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I have come to the conclusion that it is the ‘doing’ that always leads to success.

A process is the way in which a thing is done.

There are four different ways: (1) mere doing; (2) doing with a purpose; (3) doing which follows a thought-out plan; and (4) idealized doing which results from vivid imaging.

Any one of the first three ways may result in success, but not one of them is a guarantee of success. In contrast, thinking in vivid images followed by idealized doing always brings success.

In mines and stores, factories, and offices, there are millions of earnest workers, who have learned to do their work well; and then, having learned, they drudge and toil but do not succeed. Mere doing never leads to success.

Purposeful doing is one step in advance of mere doing. It is stimulated by a desire to improve, and yet it does not guarantee success.

Having a purpose is not enough for the kind of success you want.

The bank robber has a purpose, and lie always succeeds—sooner or later—in being caught. The tramp has a purpose in asking for a ‘’hand out,” and he always succeeds in making himself a useless member of society. Even well-intentioned and purposeful doing often fails. You know the “I’ve-got-an-idea” man. He is enthusiastic and will work with a purpose first on one idea and then on another; but, it is always someone else who makes a success of his ideas. Purposeful doing is based upon an idea or a desire, but, it usually fails because it lacks an ideal.

As the man with a purpose often fails, so also many a young man—intelligent, enthusiastic, hard-working and earnest starts in business for himself and fails, even after he has planned and thought out his entire problem. When he begins, he sees success within two or three years at the most. But, in six months, the sheriff may close him up as a failure. Even planned doing—based upon ideas, desires, and thought-out processes—fails unless the process is idealized.

Thinking of how to do things has gone on since the world began. Every one—who has earnestly tried to succeed and who has failed—has thought out what he wanted to do and how to do it. Such failures have been caused by lack of idealizing the process.

The process itself must be idealized as well as the result one wishes to attain. It is such an idealized process which makes success certain. The meaning of the word “ideal” is not limited to moral or spiritual concepts of life. You can form an ideal of a table, of a home, of a bank account, or of the “way of doing” a thing. An ideal is a mental image of an object, condition, or process, which is conceived to be COMPLETE.

An idea differs from an ideal!

When you have an idea of something it is an idea because it is not complete. It does not include all the factors which should be included. An ideal, however, is complete. It includes all the essential factors. And, since all mental factors are realized only by use of the vivid images of all the senses, an ideal is the result of vivid imaging.

An “ideal” is a complete mental standard of that which you wish to become real. To “idealize” is to make an idea so complete that you will desire to exert effort to make it a reality.

“Idealization” is the act of completing an idea in this way.

“Idealized doing” embraces: (1) idealizing the end you desire to attain; and (2) idealizing the process of obtaining it. Idealising the process always succeeds. It is a guarantee of success. Yet, many a person who has formed a definite ideal of what he wants to do or be fails! Why? Why do such people fail to attain to their ideals? The answer is clear: such people idealize the end they wish to attain, but they fail to idealize the process of doing what is necessary to attain to the end desired.

Thousands fail to attain to their desires, because in attempting to make their aims definite, they restrict them as to time, or condition. The ideal of the end you wish to attain should be definite, possible, and worthy. But, if you restrict it, you will probably fail to attain it.

Do not limit your ideal.

The impossible of yesterday is the commonplace of today. The impossible of today will be the usual of tomorrow. There is but one limit to that which is possible. It is the limit of the means to be used. Possibilities are never limited by the nature of the problem. If you go to the top of the highest apartment building in Chicago, and shout with all the power of your lungs, you will, by such means fail to communicate with me in New York. But, you fail only because of the means you use, not because of the nature of the problem.

The problem is one of communication. Its possibilities are unlimited; so it is with every problem. Nothing limits you unless you limit the means you use. Thinking out the process may fail, but idealising the process will always succeed.

Idealizing the process creates inventions.

A hundred years ago the only efficient instrument for cutting hay and grain was the scythe. The actual scythe was a long curved blade attached to a double curved handle. Many had tried to improve this instrument by sticking to their ideas and thoughts of its reality. They devised many different machines with curved blades, two or three times as long as that of the scythe, to be swung by machine power instead of arm power. All these efforts failed, although each of the men had ideas, desires, and thoughts about what he was doing and wanted to do.

Then, one man with an idealising attitude took up the problem. He no longer thought of the actual instrument used to cut grain. In his mind, he idealised all the different processes of cutting, and all the different instruments which had been used for cutting.

He took the problem out of the realm of reality into the realm of ideality. In his mind, he took all kinds of cutting machines apart, and mentally destroyed their identity as actual machines. Instead of thinking machines, he idealised the process of cutting. When idealizing the process, he found that the scythe would not do at all as the basis of a mowing machine, but that a sliding series of shear blades would work. His invention was successful.

This is more than imagination, visualization, and realization. Others had imagined and visualized the machines they wished to invent. The man who succeeded in inventing the mowing machine succeeded because he idealised the process of cutting.

Although there are scores of ways by which your mind relates images of what to do and how to do it, there is only one way which guarantees success and efficiency. Vivid imaging is the basis of efficient action.

Your ideal of the end you desire to attain is the “star” to which you should hitch your wagon of attainment. But, very much depends upon the way in which you do the hitching. Idealized doing always succeeds.

Do you use a grammar text to teach a child arithmetic? Or deliver an oration, to propel a steamship? Why then, do you ridiculously misuse the means which God has given you? —BROWN LANDONE

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Today, people need to share ideas and information more than ever.  We live in an ever shrinking world. Business associates, family and friends may be located anywhere, even worldwide. Our need to stay connected grows daily. We may need to talk, share pictures and programs,  work together, and collaborate on projects.

The internet has brought the world closer than ever before. The internet has taken the ability to share information to a new level with brand new abilities to work and communicate worldwide. Internet meetings are also known as virtual meetings. They are web based and accessible to anyone with internet access.  Unlike email – internet meetings are real time. They allow you to get immediate feedback and communicate your ideas faster.

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