHING IS IMPROVING! Some people, it seems to me, live in a perpetual state of discontent and will only be happy if everything in their life becomes perfect. The truth is that nothing truly improves until an individual shifts their mind and mood to accept it’s already perfect because “happiness” is the miracle elixir. In my thirty years of helping people unlock their financial freedom, for instance, I have witnessed repeatedly that money doesn’t make you happy; “happy” makes you money.

Aristotle taught us, “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” In the original Greek, the 17

word translated as “end” is “telos.” The Greek word telos is often translated as “perfect” as in “Be ye therefore perfect (telos) as your Heavenly Father (God) is perfect (telos).” Telos is used to describe something flawless and “perfectly complete,” and it’s also used to describe “the perfect path” toward that completion. Aristotle used the word telos to say happiness is the meaning and purpose of life; it's the perfect path to the perfect life.

Happiness is achieved in the state of present peace and nonresistance which occurs naturally when we are in a state of gratitude for all that is already ours. This is the antithesis of the “problem mindset” that has skewed our scientific and spiritual research. When we choose to focus on what we have, what we know, and what we can do, alone and in community, we become part of the ongoing master plan en route to the masterpiece, free from the fears and frustrations, the fight and flight that flow inexorably from the “Problem Mindset.”

The REAL Theory of Everything is that Everything is Perfect and Everything is Improving.

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ABOUT JAMES MACNEIL

James MacNeil Pure Spiritual Intelligence, Author DreamLife Community, Founder James is a 30-year veteran world-class speaker, thought leader, consultant and international bestselling author. James helps you live your best possible life as your best possible self through Pure Spiritual Intelligence, Verbal Aikido and his Wealthy World-Changer Workshops. James is raising up million dollar gurus all over the world teaching from his experience working with the world most powerful banks, international law enforcement agencies and sharing the stage with the worlds most respected authorities including his “Guru Dad” Les Brown, Tony Robbins, Deepak Chopra, Robin Sharma, Bob Proctor, Grant Cardone, Jack Canfield, Mel Robbins, Steve Forbes, Eric Thomas and Sir Richard Branson www.iLoveBooks.Guru

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Table of Contents

Foreword 1: Les Brown ......................................................................................... 1 Foreword 2: James MacNeil .................................................................................. 6 Introduction by Paul Hissin, Ph.D..................................................................... 25 Chapter 1: Why did I write this book? .............................................................. 31 Chapter 2: My Story. The Power of the 95% Mindset. How it has transformed my life. What it helped me accomplish ...................................... 32 Chapter 3: How can you use your mind in a way that will serve you and accomplish your transformation? ....................................................................... 35 Chapter 4: You do NOT know what you do NOT know. You do NOT know what will happen tomorrow. You should be prepared. ....................... 37 Chapter 5: Why it is important to engage in this topic? Harnessing the Power of the Mind is the difference between Success and Failure. .............. 39 Chapter 6: What this book will teach you ......................................................... 43 Chapter 7: Who would benefit, get inspired, and transform their lives? ..... 45 Chapter 8: If you want to succeed do what successful people do ................ 48 Chapter 9: How you can achieve what you Need, Want, or Desire ............. 52 Chapter 10: The Power of the Brain, the Conscious & Subconscious Minds .................................................................................................................................. 55 Chapter 11: Just because you are not aware of it, do NOT understand it, does not mean it does not exist. ......................................................................... 64 Chapter 12: How can you use your brain in a way that will serve you and accomplish your transformation? ....................................................................... 65 Chapter 13: The Mental Success Formula Explained ..................................... 67 Chapter 14: Habits and Routines vs. Thinking ................................................ 69 Chapter 15: Do not believe anything you hear and 50% of what you see – Trust but verify! ..................................................................................................... 74 Chapter 16: How does the Mind perform the thinking process and instructs the body to perform action? ................................................................................ 78 Chapter 17: The Conscious Mind and the 6 Higher Faculties ...................... 79 20

Chapter 18: Goals ................................................................................................. 83 Chapter 19: The “You,” The Acceptable and Likable “You” ....................... 85 Chapter 20: Conclusion........................................................................................ 86

Chapter Contents Outline

Below is a comprehensive outline of the Mental Success Formula to provide a concise key to navigating the content in this book.

1. Why did I write this book?

2. My Story. The Power of the 95% Mindset. How it has transformed my life—what it helped me accomplish.

3. Why I am qualified to write about this topic - Inception of the Mental Success Formula i. A Career ending problem in 1992 ii. My personal transformation – Tony Robbins iii. Inception of my journey into personal development iv. Inception of the Mental Success formula 4. You do NOT know what you do NOT know. You do NOT know what will happen tomorrow. You should be prepared. i. Every adversity is accompanied by an equal opportunity – Napoleon Hill ii. A forced retirement in 2014 iii. A perfect retirement 5. Why it is important to engage in this topic? The Power of the Mind and the difference between Success and Failure. i. What is more important: Mental, Emotional or Physical Focus? ii. The Power of the Mind - Examples 1. the power of imagination 2. The Power of Mental & Emotional Focus vs. Physical Fitness a. Mikaela Shiffrin, the American skier b. Kamila Valieva, the Russian figure skater c. Simon Biles, the American gymnast. iii. The Difference between Success and Failure 21

1. Each of us has a brain and a mind.

2. Do you think?

3. Something that is too good to be true, but true.

Something that is not magic, but magical.

4. Using your Mental Powers and Mental Abilities 6. What this book will teach you? i. The importance of setting and controlling your mindset. The Power of the Mindset and how it will help you accomplish what you want as it helped me. ii. How you can achieve whatever you need, want, or desire – following a proven system – The Mental Success Formula. iii. How to have your goals materialize & achieve the life that you dream of. iv. How to become acceptable and likable so that others will want to deal with you.

7. Who would benefit, get inspired and transform their lives? i. High school students and teenagers - Our Future ii. Working people ages 19-45 iii. Successful people who like to achieve more success. i.e., Anybody that wants to improve their life.

8. If you want to succeed, do what successful people do. i. If you can think of it, you can have it. ii. The Most Important Question. iii. PMA vs. PAA. iv. Are you successful?

9. How you can achieve what you Need, Want, or Desire i. The Mental success Formula 1. Your Senses - are they helping you?

2. How does the brain perform the thinking Process? a. The Mental Success Formula 10. The Power of the Brain, the Conscious & Subconscious Minds. i. What are they and how do they work?

1. The Hardware: a. The computer frame vs. the Skull b. The RAM and hard drive vs. the Conscious Mind and Sub-conscious Minds 2. The Software vs. the Mind ii. The Power of Our Minds: 22

1. The Conscious Mind 2. The Subconscious Mind 3. The computer iii. Why should we do the work required to perform the thinking Process & The Mental success Formula? What are the incentives? The Superior Power of the Mind!

1. The Conscious Mind: a. Analytical Thinking and Creativity b. Critical Decision-Making 2. The Subconscious Mind: a. Parallel Processing and Multitasking b. Adaptive Learning c. Qualitative vs, Quantitative d. Pattern Recognition and Intuition e. Emotional Intelligence f. Complexity and Context iv. Think about the amazing and mind-boggling things that we are doing with the help of computers. v. What can you do with your mind – your multiple supercomputers?

11. Just because you are NOT aware of it, do NOT understand it, does NOT mean it does not exist.

12. How can you use your mind in a way that will serve you and accomplish your transformation? i. A career ending problem in 1992 ii. Achieving my Transformation and my entry into Personal Development - Tony Robins iii. As a Ph.D. scientist iv. Developing a proven system – The Mental Success Formula 13. The Mental Success Formula Explained 14. Habits & Routines vs Thinking i. Primary difference between habits and thinking. ii. How do you achieve what you want?

1. 87% of millionaires are self-made – how?

2. Wallace D. Wattle – doing things in a “certain way” 3. Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller – a new model 4. Andrew Carnegie – directing your mind.

5. Napoleon Hill, - what the mind conceives & believes.

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iii. What is that “certain way” that will make the old model obsolete. iv. How doing things in a certain way and adopting a new model changed my financial status.

15. Do not believe anything you hear and 50% of what you see – Trust but verify! i. The Power of the Mindset ii. The importance of the Mindset -The essential for learning anything iii. Now, you want to think about what you want NOW, NOT what you thought about before. iv. So, come as you are, you do not need to be rich, smart or educated.

16. How does the Mind perform the thinking process and instructs the body to perform action?

17. The Conscious Mind & the 6 Higher Faculties i. The Mental Success Formula and the 6 Higher Faculties ii. The Six Higher Faculties: (Intuition, Perception, Reason, Will, Imagination, Memory) iii. How do they facilitate the Mental Success Formula. iv. Importance of the Mental Success Formula.

18. Goals

i. The subconscious mind, the Paradigm – the Mental Program ii. Making your goals materialize

19. The “You,” The Acceptable and Likable “You” i. Personal attributes that you must have 20. Conclusion: i. There is nothing new here. ii. If you do NOT DO IT, it is the same thing as if You Do NOT Have It: iii. We have heard this story before. iv. Is this information for real or a gimmick? v. Unleashing the Power of Your Mind vi. Do you want to transform your life?

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THE MENTAL SUCCESS FORMULA

THE POWER OF THE MIND HOW YOU CAN ACHIEVE WHATEVER YOU WANT OR DESIRE

Paul Hissin, Ph.D.

Introduction

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his book will transform your life. It will show you what you want to think about. It will guide you to know what you want, focus on it, desire it, fall in love with it, imagine it in any way you want and get emotionally involved with it. Then, get all the necessary information.

Understand it. Organize it. Then get it or do it. This Mental Success Formula will show you and guide you through the process.

The objective of this book is to show YOU how to use your mind and your mental powers to get what you want and achieve whatever you consider success. You do not need to have money, be smart or educated. The Thinking Process and The Mental Success Formula is a process. Anybody can learn it and master it. I have. Millions of others have. So can you. You can achieve whatever you consider success.

It's been said that the cup is most useful when it is empty. So, free your mind and read with an open mind.

To your success. *** Thinking is the beginning of all things. What you hold in your mind, you can hold in your hand – Bob Procter. This book will explain the Thinking Process. The Mental Success Formula will guide you through this process.

Thinking is a process. This book will explain to you and show you how to think. Yes, how to think. Thomas Edison said, only 5% of people think, 10% think they think and 85% do not think. If you don’t think, then 25

how do you live your busy life without thinking? This question will be explained in this book.

Yes, you can live without thinking. Those of you who are living without thinking are living by your habits and routines, i.e., doing the same thing day after day, week after week and year after year. There is no change in doing the same thing. This is why your life does not change.

To change your life, you need to change what and how you do what you do. You need to start doing things in a “certain way,” a way that renders the old model, the way you used to do things, obsolete. Then your life will change.

Thinking involves considering something you do not have or have not done before. That “thing” is a new “thought.” If you process that “thought” through the “Thinking process” as described below, that “thing” which you are thinking about, becomes the “thought” that will enter the thinking process. Then, that “thing” which is now the “thought” that you are thinking about, becomes the “thing or object” that now you can get or do and hold in your hand.

Therefore, the “thinking process” makes it possible for you to think about anything you want. Then you can get or do whatever you want, and whatever you want becomes a reality. It is 100%. All who choose to do it will be able to get or do whatever they want. This is how you can transform your life. This book will show you how.

The thinking process will be depicted in a formula called “The Mental Success Formula.” This Formula will help you find what you want. It will then guide you through specific processes. These processes are: focusing on what you want, desiring it and falling in love with it, imagining it in any way you like, getting emotionally involved with it, then acquiring all the information about it so that now you either get it or do it.

