Every week we join our Mentoring For Free ‘Mental Cleanse’ for an hour to discuss a chapter from “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill.

The Mental Cleanse, hosted by Michael Dlouhy, is a mastermind group as Hill recommends. ‘Mastermind’ is a lofty title for a bunch of everyday people who get together to try to figure out how to succeed, following Hill’s steps to riches.

Too many of us struggle for years, fall short of our goals and dreams, and never find out why. In many cases, we get in our own way on our paths to success.

We set up our own roadblocks.

The reasons are too numerous to list here. Let us just say that since joining the ‘mental cleanse’ group, we have been amazed at what we have learned about ourselves and about our business. We can feel the changes in ourselves, and we can see the changes in the type of people we are attracting.

I (Bob) was skeptical at first about the process, as I don’t go for New Age Ooga Booga at all. I see now that this is hardly new age, as Hill wrote Think and Grow Rich in 1937, and Wallace Wattles had written The Science of Getting Rich in 1910 or so.

And it’s far from ‘ooga booga’. It’s a simple process of reading or listening to a chapter a week, and then writing as little or as much as we feel like writing about the chapter. We find ourselves starting with one aspect, and as we write, thoughts and ideas and reflections come flooding in, and we may end up with a totally different idea from the one we started with.

We look forward to the weekly sessions where people share (optional) their lessons from the chapter of the week. As Michael says, it helps you get rid of the chatter in your mind!

You can listen to Michael invite you to the Mental Cleanse on You Tube, or watch the video below …

The Mental Cleanse is changing lives, and we invite you to join us. Start with your free copy of Success in Ten Steps. We will contact you and show you how to get your free copy of Think and Grow Rich, and how to get started on your own ‘mental cleanse’!

We look forward to helping you any way we can.

Bob and Anna
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P.S. Here is Bob’s letter to Michael Dlouhy re Chapter 7 of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill:

Hello Michael

What a rich Chapter!

As you well know, I tend to be a little green, so I really enjoyed the concrete checklist for leaders that I could work through. And they were numbered too! Emerald Heaven!

I also enjoyed giving myself a good score on both the list of do’s and the list of don’ts for a leader. Unless I’m fooling myself, I seem to be on the right track. Maybe thirty years of teaching has helped me there.

I liked Hill’s comments about mastermind groups and of course, we have that covered with Mentoring For Free.

The paragraph that struck me the most was …

“The day of the ‘go-getter’ has passed. He has been supplanted by the ‘gogiver’. High-pressure methods in business finally blew the lid off. There will never be the need to put the lid back on, because, in the future, business will be conducted by methods that will require no pressure.”

This is exactly the philosophy of Mentoring For Free, and exactly what Tom ‘Big Al’ Schreiter means when he tells us that the more problems we solve for people, the more successful we will be. I’d add that success includes the good feelings that come with just giving and helping with no thought about the monetary side of success.

I am amazed at how much better it feels to work this way than the way we were taught by our previous companies and upline. Anna and I reflect often about how our first company almost forced us to change our character and become the type of people we would usually avoid.

I say “almost forced” us, because we still had free will, but for some reason chose not to use it.

We lost sight of our character and followed directions, pestered our friends and family as though they owed us a favor, and refused to do business with local companies who refused to try our phone service.

The result was that there are still people we do not talk to and businesses we do not frequent because of their lack of support. It was like taking a cleaver to our address book.

In retrospect, some of those friends showed their true colors and gave us a clear indication of what our friendship meant to them. On the other hand, it’s a bad business model that puts friendships to the test in confrontations like that. If it had not been for our lack of vision during those five years, we would still at least have those people as acquaintances, and be able to visit the local stores and businesses we left because they would not become our customers.

There are still uncomfortable feelings over those situations, and had we been in a more gentle system, we would not now be experiencing nagging thoughts that we had done wrong.

From a business point of view, “You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours” makes sense, but we had never intended to become business people at all, and I regret having put people into awkward positions.

The farther we move away from sales, the happier we are. And so are our friends!

Our new style, taught to us by you and Mentoring For Free and Tom Big Al, now suits our personalities. What a relief to offer free help, rather than try to coerce people into buying from us by using guilt. Whew!

We often get signs that we are on the right track – some big and some small. Here’s one of them for me:

I had been chatting back and forth by phone and email with Ted in New York. We talked about the companies he had tried and his life in customer service and his health problems and the lack of support he was getting from his wife in his MLM business, etc.

Then one day he cancelled an appointment and said he’d get back to me – problems at home that he had to sort out.

A few weeks later I sent him an electronic birthday card, and then when he sent me some info on a new business a few weeks after that, I asked him about his old company and whether things had settled down at home for him.

He wrote back …

“Hi Bob

I will call you tomorrow and we can talk and I will tell you what’s going on in my life at this time. Some good things and some bad but nothing I can’t handle. Thanks for asking. It’s nice to know I have a friend on here. Talk with you tomorrow afternoon. Have a great night.

Ted”

At first I thought it was a small sign, but the more I think about it, the bigger it gets.

We know we’re in the right place with Mentoring For Free, and I’m sure Napoleon Hill would agree with us.

Bob Bassett
May 28 2008