CHAPTER 6 IMAGINATION: THE WORKSHOP OF THE MIND By Marsha Sortino

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CHAPTER 6
IMAGINATION: THE WORKSHOP OF THE MIND

The Fifth Step toward Riches

As a child growing up, I remember Halloween nights and everyone one of my friends asking the big question, "What are you going to be for Halloween?" And we always had answers using our imagination!  Back when I was a child, we made our own costumes. With the help of our parents, we would rummage through whatever could be used to make a costume for a long awaited night of fun trick or treating with our friends. Out came the boxes of scraps of materials, old clothes, trinkets and costume jewelry, makeup, and whatever household items that could be used.

We could be as creative as we wanted to be with our costumes so ,we brought our desire to the drawing board, putting all our imagination into creating something as we put bits and pieces of materials together constructing a character from our own imaginative world. We were done when we are happy with how our costumes turned out.


Mr. Hill tells us "The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man. The impulse, the DESIRE, is given shape, form, and ACTION through the aid of the imaginative faculty of the mind."

In many ways network marketers are like the children using their creative imaginations to get ebook downloads and exploring a whole new world called network marketing.  Many of us did not know where to start, till we got connected to MFF. Here at MFF, the mastermind group of talented people is highly imaginative! We find new avenues and create ways to market, advertise and mastermind as a group here at MFF using our simple recipe. And most importantly, we create relationships!

We need the workshop of our imagination to take shape and form through plans we set and the actions we take.

What are these Actions we can take to have SUCCESS?

Get with Your Mentor and stay connected!

Say your Self Talk daily! Stay on the 30 Day Mental Cleanse!

Stay close to the Fire! Get on the calls or at the very least listen to the recordings!

Stay close to the Mastermind Group!

Use the Simple Recipe at MFF! One can't help but notice all the advertising and marketing nuggets to use right inside the book, Success in 10 Steps!

We want more than to imagine being a network marketer! We imagine being highly successful in our business!

What is the big question we ask as network marketers now?

When will I become a professional network marketer?

The answer to this is you are in the right place with us at MFF.  I cannot give you a simple answer for this, except to say if you are coachable, you will become a professional network marketer! It's up to you to bring your heart's desire to fruition.

Stay with us at MFF and you will get that Network Marketing PHD as you develop yourself!

Much love and appreciation,

Marsha Sortino

P.S. Ask any successful network marketer how important is continually developing yourself? Michael Dlouhy and all of us here will tell you, “You must continue your personal development on this lifetime journey because if you want to make more, you've got to become more.”

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CHAPTER 5 SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE, PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OR OBSERVATIONS By Reggie Liggins

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CHAPTER 5

SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE, PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OR OBSERVATIONS  By Reggie Liggins

The Fourth Step toward Riches

"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." ~ Napoleon Hill, 

T&GR Ch. 5

"Truth: Network marketing is a teaching & mentoring business. If you study vitamins, or long-distance switches, or the 

age of the monk in the white lab coat that scraped the mold off the rock on the full moon twice a year ... or ANY product 

or service ... you're wasting your time.

Your product is people. So study people. Find out how you can help them reach their dreams." ~ Michael Dlouhy, "Success 

in 10 Steps", Chapter 1

Pretty much everyone in Network Marketing, including us here at Mentoring for Free, are looking for the specialized 

knowledge that will propel us into the six-figure income bracket and beyond. Because the barriers to entry into Network 

Marketing are so low, must of us come into this profession thinking that we don't need any skills at all. Because we so 

plainly saw the potential this business had to offer, we were certain that our friends and relatives would see it too. 

Most of us quickly had that notion dashed with a cold cup of reality. And those of us who didn't quit right eventually 

came to the conclusion that we needed skills, and knowledge...specialized knowledge.

Most people believe that they can get the specialized knowledge they need by learning everything they can about the 

product or service they chose to market. Some decide to go further and become industry experts, or experts at sales and 

marketing techniques. After all it is network MARKETING. In my case, I thought that this specialized knowledge consisted 

of all of the technical or "hard" skills. And that appealed to me because I hated sales of any kind and I was sure that I 

could find a way to build a huge business without ever having to talk to anyone, especially in the age of the internet. 

So I decided that I needed to know Search Engine Optimization (SEO), blogging, article and video marketing, social media 

marketing, sales skills, closing skills, pay-per-click advertising, and the list goes on. Now, I do possess some of these 

skills, and actually consider myself quite good at some of them. What I didn't know though was one of the first things I 

learned here at Mentoring for Free, that Network Marketing is first and foremost a Relationship business. 

