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When we stimulate our conscious mind through the emotion of a strong desire, creative imagination comes alive. In other words, when you want your new job or career strongly, your ability to create it grows stronger, too.
This is counter to what many of us think and do. We are more likely to tell ourselves, “Don’t get your hopes up,” or “Don’t count on it too much.”
Creative imagination is the human mind’s connection to Infinite Intelligence, Hill’s term for God, the Universe, the Life Force, or Energy. It is the imagination through which we receive hunches and inspiration. It is even, Hill says, the way we receive “thought vibrations” and “influences” from the minds of other people.
A word of caution here about the well-intentioned people who love us. Most of us have family members or friends who say, “I would hate to see you so disappointed, so you should moderate your expectations.” “Don’t get so enthusiastic. What if it doesn’t work out?” By taking this advice to heart, whether it comes from ourselves or others, we are ensuring failure!
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Think and Grow Your Career, Part 6 of 10
Over the course of 20 years, Hill interviewed and observed the most successful people of the early 20th century to find a recipe for success. In “Think and Grow Rich,” the best-selling business book of all time, he offers the eight steps. Here, they are, named in Hill’s words and explained in relation to a job search or career change. For more details on putting the steps into practice, please visit each link below. When you read each post, make notes about how the concept applies to your job search or career change. Ask yourself how you can put each into practice — now.
1. Desire: Knowing the type of job you want and being definite about your career goal.
2. Faith: Having confidence in yourself and your ability to attain the job you want.
3. Autosuggestion: Knowing how to nourish your belief that the job is already yours.
4. Specialized knowledge: Obtaining the education or training you need to prepare for the job.
5. Imagination: Applying your imagination to the way your goal will come about.
6. Organized planning: Adding your intellect to your dreams to create a plan to reach your career goal.
7. Decision: Acting on your job search plan.
8. Persistence: Evaluating your results and if they have been unsuccessful, creating and acting on another plan.
Step 5, Imagination, is in Hill’s own words, the workshop of the mind.
Instead, imagine what path you might take to your career goal. Pull out the stops! Dream! Let the ideas pour out of you. There will be time for editing later. Pretend you can do anything. All resources are at your disposal. Nothing can hold you back, and all things are possible.
Be sure to put your dreams in writing to have a tangible form of your desire (and so we remember what it is, for those of us of a certain age).
“Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes. Ideas are products of the imagination,” Hill writes. Then, he tells a few stories to illustrate his point.
The Enchanted Kettle: In the late 19th century, an old country doctor sold a kettle and a secret formula to a young pharmacy clerk for $500. That old kettle has consumed much of the world’s sugar, providing jobs to thousands of people. It has used millions of bottles and cans each year, providing jobs to those who make the containers. It also employs clerks, payroll specialists, advertising executives, artists, and photographers. It brought prosperity to a small Southern city. The idea now has spread to every civilized country of the world. The mysterious ingredient the drug clerk, Asa Candler, combined with the secret formula he bought to make Coca-Cola was imagination.
What I Would Do If I Had a Million Dollars: Educator and clergyman Frank W. Gunsaulus began his preaching career in the stockyards region of South Chicago. He saw defects in the education system and decided he would get the $1 million necessary to build a college unhampered by those faults, and he would get it within a week! He called the newspapers Saturday and announced the sermon he would preach the following morning was titled “What I Would Do If I Had a Million Dollars.” Even though he forgot the written version of his sermon in his office, he delivered it with such conviction that a man from the back of the congregation came forward and pledged the million dollars. The next day that man, Phillip D. Armour, presented the money to him, and Gunsaulus founded the Armour Institute of Technology.
The ideas present in these illustrations are also present in your dream for your career or your next position. Your idea of what you would like to do can be accomplished through the power of definite purpose, that is, knowing what you want, in combination with definite plans, fueled by imagination.
Sometimes, we have stopped dreaming for so long that we find it difficult to start again. At these times, a certified career coach asks questions that help the job seeker get back to that place where dreams and desires were everyday occurrences. If that sounds like something you’d find helpful, please contact us right away at www.Workwrite.net. The homework is fun, and you’ll likely shorten your job search at the same time!Next in Think and Grow Rich 7: Get your job search action plan ready
