Tomorrow begins the final month of the year!

By the end of 2007, MOVIES OF THE MIND will become a topic you hear about often.

Wouldn't you have liked to been involved with the original group that it is bringing it to the American consciousness?

A visionary is described as someone who can see the future.

We see the future in our movies.

Would you like you go to the movies with us?

Have you ever wondered why those who think positive often succeed?

Have you ever wondered why those who think positive always seem to find the joy in life?

Have you ever wondered why those who think positive seem to believe they can accomplish anything in life?

Have you ever been to the movies?

It started in the movies.

MOVIES OF THE MIND!

Z is for ZEALOUS

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
Thomas Fuller


Go forward into this world as the novice filmmaker.

Make your movies, acquire knowledge and continue to make films for your lifetime.

Live your life with the passion and purpose which makes you unique in all the world.

And your journey will be enriched by the way you chose to picture your life.

And someone you encounter on your journey will be enriched by having met you along the way.

Y is for YIELDING

To be even and balanced in all things is the way of someone who knows when to push forward and when to acquiesce.

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.
Confucius

X is for X-RAYS


There have been reports that mental imagery can actually improve vision.

All I know is that I am one who would have to be included in that study as a positive result.
Sometimes I close my eyes and think that anything I wish to see I can see.

And if I see it enough it can happen.

How can one be anything but positive when they live each day with such a philosophy?

W is for WALKING

When I walk, the filmmaker within me begins to picture an abundance of brand new celluloid for completion at a later date.

As I participate in one of nature’s healthiest and simplest exercises, my mental mailbox edits and prioritizes scenes from my life which need revision, rewrites and renewals.

All with the background of the Southern California sky.

Movies, walking, heaven, all in one day.

Now, that’s a great day.

V is for VOCABULARY

Building a prodigious vocabulary through creating movies in the mind to trigger words and beyond is great for the individual success thinker. Teaching someone to create movies in their mind is the greatest act because it asks for nothing in return.

U is for UNDERSTANDING


Thoughts are wonderful things that they can bring two people so far apart, into harmony and understanding, for even a little while.
Ernest Pyle

T is for THINKING


If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

S is for SPEAKING


Your talent for public speaking is a main spoke on your personal wheel of confidence.

And as a mental filmmaker, your eloquence is waiting for you to create your next feature film

Speech is a picture of the mind
John Ray

R is for RESPONSIBILITY



Becoming a talented mental filmmaker brings with it no guarantee that the world of wealth will provide unbounded riches. A greater probability is that this cultivated skill will help you to become the best person you can be.


When a man decides to do something, he must go all the way, but he must take responsibility for what he does. He must know why he is doing it and then he must proceed with his actions with no doubts or remorse.

Carlos Castaneda

Q is for QUESTIONS



When a filmmaker makes adjustments to film, it’s called editing.

The same revision should take place frequently in your mental films.

And the trigger to this brilliant art of revision comes from the ability to ask questions of oneself.

Some men see things as they are and ask “Why?” I dream things that never were and ask , “Why not?”


Robert F. Kennedy

P is for PERSEVERANCE



Any man can take a fall.

It’s the true character inside the man which helps him to get back on his feet.

And it was our friend F. Scott Fitzgerald who wrote “vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.”

O is for OPPORTUNITIES


When one door closes another door opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us.

Alexander Graham Bell


Do you have rooms and open doors in the chambers of your mind?

It can be a magical place to go if you only would make it the beginning of your journey.

N is for NEGATIVE


Now no negative thought is authorized to take residence in the property of your mind.

All such thoughts will be immediately evicted.

Your personal eviction procedure is well established.

You have far too many positive thoughts seeking permanent residence.

And when you have mastered attracting positive thoughts there is simply no room for anything else.

M is for MENTORING


How do you make the art of Mental Imagery a success habit?

Practice at least twice a day when you go to sleep and when you awake.

Eventually it will connect with the rest of your day.