All of you know how and can do the above processes. No question. But, 85% of you DO NOT. Not because you do not want to, but because you are not aware of them and do not think of them. Therefore, you do not do them. Hence you do not benefit from them, and your lives stay the same and never change. Yet it is available to all who choose to. It is not a secret. It is a process that anybody can learn and do.

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These mental processes occur in the brain. All of you have one.

You also have a Mind. All of you have a Conscious Mind and its 6 Higher Faculties. These Faculties are: Intuition, Perception, Reason, Will, Imagination and Memory. These are the tools of the Conscious Mind. This is why the Conscious Mind is called the Intellectual Mind.

These tools facilitate the processes of the Mental Success Formula.

Guided by the 6 Higher Faculties, these processes, described in the Mental Success Formula, will guide you through “Intuition” and “Perception” the 1st two tools, to distinguish and capture the vibrations and thoughts that you want, the ones that will serve you. “Reason,” the 3rd tool, will help you reject all useless thoughts and accept the useful ones. The “Will” the 4th tool, will help you focus on that thought with the exclusion of all others. The role and function of the Higher Faculties will be explained.

When you focus on anything, you will develop desire for it. Desire triggers “imagination,” the 5th Higher Faculty, as well as “faith and belief.” Faith and belief are the “Gate” to your mind. Desire will open the “Gate” slightly. With time, you will begin to fall in love with that thought.

Falling in love is the secret sauce. It is what makes things happen. It opens the “Gate” further. Without love, it would be difficult for the thought to enter the mind. Hence, without love, it would be difficult to perform the thinking process.

If you continue this process, with time you will get emotionally involved with that thought. Getting emotionally involved with that thought will open the “Gate” the widest. When this happens, you will develop faith and belief in your mental powers and your abilities to get or do that thought. You then would want to get or do that thought, that thing that you wanted. This will compel you to acquire all the necessary knowledge to get or do that thought.

If that thought existed, you would find where to get it and get it.

If you want to do it, you will find the method of how to do it and do it. As such, the thought that was initially in your mind, is now a thing. And now, you can either get it or do it. So, the thought that was initially in your mind is now a thing, or the object that you can get or do and, hence, hold in your hand. This is the “Thinking Process.”

This mental thinking process applies to everything. I learned the teachings of the self-development gurus. I applied their teachings to solve a 27

career ending problem I encountered. I solved my problem. Then through trial and error, the Mental Success Formula was developed. I used it, tested it, and lived with it for 31 years. Through it, I was able to manage a very busy life, solve all problems encountered, and achieved everything I needed, wanted or aspired to. It works.

This Formula would allow you to know, focus and achieve whatever you want, bar none. It is simple and free. You do not need to buy anything. You all have all the tools needed to do and figure out anything.

The problem is that 85% of you are NOT aware of them, do NOT know how to use them and, therefore, do NOT use them and do NOT benefit from them. Hence, your lives never change.

This book will briefly describe the thinking process so that you will be able to do and get what you want so that your lives will be transformed forever. You do not need to be rich, smart or educated. It is a process. Anybody who chooses to learn it can do so, benefit from it and change their life. I have. Millions of others have. So can you.

This book will also briefly mention the process of how you can make your goals materialize. This process will include having that goal, the one you are thinking about, go through the same process described in the Mental Success Formula. That goal is now in the conscious mind.

If you continue to think about that goal for about 63 days, that goal, that thought, will be transferred from the Conscious Mind to the, much more, powerful Subconscious Mind, which contains the Paradigm, the Mental Program, that controls all your habits. This process will include replacing the old thoughts i.e., the old habit, with the new thoughts i.e., the new habits.

Now, the Subconscious Mind, which controls all physical activities and physiological processes through the brain, will issue its directives to the body according to the new Paradigm, the new habits. Thus, your actions and activities now are not according to your old habits i.e., not what you did before, but according to the new habits. Hence, you will start doing things in a “certain way” which are different than the old way, a way that will render the old way, the old model, obsolete. This process will be discussed in great detail in the upcoming book by this author.

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This book will also briefly mention the process of How to become acceptable and likable so that others would want to deal with you.

To complete the process of your transformation, you need to address your other fundamental attributes. Complete success is achieved when others like you, find you acceptable, and want to deal with you. If they do not like you, they will never forgive you for whatever you do and never do anything you say. But if they do like you, they will forgive you for anything you do and do whatever you say.

This will require you to address some attributes and people skills such as: attitude, negotiation techniques, emotional stability, interpersonal skills, being consistent, persistence, marketing and selling skills, being successful vs. unsuccessful, and being grateful. This also will be addressed in great detail in the upcoming book.

These ideas worked in every situation tested. Success is achieving what you think about and whatever you want. This is your mindset. What you do, and how you get what you want, is your strategy. All the gurus’, philosophers and leaders, that I studied, agree that Success is 95% “Mindset” and 5% “Strategy.” It is true. All you need then is to think and know what you want, the 95% mindset, and then follow the instructions in the Mental Success Formula, to achieve the 5% strategy. This book will focus on using your mind to achieve the 95% mindset through the Mental Success Formula.

You do not need to believe in anything, have money, be smart or have an education. Just follow a simple and logical process. And when you see your results materialize, your faith and belief in your mental abilities will develop automatically.

If you believe in the above, then please read, understand and enjoy.

If you are a skeptic and do NOT believe in the above, then please read, understand and then determine if it applies to you and if you can benefit from it. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Bruce Lee, the martial artist and actor said, the cup is most useful when it is empty. So please, clear your mind, read, understand and then decide if you can benefit from it.

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Remember, everything you do, you achieve it by performing the above processes, thinking. So, if you are aware, know and understand the above then you would be able to do anything you want, bar none. That is success. That is priceless.

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Chapter 1: Why did I write this book?

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s of this writing, I had a busy, and by some measures, a somewhat successful life. I am now 76 years young. I live in Florida, enjoying my golden years. I am content, satisfied and happy. I am financially independent. Life is good.

My passion and burning desire are providing you with the life of your dreams and the life that you deserve. You do that by knowing what you want, using your mind and achieving what you consider success.

However, I see so many people hurting and not living the life they dream of. The agonizing thing for me is that it is not that they do not want to become successful, financially independent or living the life they dreamed of, it is that they do NOT know how, even though the solution to all their problems is so easy and doable.

It would be helpful to remember the following principle, which helped me throughout my life and enabled me to do and achieve anything I wanted, “If you do not know it, it is difficult, but if you know it, it is easy.”

Then, all you need is to know it. This is how everything I wanted, regardless how difficult it was, became easy and attainable. All I did was study it, know it and, hence, it became easy. The secret, I knew how to study and how to know. Eight five percent of people do not know how to study and how to know. Do you? I will show you how and everything will become easy. This is Priceless.

As you will see in the next segment, I came from a very humble beginning. I achieved the highest degrees and served in the most responsible positions. Not because I was smart but because I followed proven mental processes as described in this writing. So can you.

This is why I decided to write this book. This book is about you and for you. It is to share with you the lessons I learned the hard way.

Lessons that transformed my life forever. These lessons could transform your lives as they did mine.

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Chapter 2: My Story. The Power of the 95% Mindset. How it has transformed my life. What it helped me accomplish

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was born in Nazareth, Israel, to an average family. Yes, the same place where Jesus grew up. My father was a paster. My mother was an English and Arabic teacher in the missionary hospital in Nazareth. So, our relationship with the doctors and Nurses was very good.

Early in life, I wanted to be like my hero, my idol, a Swiss doctor. who was very good as a physician and in dealing with people. I also wanted to be a doctor, and wanted to help people like my hero. In fact, my parents often jokingly called me young Dr. Hissin. In other words, since early age, I knew and had a good idea what I wanted to be. Key sentence “I knew what I wanted.”

Early on, I was also inspired by Dale Carnegie’s book How to Win Friends and Influence People along with the book Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude authored by Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Stone. These two books shaped my life and showed me how to deal with people, and they made me believe in my mental powers. I learned and believed that success is 95% mindset while strategy, the method, the tactic, is only 5%. As a result, I achieved everything I wanted: •

I came to the United States of America at the age of 17

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Earned a Master of Science and Ph.D. in Clinical Biochemistry from the University of Rochester Medical Center

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Completed a 4-year fellowship at the prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MD

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Completed another 4-year specialization at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City

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Served 30 years as Director of the Clinical Biochemistry and Toxicology Division in the Department of Laboratory Medicine at a teaching hospital, Erie County Medical Center

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Served 30 years as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pathology and Teaching Instructor for pathology residents at the Medical School, State University of New York at Buffalo

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Served 20 years as Clinical Consultant and Assistant Director of the Erie County Public Health Laboratories

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In 1992, I became a student of Personal Development.

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In 2022, I dedicated my life to helping others by showing them how to use their mind and the principles of the “Thinking Process” through the use of the “Mental Success Formula”

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Managed 24 residential units as a landlord for 31 years

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Traded stocks and options through day- and swing-trading as well as credit spread trading for more than 23 years and counting

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At the age of 10, I started private piano lessons; by age 11, I started private violin lessons; by age 13, I purchased my big accordion; also by age 13, I became the organist in my father’s church; I also played piano and violin in the Brethren Church and was the substitute organist for the local Baptist church. I played piano in the daily school chapel, where I attended, for 500 students and played 2nd violin in the college orchestra for 4 years. At the age of 50, I stopped playing music as other pursuits captured my time and interest, and wasn't able to dedicate my time to practice

I did all the above at the same time and with ease. I enjoyed it and was having fun. I knew what I wanted. I did what I wanted. I used my 95% mindset to empower the 5% strategies.

Also, and as will be discussed in the last part of this publication, I learned and, hence, practiced certain attributes that helped me succeed. I always focused and got emotionally involved with what I was doing. Also, I always have the initiative to start, the persistence to finish and the burning desire to achieve what I want and succeed. I never give up. On the contrary, 33

I always follow the principles as described in the Mental Success Formula which guides me through the process to completion. These attributes will be discussed in detail in my upcoming book. Millions of others have done it. So can you.

NOTE: I did not mention the above to impress you, but to show you that when you know what you want, when you know how to use your mental power and abilities when you set your mind to do what you want, and when you get emotionally involved with what you want, you will be able to get, do and achieve what you want, bar none. The only limit you have is the limit you place on your imagination.

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Chapter 3: How can you use your mind in a way that will serve you and accomplish your transformation? i. A Career ending problem in 1992 that led to personal transformation.

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became the director of the Clinical Biochemistry and Toxicology Division in the hospital and Clinical Assistant Professor of Pathology at the medical school in January 1986. By 1990, I also owned and managed 24 residential apartments. So, by 1992, I was already a successful professional. No question. However, for reasons that will be detailed in the upcoming book, that year I encountered a very serious and career-ending problem.

My personal transformation – Tony Robbins: I sought out ways to amplify what I had already achieved to get more out of my life. So, I reached out to Tony Robbins. I purchased his 30-day cassette program Unleash the Power Within and studied it carefully. I re-read Dale Carnegie’s book How to Win Friends and Influence People and Napoleon Hill’s book Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude. I also read Napoleon Hill’s inspiring book Think and Grow Rich. I then studied the teachings of several gurus such as Andrew Carnegie, Earl Nightingale, and Bob Proctor. They all delivered the same core messages but in dramatically different ways.

