(Step 4) SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE
Personal Experiences and Observations:
Ever Notice that the Quality of Your Life is in Direct Relationship to the Quality of the Questions You are Asking Yourself?
Years ago, when I was a teenager feeling at the effect of my parent’s divorce I was severely challenged to be the cause of my own experience. At a time when life was asking me, “Who do you want to be when you grow up?” I couldn’t decide if life was even worth getting out of bed for.
You may have heard that there is a series of questions that a good news reporter will ask to get to the bottom of a story: Who, What, When, Where, Why and How? Well the story of my life back then, forced me to dig deep and answer the nagging question that became my reason for getting out of bed and facing another day of chaos,
“Who am I?”
Parents, friends, school nor religion came to my aid, I was pretty much alone in seeking the information I most needed. It took many years to understand that there really are two basic kinds of knowledge: one is general and the other specialized. Today I see these two as woven together in the process of Masterminding and Implementing, where Masterminding is a way of accessing the vast quantity and quality of knowledge and Implementing becomes the specialization of organizing and intelligently directing vast knowledge toward a specific chosen outcome. Yet again PURPOSE is everything, because without Purpose all the knowledge in the world is overwhelmingly useless, especially to a teenager questioning if life is even worth living.
Have Circumstances in Your Own Life Brought You to the Place of Questioning if Life is Worth Living?
Know Anyone Challenged to Walk what Western Tradition Calls, The Dark Night of the Soul?
What General and Specialized Knowledge Became a Reason to Continue Life’s Personal Experiences and Observations?
For many that I have met religion came to the rescue, helping to answer the deepest of life’s questions. For me it simply didn’t happen that way. Sure, I prayed to Jesus for help and did find some sense of relief but the knowledge I found most useful came in the form of books like Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach. Also, A Course in Miracles became a way of looking at the world and my place in it that made the most sense to me. When religion became more central in my life years later establishing my own definition of sin has blessed me with the greatest peace of all. For me I SIN if I allow myself to become who I am…because of the experience of others.
But I digress, I share all this only to highlight how powerful the questions that we ask ourselves become in being both the cause and the effect of what we experience. Furthermore how critical it is that especially when we think we know the answer already that we continue to ask good questions, because not all knowledge accumulated through experience is accurate.
What do I mean?
Success and Failure are largely the result of HABIT, and the way of Success is the way of CONTINUOUS PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE. Ultimately we get the answers to the questions we are asking. If we don’t like the answers our life is giving us, then it may be time to become more conscious of the quality of our questions. Remember, you have ABSOLUTE CONTROL over but one thing, that being your thoughts. Putting it all together, the answers we are getting are a result of the questions we are asking. What we are asking is a direct expression of our thoughts.
Napoleon Hill in Think and Grow Rich offers how to organize and use knowledge after it is acquired into definite plans of action (Implementation). He suggests that to be truly educated is to have so developed the faculties of the mind that one may acquire anything one wishes, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others (in my words I would say by being a power-to-others rather than a power-over-them).
Accumulation of great fortune calls for POWER. Which can be acquired through highly organized and intelligently directed specialized knowledge. This is where a Mastermind group can help to bridge any weaknesses.
Mr. Hill also says that before you can be sure of your ability to transmute DESIRE into its monetary equivalent, you will require SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE of the service, merchandise, or profession which you intend to offer in return for fortune.
Masterminding and Implementing can now benefit you. Mastermind and Implementation Coaching Clubs (MICC) make powerful sources of knowledge available to common people. Experience for yourself the genius that can be found in two or more people coming together. Bring your questions and discover a shared knowledge that will assist in asking the next level of questions toward any goal you choose. A good place to start is with the MICC group at Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1839895
Keep in mind that simple IDEAS have been the seedlings from which great fortunes have grown. IMAGINATION is the catalyst that unites a good idea with the specialized knowledge required to translate it into SUCCESS (Step 5 IMAGINATION will detail the Workshop of the Mind. If you’re on our list at http://TimothyBertOwen.com look for the next IMezine to be in your inbox in the next week or so, IMAGINATION will be in the subject line).
The object of this IMezine is to help all who seek it to learn the art of changing their minds from FAILURE CONSCIOUSNESS TO SUCCESS CONSCIOUSNESS, to Remember and Experience how You Are the Master of Your Fate and the Captain of Your Soul.
I believe in the application of DESIRE (Step 1 DESIRE can be found HERE ) backed by FAITH (Step 2 FAITH can be found HERE ) and implemented with AUTOSUGGESTION (Step 3 AUTOSUGGESTION can be found HERE ) because I have seen it lift people from lowly beginnings to places of power and wealth (see interviews I have conducted at: http://TimothyBertOwen.com/interviews ). My own firsthand experience has also proven to me how individuals staged a comeback after having been defeated in countless ways.
Do You Remember the End of the Movie “The Matrix?” when Neo says, “Where We Go from Here is Up to You.”
Where Do You Choose to Go From Here?
You’ve Traveled All the Other Roads… and You Already Know Where They Lead …Don’t You?
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PS. Quick Review
The “missing link” in all systems of education known to civilization today may be found in the failure of educational institutions to teach their students HOW TO ORGANIZE AND USE KNOWLEDGE AFTER THEY ACQUIRE IT. It could be said that IMPLEMENTATION OF KNOWLEDGE is the biggest problem in the world today. I mean really, does it still wash that we don’t know enough to create the life of our dreams, or is it more accurate and honest to simply admit that we really don’t want to put the effort into being the cause of all that we experience. It’s simply far more convenient to blame others for our problems…isn’t it?
