Logical thought and hard work were the obstacles that kept me from truly reaching my financial goals in the first thirty years of my life. My wife, on the other hand, has a way of doing things that seems to bring her just about anything she wants. We are two different people with two different versions of living life and being successful. After ten years of being together our ways of thinking collided, much like a dump truck t-boning a Honda Civic in an intersection at full speed.

With the help of my father, my wife staged an impromptu “logic intervention.” My logical thinking was driving them nuts. It was even driving me nuts! Deep down, I knew I had gone as far as I could on logical thinking alone. It was time for a change.

They told me to stop analyzing the past so much, stop obsessively planning about the future and just throw myself whole-heartedly into the present moment. They might as well have told me to set myself on fire and run through a gas station. I wanted no part of their fantasy world. I defended my ways of thinking vigorously, using logic as my sword, then as my shield. Still, it was two against one and their track record of success and happiness far outweighed mine. I was very successful, but I was also tough to be around, and truthfully, I was sick of myself and the unending stream of chaotic thought running through my head. They wore me down until finally I broke. In submitting, however, I promised to try their ways of thinking and being, and temporarily shelve my old patterns and behaviors.

Five years ago this was the best thing I have ever done. Everything I do today—the person I am—is a result of listening to those two people and taking those first steps into my new life, a life that finally fits.

Everything changed with a movie.

There was a movie I missed in the theatre that I really wanted to see but could not seem to get a hold of at Blockbuster. Fate, it seemed, had conspired against me to rent this movie. At the time, Blockbuster had just changed their return policies allowing folks to keep the movies longer than the standard two days. People were keeping New Releases two weeks or longer!

Acting on principles I learned from my father and my wife, I put my thoughts and attention on getting this movie, then I let go of my desired outcome and went about my life. Then, several hours later I was struck with the sudden impulse to go to Blockbuster that moment. I was told this “impulse” was to be expected, but I didn’t realize how clearly or how quickly it would come. Of course, I went to Blockbuster and low and behold . . . the movie was not in stock!

In no time flat I was thinking how foolish I was for having believed in such mental trickery, and that maybe this stuff worked for my wife and father, but not me. I was wired differently, and why couldn’t they see this? Then the same impulse that directed me to Blockbuster now filled my mind with the urge to ask an employee for help. He said all copies of the movie were rented out, and my disappointment continued to deepen.

Right then a woman entered the store and deposited a few movies in the return bin. The employee and I looked at each other; I kinda gave a nod and a raised eyebrow like, can you check the bin again? He checked the bin and came up with a copy of the movie! I was impressed, and feeling small for having prejudged the complexity of the small miracle that had just occurred.

I went on to secure movies like this more than 20 different times consecutively, responding each time to the impulses I received, finding that, whenever I did certain things a certain way I would receive these “inspirations” and would always, without fail, meet with success. I can’t tell you how often, even to this day, I hear Blockbuster’s employees say, “Oh, we just got that in.”

Naturally, I wanted to put this newfound thinking to the test. Plus I wanted to learn more about this phenomenon I was experiencing. The three of us certainly must not be the only people using this “secret.” I started with a book my father recommended to me, one of the books I put on my website in the LIBRARY. There were certain things I wanted beyond the ability to get my movies “on demand,” and one in particular came to mind. My wife and I had been searching for a new bed, just the right bed. There are plenty of beautiful beds out there, but we couldn’t seem to find the one that felt right.

One day I found myself turning into a furniture store really on impulse (because I understood how the process worked, I now acted upon all this impulse without question, or really even conscious thought). As it happened, the furniture store’s lease was expiring and the store was moving across town to a new, larger facility. I had never been to this store before, nor did I know at the time they were having a moving sale. Within five minutes we found the perfect bed, (headboard, footboard, frame only – no mattress), and even better, the price was reduced by $1300 which mostly fit our price range.

It was Christmas, and to buy the bed we’d need to take $2300 from our savings account, which the logical part of me was hesitant to do, as we were only to take money from our savings account in case of an emergency. We did it anyway, because when the impulse moves you, you don’t question it. We put our relatively new mattresses on our bed and put the older bed into the guest room where it was to sit until we bought new mattresses for it. At $399 - $499 for a new mattress set, who knew how long that would be? Then again, with what I knew, there was no reason not to do what I had been doing with the movies and now the bed. So my wife and I simply said, “It sure would be nice to have a new mattress and bed sheets.” That was all.

The following day two things happened. One, I got a call from a good client of ours wanting our services—which I secured that day for $2350 (this replenished our savings account, so I didn’t need to fret over spending emergency money on a luxury item), and two, my wife went to her two day a week job and happened to overhear one of the ladies asking if anyone needed a Queen sized mattress and box spring. The woman had just gotten married and the new mattresses from her husband’s bed were taking up space in her garage. My wife immediately asked her how much she was selling the mattress for and the woman’s reply was simple: “If you come and pick them up out of our garage, you can have them for free! I just want the space in my garage back.”

We picked up the $500 mattress set and for Christmas we received $300 in gift certificates to Linens and Things where we bought new sheets and a new comforter for the guest bed.

