MAGIC THINKING: The Key to Success
Bob Proctor, my financial mentor sat me down and showed how his mentor Leland Val Vandewall had influenced him. Bob was a fireman. Being a fireman is a secure job. He was "set" for life if he wanted it. As a fireman, Bob was earning $4,000 per year, a handsome sum back then. He didn´t have to work very hard and he could never be fired (no pun intended) from his job. Instead being satisfied with that, Bob read a little book that was quickly become a bestseller called, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.
Bob took the book to heart, studied it the way some people study the Bible and before too long he convinced himself that he could achieve goals just by changing his thinking. He decided that he would have in his possession the outrageous sum of $25,000 in the bank. Just to be on the safe side, Bob gave himself 10 years to acquire that worldly sum of money.
Well, it didn´t take him 10 years or anything even remotely that long. In fact, he told me that he went from being a fireman making $4,000 a year to an entrepreneur earning $125,000 and he did it within 12 months. He was so shocked with his results that he didn´t even know what happened to him. He wasn´t sure why he had experienced such enormous success. All he knew was that he followed the path laid out in that little book and he was winning.
Several years later, he had the opportunity to meet the man who would become his mentor, Leland Val Vandewall. He approached Val and explained his collossal success and told him why it happened to him. Val sat him down and explained within fifteen minutes the secrets of the Stick Person. This simple concept, developed in the 1930´s by Dr. Truman Fleet, confirmed exactly why Bob had experienced such success.
When Bob explained it to me, I hadn´t experienced very much financial success but when I caught the concept, when I grasped the power of this simple little diagram, my life (and bank account) grew like crazy. It was this that allowed me to boost my income to over $1,000,000 in the early 1990´s.
from: Millionaire´s Mindset by: Gerry Robert
