Live With Desire

by Robert L. Gisel  

OPTIMISM. Geniuses never doubt they will succeed. 

Deliberately focus your mind on something good coming up.  

Dr. Barrios 

 A strong desire is the root necessity to get where you want. Wishful thinking falls short always. It takes the focus of one's will towards that which one most desires to arrive at the coveted prize.

 You could stand and look at fancy cars and wealthy homes and wish you had these but this does not get for yourself valued things. Even worse you could envy the person who has obtained things. Doubting that you could ever arrive at a high goal is the best assurance you will not arrive.

 The adage of the idle mind as the devil's playground is truer than you might think. If your mind turns at every corner you will end up in the slums when you were headed out for Beverly Hills. Things worth having are worth the effort to achievement.

"Things worth having 

are worth the effort to achievement."

 The easiest effort to exert is one's will. So focus plays a important part in manifesting your genius. Something good coming up may be something known to be happening, like an event or presentation or perhaps a holiday. When you put out the desire of achievement your mind will interface with the universe and in this light miracles have been known to happen. The more focus on the will to do the stronger the desire of achievement. It is not hard to focus the will and is a capability in anyone. It you are not used to doing this it only takes some practice.

 As the Olympic relay of the the torch to light the fire in the cauldron that signals the beginning of the games you can image carrying a torch as a reminder to keep your desires alive. Just put it on the mantle at night or you'll never get any sleep "doing" your project all through the night. Practice at keeping your desire ceaselessly strong will override any self doubts and distracting negative thoughts. The practice includes pushing any contrary thoughts out of play replacing them with the to will to succeed. When you have this the physical universe will be seen to align and provide support in some most unexpected ways.

  Let me know when you get there, as you will, if you do this well.

Working for Your Own Dreams

by Robert L. Gisel

The whole essence of the 24 Qualities That Geniuses Have In Common is that when you bring out the best in yourself you can step out from mundane expectancies of life and live the adventures of your dreams. How well you do that has everything to do with how well you get your ducks in a row to meet the challenge.

In Sustainable Life Vs Enjoyable Sustenance I advise against full out abandonment of an income source into a dearth of no income or support. The other side of that is that you could land in Philadelphia with nothing but a few coins in your pocket and a loaf of bread under each arm and end up a renown author and philosopher. Benjamin Franklin did it, but not without visions of enterprise already jelling in the think tank.

A brilliant idea merits a brilliant plan of execution and positioning. It is often born out in your first flash of genius on the subject, where the creation first incubates. When you start to roll out an idea don't stop because the sun goes down or the clock says it is time for bed. Take it as far you can and document it. Write it, draw it, outline it even in vignette, place it in the physical universe where doesn't get lost because you later forget it in whole or in part.

For an invention you would want to encapsulate the idea from the need that it fulfills, and for whom, and even what would you call it that elicits a creative image of the thing. Consider how it would be built and marketed or the kind of expert that could be brought in to handle those aspects. You may only need to consider its possibilities, that it can be done.

You can always outsource or insource the details the way Henry Ford did. He didn't know how to build a V-6 engine, he only envisioned that it could be done to advantage, then demanded his staff experts do it until after many times of failure and repeated demand it was done. The dream was the most valuable piece of the engine.

A new business idea may be simply filling a vacuum in an absent market where the need and demand by lots of people provides a huge potential. Starbucks fulfilled coffee drinkers desire for specialty coffee in a fast-food format and then reached out with that to its market potential around the world.

Plan It Out

From initial thought to realization the key is to think it through.

The incredible advantage we have today is you can Google anything. You can rapidly learn what you need to know. Aside from that there are libraries, schools, texts, colleges and people more that willing to help you understand an area that fits any piece of the puzzle. These are the details of R&D, though. Before that you have to plan out where the idea is headed.

You can list the steps forward one to the next, say, each step of establishment of a facility to deliver a popular fast-food hamburger that could be duplicated in many locations, eg, MacDonald's. It might be more appropriate step if backwards from the final result, as in Edison's dream of electric lighting in every household.

Go back over it and think it through from different angles. For instance, there is the financial considerations. What will it cost, what could it be sold for, how does that compare with similar things, is there even anything like this extant, and if so, how does this differ. To pull it off can it be done on a shoestring, leveraging monies and resources as you make your way. How much development or establishment will it take? Will it require financing? If that, who would have an interest in backing your project?

It is your bright idea, you are the Granddaddy of it, get familiar with all its facets that you can answer questions on any of it or know what expertise could work it out. You only have to believe it is possible, even if all the mechanics are not yet worked out.

Breaking Out

At some point you will have the confidence of your particular grand scheme. You are source, and none know a dream or have a better feel for it than its dreamer. That is infinitely valuable, yet there is another ace in the hole.

When you have assured belief in something and take action towards it all manner of solutions, help and practical assistance will materialize. Doing nothing is as dormant as a dead log. When you set out and do, resources will appear. That is just the way it works. The key is do something, take any action, however small, towards the dream and the universe will align to help you achieve the dream.

Your decision accompanied with your doingness, fueled by your desired will part part the waters in sometimes the most uncanny ways. Remember that formula: decision, doingness and desire.

With all that said, you could well find yourself in a position to quit your job, cast all abandon to the wind and launch your ship into the unknown. Be unshakable in your resolve and practical in your ability without kowtowing to the naysayers, and then why not go where no man has gone.

Do it for the love of life.