A Nice Long Break. I'm Back Now . . . With A Positive Imagination

Well, that was a nice long break from posting.

After three years I wasn't feeling the enjoyment anymore or the thrill of sharing quality information. I began to feel more like I was chained to these blogs and that if I stopped writing all that I had built would all come crashing down, so I continued because I feared losing momentum.

I was no longer doing this because I wanted to, or that's what I imagined anyway. Well, I have never been an advocate of doing things for negative reasons or because of fear motivation. I bit the bullet, I stopped posting on all my blogs and took a much deserved break. And you know what?

The traffic to this site actually went up during this time period because of all I had written previously. Most of the information on this site is "evergreen", or to put it simply, never goes out of season. It is always relevant. And . . . I had been imagining the worst possible scenario if I stopped writing.

Success information is and has been written about since the beginning of time, and most of the principles never change. We just change our vocabulary from time to time so it is more acceptable in the present day language. People seem to understand it better if it is written in present day lingo and slang.

Anyway, I digress . . .

While I was reading last night, I came across some information I did want to share with you.

It comes from one of my favorite books, The Magic Of Thinking Big. The topic: Learn to see things for what they can be, not for what they are now, practice adding value. Use your imagination as a positve force.

"People who don't have much, see themselves as they are now. That's all they see. They don't see a future, they just see a miserable present.

I'm determined not to let what I haven't got stop me! I've made up my mind to look at myself as the person I'm going to be in a few short years."

1. Practice adding value to yourself.
Ask yourself this question daily. "What can I do to make myself more valuable today?" Visualize yourself not as you are but as you can be. Then, specific ways to attaining your potential value will suggest themselves to you.

2. Practice adding value to things.
This is what they do in real estate investing. For example, What can I do to 'add value' to this room, or this house, or this business? Look for ideas to make things worth more. A thing -- whether it be a vacant lot, a house, a business or a product -- has value in proportion to the ideas for using it.

There is more information in the book obviously, but you can get the idea. Value is everywhere, value is determined only by our imagination.

And your imagination is all powerful, it can be a force for positive, or in my case previously, a force for negative. I'm back now! For the right reasons again . . .