Concentrate on a Worthy Dream

  One of the signal endowments of human beings is our ability to imagine a situation, circumstance or reality that we have never experienced in the past. It is the gift of seeing the future, as well as the capacity to create what we have seen internally into a visible manifestation that we and others can see externally. Our endowments of imagination and creativity are proof that we all have God’s DNA within us. It is also evidence that the Law of Concentration is immutable.

  The Law of Concentration teaches that it is the focused attention of your imagination that creates the future. It is your disciplined thought life that is the major determinate of your destiny. In his classic work, The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons, Napoleon Hill defined concentration as follows:

Concentration is the act of focusing the mind upon a given desire until ways and means for its realization have been worked out and successfully put into operation. (p. 404)

 Hill argued that auto-suggestion—i.e., embedding the desires of your imagination into your subconscious mind—and habit are the two pillars upon which concentration, as he defined it, takes root.

   Whatever you think and practice repeatedly is stored in your subconscious and acts silently and relentlessly to bring about the realization, in concrete form, of the object of your imagination. Thus, concentration is the habit of fixing in your mind the thoughts, desires and creations of your imagination and insisting on their reality. You can do this because of the DNA of God that is within you and because of the unchanging nature of the universal Law of Concentration.

   The Apostle Paul made this same point in an even larger context:

As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He [Abraham] is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were. Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” (Romans 4: 17, 18 NIV)

    In this passage, Paul speaks of God’s having told Abraham that he was already a father of many nations at a time when Abraham had no children. Just as God spoke to Abraham’s future as if it were in present existence, and Abraham believed in and relied on God’s pronouncement, so too, can you imagine and speak to your future state as if it were already in existence and believe in and rely on what you have spoken to be actualized in your future.

   However, as the biblical passage maintains, in order to concentrate on your desires in a way that will bring results, you must believe that what you desire or what you are creating in your imagination will come to fruition. This principle of calling things not yet in being as though they already exist is content-neutral. In other words, it doesn’t matter what the object of the calling is. For example, if you keep calling you sick or inept or clumsy, you will eventually get sick, be inept and become clumsy. If you call you a failure at something, you will most assuredly fail at that thing. On the contrary, if you call you well, you will indeed be well, even if you’re sick right now.

   What you believe and what you speak about what you believe will determine the content of your future. So the issue of concentration is a double-edged sword. If you concentrate on the bad and the destructive dream, you will have it. If you concentrate on the good and the constructive dream, you will have it. The Law of Concentration teaches that you have unfettered freedom and enormous power—the freedom to choose what your life will be and the power to create your own future as you decide it will be. The real crossroads issue that emerges is whether you wish to take full responsibility for your own life or whether you will choose to behave as if you were powerless. If you choose the former road, the sky is the limit for the dream you create and on which you concentrate. If you choose the latter, you will become the victim you have chosen to be and suffer the consequences of remaining in a state of self-induced powerlessness. Thus, the Law of Concentration admonishes you to choose the dream upon which you concentrate carefully, because you will create for yourself and inherit whatever dream you make a habit of meditating on and placing into your subconscious mind.

   I have three worthy dreams on which I am concentrating. My first dream is to be the catalyst that positively impacts the lives of others through offering them world-class speaking, teaching, training and coaching services. My second worthy dream is to model what I speak, teach, train and coach. My third worthy dream is to gain your respect, confidence and trust by keeping my promise to be transparent and honest with you throughout our relationship, and to focus my energies on helping you to be all that you can be. Contact me at: https://johnmaxwellgroup.com/johnelliottchurchville.