CREATE IMAGINARY OBJECTIVES - part 1

Articles In This Section:

· Mental Exercises vs. Physical Exercises - part 1

· Mental Exercises vs. Physical Exercises - part 2

· Mental Exercises vs. Physical Exercises - part 3

· MENTAL EXERCISES

· USE YOUR CREATIVE MIND TO STIMULATE YOUR MIND

· DEVELOP THE POWERS OF CONCENTRATION

· CREATE IMAGINARY OBJECTIVES - part 1

· CREATE IMAGINARY OBJECTIVES - part 2

Below, you find several questions relating to possible objectives. They may be thought of as imaginary in the beginning, perhaps, because you may have thought you could never attain any of them.

Take a sheet of paper and write down the question which appeals to you most. Think of yourself as a counselor and imagine a client has come to you with the question and you are called upon to give a solution.

Knowing the objective, ascertain the resistances which, at present, are standing between the client and the attainment of the objective. With this information you are ready to develop a plan of action which will enable your man (which, of course, is yourself) to hurdle the resistances and attain the objective.

It is not necessary to do this with all questions, because some of them will conflict with each other. For instance, you would not be interested in finding a way to increase your salary if your objective was to have a business of your own.

Here are a few typical questions; change them to other questions if you like:

How can I build a successful business for myself?

How can I climb in my present job?

I would like to take my wife on an extended ocean voyage. How

can I bring it about? How can I afford to live in a better home? How can I become a power in my community?

Before taking up mental exercising, you may have thought any one of these questions were beyond practical answers. By the time you complete this chapter and have become accustomed to the exercise given, you will glory in your victory. With clear, logical, concentrated thinking, it will not be difficult at all to see through any of the problems presented by the questions.

Margaret Beach was a typical housewife. She was not happy with her daily routine of cooking, mending and housecleaning; yet she never did anything about it—except grumble. She did not have a good mind—she thought—and felt she was doomed to an existence of household drudgery. She attended a lecture, the theme of which was Mental Improvement. Mental exercises were introduced and, fortunately for Margaret, the suggestions "sank in." After she started to develop her mental faculties, she was even more dissatisfied with being a mere housewife, but now she felt that she could do something more important and much more satisfying.