The inception of my journey into personal development: My personal development journey started in 1992, i.e., 31 years ago. I had many responsibilities. I wanted to deal with my various duties at the hospital, the medical school, and the public health laboratories along with dealing with hospital and laboratory personnel, company sales representatives as well as my tenants and store owners.

The inception of the Mental Success Formula: So, this was the inception of the Mental Success Formula shown below. It enabled me to

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deal with people and made me believe that with the right mindset, I could deal with all my several duties and strategies with fun and ease.

This writing is not a novel. It is not a story about another successful person. It is not a theory or what I thought would happen. But rather, it is my story. My personal experience. It is real. I lived it. I devised it based on my understanding of the gurus’ teachings, in addition, to what I have understood, done, lived with, and tested.

These ideas worked in every situation tested. Success is achieving what you think about and what you want. This is your mindset. What you do and how you get what you want is your strategy. It is the method, the tactic. All the gurus’, philosophers, and leaders agree that Success is 95% “Mindset” and 5% “Strategy.” It is true. All you need then is to think and know what you want and follow the instructions in the Mental Success Formula.

You do not need to believe in anything, have money, be smart or have an education. Just follow a simple and logical process. And when you see your results materialize, your faith and belief in your mental abilities will develop automatically.

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Chapter 4: You do NOT know what you do NOT know. You do NOT know what will happen tomorrow. You should be prepared.

“Every adversity is accompanied by an equal opportunity” – Napoleon Hill

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s stated above, in 1992, while experiencing professional success I encountered a problem at the hospital with the New York State (NYS) Department of Health. The problem was initiated by three laboratory employees. The hospital hired an attorney to investigate and defend me. I almost lost my job, but the attorney found the truth i.e., the individuals causing the problem. In court, I was found innocent and was absolved of all wrongdoings.

As Napoleon Hill wrote, “Every adversity is encountered by an equal and opposite opportunity.” Accordingly, this unfortunate incident was the inception of my very fortunate journey into personal development, which served me well all along and up to this day.

It is true that success is NOT what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you. If you learn from it, that becomes an experience. Experience will lead to good judgment. And good judgment will lead to success. Using this and other principles allowed me to navigate life successfully for 31 years.

A forced retirement in 2014: In 2014, my hospital merged with another hospital because of financial incentives, and my job was abolished.

So, after being a director for 30 years, experiencing stability and being at the panicle of my game, I was given the choice of being let go or retiring. I chose to retire.

So, regardless of your position or situation in life, you do NOT know what you do NOT know. You have no assurances of what will happen tomorrow. This is why the information learned here, in knowing how to use your mind, face any difficulty or obstacle you may encounter, and be able to get what you want, is by far more important than learning any particular app or strategy.

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If you know how to use your mind and be able to get whatever you want, then you can learn anything, any app or any strategy. You are always prepared for whatever happens. You can, with ease, learn any strategy and accomplish whatever you want. Indeed, you will be prepared to face any obstacle.

A Perfect Retirement: My life now is far better than when I was working. I am free. I am doing exactly what I want to do, what I like to do, and when I want to do it. I am more content, satisfied, happy, and financially independent. I have peace of mind. All because of the material described here. You can too.

The information below will NOT teach you an app or any particular trade or profession. But it will show you how to use your mind to learn whatever and whenever you want. i.e., any app and any trade or profession. If you think you can, then you can. If you think you can’t, then you can’t.

You will learn how to set your mindset to empower you to achieve any strategy, bar none. In my humble opinion, this information should be basic and mandatory for all, because it will give you confidence as well as empower and enable you to learn, get, or do whatever you choose. That is life security. It is priceless.

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Chapter 5: Why it is important to engage in this topic? Harnessing the Power of the Mind is the difference between Success and Failure. i. What is more important: Mental, Emotional or Physical focus?

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his writing is about something that 85% of you should be familiar with. But you are NOT. It is about something that 85% of you have and should be able to use & benefit from. But you do NOT. Success is 95% Mindset & 5% strategy. You all know that. You all know that every action requires mental, emotional, and physical focus, and in that order. Again, Mental and emotional first, that is the 95% Mindset. Physical focus, the 5% strategy, ranks last.

Recently I watched a tennis game. The Pro had a long winning record, but she lost. The winner was young and had much less experience.

After the game, the announcer said, the pro was physically fit and ready, but she was not mentally and emotionally ready. The winner, however, despite her lack of experience, was mentally and emotionally on fire. That is the power of mental and emotional vs. physical. The power that could lead to success or failure.

Each of you here has a job and you think you are successful, and I hope you are. But, relatively speaking, you are not as successful as you could be. You are producing about 1-5% of what you could be producing.

Instead, you could be and should be producing 95% of your maximum potential plus the 5% you are currently producing. That is 100%.

Accordingly, each of you could be and should be producing about 20 times what you are producing now, what you are capable of. How much difference will that make for you & your family? Your loved ones? It is not that you do NOT want to. It is that you do not know how. What a shame!

Where are you focused? Are you focused on the mental, the 95%, of what you want and should be doing, or the physical, the 5%, of what you are doing now? It is not that you do NOT want to succeed. It is that you do not know how to succeed. You can change that by simply learning how to use your mind and then succeed.

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Let me give you an example of one of these powers that you are all familiar with, you do all the time, but you do not think of, or wonder how you can do that. Yet you do but cannot explain it.

1. The Power of imagination - Hawaei I would like to start by asking you to close your eyes. No, you are not going to pray. Instead, I would like to demonstrate to you the magical power of your mind.

I would like you to focus and imagine that you are in Hawaii, sitting in a lounge chair on the beach, surrounded by your loved ones. Do you see the white sand all around you?

The waiter is bringing you your favorite drink. The water in front of you is blue and clear and people and kids are playing in the water. Do you see it?

Now, please open your eyes and unfortunately for you, you are here with me. Or you are where you’ve been all along.

2. How did that happen?

How, in one instance, you were able to go to a place that some of you have visited before and many of you have never been there. And if you did what I asked you to do, you would definitely have experienced something special.

How does something like this happen? You can see whatever you choose to see or imagine on the screen of your mind. With all our technology, we still do not know how that happens.

Napoleon Hill said, imagination is the most powerful thing the world has ever known.

But that is the power of your mind. This power is real. It will make a difference between success and failure, as you will see how it affected the performance of a skier, a figure ice skater, and a gymnast in real life. On TV. In front of the whole world.

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ii. The Power of Mental & Emotional Focus vs. Physical Fitness 1. Mikaela Shiffrin: In 2018, Mikaela Shiffrin, an American skier, won Gold in two Olympic events. She said that she visualizes the landscape of the event in her mind 1000 times and plants it in her mind. She won the gold because she saw it in her mind and believed that she is going to win it.

Two years later, her most favored supporter, her father, died. She missed him.

In the 2022 event, he was not there to support her and take pictures. And, in the first two skiing events, where everybody was rooting for her to win the gold again, she fell 11 seconds after the start. She was crushed and finished 8th in the event. She said that she lost because she could not see the slope and herself winning in her mind.

2. Kamila Valieva: This 15-year-old Russian figure ice skater was utterly fantastic.

They said she was the first to do the quads. They called her a prodigy.

She did fantastic in the 2022 events and was ahead of everybody.

Then the doping scandal with the Russian team became known. She tested positive for one of the banned substances. So far, we do not know what happened. Did she know? Was she aware of what she was taken? Or, did others plan it?

So, while she skated fantastically and she was a pleasure to watch, after the scandal broke, she got distressed, lost her head, and in the last event, she fell 4 times, something that they said never happened before.

So, what happened? She lost her head and confidence in herself. She could not see her routine in her mind. She fell 4 times and finished 4th. She and the whole team were crushed.

That is the power of the mind. It could really make you or break you. And these are not just words. It really could make you or break you.

3. Simon Biles: Simon Biles is regarded as one of the greatest gymnasts of all time.

She had Olympic success, won world championships, and exhibited great gymnastics skills. She undoubtedly left an indelible mark on the world of gymnastics and beyond.

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However, and unexpectedly, she temporarily withdrew from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, citing mental health concerns and a phenomenon known as the “twisties.” This condition is dangerous because it can affect the gymnasts’ ability to perform complex skills safely. The twisties can lead to disorientation and loss of spatial awareness during mid-air movements, putting the gymnast at risk of injury. She made the difficult decision to prioritize her mental well-being and withdrew from several events to focus on her mental recovery.

After taking a break to focus on her well-being and undergo training to overcome the twisties, Biles later announced that she would be returning to compete in the individual balance beam event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Her decision to return to competition showcased her resilience and determination. She was the youngest person to receive the Medal of Freedom from the President of the United States for her advocacy in Mental Health.

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Chapter 6: What this book will teach you The information in this book will transform your life.

This book addresses the following topics: 1. The importance of setting and controlling your mindset. The Power of the Mindset and how it will help you accomplish what you want as it helped me 2. How you can achieve whatever you need, want, or desire – following a proven system 3. How to have your goals materialize and achieve the life that you dream of 4. How to become acceptable and likable so that others will want to deal with you

You are what you habitually do. Your results are based on what you habitually do. Success then is not a mystery. It is not luck. It is the result of what you habitually do.

What do you habitually do? What are your habits? What do you do every day?

Do you know what you want? What do you think about?

Where are you focused on?

Are you an Unconscious Competent? This is where you should be. This book will show you how.

I know some of you are disappointed. You would rather, instead, learn how to use a new app or some simple strategy. But you are missing the point. A car can take you any place. But first you need to learn how to drive it. If you do, then you need to know how to tell the GPS where you want to go. Otherwise, you are not going any place. This valuable car has no value. It is useless. It is the same as if you do not have it.

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Your mind is the same thing. It is a powerful supercomputer. It can figure out anything. But first you need to be aware of it, think of it, and learn how to use it.

Then you need to know what you want. You need to tell your mind what you want. And when you know how to do that, then you can tell it anything, and it will show you how to get, do or learn anything. Now you can learn any app, any strategy!

So, what you are learning today is more important than learning anything else. Because by learning how to use your mind, your mental powers, your mental abilities, you would be able to learn, get or do anything you want. I know, some of you are skeptical and do not believe or dismiss what you just read. That is a big mistake.

How many of you believe that there is a solution for everything. How many of you say to yourself, as I do, there is a solution for everything, and it is my job to find it. Therefore, I always find the solution and for everything. Seek and ye shall find! It may not be a perfect 100% solution.

But most of the time, 80% of the solution is good enough for me.

President Reagan said, “I’d rather get 80% of what I want rather than end up holding the flag,” i.e., 80% is better than nothing.

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Chapter 7: Who would benefit, get inspired, and transform their lives?

Three groups of people will benefit from this material: 1. High school students and teenagers - Our Future 2. Working people ages 19-45 3. Successful people who want even more success

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asically, anybody that wants and, more importantly, has a burning desire to improve their lives. You can take the bull to the water, but you cannot make him drink. An alcoholic who does not recognize and admits that he is one, will never go to alcohol anonymous. Life is having choices. Life is making decisions. It is your time now to choose and decide. Do you want to improve your life? i. High School Students and Teenagers

High school students and teenagers are our future. They should be aware of their minds, know how to use them and use them. They should explore what they want and direct their minds to achieve what they want and be successful. It is easy. It is doable. They just need to be taught.

Therefore, this material should be mandatory education to teenagers who are beginning their lives, education, and careers. They should be encouraged to focus on what they like, what their special gift is, and how they envision themselves and their lives to be. They should believe that they can do and be anything they want. There is no limit. The only limit is the one they place on their imagination. But first, they should know what they want, what they are good at, what they like and are gifted to do.