And when you are ready for dessert, try mentoring mental imagery.

And when you do, not only will it remain with you forever.

But your legacy will become timeless as well.

L is for LIFE

The very best of life is reserved for those who live life with a magnificent passion.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another, and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
James M. Barrie

How are you doing with your diary?

You still have many pages to write and live.

K is for KINDNESS

It was our fellow student Goethe who called kindness the magical chain that links society.

What would Goethe think about our commitment to kindness today?

Do any of us commit to at least one single act of kindness each day of our journey?

Maybe too many of us don’t see our capacity for kindness.

If we only would go to the movies more often.

That would be the movies in our mind.

J is for JOURNEY


The journey we take is one step at a time.

One who lives to be happy tomorrow is missing the chance to live today.

We have only so many today’s and no guaranteed tomorrows.

Enjoy the journey.

It’s as unique and magical as you are.

I is for IMAGERY


Imagery captures the goals and begins the process of conversion to reality.

Add substance to your reality by appealing to all of your senses.

Smell the leather of a new car.

Taste the richness of the best cuisine in town.

Feel the softness to the wall to wall carpeting which will envelop your master bedroom.

Hear the sounds of the hot dog vendor selling refreshments at the game you are about to take over.

See it all. Film it all. Edit it. See it again. Revise and repeat. Then get ready to live your very best life.

H is for HEALTH


Our health is our greatest asset.

In my years in the mental moviemaking business, I have heard of many who have imagined fame and fortune in their lives, but few who imagined radiant health.

Your health is your equal partner in the rest of your life.

Find a place for it in your movies.

It will reward you by keeping your movies rolling as your journey evolves.

G is for GOALS


Goals give us the opportunity to achieve.

Goals provide us with something to strive for.

Goals can be short and long term.

Goals give us a scoreboard to evaluate progress along our life’s journey.

Goals start in the movies of our mind.

F is for FEAR

Fear can be paralyzing.

It can blind us from ever fully realizing our talents. Ever reaching our potential.

Fear is negative thinking being allowed to take up residence within our minds.

We all have an installed ever ready security system to disable fear.

All the equipment we need is within the power of our minds

E is for EDUCATION

Every brain should come equipped with a mental library.
The more educated one becomes the greater their insight and quality of decision.
Our education begins at birth and continues to the end of our long journey.
To build a better world, it is not enough that we alone be educated, we must advocate for education and inspire others to share our thirst to learn.

D is for DETACHMENT

The secret of athletic champions.
They don’t consider the chance of failure because they remain detached from the eventual outcome.
Their level of confidence is so high that the possibility of failing in any game changing situation cannot be conceived.
If you approached life with the same level of supreme confidence, how would your life change?
If you knew it was impossible for you to fail, what changes would you make in how you live?

C is for CONFIDENCE

Most of my students have asked me where does one go for confidence.
They can’t seem to find it in many places they frequent.
If they only knew.
It was always right there in their mind.
They just needed to learn to activate the control switch.

B is for BALANCE

How many lives do we hear that are out of balance?
Is discovering the formula for balance the formula for life?
I believe it is part of the formula.
And the complete formula can be found along the journey of SUCCESS THINKING.
But you have to be willing to travel the path.

A is for ATTRACTION

Some wonder if they could ever develop the power of ATTRACTION to change their lives.
They claim that most of the things they have ATTRACTED in their lives has been far from special.
They lament that they have attracted so many negative things.
And I wonder if they simply changed the way they think.
Would that mean they would attract the things which could change their life forever?

Before you drift off to sleep tonight, picture yourself living the life you believe you should be living. Start by creating a scene from that pictured life. Just a glimpse. It could be meeting the person you desire to enter your life. It could be an athletic challenge. It might be a change in your financial fortunes. Start simply with the beginning of a scene. You can call it Scene One, Take One. It’s the movie of the life you have been waiting all of your life to live. But it will only become a major motion picture when the director is ready to begin filming.