Technical skills and knowledge are important, but not as important it appears as getting to know people. Or as someone 

else once said, "people don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care." Tom 'Big Al' Schreiter says 

that there are only three reasons why people would join you in your network marketing business. Those reasons are:

1) They know you.

2) They like you.

3) They trust you.

Mentoring for Free founder Michael Dlouhy tells us to "study people. Find out how you can HELP THEM reach their dreams." 

Before when I was amassing all of those technical skills, it was all about me. The products and services I was offering 

were not so much to help others, but to generate profits for ME. I wasn't concerned with helping people reach their 

dreams, I wanted them to help me reach mine. I never even concerned myself with their dreams, wishes or desires. I didn't 

listen to them, because I was too busy trying to tell them what I wanted them to know. It really is hard to help anyone 

if you don't know what they need or want. And you can't find out what they need or want if you don't listen. 

Another benefit of listening is that by listening you can find out which personality type or "color" a person is. Knowing 

a person's color can help you understand that person and what makes them tick. That knowledge not only helps you to know 

what to say to them, but how to say it. Michael gives us a clear picture of the four personality types in his book, 

"Success in 10 Steps", and has written an entire book on the subject named "Powerful Networking Secrets". When it comes 

to the science of studying people, these two books will give you a great foundation. I have witnessed Michael give 

completely different presentations of the same subject matter based on the personality type of the person he was talking 

to. And in each case, I saw how effective it was to talk to that person in a "language" that they understood.

Mentoring for Free has been a complete game changer to me when it comes to specialized knowledge. And I haven't even 

mentioned the Master Mind group here, which Hill talked about the importance of in this chapter. The Mentoring for Free 

Mastermind Group consists of network marketers from all over the world, from different companies, with a diverse array of 

skills and experience. We all share freely with each other, encourage each other, and learn from each other. What I have 

learned here at Mentoring for Free has taken my business to another level. And I know that as long as I stay plugged in 

here, that my specialized knowledge will be ever increasing.

Peace and Prosperity,

Reggie Liggins

Beaverton, OR

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Think & Grow Rich, Chapter 3 Faith – The Visualization of, and Belief in, Attainment of Desire The Second Step toward Riches By Russ Aker

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Think & Grow Rich, Chapter 3
Faith – The Visualization of, and Belief in, Attainment of Desire
The Second Step toward Riches By Russ Aker

In this chapter Hill stresses the value of Autosuggestion
and explains its importance as a principle in the creation of
personal FAITH for manifesting ones Desire.  He warns,
Autosuggestion works whether used constructively or
destructively and cautions to be watchful of wondering
thoughts.

Dominating thought will manifest to their physical
equivalent, keep you stuck, cause you to spiral down or
move you forward and up.  To prove this, look around you.
Are you stuck where you’ve been, seem to be going
backward or are you truly moving forward gaining solid
ground toward your hearts Desires?  Be truthful, take a self
inventory.

Even with Autosuggestion and what seems a powerful
Self-Talk do you still feel stuck?  If you don’t see
improvement in your circumstances it’s because you’re not
really listening.  Your negative dominating and underlying
thought is very subliminal and undermining what you say
you want.  It goes undetected until you “Decide” to awake
and take action against it.

The subliminal thoughts are your dominating thoughts, the
“road noise”.  They are so constant in the background they
go unnoticed and override self-talk.  These thoughts nag at
you, causing sleepless nights, worry and fear…they are
your dominating thoughts, holding you back, stopping
truthful positive action toward your goal.

The question then, if that is true for me, how do I rid myself
of these negative thoughts, the negative feelings they
create and the lack of action (toward what I feel I truly
want) in response to them?

Lack of action is caused by constant background noise
insistently wearing on us grinding us to a halt.  Action is a
thought to-do what we know needs to be done in the
moment.  The obstacle between lack and abundance is the
wall between the two and can be conquered by being
aware and a Decision to move forward in the moment.

Try this.  To gain Faith, decide and take one solid action
step toward your goal, then again.  Elation will overcome
despair.  A feeling of a renewed life will cause more action;
action will cause results a rekindled Faith will grow.  The
wall of doubt, worry and fear will begin to crumble.

If you are not sure what action to begin taking, I’ve got two
good stories, both take about a minute, and one might just
help.  Would you like to hear it?

Russ Aker
Portland, OR

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