Schools, colleges, and universities are not for everybody and should not be encouraged as such. Courses should be specialized and directed specifically towards the interest of the student. A student who is interested in plumbing should not go to college but should take courses that inform him about plumbing.

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Time is the most expensive commodity. With the passage of time there is physical and mental deterioration. I am 76. I know. Do not waste your young and impressionable years. If you spend time studying useless things, then you are consciously wasting valuable time and not studying useful things. This is “Lost Opportunity.”

Those who benefit from colleges and universities are those who want to study medicine, engineering, law, and other specialized fields that require formal education. Those interested in other careers should go to their specific trade or vocation school or attend special coaching and/or mentoring programs.

I have an MS and a Ph.D. degrees and two Post-Doctoral fellowships. A University and two specialized institutions were the right venue to study what I wanted. This specialized education was necessary to do my job. However, universities are not the right venue for everyone, especially where there are no specialized courses to help you do what you want and aspire to do. In this instance trade schools and/or Coaching and Mentoring programs would be a better option. Education is acquiring useful knowledge regardless of where you learn it.

Do not waste the time when you are young and mentally sharp on things that are not going to benefit you in your future. It should be on a need to your aspired career basis. If you know how to use your mind, you can always change and adapt. Otherwise, valuable time and, hence, talent is being wasted.

There is nothing more important than acquiring knowledge and education; the education that will help you acquire the knowledge to enable you do what you want. Otherwise, it is simply a sophisticated trivia. Useful education leads to knowledge. Knowledge is the substance that your mind will use to help you achieve what you want. Feed it the right knowledge. It is as simple as that. ii. Working people ages 19-45 This material will help individuals who are seeking a better life.

Individuals who want and yearn for the good life, but they do not know if they can have it, or how to do it. Individuals who know they deserve more but they do not know if or how to get it. They think success is exclusive for the rich and famous. They are wrong. They can learn and be anything they want to learn and be. They just need to follow the steps in a proven system that will guide them to know what they want and how to acquire it. 87% of millionaires are self-made!

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This material is a message of hope. It will tell them that they have all the tools to get what they want and deserve. They just need to know how. I will show them how.

This material is also for individuals who have a job that they do not like, living in a house and driving a car or whatever they have or are doing they do not like. They like a better choice. This material will show them how to get what they want and aspire to. iii. Successful people who like to achieve more success: There are many wealthy individuals who either acquired their wealth through inheritance or working hard in a trade or profession. These individuals may not have a good understanding of how to maintain, preserve or increase their wealth. They may also aspire to enrich their lives with things other than money e.g., relationships or well-being.

Understanding how the mind works, how to think in a “certain way,” a way that is used by successful people will enable them to acquire what they are seeking. The Mental Success Formula will teach them how to focus, get and do what they want. It will help them to maintain, preserve or acquire more wealth. They will find the information contained here is useful and priceless.

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Chapter 8: If you want to succeed do what successful people do

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t’s been said, if you want to succeed do what successful people do.

Here, I am going to show you exactly what successful people do.

Remember, 87% of millionaires are self-made. That means at one point in their lives they were just like you and me. So, they started doing things in a “certain way” and achieved success. In this case it was money. So, you could achieve whatever you consider success, like them. If you start doing things in a “certain way,” like them, then you will succeed, like them.

Hence, you can easily achieve the goals and transformation you’re seeking by following and performing the steps detailed in a proven system.

The same system that is used by successful people. That system is detailed in The Mental Success Formula. This formula is very simple, logical and doable. It does not include algebraic or arithmetic symbols or computer codes. It is in plain English. Anybody can learn it, understand it and do it.

I have learned it, done it and mastered it, and I guarantee you that I am not any smarter than any of you. Because as I will show you later, we all have the same brain, the same mind with the same capabilities. There is no smart or stupid person. There is a know-it or does not know-it person. It all depends on what information you feed your mind and, hence, what you know. You must believe that. If you don’t, it is your loss.

What information do you feed your mind? Do you think of your mind? Do you know how to use it? Are you using it? Once you understand all of that, you will find it very simple. It is just that nobody taught you that.

Therefore, you simply do not know. And today, that is exactly what I am going to show you.

This formula will show you how to think about what you want.

How to focus on it, imagine it and process it in order to get or do what you want. It will show you how to succeed and transform your life by simply using your God-given mental powers.

As mentioned above, I have earned the highest degrees and worked at the most prestigious places. Any of you who will learn what I learned and do what I did, will know what I know and can do what I did. There is no question about that. If you know how to use your mind, then whatever information you put in it, you can retrieve & use. It is as simple as that.

Those of you who complicate things will never do and not achieve anything.

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Again, Bruce Lee said, the cup is most useful when it is empty. So, clear your mind and read with an open mind and you will transform your life.

First you need to listen, then understand, then do. And when you do and achieve whatever you want, then you will believe. You do not need to be rich, smart or educated. All you need is to listen, understand & do. Then you will believe and achieve! i. If you can think it, you can have it In 1903, Andrew Carnegie, the richest man in the world at that time, told the young reporter, Napoleon Hill, “The Creator has given you full control over your mind. You can get anything you want by taking possession of your mind and directing it towards what you want. All you need is to know what you want.” The richest man in the world must have known something; something that we normal people do not know!

Consequently, Napoleon Hill, after 20 years of interviewing the wealthiest Americans, concluded and agreed with all the gurus,’ leaders and philosophers that “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

In other words, if you can think it, believe you can achieve it, and take action, a must, then you can get it! How powerful is that? i.e., if you can think it, you can have it. So, if you think you can, then you can, and, if you think you can’t, then you can’t. It is as simple as that! Don’t complicate things. Today, I will show you how. ii. The Most Important Question So, the most important question is to ask yourself: What do you really want? Where do you want to direct your mind? What do you want to get or do? What do you want to achieve?

Do you know what you want? Are you thinking about it? Are you focused on it? Do you imagine it the way you like it? Did you fall in love with it? Did you get emotionally involved with it? Did you get all the needed knowledge about it? Did you find the way how to get it or do it?

These are the steps that you would be doing when you follow the “Mental Success Formula” as will be described below. These are questions that you must answer and the steps that you must take in order to achieve what you want. If You don’t, then you won’t! If you do not do the above, 49

then how do you think you are going to get what you want? Things do not happen by themselves. That is wishful thinking.

If you did not do the above that means you really do not want it, and your heart is not in it. You need to do it, or delegate somebody to do it.

But you need to make sure it is getting done. It is your responsibility. You need to be responsible. Do you know what is being responsible.

Responsible is Response ability, i.e. your ability to respond to what is needed, to what you need and get it done. That is, taking action. iii. PMA vs. PAA It’s been said that Positive Mental attitude (PMA) is power. That is not true. PMA is only “potential” power.

PMA is good intention. Good intention is good. But there is no “action” in good intention. Then while it is good, it is also useless. And by extension, PMA is useless. However, if PMA is followed by PAA (Positive “Action” Attitude) then it is good. Why? Because there is action in PAA. Only action produces results. Only Results that count.

In the same token, knowing the mental processes of the Mental Success Formula is very good. But without doing them and taking action they are useless. Do you know where and how to take or direct your mind to achieve what you want? What you want is not going to happen automatically! You need to do it! Only action produces results. Only results that count.

If you have a beautiful expensive car, but if you do not know how to drive it, for you, that car is useless. It is not going to take you anywhere.

It is the same as if you do not have it.

If you were aware that you have a car and if you know how to drive it, but if you do NOT know how to tell the GPS where you want to go, that expensive car is not going to take you any place, at least not where you wanted to go. You cannot just tell it take me to that place. You need to tell it the exact location.

In the same token, being aware of your mind, its power, and its capabilities is not enough. You also need to know how to use it. You also need to know where you are now, and where you want to go. You need to know, and be cognizant, of what are you doing now that is producing your current unacceptable results. You need to know how and what to change in order to get the result that you want!

Yes, it is that simple. And, this is the way it works! This is what you need to do. Again, things do not happen by themselves. You need to know! and you need to do!

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But first you need to know the results that you want. Do you know what you want? Did you tell your mind what you want? And no, that does not mean you are crazy! You literally need to tell your mind what you want.

Otherwise, your mind will continue to do what it knows how to do.

The main job of your mind is to keep you safe. Doing what it has done before, your habit and routine, was safe. So, it will continue to do what it has done before to keep you safe, until you tell it otherwise.

Do you know what to tell your mind? Do you know what you want? Are you doing what you need to achieve what you want? Is what you’re doing serving you and your family? iv. Are you Successful?

Tony Robbins said, success leaves clues. So, I ask you, how much money are you making? How much money do you want to make?

However, do not go after, or chase money. Do the things that attract money. Do the things that attract what you want. Do the things that will get you what you want.

Nothing happens by itself. You have to do it. Where are you living now? Where do you want to live? What type of car are you driving now?

What type of car do you want to drive? If money, a house, or a car is not your thing, then what is your thing? What do you consider success? Where are you now and how are you going to achieve your success?

Are you content, satisfied, and happy? Are you financially independent? Are you successful? This is not a debate! It is a simple question. Anyone should be able to answer it. Is it a Yes? or a No? Are you achieving your goals? Do you have a goal? Yes? Or No? Do others find you acceptable, likable, and want to deal with you?

Not very difficult to answer! Do others find you acceptable, likable, and want to deal with you? Yes? Or No? These are very simple and basic but important questions. Each of us should be able to answer. Those of you that could not, then you really need to read this book. Those of you that were able to answer, can still benefit from this book.

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Chapter 9: How you can achieve what you Need, Want, or Desire

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chieving what you need, want, or desire is a process. It is not magic. It could be learned by anybody who chooses. It does not require money or to be smart or educated. It will, however, require understanding and performing the Mental Success Formula.

It is helpful to understand the involvement of the senses, the conscious mind, and the 6 higher faculties of the mind, but it is not necessary at this time. This understanding will evolve later. For now, just focus on the Mental Success Formula, a proven system, as shown below. i. Your Senses

The thinking process starts with the senses: seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching. They are very sensitive, open, and receive information all the time.

How much time are you spending each day acquiring useless information? Does this information serve you or your family? Are you being controlled by your senses?

If you stop spending valuable time listening to and consuming useless information, you could instead use that time to acquire useful information to achieve what you need, want, or desire.

All you need is a decision. So, decide. What is it that you want?

What information is useful to you and that will serve you and achieve what you want? Not listening to or consuming useless information will save you so much time! Saving time is just the beginning of these benefits. This time will be needed and used to acquire and do what you want. ii. How does the brain perform the thinking Process?

The central theme here is understanding the Thinking Process, i.e. Thinking. What is the Thinking Process? What is Thinking?

Understanding the thinking process is the beginning of all things. This is how you can get or do anything you want. First, you need to think.

But first, do you know what you want? What do you want to think about? You need to know what you want so that you know what you want to think about! Thinking is the beginning of all things!

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What you want does NOT happen by itself, automatically. It does not happen by accident. It does not happen by luck. There is NO such thing as luck. Luck is preparation meeting opportunity. It is due diligence. The preparation and the due diligence are done by you. When you prepare and do your due diligence, then you achieve what you want. Now, they say, you are lucky.

Again, thinking is done by you. You need to think about it, plan it and know all about it. If it exists, you can get it. If it was done, you can do it. But you are the one who will, or make plans to get it or do it. You do that by thinking and knowing how to acquire what you want.

