Section 4: Empowering Your Thoughts For Success
“In the beginning was the [Original idea], and the [Thought] was with God, and the [Concept] was God…and the [Belief] became flesh and dwelt among us.”
Akin to your gifts and talents, your thoughts are also a precious resource that has been gifted to you by your Creator for your wealth and success. Your thoughts are the root and fuel of your creativity, and your Creator-like essence. Your thoughts combined with the essence of your Creator is the reason why you are also a creator. Like the Creator, you are able to start with a mere idea, innovate and fertilize that idea to then bring it to life.
In Module 2, we learned about the power of your ideas and how an original thought becomes flesh or a tangible reality. In this unit, we will build on this framework and learn about notions, stakes, boulders and tombstones. Notions, stakes, boulders and tombstones all start and end with ideas, just as precepts, thoughts, concepts and beliefs do.
Notions are an original idea or pre/premature idea (a precept). Essentially, precepts are ideas in their nascent stages. A precept then evolves into a thought, or a stake. This thought places demands on your psyche and begins to multiply itself into multiple thoughts by becoming something that takes shape by occupying your dreams, and unlike a precept, begins to show up regularly connecting itself to other notions and stakes.
This multiplier effect of thoughts is what causes an idea or thought to be fertilized by the carrier of ideas which is words. Thoughts that are infused with words become concepts (boulders.) Concepts are ideas which groups of people could rally around, participate in and share. Concepts which are actualized into both written and spoken words then become beliefs.
For the purpose driven believer, these beliefs are a willing tombstone, because death (tombstone) was originally designed as a blessing. Death, when viewed through a purposeful lens, can be a positive motivator, serving as both an asset and a servant to life's greater narrative. When death serves its true role, it becomes akin to a graduation, transitioning us from this phase of life to the next. The Creator designed death to produce life, not stop it.
Therefore, a belief which we commit to that becomes a tombstone, or purpose realized, becomes flesh and represents the fulfillment of time. Similarly, innovation and manifestation requires four distinct actions which are thinking, writing, speaking and performing/doing.
Notions, Stakes, Boulders & Tombstones
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