Something to Think About: Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. You can do it if you believe you can!

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1 The fundamental lesson with this principle is that your mind is like a magnet, it attracts anything you dwell upon. Most people go through life thinking about the things they don t want to happen instead of learning the art of keeping their mind focusing upon the things, conditions, and circumstances they really do want. Something to Think About: Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. You can do it if you believe you can! Key Questions to Consider: What are your three big takeaways from the subject of faith and belief? What is the difference between faith and applied faith Which of the 7 basic fears is your challenge? What is the difference between faith and fear? Of the six symptoms of poverty, which one is a thorn in your side? What do you believe about God or a supreme power in your life? Practical Application: How does believing in a Supreme Being or power impact your life today? How do you see your life would be different if you had more belief and faith in yourself? How does focusing your mind on what you want and not on what you don t want affecting your life today? Which do you tend to do more of? How do you think your life would be different if your prayers were more of an expression of gratitude and thanksgiving for the blessing you already have? How is fear keeping you from reaching your highest potential? If you put a plan of action together for one of your key takeaways from this chapter, how would your life be different 6 months from now? Write down your thoughts and really spend some time with this section.

2 Impact on Me Journal: Go through the 10 Steps to Building up Your Faith with your major purpose or big giant goal or dream. Follow the steps through all 10 steps and then ask yourself the question, What is there to fear about taking action to accomplish my definite major purpose? See fear as a state of mind, just like faith is. You choose today which one will help you the most to see your dreams become a reality. The choice is yours.

3 The 7 Basic Fears of Life 1. The Fear of Poverty: #1 most destructive of all fears! A. Lack of ambition B. Failure to make your own decisions C. Being a victim, making excuses for your failures D. Lives beyond their means, lacks self-control with finances E. Having a negative mental attitude, generally pessimistic F. Tend to put things off, afraid of failure, choose mediocrity 2. The Fear of Criticism: Robs a person of their individuality and faith! A. Keeping up with the Jones syndrome B. Keeps a person from taking action on ideas and plans C. Bragging about achievements, cover up feelings of inferiority D. Being easily embarrassed, fear of people and no self confidence E. Completely destroys initiative and imagination 3. The Fear of Poor Health: Brings about those things that are feared! A. Drugstore and medicine habit, dependency on pills B. Develops the habit of self - pity, make excuses for lack of success C. Use drugs and alcohol to cover up fear and pain with D. Absorbs all your time, money, and energy in life 4. The Fear of Loss of Love: leads to serious co-dependency issues! A. Based 100% on jealousy, manifests in mental unbalance B. Relationships are not based on trust, strength, and courage C. Can apply to spouse, parents, siblings, children, friends 5. The Fear of Growing Older: Attitude of best years are behind you! A. Naturally slows a person down, develop feeling of inferiority B. This fear manifests itself between age 40-60

4 C. Live by, If only I was younger I would do.. D. Paradigm shift from wishing to be young vs. Wisdom with age E. People don t act their age, clothing, attitude, decisions, surgery 6. The Fear of Loss of Liberty: Understand the fundamentals of freedom A. Political fears taking freedoms away from the people B. Demands of daily life, feeling trapped or in prison with life situation C. Police and Government State vs. American way of life and liberty D. Lose the ability to pursue life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness 7. The Fear of Death: The Grandfather of all Fears! Universal around world A. People fear what they don t understand, death is an unknown to most B. Everyone will experience death, guaranteed, timing and place unknown C. Paralyze you from actually living life! Why worry its inevitable D. Death is a sleep until your next transition, what s to fear?

5 The 10 Steps to Building up Your Faith 1. Have a definite major purpose, know what you want and get busy creating it 2. Give your purpose over to the creator with prayer each day, visualize your success 3. Associate as many of the 10 basic motives to your intended desire as possible, get emotional 4. Write a list of all the benefits and pros of your major definite purpose 5. Associate with people who are in sympathy with you and your purpose 6. Don t let a day pass without accomplishing at least one thing towards your intended goal 7. Choose a role model, someone whom you can use as a guide and yardstick for success 8. Make sure you are reading, using pictures, affirmations, and favorite quotes to motive you 9. Be persistent, don t quit or run away when things get tough, work through adversity 10. What are you willing to sacrifice to make this goal happen in your life? Your price tag?