Second, you need to understand and perform the thinking process i.e., you need to start thinking in order to achieve what you want. The thinking process is done by performing the Mental Success Formula.

The Mental Success Formula shown here is a simple, logical and straightforward but a very powerful formula and it will get you what you need- no question.

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i. The Mental Success Formula Mental Success Formula Think  Focus  Imagine  Fall In Love  Faith & Belief  Emotion Involvement Know what Fall Faith you Think Focus  Imagine In  &  Emotional  want Love Belief Involvement  Knowledge 

Learn  Organize 

Get or Do it

Get it  Find where to get from  Get it Do it  Method  Get Tools and Supplies  Do it

The Mental Success Formula consists of processes that we are all familiar with: thinking, focusing, imagining, getting emotionally involved, acquiring needed knowledge to get or do what we want! We all know how to do that. We all do that, or more accurately, think we do that!

These processes, of course, occur in the brain. So, it will be helpful before discussing these mental processes in detail to elaborate a little bit about: How are these processes initiated, i.e., what is the trigger? How do these processes happen? Where do they happen in the brain i.e., in what part of the brain for reasons that will become clear later.

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Chapter 10: The Power of the Brain, the Conscious & Subconscious Minds What are they and how do they work?

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hat is the difference between the brain, the conscious, and the subconscious minds. Knowing this slight detail will become clear later. While some of you might be familiar with these topics, for the benefit of those who are not, I will discuss them very briefly for the purpose of showing the power of the mind and in more detail in my book.

i. The Hardware a. The Computer frame vs. the Skull Undoubtedly, the brain is structurally a very complex organ.

However, enough work has been done by neuroscientists so that we can conceptually understand how it works and use it for our benefit.

It is well-recognized and acknowledged that the brain is a supercomputer. This is true and it is also NOT exactly true, because there are some similarities but many more differences.

Computers have a frame and certain hardware that run or operate according to the installed software. Similarly, the skull is the frame that contains the brain, the hardware so to speak, inside it.

The brain is a vascular structure that contains a variety of cells such as gray cells, white cells, neurons, nerve cells, and blood vessels. These are the brain hardware structures that perform the different activities according to the installed software. In this case, this activity or software is called the mind.

Without the software, the computer frame and hard drive are useless. Similarly, without the mind, the brain and all the cells and structures within are inactive and useless. For example, when we die, the brain and all its components remain, but there is no activity. The mind ceases to exist.

The body and the brain remain, but no activity.

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So, it is the Mind that produces or controls all the activity.

According to Dr. Caroline Leaf, a neuroscientist, it is 99% of who we are. It dictates your attitude, your thinking, your emotions, and your personality. It is who you are. It controls all your nerves, your motions and activities. Your brain and your body are only 1% of who you are. The Mind is the most important component. And it is very powerful.

I am mentioning that detail because most of us are not aware of it, do not think of it, do not know, appreciate or recognize its power, how much it controls us and how much we can accomplish by understanding it.

More importantly, it is the Mind, that we need to know, understand, and learn how to use in order to achieve what we want and transform our lives.

b. The RAM & Hardrive vs. the Conscious and the Subconscious Minds With regular computers all the activities occur on the smaller RAM and less on the much larger hard drive. Similarly, the outer portion in the brain, the Neocortex, contains the Conscious Mind, similar to the RAM. And the inner part, mostly the Amygdala and other surrounding structures, contains the much more powerful, subconscious mind, similar to the Hard Drive.

In computers, the RAM is where the current activity & action occurs. When it is done, those files are then transferred & stored in the hard drive and can be recalled later at any time. Similarly, all the current, new activity, the thinking process occur in the outer portion of the brain, the neocortex, in the conscious mind. When that thinking process is complete then, under certain conditions but not always, which I will explain later, it is transferred for storage in our long-term memory in the subconscious mind. Those thoughts are stored in long-term memory and can be recalled at any time.

If we continue to perform these activities periodically, these activities stay in our active, Mental Program or Paradigm, in the subconscious mind and become our habits and routines. And if we do not use them, then they are stored, in the long-term memory, until they are needed. And at that time, they will be recalled and performed.

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ii. The Software, the Mind The computer hardware performs according to the software that was installed in that computer. The brain, however, does not run by any man-made software, it runs by a software that the creator has given us. We are born with it. It is called the Mind.

Further, we have two minds, the smaller conscious mind and the much larger and much more powerful subconscious mind.

So, what do we know about the mind? Can it serve us? Can it help us achieve what we want? How powerful it is compared to our most powerful computers?

a. The Power of Our Minds To understand the powers of the conscious and subconscious minds we must compare them to a known item, our man-made computers, even though such a direct comparison cannot be straightforward; each of these processes are complex and nuanced. Both human cognition and computer processing involve intricate processes.

ii. The Conscious Mind: The conscious mind encompasses our awareness, reasoning, decision-making, and deliberate thinking. It contains specialized tools e.g., the 6 Higher Faculties (Intuition, Perception, Reason, Will, Imagination and Memory) and, hence, it is called the Intellectual Mind. It involves processing information sequentially and can be relatively slow compared to the computational speed of computers. Our conscious thoughts are influenced by a variety of factors, including attention, memory, and emotional state. Hence, while humans are capable of sophisticated and nuanced thinking, the conscious mind is constrained by biological processes that can limit its speed and efficiency.

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iii. The Subconscious Mind: The subconscious mind operates below the level of conscious awareness. It handles a wide range of automatic processes such as: • • •

Regulating bodily functions, e.g., heartbeat, digestion and other processes, Pattern recognition, and Some memory processes.

It is difficult to directly compare the speed of subconscious processes to computer processing because the subconscious mind does NOT work in the same linear and systematic way that computers do.

Subconscious processing is highly parallel and can occur at remarkable speeds. The speed of the conscious mind has been reported to be about 2000 actions per second whereas that of the subconscious mind as 400 billion actions or firings per second. Therefore, it often influences our thoughts and actions without our conscious awareness.

iv. The Computer: Computers are designed for high-speed processing and can perform calculations and data manipulations incredibly quickly.

Modern computers can execute billions of instructions per second and handle complex mathematical and logical operations with ease.

Computers excel in tasks that involve repetitive calculations, sorting large datasets, and performing precise operations.

a. Why should we do the work involved to perform the Thinking Process & the Mental Success Formula: The answer, because when we use the Mental Success Formula we use the power of the Mind which can achieve whatever we want – what is more important than that?

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requires effort & work. However, knowing and appreciating the power of our mind, the power at our disposal, could be the required incentive, for some of us, to do such work.

To understand the power of the human mind, both conscious and subconscious, we must start by introducing the concept of, and understanding, human cognition (mental processes and functions) and the immense complexity of thought processes and comparing it to the manmade computer processing. The human mind is an intricate web of conscious and subconscious activities that drive our perceptions, decisions, emotions, and creativity.

It is important to note that the human brain and computers are fundamentally different in terms of their architecture, processing methods and objectives. Hence, consider the following differentiating powers of the Mind:

1. The Conscious Mind: i. Analytical Thinking and Creativity: The conscious mind can perform analytical thinking and problemsolving. While computers can analyze data, humans can draw from experiences, emotions, and creativity to arrive at innovative solutions that computers might not conceive of.

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Conscious thinking involves logical reasoning and critical decision-making.

Humans weigh multiple factors, values, and ethical considerations, making decisions beyond the scope of algorithms.

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2. The Subconscious Mind: i. Parallel Processing and Multitasking •

Our subconscious mind excels in parallel processing by the several networks within, handling numerous tasks simultaneously without us consciously realizing it.

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This could be compared to a computer’s multitasking abilities, where it can efficiently manage multiple operations at once. It should be noted that computers process data sequentially. However, by changing or adding parallel processing architecture, e.g., adding multi-core CPUs and specialized hardware like graphics processing units (GPUs), to begin to approach the multi-tasking capabilities of the subconscious mind.

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The human brain has the ability to learn, adapt, and generalize from experiences, which is fundamentally different from how traditional computers operate.

Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) are bringing computers closer to this kind of adaptability, but they still operate based on algorithms and training data.

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Human cognition often deals with qualitative understanding, emotions, creativity, and complex decisionmaking that go beyond quantitative calculations.

Computers excel at quantitative tasks but struggle with true understanding, creativity, and emotions.

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iv. Pattern Recognition and Intuition: • • •

The subconscious mind has remarkable pattern recognition abilities.

It can quickly identify subtle cues, leading to intuition and rapid decision-making.

This can be compared to artificial intelligence algorithms that are trained to recognize patterns in data sets.

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Our subconscious can process emotions and respond emotionally to situations.

Unlike computers, humans can understand and interpret emotions in complex ways, allowing for empathy and social interactions.

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The conscious mind is able to handle complex situations and adapt to various contexts.

Unlike computers, which follow predefined instructions, humans can adapt their thinking to unpredictable scenarios.

In Summary, while computers can perform certain types of calculations and data processing much faster than human conscious thought, the comparison is not straightforward due to the qualitative and adaptive nature of human cognition. Additionally, the roles of conscious and subconscious thought in human cognition make the comparison even more complex.

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us in processing data, automating tasks, and augmenting our capabilities, but they cannot replicate the holistic and intricate nature of human thought.

It took thousands of years for the human mind to develop to the current complexity where it can contribute to art, science, philosophy, and innovation in ways that machines cannot. It is a real shame that 85% of us are not aware of this power, do not recognize it, and use it to achieve whatever they need or want. They are living by their habits. They do not use their conscious mind to think and, further, to instruct our subconscious mind to change our old habits and do what we want now. Instead, they allow the subconscious mind to continue to do what is safe, our old habits.

Hence, their lives never change. It is as if they are running around with half of their heads cut off. That is a shame.

Regardless whether you heard it before or not, you know it or not, none of that matters. What matters is: if you are not using your mind, then you are not benefiting from it, and it is the same as if you do not have it.

Truly then, it is a real shame. Having all that power to achieve and do anything, and all that power is being wasted. You must start using it now to transform your life and achieve the future you deserve. Your future starts in your present. Your present is now.

NOTE: This section was not included to teach you about the mind, but rather to demonstrate and impress upon you the power of the mind which is under your disposal. So, should we let all that power sit idle by, or use it to achieve our, relatively simple, but life changing dreams.

b. Think about the amazing and mind-boggling things that we are doing with the help of computers.

When president Jack Kennedy asked Dr. Wernher Von Braun, the head of his space agency, what would it take to send a man to the moon, his answer was “the will to do it.” Dr. Von Braun then told President Kennedy that with the technology that we have, i.e., computers, we should be able to send a man to the moon and bring him back safely. This conversation occurred in 1960s.

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which ultimately led to the successful landing of astronauts on the Moon in 1969 during the Apollo 11 mission.

That same imagination led to many space missions after that. It is noteworthy that with the help of computers Elon Musk can now send spaceships to space and land them back on earth at the exact time and location. It is absolutely mind-boggling.

c. What can you do with your mind – your multiple supercomputers If this is what we can do with our man-made computers, can you then imagine or wonder about the kind of things that you can do by using your mind?

Most of us do not understand how regular computers work – something that our experts fully understand. Then why do we wonder how much our minds can do since we, and even our most experts, still do NOT understand how our mind work. Our minds are much more complicated, powerful and mysterious than our man-made computers. We have conquered the vast skies and deep oceans, but we still do not know the limits of our minds You can imagine anything you want and do it any time you want.

How can you do that? How does it happen? The only limit to what you can do is the limit you place on yourself, your imagination. If I may humbly say, we are limited only by our NOT knowing, i.e., by our ignorance.

