Hello there and welcome.
It's Bob Proctor.
Here we are, a month away from the first of the year
and I would imagine everybody has some pretty big goals
and they're really going to make things happen
and quite possibly for you,
it might be starting to fade just a little bit.
That happens, you know.
We can be so jazzed about our goals
and what we're going to do
and if we don't follow the rules
they start to fade.
Now when I was given this book, "Think and Grow Rich,"
I made a commitment I would never stop reading it
and that was 59 years ago and I'm still reading it.
I read it everyday.
And there's so much in it.
But there's so many great lessons
and one of the great lessons we have learned
is a visualization.
It's a phenomenal lesson.
Now I'm going to talk about that in a moment.
So let's look at what we're saying here.
Everyone visualizes, whether he realizes it or not.
Visualization is one of the great secrets of success.
That's where we build a picture in our mind.
When Van Gogh was asked,
"How do you do such beautiful work?"
He said, "I dream my painting and then I paint my dream."
Well that's the way it works.
All great leaders have been great visionaries.
Solomon said "Where there is no vision,
"the people will perish."
That doesn't mean they're going to die,
it means the results are going to get weaker
and weaker and weaker.
And they're just not going to be making it happen
the way they want to.
Everyone visualizes whether he realizes it or not.
Visualization's a great secret of success.
Now look at this.
The conscious use of this great power attracts,
attracts to you multiplied resources.
Multiplied.
It attracts to you.
You know something about the law of attraction?
How do we attract?
Well through visualization.
Now look at it.
And it intensifies your wisdom
and enables you to make use of advantages
you formerly failed to recognize.
I'm going to come back and talk about that again.
But why does that happen?
Now let's take a rest for a second.
We'll just get rid of that for a moment
and let's think of this.
I talk about acorns.
I was given this little box
that you should put pens or something
and it had an acorn on it.
I was given this acorn.
It seems like everybody wants to give me acorns.
There's a little acorn somebody gave me.
I'll put that in here.
And then somebody gave me a bigger one.
There's another one.
And I would imagine these are carved out of oak
because I talk about acorns
and I want to talk to you about an acorn.
And now here's a beauty.
This is one that I was given.
I think my daughter-in-law gave me this one
but it's quite a nice one.
It's a big acorn.
All right.
And now here's another one.
And that.
See?
Kind of cool, isn't it?
Now why am I attracting these acorns?
'Cause I talk a lot about an acorn.
Now acorns grow into giant oak trees
but not by accident.
When you visualize,
it enables you to grow into something great
if you use the vision properly.
Now I want to talk to you about an acorn
because you grow by the same laws as acorns grow by.
You see, acorns grow into giant oak trees
but they don't happen by accident.
Now look at this for a moment.
This is, there's a lesson in here for you,
and this can change your life if you really get it.
An acorn is planted in the earth.
Energy is attracted to the acorn's energy
and becomes one with the acorn.
Now look at it,
we plant the acorn in the earth.
That acorn is just,
there's all kinds of earth
that's packed right up against the acorn.
But you know there's things packed against the acorn
that isn't in harmony with the acorn,
so that earth or energy doesn't do it any good.
The earth is full of all kinds of different energy,
just like the world is full
of all kinds of different energy.
Well there could be earth gems right up against the acorn
but it's not in harmony with the acorn,
it's not on the same frequency
that the acorn's operating on by,
so it isn't doing the acorn any good.
However, there could be some energy
a long ways away from the acorn.
Back it up.
This energy is a long ways away from the acorn
but if it's in harmony with the acorn,
it marches like an obedient soldier
right to the acorn.
See, the acorn sets up an attractive force
and it attracts whatever's in harmonious vibration with it.
Everything vibrates, nothing rests.
The acorn has a pattern plan in it
that dictates the vibration it stays in
and it cannot change its vibration,
therefore it can only grow into one thing, an oak tree.
It will never grow into a maple tree or a fig tree.