If you do contemplate pursuing additional formal education, first determine the PURPOSE for which you want the knowledge you are seeking, and then learn where this particular knowledge can be obtained from reliable sources.
Successful people in all callings never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession.
Keep in mind as well that anything acquired without effort and without cost is generally unappreciated, and often discredited.
Anybody can WISH for riches, and most people do, but only a few know that a definite plan, plus a BURNING DESIRE (Step 1 DESIRE can be found HERE ), are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth.
IMAGINATION (Step 5 will introduce you to this Workshop of the Mind), it is the catalyst that unites a good idea with the specialized knowledge required to translate it into SUCCESS.
Albert Einstein said, IMAGINATION is more important than Knowledge.
PPS. Here is another thought to consider: Possible each of us really has nothing to Learn, and simply Everything to Re-Member.
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Dear Tim,thanks for your email this morning,it was great to know that in a round about way we are all looking for that inner peace that calms the mind so that you can then put in the time to really strive to make your life really make sense.We as people are afraid to think out side of our box,but all we really need is someone that has gone thru hard times and have come out of it with a better insight then they had before they went thru a certain hardship next thing you know you run across someone going thru hardship and yes you guessed it,you are there to lend them that comforting voice that is truly helpful for them,you can see it in their face when you share the words that you are sharing a sense of comfort comes over them because they know that what they are listening to is really sent from God it just happens to be you that is relating the message,they may for get your name but they will never forget you.Kenny
Kenny, thank you for taking the time to share that…it made my day.
No doubt your words will give others back to themselves as well.
Peace, God is.
Thanks Tim. I like how you are laying out the steps for developing our minds. As well as, we all make decisions throughout life, either enhancing our life or walking the dark side. Unfortunate, when we are younger we make decisions to take on our parents challenges and sometime carry those challenges for a long time. Until we realize those challenges have nothing to do with our own life, because of assumption. It is so wonderful when realization settle in. Whereas, we are we are walking around trying to prove those challenges are who we are and not sure of ourselves nor what life is offering us. Whereas, we love and happy life is so clear. We are clear in our thoughts and directions. Thank you.
Just now beginning to come out of our winter hibernation here on the fjord and got to your comment today Linda.
Yes, what you share reminds me of the statement:
“Bodies don't unite, Minds do.”
Developing our mind (content) I believe for myself now has an additional dimension of awareness, that of uniting our mind (content) and weaving together the thoughts we extend to others. Could this be the power of masterminding?
In a dream world where “projection is perception” can we really believe that something we experience has nothing to do with our own life? Or that it was simply some mis-take or accident that was never meant to be?
I'll agree it is convenient at times to imagine this, and it may even lighten our load of attempting to take responsibility for all that we experience…but in the longer term pursuit of the Actual True Content (filling the Form of our perceived experience) separation has never brought me a lasting peace.
Re-membering my True Content as whole and in truth never separate from all that I perceive of life around me is the only enduring road I've found to that “Peace, that passeth understanding.”
Thank you for the thought provoking comments regarding Specialized Knowledge Linda.
Together, or not at all.
Timothy,
I love reading your thoughts and experiences on the subjects of visualiztion as well as masterminding. I myself have found it of the utmost importance to mastermind if I am to excel and progress towards my chosen goals, desires, and ultimately the life I have created and envisioned for myself. I to have read Napoleon Hill and his teachings are a requirement, in my opinion, if one is to fully grasp and understand who, and what he/she is capable of.
When faced with challenging obstacles/situations,(I no longer call them problems) I speak to the Universe, I ask how, where, when will I get my answers and every time I end up with the answer ALMOST IMMEDIATELY. Usually it comes in the form of an idea I have either overlooked or dismissed ealier. Also when I help others with their challenges I find myself inspired with new ideas.
My challenge is I now have notes upon notes of ideas that will take time to implement. I have made it a point to NOT start a new project until the current one is either finished or up and running on it’s own before moving on to the next.
However I find myself hurried, or should I say consumed with the feeling of urgency lately. At times I feel as though I won’t get to everything I want to implement and complete. I know I can do it. I just with there were 5 of me to work on all of the projects at once. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I get overwhemled at times due to lack of funds. However it doesn’t stop me. It just makes me go that much harder and stronger.
P.S. What was the tool you mentioned in your email in regards to visualization on your computer screen? I would like to see if I could afford it.
Randy
Timothy,
I FOUND IT!! Wow! Thanks for “TheDesktopTherapist” This is exactly what I needed. I am always in front of my computer and have to stop through out the day to get my dose of mind movies and affirmations. Now I will have it right here. With a key component of the subliminal aspect. Simply beautiful.
Thanks again,
Randy
Wonderful to receive your feedback Randy, thank you!
Glad that you asked because I do have a suggestion for dealing with “urgency.”
A few suggestions actually.
1. Log in some Fire-time. Time with an open flame fire, like a campfire or wood stove does wonders for my dealing with urgency.
For more of an understanding of this I suggest a book by Leonard Orr, “Breaking the Death Habit.”
2. Tapping. Learning about tapping as an additional help with urgency. A google search will get you going with tapping.
3. Join our Facebook event and Practice Listening with us: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=133810433324649&index=1
Do report back and let us know you experience with The Desktop Therapist.
Keep Sharing the Miracles!