I know many of you do not believe that and, perhaps, dismiss it.

Just because you do not comprehend it or understand it, does not mean that it is not true or does not happen. But once you truly understand it and see it in action, then you will believe it. I will show it to you in action.

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Chapter 11: Just because you are not aware of it, do NOT understand it, does not mean it does not exist.

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ust because you do not understand it, does not mean that it does not happen. What it really means is that you are NOT aware of it, do NOT understand it, and, hence, you are NOT doing it. You are NOT benefiting from it. And, therefore, even though you have it, no question about that, it is the same as if you do NOT have it.

So, you better become aware of your mind, understand it and start using it. Otherwise, this ship or this window of opportunity, while available to you and to all who choose to know it and use it, is going to pass you by. And you will continue to NOT benefit from it.

Life is too short. And you are growing older each day. So, the time to act is now.

It is really your choice. To be knowledgeable or not. To be able to get what you want or not. To be successful or not.

It is all doable and achievable. And it is all up to you. You just need to say and decide to do it. It all starts with a committed decision, and then the discipline to do what you decided to do.

Life is so simple. We just complicate it. We make a mountain out of a mow hill. And the question is why. There is nothing to fear but fear itself.

If you don’t know it, it is difficult. But, if you know it, it is easy. All you need is to know it and understand. Now you can do it.

Now it is easy.

How do you know things? You know things by studying them. However, most people do not know how to study, understand, and retain information. This book will show you how to study and retain information.

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Chapter 12: How can you use your brain in a way that will serve you and accomplish your transformation?

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ndoubtedly, the brain is structurally a very complex organ.

Clearly, it will take years to elucidate and understand. However, enough work has been done so that you can, conceptually, understand how it does work, just enough, so that you can understand it and use it for your benefit.

1. A career ending problem As I mentioned above for reasons that will be explained in the book, in 1992 I encountered a serious problem in the hospital. Three employee activists wanted the administration to give them a raise. And for that purpose, they started doing things that were against lab policy and New York State (NYS) regulations and calling the department of health inspectors. And, of course, the NYS Department of Health (DOH) inspectors will come and find exactly what they called them about.

The above caused me and my department a lot of problems. It lasted a whole year. And of course, it affected me, because I was the person in the hospital who is Licensed by NYS & who was responsible to abide by NYS regulations, to meet with inspectors and pass their annual inspections.

So, the hospital hired an attorney to investigate and to defend me when the enforcement arm of NYS DOH takes me to court. But, in court, my attorney was able to show & prove what these activists were doing.

Accordingly, the Department of Health found me innocent and absolved me of everything.

So, while I solved my legal trouble, after a whole year, it certainly had an effect on me, because I was about to lose my job, lose my NYS license as Lab Director, and not to be able to work as a director in NYS. That had the potential to change my life for the worse.

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2. Achieving my Transformation and my entry into Personal Development - Tony Robins So, I reached out to Tony Robins. I purchased his 30-day cassette program “Unleash the power within.” I studied it carefully. I then studied the teachings of Bob Procter. I re-read the inspiring books “How to win friends and influence people” and “The Power of Positive Mental Attitude.” Then I read Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich” I then studied the teachings of several gurus such as Andrew Carnegie and Earl Nightingale. They all delivered basically the same overall message but in dramatically different ways. And I became a student of personal development ever since.

3. As a Ph.D. scientist As a Ph.D. scientist, I am used to looking at each problem from beginning to end. And as a Director of a Technical Department, I oversaw the writing of Standard Operating Procedure Manuals (SOPMs) to elucidate the operations of highly technical analyzers for patient blood testing. The objective was to produce simple manuals so that all technicians can learn and operate complex analyzers easily and correctly. No errors are allowed or tolerated. These are the patient’s test results.

4. Developing a proven system – the Mental Success Formula By the same token, after studying all of the gurus’ teachings, I assimilated all that information. I then attempted to present it in a way that you and I could relate to, understand, and have an easy and logical method to follow, to do the thinking process, and be able to get or do whatever we wanted or aspired for. And as a scientist, I represented their teaching in a sequential formula as shown below. I studied it, tested it, lived it and proved it under a variety of situations. If I can follow the elements of this Mental Success Formula, so can you.

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Chapter 13: The Mental Success Formula Explained

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y the same token, after studying all of the gurus’ teachings, I assimilated all that information. I then attempted to present it in a way that you and I could relate to, understand, and have an easy and logical method to follow, to do the thinking process, and be able to get or do whatever we wanted or aspired for. And as a scientist, I represented their teaching in a sequential formula as shown below. I studied it, tested it, lived it and proved it under a variety of situations. If I can follow the elements of this Mental Success Formula, so can you.

The Mental Success Formula Think  Focus  Imagine  Fall In Love  Faith & Belief  Emotion Involvement

Know what Fall Faith you Think Focus  Imagine In  &  Emotional want Love Belief Involvement  Knowledge 

Learn  Organize 

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Get it  Find where to get from  Get it Do it  Method  Get Tools and Supplies  Do it A Thought that is initially in your Mind  Now a Thing you can hold in your Hand

The Mental Success Formula shown above, will help you and guide you to know and identify the thought that you want, the thought that you want to think about, focus on, imagine in any way you want, fall in love with, and get emotionally involved with.

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Once you do that, your excitement and emotional involvement with it will compel you to acquire all the necessary knowledge about it.

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If that thought existed, then you can find it and get it.

If that thought was done, then we can get the method and do it.

Hence, the thought that you held in your mind is now a thing that you can get or do and, hence, hold in your hands.

That is the “Mental Success Formula.” Very powerful.

The concept is very simple and logical yet very powerful, complex, and mysterious. The above does happen. But it does NOT happen by itself.

You need to know it. You need to do it and it will transform your life.

The Mental Success Formula is empowered by the conscious mind through the 6 higher faculties within it. These higher faculties are Intuition, Perception, Reason, Will, Imagination and Memory. They will help facilitate the mental processes in the Mental Success Formula.

They are triggered automatically when you start the process of thinking.

The involvement of the brain, the mind, the conscious mind, and the 6 higher faculties in the thinking process is detailed at length in the upcoming book. Space limitation does not allow that here. While this understanding is very interesting and fascinating, it is not necessary for using the Mental Success Formula for full effectiveness.

The central theme here is to understand and perform the thinking process. We perform this process by performing a very simple and familiar formula. We do this formula all the time, without thinking about it. It will be discussed in detail in the upcoming book.

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Chapter 14: Habits and Routines vs. Thinking

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If we did this action before, then all the information of how to do, is stored in our subconscious mind, in our Mental Program, our Paradigm. This is what we refer to as our habits and routines. We have done these things before; therefore, we are going to get the same results. The results we got before. The results we’ve always got. So, how do we get the results that we want NOW? To answer this very important question, we have to understand the difference between habits, routines, and thinking.

1. Primary difference between Habits & Thinking?

It is very important to heed the words of Albert Einstein. He said, if we continue to do the same thing and expect different results that is the definition of insanity. Are you insane? Do you do, almost, the same thing day after day and week after week but expect different results? Are you going to continue to have the same job, making the same amount of money, living in the same house, driving the same car? Do you wonder why your life does not change? That is insanity! What would you like to change to achieve the life you dream about? You need to change something. What? Otherwise, your life is going to stay the same!

When your life is dictated or defined by your habits and routines your life will stay the same. It will not change. There is no change or growth in doing your habits and routines. Your life will stay the same.

This is the main difference between habits and thinking. Thinking is a new thought. A new thought is different than what you did before.

That is a change It is new. It is growth.

So, when you do your habits, there is NO growth. This is why your life will stay the same. But when you do think, there is growth.

This is why your life will change. This is why you will get what you want now, which you did not have before. This is how your life will be changed, improved and transformed.

The most important question is, how do you want your life to change? What do you want it to look like? What do you need to change so that you can achieve that life? It Is all up to you. And it is within your reach!

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Now, if you continue to do these things and/or things that are similar, then you will continue to use the information that you already have, ie., you thought about before. So, your results, your life will stay the same, as you did or achieved before. i.e., same results, no change.

If you want to change your life, and I assume this is what you want, you have to use the same equation, the Mental Success Formula, but now to think about what you want NOW. These thoughts are different than what you thought before. They are what you want NOW. They are what you want to look like and become.

They are what you need to do now so that you can achieve the life you are dreaming about. Accordingly, your life will be transformed to what you want now and aspire to. You become what you think about.

This is a proven system. It happens all the time, and in the same proportion to the extent of your belief in your mental abilities to achieve what you want, and to your persistence in attempting to achieve what you want. It does not happen by itself. It all depends on your belief, effort and action.

Are you willing to do the work to transform your life to what you dream about? i. How do you achieve what you want?

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87% of millionaires are self-made – how? So, how would you get what you want? 87% of millionaires are self-made.

That means at one point in their lives they were just like you and me. They started doing things in a different way and they became millionaires. What is that different way?

Similarly, if you want to get what you want, which is different than what you wanted before, then you have to do it in a different way. What is that different way?

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Wattle Wallace wrote in his book “The Science of getting Rich” you can achieve whatever you want if you do things in a “certain way.” what is that “certain way”

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Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller said, if you want to change something, you need to make a new model in such a way that renders the old model obsolete. That means, you should stop doing things the way you have been. That way is obsolete. Instead, you should start doing things in a “certain 70

way,” a new way, so that the old way becomes obsolete. So, again, what is that “Certain Way?” the New Way? •

Andrew Carnegie, the richest man in the world in 1903, said, “the creator has given you control over your mind, Just take possession of your mind & direct it towards what you want, all you need is to know what you want.

Do you know what you want? That is the most important question you should be asking yourself. Do you know what you want? Or are you just living day by day according to your habits & routines?

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And, Napoleon Hill, after 20 years of interviewing the wealthiest Americans, concluded and agreed with all the gurus, leaders and philosophers and wrote in his famous book, “Think & Grow Rich” “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” What powerful words are these.

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That means,whatever you think about, your mind will show you, and you can achieve it. What more does anybody want. You can get what you want. That is really the ultimate.

Remember, Success is 95% Mindset & 5% strategy. Success is what you consider success. Are you achieving that? Are you successful now? How can you become successful?

What does your mind believe in? What is your mindset set to achieve? If your mind believes that you can achieve it, then you will.

So, it is up to you. Where do you want to set your mindset to achieve what you want? ii. What is that “certain way” that will make the old model obsolete?

Life is mysterious and difficult to some, the poor and unsuccessful, and simple and easy to others, the rich and successful. Why? What is that “certain way” that can make life mysterious and difficult to some but easy for others? That can make the old model, the way you used to do things, obsolete.

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How would you take your mind and direct it toward what you want? You do that by thinking and focusing on what you want!

How would you make your mind conceive and believe in your mental power, your abilities, so that you can get what you want? You do that by performing and completing the Mental Success Formula How could your mind get you whatever you want? You do that when your subconscious mind communicate with universal intelligence. How? This will be discussed in detail in part 3.

So the bottom line. What do you want? And where do you want to direct your mind?

Do you know how to take possession of your mind and direct it to where you want in order to achieve what you want. The answer, of course, is by doing the Mental Success Formula. It will guide you to take possession of your mind and direct it towards what you want. You will start doing things in a “certain way” And that certain way, will make the old way, the way you use to do things, obsolete.

