The Ten Second Miracle

Dear Mark Hamilton and Mentor bill for Level Two: The “Ten Second Miracle” concept or brain exercise is becoming more and more clear. Seeing shortcuts and ways to increase production on the job and wherever we may be working on a project is exercising the brain to go beyond our usual routines. If we are self-employed, it may be to using our time more wisely to get more out of each hour and work day. It may be to try a better advertising approach to stimulate growth in the business. It may be to make every contact count and connecting to the people we touch everyday as we work and go about our day. That extra minute, that extra word, that extra smile, the humor/joke that lightens up someone’s day does effect our business and the people we interact with. “Ten Second Miracles” are taking facts and connecting the dots to see the big picture. A brain exercise I like to do is keep a pad of paper handy, maybe more than one (in my work area and in the area of the house that I relax in). When ideas come flying I like to write them down before I forget them. The ideas may start as a slow drip. But, as you use this tool they flow more easily and before you know it they become a fountain. The brain is a like a muscle that needs to be flexed. If one is stagnant the flow is stopped. One needs to, as Mark, teaches, find where we are stagnant in life and brake the pattern or thing that interfere with our personal growth as a person. One can only envision those problems by personal mental introspection and thoght. “Ten Second Miracles” clearly are analyzing the job or any situation and finding ways to solve the problem or stagnation or slow growth and improve production and therefore the money flow. As we all know it takes creative thought and action to stay ahead of the game. For instance, it takes creative advertising to stay one step ahead of the competition. It takes finding the pulse of your consumer, and giving them what they want. It takes “building a better mousetrap” so you will have the public beating a path to your door.

I tuned in to Friday’s Golden Seekers teleconference. I really appreciate the learning experience that is offered there. Alot is packed in that short hour. I believe it was Ian that talked about getting in touch with nature and how we can bring Nature into our environment. He talked about coming full circle. He is so right. Man, indeed, internally craves to get back to nature. Over the last hundred years or so, our society has become so high-tech, and our big cities just big cement jungles. The city lights block out the stars which can only be appreciated out in the country miles from a big city. We have become an indoor society, not taking time to enjoy the outside and nature, etc. It’s no wonder man craves getting back to nature. In, marketing, one can fulfill that need to get back to nature or the natural.

In the area of family and nuturing. Moms, whether they want to admit it or not, don’t like daycare centers raising their children. Internally they crave staying home, seeing their children grow up, and working out of the home instead. Home businesses for moms, is a great need in society today. I would like to help the women of today make that transition from working outside the home, to starting a home-based business in their home.

Mark Hamilton, the lesson of Level one, looking to our children and the games they is finally making sense. Besides, learning to use our imaginations again, we need to also learn the lessons of those games we played as a child. Those games like: building blocks, tinker toys, making houses of cards, Monopoly, Clue, even video games, are role-playing games. They are games that stimulate the mind and are ways we as children practice being adults. Gary, during Friday’s Golden Seekers Teleconference, referred to one of the games he programmed. It was a game that envisioned building your dream home, etc. A game many play mentally all the time. These games can help us to be more visionary. To make life a reality, one must first envision it. Gary’s game and the other games he mentioned sound like good brain stimulating tools. We all need to think outside the box more. Gary’s games are a good value he is offering. I am impressed. I am also impressed by the others that have contributing to that teleconference. The question and answer segment is also helpful. I just wanted to comment on what I have been thinking on lately. I hope that it can help others in my level two meeting. Kathy Thompson