If You Think You Can! by TJ Hoisington

Author:TJ Hoisington [TJ Hoisington]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: If You Think You Can!
Publisher: Jaico Publishing House
Published: 2022-04-22T00:00:00+00:00

I am passionate and committed about what? If money, time, or resources were not obstacles—what would I choose to do?

List all the benefits I will experience by achieving this goal:

CHAPTER 7

Operate from Your Imagination

Law #6

All Achievement begins in the imagination. It is the imagination that takes unorganized thought and matter and organizes it into something meaningful. It is the primary source for creating change and it is the incubator of all ideas that eventually make their way into reality. Before any song is ever sung, building ever erected, invention ever invented, or change ever made, it is first breathed into life in someone’s imagination. In the Laws of Success, Napoleon Hill taught, “All achievement starts in the imagination before it is ever realized in the physical form.”

Achievers get what they want because they utilize the amazing power of their imaginations in a very resourceful way. Again, it is the imagination that takes the invisible and makes it visible.

This was the case of Fred Smith, who gave birth to the idea of the overnight shipping business now known as FedEx. Using his imagination, Walt Disney created an empire in a way that no one had before. Conrad Hilton of Hilton Hotels imagined himself owning a hotel long before he ever bought one. The same is true with people like Bill Gates, who created Microsoft, or Ray Kroc, who through McDonald’s, created the model for fast food restaurants. They and thousands of others all started with an idea and used their imaginations to turn those ideas into reality.

Often, these individuals didn’t have special education or knowledge. They simply used their imaginations in ways that allowed them to make new combinations with the knowledge they already possessed. Look at Baskin and Robbins, two brothers-in-law who had a dream of starting a business. What was their successful idea? They simply opened a shop serving ice cream with thirty-one different flavors. Pretty simple, right? Baskin-Robbins’ success wasn’t the result of a vast knowledge base or being privy to some think-tank collection of cutting-edge ideas. Rather, they simply used their imaginations in a creative way.

The entire South was impacted by the power of one man’s use of his imagination. While watching his cat trying to claw a chicken through the walls of its coop, Eli Whitney noticed that the cat was only successful at getting a paw full of feathers. Thus, an idea was born. He imagined an iron claw pulling cotton from a cotton plant. As a result, Whitney invented the revolutionary machine: the cotton gin. Again, the power of the imagination.

Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple Computer Inc., and the creator of the iPod and iPhone had one of the most powerful imaginations of our time. He said, “It’s like when I walk in a room, and I want to talk about a product that hasn’t even been invented yet. I can see the product as if it is sitting there, right in the center of the table. What I’ve got to do is materialize it and bring it to life.

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