Do you know what you want? Did you ask yourself what it is that you want? This is where you start. The 1st thing, you need to know what you want! How many times shall I repeat this! a. How doing things in a certain way and adopting a new model changed my financial status Prior to year 2000, I knew nothing about the stock market. In year 2000, when I saw many people making a lot of money, I studied the stock market and started day- and swing-trading stocks. I did that on my own and without a broker.

When I retired in 2014, while now being a full-time landlord, I realized that trading options, while more difficult and riskier, was much more profitable. So, I learned the option market, and replaced day- and swing-trading stocks with options trading.

Like most investors, I was making and losing a lot of money. I was too busy between my jobs at the hospital, medical school, public health laboratories and my being an active landlord and also day- and swingtrading all at the same time. In 2018, I evaluated my trading history. At that time, I came to the realization that, after 18 years of trading, I gradually lost a total of $400,000. At that point I stopped trading.

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obsolete. So, I learned several options strategies and started trading one strategy called “Credit Speads.” I also fine-tuned my day-trading strategy so that I do no lose the money I made. With changing my way of trading, the old model, old strategy, in 18 months I made up about half what I lost in 18 years and my net worth is now increasing slowly but surely.

What are you doing that is producing your current results?

Did you stop and evaluated what are you doing and the results that you are getting? What are you going to change so that you start doing things in a “certain way” that will make the old way, the way you did things, Obsolete?

Remember, doing the same things and expecting different results is the definition of insanity. Your life is not going to change until you change the way you do things.

What do you want? What do you want to change to achieve the life that you want?

Only action produces results. Only results that count. Do not tell me, show me.

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Chapter 15: Do not believe anything you hear and 50% of what you see – Trust but verify! i. The Power of the Mindset

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n my previous life, I dealt with a lot of people – colleagues, employees, tenants, sales representatives. Accordingly, I developed a philosophy that served me well. I do not believe anything I hear and 50% of what I see, until I evaluate it. Trust but verify.

So today, at this moment, I do not expect you to conceive or believe in anything. Including whatever you are reading here. Bruce Lee said, the cup is most useful when it is empty. All I ask is for you to listen with an open mind and question everything.

This is what I do, even to this day. If what you hear does not make sense, then disregard it & neglect it. But, if what you read makes sense, then accept it, cautiously, and with an open mind, test it.

I can assure you that if you do what I suggest, that is to perform the Mental Success Formula, and when you see the results, that everything and every time, it happens 100%, then when you get what you conceive, you would not help but believe.

And, when that happens then You have reached that moment and you will be on your way to transforming your life forever.

Because now you would be using your Mindset. Remember that the Mindset is what you need to do anything. Success is 95% Mindset.

So, if you have the correct Mindset, you will have the initiative to start and the persistency to finish. Because the Mental Success Formula will guide you to completion.

The strategy is what you do; If you want to be a doctor, an engineer, a lawyer, an intrapreneur or anything. That is the strategy, the method, the tactic, how you want to do what you want to do. This strategy is only 5% of the project compared to the Mindset which is 95%.

So, basically, if you think you can, then you can. You can learn, get or do anything you put your mind to, and I will show you how to do that. But if you think you can’t, then you can’t and you will not be able to do anything. Because your Mindset is set on the fact that you cannot. And, therefore, you will not. It is really as simple as that. We humans tend to complicate things.

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Remember, there is nothing to fear but fear itself. If you THINK you CAN, then YOU CAN, and if YOU THINK you CAN’T, then you CAN’T. You must believe that.

So just stay with me and read, and you will be able to get or do whatever strategy you want. Because that strategy, what you want to do, the action, is only 5% of the total project. It is all, or 95% of your ability, of whatever you want to do, is in the Mindset. It is the way you think. ii. The importance of the Mindset – the essential for learning anything.

Recently, I took few courses in marketing, personal branding and social media because I do not know too much about these topics. And in every course, in the first part of the first session the instructors will say that what they are going to be teaching may sound difficult and complicated because you do not know it. But in fact, when you get to know it, it is very easy to do.

They added, but the most important thing to learn is to have the right Mindset and for you to think and believe that you can learn it. If you think you can, then you can. Just listen and understand. But if you think you cannot, then you will not learn it regardless of how much you listen. So, get your Mindset in the right direction and you will not have any problem.

Eli Wilde, the protégée of Tony Robbins, concluded his talk with the following 4 things that are necessary to achieve anything: Belief System or Mindset, then, Potential, Action & Results. Then he added you cannot realize your potential or do any action and achieve any result without having the right belief system. He said, It all starts with having the right belief system, the right mindset.

This is why this information is necessary. It should be mandatory to all especially in the school system. No sense in learning things that you may or may not use in your business. But not giving you the information that you definitely need to achieve and do anything, bar none, is tragic.

Remember what happened to Mikaela Shiffrin. Because she was distressed by the absence of her supporter, her father, she lost her mindset. She could not see the slope in her mind. She did not think she could win. She lost.

The same with the Russian ice skater. She got distressed by the doping scandal. She could not see her routine in her mind. She fell 4 times and she lost.

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The same with the greatest gymnast ever, Simone Biles. All of a sudden, she got the twisties, she could not see herself doing these routines. She stopped. But with some recovery training, she came back as fit and as good as ever.

All of them were physically fit. But they lost it mentally, they lost their mindset and, hence, they lost it physically and literaly. That is the power of the Mindset. iii. Now, you want to think about what you want NOW, NOT what you thought about before So now, you want to think about what you want NOW, NOT what you wanted and thought about before. These are not your habits. These are your new thoughts. Therefore, they will be processed differently. While habits reside in the Paradigm and processed by the subconscious mind, these new thoughts will be processed in the Conscious mind. You need to continue to think about them, focus on them, continue to imagine them, fall in love with them and get emotionally involved with them - very important. Otherwise, you really do not want them.

If you do that, i.e., continue to think about them for about 63 days, they will then be transferred to the subconscious mind, where they will replace the old thoughts in your Mental Program and, hence, become your new habits.

So, step #1 is to know what you want. That is step #1. This is what happens. First, you should know what you want. Second, do the steps in the Mental Success Formula. Third, acquire needed knowledge.

Fourth, either get or do what you want according to the acquired knowledge.

The fact that you are NOT aware of your mind and your mental powers, you do NOT think of them and, hence, you do NOT use them does NOT mean that they do not exist. You do have a head, a brain and a mind. No question about that. But, if you do NOT use them, it is the same as if you do NOT have them and, hence, will not benefit from what they can do for you to achieve whatever you want.

Again, it is not that you do NOT WANT TO. If is that you do NOT KNOW HOW. Here, I am telling you and showing you what it is that you do NOT know and how to use your mind. It is just as simple as that. A child can learn it and use. SO CAN YOU.

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iv. So come as you are, you do not need to be rich, smart or educated.

So come as you are. You do not need to be rich. You do not need to be educated or smart. There are no pre-requisites, other than focus and decide on what you want.

What is it that you want to get or do? And then follow the elements of the Mental Success Formula to the letter. And whatever thought you had in your mind, you will be able to get or do, and it will appear in your hand. This is a proven and tested formula. It is guaranteed to work 100% .

And now life will not be difficult and mysterious to some. It will be easy for all. Because all of us will be using our 95% Mindset and, hence, achieve and be successful.

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Chapter 16: How does the Mind perform the thinking process and instructs the body to perform action?

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s you know we have two minds. The Conscious Mind, & the Subconscious mind. The Conscious mind, also known as the intellectual mind, because it contains specialized tools called the higher faculties (Intuition, Perception, Reason, Will, Imagination & Memory) that perform or facilitate the process of thinking.

The Subconscious mind contains, among other things, the Paradigm, the Mental Program, which contains all our habits and routines.

It also takes directives from either the conscious mind (new thoughts) or the paradigm (the Mental Program – old thoughts, habits and routines) and directs the brain to instruct the body to take the assigned action.

Hence, these are two separate entities and perform totally distinct and specialized functions that are imperative for performing and living our lives.

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Chapter 17: The Conscious Mind and the 6 Higher Faculties

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hen you know & think about what you want, the conscious mind recognizes that. The Six Higher Faculties within the conscious mind will get ready to process the thought that you want, the one that you desire, the thought that will serve you and transform your life.

Below please find the Mental Success Formula, the mental processes that are highlighted in green. It also shows how and where the 6 Higher Faculties facilitate the Mental Success Formula. The 6 Higher Faculties are highlighted in yellow. Further and as will be described below, it also shows the effect of other factors such as focus, desire and falling in love as well as the Gate to the Mind. These factors are highlighted in magenta.

a. The Mental Success Formula & the 6 Higher Faculties Intuition Perception (desire)

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Thought  Focus  Imagine  Faith and Belief  Emotional Involvement Reason

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 Kowledge 

Imagination

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Learn  Organize 

Get or Do it

Get it  Find where to get from  Get it Do it 

Method  Get Tools and Supplies  Do it

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b. The Six Higher Faculties: (Intuition, Perception, Reason, Will, Imagination, Memory) How do they facilitate the Mental Success Formula •

“Intuition” is the first Higher Faculty. It has the ability to distinguish the good and bad vibrations that you are receiving from other people and the environment.

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“Perception” is the second Higher Faculty. It has the ability to separate good information from bad information entering your mind.

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“Reason,” the third Higher Faculty, through judgment and deductive reasoning, rejects all the bad vibration and/or information and accepts all the good vibration and/or information.

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The Will, is the fourth higher faculty. If you continue to think on what you want, and that is a pre-requisite, the “Will” will then help you focus on that thought with the exclusion of all others.

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Imagination: If you continue to focus on that thought, you will, naturally, begin to develop desire for that thought. Desire triggers the fifth Higher Faculty “Imagination.” Napoleon Hill said, imagination is the most powerful thing the world will ever know.

You can imagine that thought, that house, that car, the “whatever” in your mind, and in any way you want. The more you continue to focus and imagine that thought, you will then begin to fall in love with it.

With time, desiring and falling in love with that thought, triggers faith & belief in your mental ability to take possession of that thought. Faith and belief are the gate to your mind. Desire opens that gate. The gate is opened in direct proportion of your desire.

With time, you will begin to fall in love with that thought; falling in love will open the gate further. The gate is opened even further 80

when, with time, you get emotionally involved with it. The gate is opened to its fullest when you are emotionally involved and have a burning desire to obtain that thought.

Naturally, if you are emotionally involved with anything, and have a burning desire to obtain it, then you would want to know everything about it. So, now, you will acquire all the needed knowledge about it.

You study that knowledge.

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If that thought exists, you will find a way to get it and you will get it.

If someone has done that thought, you will find the method to do it and you will do it.

And now, the thought that was initially in your mind, you now can get and/or do.

Thus, the thought that you held in your mind, which is now a thing, you now can hold it in your hand.

a. The Importance of Mental Success Formula: Our objective and aim is to be able to get what we need, want, & desire.

The beauty about the above Formula is its simplicity and familiarity to all of us. All of us know how to do each of these processes. We do them all the time. The only difference is that we do them unconsciously, automatically, performing our habits. Performing what we always have done. This is why our lives never change.

But now, since you understand how the thinking process works, how simple and doable it is, you then can use it to achieve what you want. Instead of doing it to perform your habits, what you have done before, Now, you can use it to achieve what you want. All you need is to know what you want, think about what you want, and start performing the Mental Success Formula. The Formula will guide you through the process of focusing, falling in love with what you want, imagining it and getting emotionally involved with it. This will compel you to get all the information about it which will allow you to 81

get it or do it. And, that is the ultimate objective. To be able to get or do what you need, want, or desire.