From here, my wife and I used what we knew to go on to buy two brand new German cars, both at ridiculously low prices ($3500 in discounts for each car!), both outfitted exactly the way we wanted, and both written at more than affordable terms due to some surprisingly low lease rates. This process took almost no effort at all, which is saying something since at the time, in our part of California, you couldn’t get more than a $700 break on a new BMW even if you were friends with the sales manager, which I was with several. And the lease rates? There had never been anything like them before! I know because I had been trying to lease a new BMW at a big discount for two years prior to this time with absolutely no luck!

I soon realized that creating things and money is only half the joy of adopting this way of life, this way of thinking. Creating miracles, or rather clearing the way for miracles to present themselves—is certainly inspiring. I never tire of experiencing this joy. But there is so much more to this than simply acquiring things.

With each success I found the “noise” in my mind falling away at a rapid pace. A still mind, I was quick to learn, is priceless. No amount of money can buy you this kind of peace. I no longer worry about the past, and I stopped fretting and obsessing over the future. Your brain, your mind, holds three “time-zones” in it, each occupied with thoughts and memories, visions and certain space-taking realities. The time-zones are: past, present and future. You cannot change the past and you cannot predict the future, so why bother spending much time dwelling over either? This alone created within me an incredible sense of peace! In the present moment I came to enjoy the unfolding of life, which allowed me to focus on bettering myself and my circumstances. I no longer shoulder the burden that comes with the past and future time-zones.

To understand the gravity of my transformation, you must know that I’m the type of person who will give things a chance, but until something is proven and there is no room left for doubt, I am not a believer. For the last half decade, I have used the principles I learned from the brilliant texts I have made available for you in the LIBRARY section of this website, and my life has been much easier, more peaceful, and more luxurious as a result. I put these principles to use in each and every aspect of my life. Here are a few examples of some of the things my wife and I accomplished when using these principles:

	We got into the exact house we were looking at five years prior, which, at the time, we could not afford. Due to some “unusual” circumstances, it became easily affordable to us, and became available literally the very moment we decided we wanted a new house.
	We started a new business that allowed me to stop working twelve to fifteen hour days for unruly bosses in a pressure cooker of an occupation. This alone did wonders for my health, my happiness and my marriage!
	I doubled my income working half as hard, and spent more time with my wife and my family than I could have ever hoped for.
	We now get little things, like up-front parking spaces in packed parking lots, time and time again. We even know which parking spaces we want and we “secure” them for us in advance of our arrival. Sounds strange, even unbelievable, I know. I still get a kick out of this one!
	We always get hotel rooms regularly upgraded without even having to ask, sometimes rooms that would normally run us $200 to $300 more than the room we paid for.
	We get clothes and shoes at heavily discounted prices. Once we went into Nordstrom’s to buy my wife a $40 shirt. As I was waiting for her to try on the shirt I found a $20 bill (I had been thinking about dollar bills all day), which no one had came to claim the entire time my wife in the dressing room (about 15 minutes—she was trying on other clothes, too). We then went to pay for the shirt she wanted only to find it had just been marked down to $19 plus tax! When all was said and done, and we calculated the $20 bill I found, the shirt ended up costing us about a dollar! Before this, I had never found money before, not in all my thirty-five years. Later that week I found $140 in the parking lot at Home Depot. No one reported the money missing so I left my name and number with Customer Service, then waited for 30 minutes at the same spot for someone to return. No one did.
	We are constantly in the right place at the right time, meeting the right people the moment we need to meet them.
	Instead of hoping for a certain income each month, we dictate how much we want to make based on certain principles. One day several years ago my wife and I sat down and decided we wanted to make $20,000 one month doing a particular service, a service we enjoyed doing but had done only once before in the two years we were in this particular business. Within two days of making this decision, we received several phone calls and subsequently booked $20,000 in business. By the month’s end we earned over $19,000 and within 32 days of making that decision we brought in $22,500 in pure profit.
	After we realized we could not only dictate how much money we wanted to make in a particular period of time, but what services we could provide to earn that money, we started focusing on both these aspects together. Not a month has gone by without us sitting down and mapping out what we want each month and getting exactly what we asked for and envisioned. We have been doing this for more than forty months now with consistent results!
	I use key principles I learned to turn what was simply the pure joy of writing (meaning no one was paying me yet) into my first published work of fiction.
	We even found the perfect person and the right circumstances to create this website so that other people can meet with the same successes my wife and I have enjoyed. Part of studying and understanding the principles you will find in the online LIBRARY section of this website, is sharing them with others, and eventually teaching them to others. To this end, I hope you will benefit from the content on this site.

One of the principles you will read about is the creating of harmonious connections with others, the pooling of energy together to do something greater than you could do on your own. We have created this website as a gathering place for like minded individuals, in alignment with this principle Napoleon Hill calls the Master Mind. Brilliant men like Thomas Edison, JD Rockefeller and Henry Ford (the Bill Gates of his time) got together in harmonious connection almost a hundred years ago and this gathering of minds still, to this day, wields an incredible influence over electricity, industry and automobiles. Their virtuosity can be felt across the globe daily. Our hope, our intention, is to pass along the long hidden principles of abundance, principles that have lain in near secrecy for almost an entire century now. The New Thought Revolution is starting again, so together let’s create a Master Mind Community that reaches all edges of the globe!