The 6 Ghosts of Fear and The Devil’s Workshop

Wow, what an Epilogue! The words used through Hill’s last chapter are fantastic in themselves, enough to send your Imagination off on a jolly (or nightmare!) for a day or two – Old Man Worry and Old Man If ganging up on you, while you’re concentrating on your game of chess with TIME, trying to conquer INDECISION and keep clear of the Devil’s Workshop AND outwit the 6 Ghosts of Fear (Poverty, Cristicism, Ill Health, Loss of Love, Old Age and Death) all at once, knowing all the while that you’ll be facing the ultimate penalty of FAILURE (I love all the capitalization – it’s like SHOUTING in a library) for not using your own Master Key to unlock “the door to life’s bountiful riches”.

It’s a great chapter, totally inspiring, not just for the words or the message, but also because of the pace – this epilogue moves at 100 mph – blasting through those Ghosts, shooting down those alibis, trampling over those “reasons” or excuses, and leaving you with no other option but to ‘fess up and get on with making your life bountiful, amazing, and rich – like now!!

For me, having read the Think and Grow Rich right through once now, (hoorah – well done us – we completed the 10 week study as a group) the main message of the book is that all the right Thinking is really important and you need to work at it and work at it constantly to empower your thinking and your subconscious, but the key to actually making it result in Riches is the Action that you take as a result of the Thinking. You can’t keep it all in your head – it has to get out into the world in the form of Doing something, doing lots of little things on a daily basis towards your goals and dreams.

Bels sent me a great link to a site called TED, dedicated to the world’s greatest Thinkers AND Doers (see link in the sidebar), which provides some shining examples if you need inspiration beyond Hill’s final chapter.

As for me, now that I’ve just this week gone through my terror barrier, outwitted (for now) my Ghost of Poverty, conquered the INDECISION that tormented me last week and successfully avoided the Devil’s Workshop for a long while, and all the alibis have been exterminated, I have to make my move against TIME on the chessboard, don’t I?

And that line in Monty Python’s Holy Grail, after the narrator has been waffling on a bit pops into my head:

“GET ON WITH IT!!”