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HOW TO TURN NOTHING INTO SOMETHING by JIM ROHN
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Have you ever wondered how to turn nothing into something?

First, in order to turn nothing into something, you've got to start
with some ideas and imagination.

Now, it might be hard to call ideas and imagination nothing; but
how tangible are those ideas?

That is a bit of a mystery. I don't believe that ideas that can be
turned into a hotel, ideas that can be turned into an enterprise,
ideas that can be turned into a new vaccine or ideas that can be
turned into some miracle product, should be called nothing. But
tangibly, you have nothing. Interesting! Think of it, ideas that
become so powerful in your mind and in your consciousness that they
seem real to you even before they become tangible. Imagination that
is so strong, you can actually see it.

When I built my first home for my family in Idaho all those years
ago, before I started construction, I would take my friends and
associates out to the vacant property and give them a tour of the
house. Is that possible? Is it possible to take someone on a tour
through an imaginary house? And the answer is, "Yes, of course."
"Here is the 3 car garage," I used to say, and my friends would
look and say, "Yes, this garage will hold 3 cars." I could really
make it "live". I would take them on a tour throughout the house&
"Here is the fireplace, and look, this side is brick and the other
side is stone." I could make it so real& "Follow me through the
rest of the house. Take a look through the picture window here in
the kitchen, isn't the view great?" One day, I made the house so
real that one of my friends bumped his elbow on the fireplace. I
mean, it was that real.

So, the first step of turning nothing into something is to imagine
the possibilities. Imagine ALL of the possibilities. One of the
reasons for seminars, sermons, lyrics from songs and testimonials
of others is to give us an idea of the possibilities; to help us
imagine and to see the potential.

Now here is the second step for turning nothing into something, you
must BELIEVE that what you imagine IS possible for you.
Testimonials like, "If I can do it, you can do it" often become a
support to our belief. And we start believing. First we imagine
it's possible. Second, we start to believe that what's possible is
possible for us.

We might also believe because of our own testimonial. Here is what
your testimonial might say, "If I did it once, I can do it again.
If it happened for me before, it could very well happen again." So
we believe not only the testimonials of others who say, "If I can
do it, you can do it. If I can change, you can change. If I can
start with nothing, you can start with nothing. If I can turn it
all around, you can turn it all around." Then we also have the
support of our own testimonial, if we've accomplished something
before. "If we did it once, we can do it again. If we did it last
year, we can do it this year."

So those two things together are very powerful. Now, we do not have
actual substance yet, although it is very close.

Again, step one is to imagine the possibilities. Step two is to
imagine that what is possible is possible for you. Here is what we
call step two – faith to believe. In fact, one writer said this,
"Faith is substance." An interesting word: "substance", the
powerful ability to believe in the possibilities that are possible
for you. If you have faith to believe& that faith is substance,
substance meaning "a piece of the real." Now it's not "the real",
it's not this podium, but it is so powerful that it is very close
to being real and so the writer said, "The faith is a piece of, the
substance of". He then goes on to call it evidence, substance and
evidence. It is difficult to call substance and evidence "nothing".
It is nothing in the sense that it cannot be seen except with the
inner eye. You can't get a hold of it because it isn't YET
tangible. But it is possible to turn nothing, especially ideas and
imaginations, into something if you believe that it is now possible
for you. That substance and evidence becomes so powerful that it
can now be turned into reality.

So the first step is to imagine what is possible, the second is to
have the faith to believe that what is possible is possible for
you. And now the third step is to that you go to work to make it
real. You go to work to make it a hotel. You go to work to make it
an enterprise. You go to work and make it good health. You go to
work and make it an association. You go to work and make it a good
marriage. You go to work and make it a movement; you make it
tangible. You make it viable. You breathe life into it and then you
construct it. That is such a unique and powerful ability for all of
us human beings. Put this to work and start the miracle process
today!

To Your Success,
Jim Rohn

I always like to think of it as I Can!  You Can Do anything you set your mind to.