The Awaken Academy

I have been reading a book on Creative Thinking by Charles S. Whiting that I have had in my library for the past twenty-five years. It is excellent. In his book, Whiting shares a definition of the term “creative process”, written by Professor John Arnold of Stanford University. Arnold explains the creative process is “that [...]

Your own beliefs and behaviors are great predictors of your success than any fluctuation in the marketplace. Even when the newspapers splash the word recession across the front page, you can write your own success story. Master the Art of “Inverse Paranoia” Start by becoming an “Inverse Paranoid”. What I mean by this is, believe [...]

Do you ever give much consideration to your own thoughts? What are thoughts? How do they affect the various aspects of your life? Although this should be one of our most serious considerations, unfortunately, for many people it is not. If the truth were known, there are a very small select few who make any [...]

A nation’s greatest assets are its men and women of vision. They did not close their mind when they closed their books, upon completing their formal education. They had reached a new frontier beyond which they could not explore, without the aid of their imagination. Imagination is the creative part of your personality. Most people [...]

How many times in a single day do you suppose you say , “I have to”. Count them … five will get you ten you say or hear I have to at least a hundred times between the time you get up in the morning and you lay down at night. I have to get [...]

Have you ever wondered why so many honest people work hard and achieve so little, while others never seem to work hard and get everything they want? They seem to have that magic touch – everything they touch turns to gold. People who fail have a tendency to continue to fail, while those who succeed [...]

Recently I was studying a research project, which revealed some rather interesting information. Apparently a study was conducted a number of years ago which took three years to complete. Those involved in the research studied 10,000 people in 25 states to determine why some people with talent are successful while others with an equal amount [...]

In Napoleon Hill’s classic book Think and Grow Rich, an entire chapter is devoted to persistence. Hill said, “There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, however, the quality is to the character of a person what carbon is to steel”. Think for a moment about any accomplishment in your past and you [...]

There is a word in our vocabulary that has to be the most abused and misunderstood word in the English language. This word is used to describe what most people want and spend their lives looking for. It is available to everyone with very little effort and costs nothing. Neither your age nor station in [...]

Ideas and babies have a lot in common when they are new born; they require a lot of nourishment to survive. A new idea, regardless of its size, may not be able to withstand a beating when you fist give it birth. The next time you set out to do something that is completely out [...]