Mastering The Art Of Success

(Chris Devlin) #1

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teach a semester of insurance marketing, I’m sure I get more out of it
th an my students.
WRIGHT^
I’m sorry I missed your PBS public service television show a
few years ago.
FORD
Admittedly, it was an exhilarating y et humbling experience to have
a one-hour program on national distribution. It actually began when a
University of Missouri professor heard me speak at NSA. She presented
an outline of my talk on Life Planning and wrote the grant request for
the University. They received $450,000 to hire a production crew,
record the program, and distribute it to all thirteen Federal Reserve
districts f or airing on PBS for six weeks.
WRIGHT^
Would you share some of the concepts from that program with us?
FORD
According to Emerson, “The Universe is composed of nature and the
soul... all things betray the same calculated profusion.” I took this to
mean that we live in a No-Limit universe, that the only limitation is
th at which we find between our own ears. So this was the opener for
the program. The idea being that the audience would start work on
themselves with a clean canvass. In Matthew 25:29 we read, “For the
man who uses well what he is given shall be given more, and shall have
abundance.” Whatever we are ready for is ready for us.
A useful definition of wealth, for example, is an abundance of things
desired. If you want w ealth think about it, think what it means to you. Is
it money, is it health, is it loving relati onships? Whatever your painting
on that blank canvass is there waiting. Auto-suggestion is the cell phone
connection between conscious thought and the subconscious mind. If
money is what you want and you know there is an unlimited supply,
then see yourself with it. Paint it into your canvass. Reiterate

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