It just won't do that.
Now think.
There's all kinds of earth
and the earth that's in harmony with the acorn
is on the same frequency,
it will march right towards it.
As it gets next to the acorn,
it becomes one with the acorn
and then roots start to come out of the bottom
and roots start to come out of the top
and it attracts from the atmosphere
as well as from the earth,
the particles of energy that are necessary
to cause it to expand.
You see there's a pattern plan in the acorn.
It controls the vibratory read of the acorn
and the acorn cannot change its vibration.
Now stay with me here for a moment.
A pattern plan is in the seed,
controls the vibration of the seed.
The energy that created the oak tree was always here.
Nothing is created or destroyed.
Nothing.
It is in harmony with and was attracted to the seed.
Now keep thinking.
An acorn is in the earth.
The energy for the oak tree is in the universe
and the law of attraction brings them together.
Now what's the lesson?
Well, let's keep thinking for a moment.
There's a pattern plan in the acorn.
It controls the vibration of this little massive energy
that we call an acorn.
Because it's on a certain frequency,
it attracts energy that's on that frequency
and the acorn grows and expands,
it grows into the earth and outside,
it attracts from the atmosphere, as as well from the earth,
we have a giant oak tree.
That's no accident that that oak tree grows.
It's said that Aristotle used to hold up an acorn
and say to his students,
what have I got here?
He wanted them to say that he had an oak tree.
And he didn't have an oak tree, he did not.
He had the potential of an oak tree.
You have the potential of greatness.
Now keep thinking.
It's the image that you hold in your mind
that controls the vibration you're in.
The acorn can only grow into one thing, an oak tree.
You can grow into anything you want
and that is one of our problems.
See, the acorn has no ability to change the vibration.
When you build the vision in your mind
and you get emotionally involved,
that controls the vibration that you're in
and it dictates what you attract.
Now what are you attracting into your life?
What are you attracting?
That'll give you an idea
of what you're holding in your mind.
You've got to have a very clear image
of the good that you desire.
By holding that image,
you stay in that frequency
and you begin to attract whatever you want.
Now what do we say?
Look at it, wait a minute.
Back it up.
The conscious use of this great power,
attracts to you multiplied resources.
It intensifies your wisdom
and enables you to make use of advantages
you formerly failed to recognize.
Listen, you're God's highest form of creation.
There is nothing else on the planet
that can build images and hold it in his mind like you.
We have been blessed.
We have got phenomenal mental tools.
If you do not have a goal,
if you do not have a picture of your goal
firmly planted in your mind.
I've been carrying a goal card in my pocket
for a long long time,
ever since I first read this book.
I want to suggest you sit down,
write what you want on the card,
in the present tense,
because the second you get the picture in your mind,
you got it on that frequency, okay?
In the present tense,
write out exactly what you want.
Now you've got to plant that picture, that vision,
in your subconscious mind.
You will grow into greatness
just the same as the oak tree
comes out of the acorn.
It's that simple.
Everything grows by the same law.
Everything in the universe
operates by the same law.
This universe operates in an orderly way.
It's our responsibility
to gain an understanding of these laws
and then live in harmony with them.
Now I've said in many many occasions,
that you and I are the only creature on the planet
that is totally disoriented in our environment.
All the other little creatures out there
are completely at home in their environment.
Not you and I.
We're totally disoriented
and that is because we've been given the mental faculties
to create our own environment.
You know that the oak tree comes from the acorn.
You know that.
Well you know something,
the greatness that's within you
will come out if you just build the vision
and get emotionally involved and stay emotionally involved,
then you will begin to attract
whatever's required for the manifestation of your image.
That becomes your pattern plan.
The acorn cannot change the pattern plan,
so it can only grow into an oak tree.
You can change it and unfortunately
we do change it all too often.
You got to lock in to one picture and keep focusing on it
and it'll happen.
Make 2020 a phenomenal year.