It is very simple, very logical and easy to do. It can be performed by anybody who chooses to do it. There is no magic. But you have to be cognizant of it, learn it, and understand the process of thinking. If you do, the process will lead you to achieve what you want. There is no question about that. It happens all the time 100%. All you need is to know what you want and do it. It cannot be simpler than that. This knowledge is true power.

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Chapter 18: Goals a. The subconscious mind, the Paradigm – the Mental Program

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ow can you make a new goal materialize? The new goal is a new idea. That idea does not exist in your current paradigm, your mental program, that contains all your current habits. Thus, the current paradigm which contains all your OLD habits will NOT be able to help you get your NEW goal. These are NEW thoughts. You need to change the old thoughts and habits to the new thoughts and habits. When that happens, your subconscious mind, your supercomputer, will start searching for methods to get the new goal according to the instructions received from the new paradigm. This process will be covered in detail in the upcoming book.

b. Making your goals materialize Briefly, and as described in the figure below, if you complete the Mental Success Formula described above for your new goal and continue to focus, desire, fall in love, and get emotionally involved with that goal, all prerequisite activities, it will now transfer to the subconscious mind where it will replace the old thoughts, the old habits, in the paradigm. The new thoughts and new habits will then instruct the subconscious mind, your supercomputer, to search Universal Intelligence for how to achieve your new goal.

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Thought - Goal (Think, focus, imagine, believe)

Conscious Mind (Emotion) Sub-Conscious Mind  Old Paradigm  New Paradigm  New Habit Unconscious Competen  GOALS

When this process is completed, your life will be transformed.

Because your actions NOW will reflect what you want NOW according to your NEW habits and not according to the old habits which were written by other people or under different circumstances. At this point, you will belong to the category of “Unconscious Competent.” (How the paradigm is formed and how you change it, a fundamental step in the mental transformation process, will be explained in detail in the upcoming book).

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Chapter 19: The “You,” The Acceptable and Likable “You”

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inally, to complete the process of your transformation, you need to address your other fundamental attributes. Complete success is reached when others like you, find you acceptable, and want to deal with you. If they do not like you, they will never forgive you for whatever you do and never do anything you say. But if they do like you, they will forgive you for anything you do and do whatever you say. a. Personal attributes that you must have This will require you to address some attributes and people skills such as: attitude, negotiation techniques, emotional stability, interpersonal skills, being consistent, persistence, marketing and selling skills, being successful vs. unsuccessful, and being grateful. These attributes and the changes are listed in the table below.

YOU – The Acceptable & Likable You

Attitude Inter-Persona Skills Emotions Negotiation Consistent Persistence Success Marketing Selling Grateful

Bad Attitude, Abnoxious Poor Inter- Personal skills Emotionally Unstable No Negotiation Skills Inconsistent Not-Persistence Unsuccessful Poor Marketing skills Poor Selling skills Ungrateful

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Good Attitude Good Inter-Personal Skills Emotionally Stable Good Netotiation Skills Consistent Persistence Successful Good Marketing Skills Good selling Techniques Grateful

Chapter 20: Conclusion

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a. There is nothing new here:

ou may say, nothing is new here. We all can think, focus, fall in love and imagine. I know all that. And you are correct. I did say that this information is not new. It has been taught by all the gurus. Millions know it and do it. And that is the important point here. While you know of it, but do you know it? Do you understand it? More importantly, do you do it? Only action that counts. Only action produces results. Only Results that Count. So, if you know of it, but you do not do it, how is that benefiting you? Do not tell me, show me!

Remember, if you do NOT know it, it is difficult, but if you know it, it is easy. All you need is to know it. And, if you know it you should be able to do it and benefit from it. That is the objective.

With our available resources, (internet, technology, computers), everything is knowable. Hence, everything is easy. In turn, everything is doable. Do not complicate things. It is as simple as that! b. If you do NOT DO IT, it is the same thing as if You Do NOT Have It: This is the most important point in this book and indeed in the upcoming book. Whether you know it or not, or you’ve heard it before or not, does not make a difference. The only thing that matters is whether: you know that you have a mind, you know how to use it, and whether you use it. Because only the doing produces action, only action produces results and only results that counts. Action counts and BS walks!

So, without reading about it now, Were you aware of it? Were you thinking of it? Were you doing it? Were you benefiting from it?

If you were and you did, then your life would have been transformed, and you can get everything you want. But, if you are aware of it and know it, but you do NOT DO it, it is the same as if you DO NOT HAVE IT. And, if you do not have it, you cannot do it and, in turn, benefit from it. It is as simple as that.

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Yes, the overall concept is very basic and simple. Do you know it?

Are you doing it? and Are you benefiting from it? That is what counts. c. We have heard this story before I have no doubt that many of you have heard this story before.

And, when you are reminded as in today, you probably would remember that you are aware of it.

But, as you know very well, if you do not use it, you lose it. And if you do not do it, is the same as you do not have it. It cannot get more basic than that!

As the saying goes, the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second-best time is today. It is possible that when you heard this story before you got distracted with what you thought was more important. Now is your chance to begin to use the most powerful gift the creator has given you. A truly super-computer that can figure out anything – your mind.

Remember, success is 95% Mindset. That means the way you think.

And if you think you can, you can. Then you would be able to do whatever the strategy is, which is only 5%, and with ease. And if you do NOT think you can, then your life will never change. It is really as simple as that. d. Is this information for real or a gimmick: Yes, the above information is amazing. It is too good to be true, but yet it is true. It is not magic, but magical. Yes, it is not a gimmick.

This information is not new. It has been recognized for many years. That is what Tony Robbins, Bob Proctor, Andrew Carnegie, Napoleon Hill, Earl Nightingale, Dean Graziosi, Les Brown and all the other gurus have taught and are still teaching. These gurus are all different. They present, conceptually, the same message. But they present it differently and in their own way. Hence, it is not presented in a systematic way so that people can follow and change the way they do things and change their lives.

In this book, I presented to you the same message but in a way that I understand it, relate to it and makes sense to me. I hope that with this little twist, it will make sense and reach some of you who heard this message before but did not act. I hope that my message will reach some of you and change your lives. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.

The next best time is now.

As stated above, as a scientist, I am used to thinking and performing operations from beginning to end. As a Lab Director, I wrote SOPMs for very technical & complex state of the art multi-channel 87

laboratory analyzers in a way for technicians to understand, learn and follow. The intent was to make the difficult simple and the impossible possible.

Only true understanding leads to true retention and almost permanent memory. In this book, and in much more detail in the upcoming one, I attempted to explain the whole thinking process. From beginning to end. From the moment that thought enters your mind, and with the power of the 6 Higher Faculties, that thought will now materialize in your hands.

Further, with the help of emotional involvement, the thought that is now in the Conscious Mind, will transfer to the Subconscious Mind where it would transform your Paradigm. And now, the newly formed habits will facilitate complete personal transformation. That is, taking a very difficult story and making it simple and understandable. That is Success.

That is magical.

Again, it is the same message and story that all the gurus teach. It is just this one, it is with my own twist. It is not better or worse. It is just a story I understand and relate to, and I hope you will too. But the bottom line, it is real, it is powerful, it is magical. But it is also simple enough for you to follow, if you choose to follow and transform your life.

With that objective in mind, I have studied their teachings and I put all of that information in a way that I can understand it. I understood it, lived it, tested it and found it to work. I hereby put it in such a way that you can read it and understand it. And, if you study it and implement it, it will transform your life. No question. I did. Millions of others have. So can you. e. Unleashing the Power of Your Mind Imagine you had access to a supercomputer; one that could process vast amounts of information, analyze complex data, and adapt to any challenge.

Now, take a moment to realize that you do possess this extraordinary supercomputer. It is your own mind, a powerful fusion of conscious and subconscious abilities.

1. Your Mind’s Processing Power: Now, think of your conscious mind as the captain at the helm of this supercomputer. Just like a skilled programmer who writes code, you direct your conscious thoughts, the ones that you want, with precision and intent. Your mind processes information, according to a proven formula (The Mental Success Formula), at remarkable speed, similar to how computers execute billions of calculations in a second.

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2. Your Mind’s Multitasking and Parallel Processing: Now consider your subconscious mind as the heart of your supercomputer, tirelessly managing an array of processes simultaneously. Just as a modern computer can juggle multiple tasks at once, your subconscious mind handles a myriad of functions like regulating bodily systems, processing emotions, and recognizing patterns – all without conscious effort.

3. Your Mind’s Pattern Recognition and Intuition: Your subconscious mind’s ability to swiftly recognize patterns is akin to a computer’s pattern recognition algorithms. It can analyze vast amounts of data in an instant, guiding your intuition and helping you make rapid decisions based on experiences and stored knowledge.

4. Emotion – Your Mind’s Secret Ingredient: What sets your supercomputer apart from any technological creation is emotion. Your mind not only computes facts and figures but also processes feelings, empathy, and a deep sense of purpose.

Computers lack emotional understanding; they can’t feel passion, love, or evaluate situations like you can.

5. Programming Your Mind for Success: Much like programming a computer, you can program your mind for success, for what YOU consider success. When you think, focus, and align your emotions with your goals, you are imputing the code that will shape your reality. Just as a computer follows instructions, your subconscious mind acts upon your thoughts driving you toward the achievements you envision and aspire for.

6. Your Mind’s Limitless Potential: Imagine having the ability to continuously learn, adapt, and innovate. Your mind’s potential is boundless, i.e., without limits, capable of developing new ideas, learning from experiences, and evolving with each challenge. While computers operate within set parameters, your mind has the capacity to push boundaries and redefine what is possible. It is beyond comprehension. Truly amazing.

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thoughts, strong emotions, and persistent actions – you are not just navigating life; you are actively designing your destiny. Just as the pioneers of computing harnessed the power of machines, you have the ability to harness the extraordinary power of your mind. You are the programmer, the operator, and the conductor of your life’s symphony – a symphony only you can compose.

NOTE: You do not know how the cell phone works, yet you learned how to use it and you use it. You do not know how the computer works, but you learned how to use it and you use it.

The purpose of this segment was not to teach you the intricacies of the mind and how does it work, but rather to show you its vast capabilities, its power and what it can do for you. So, you do not need to know how it works, but you need to learn how to use it and use it. You do not need to know how it will achieve what you want, you just need to know, understand and believe in the boundless limits of your mind and that it can achieve whatever you aspire for. The only limit is the limit you place on your imagination.

What is more important than YOU achieving what you need, want or desire. achieving what you consider success. Making your Goals materialize. Being content, satisfied and happy. And being financially independent. Nothing. Your mind can provide you with all of that. You just need to know how to use it and use it. f. Do you want to change your life?

Do you want to change your life? Do you think? Do you know how to use your mind? Do you want to transform yourself and get what you want for you and your family? If you do, then study, understand and perform the “Thinking Process.” It will transform your life as it is explained here and in my book “Think, Act & Succeed and Transform Your Life.”

Remember the 95% Mindset & 5% strategy. Do not focus on the wrong end, the strategy. Focus on the Mindset. The correct Mindset, the correct thinking, will make every strategy that you choose possible and easy.

As such, you will achieve your success and make your dreams a reality.

You can take the bull to the water, but you cannot make him drink.

An alcoholic who does not recognize and admits that he is one, will never go to alcohol anonymous. Life is having choices. Life is making decisions. It is your time now to choose and decide.

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For more information please refer to my upcoming book “Think, Act & Succeed and Transform Your Life" and the Courses by this author at Mastermind.com.

To Your Success.

God Bless

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