Introduction

“It is mind, therefore, which overcomes environment

and every other obstacle in the path of men.” 

Charles Haanel

We are all trying to overcome obstacles and live the very personal life of our dreams, right? Then this quote is really all we need to know to create the life of our dreams. 

Our mind overcomes environment and obstacles in our path to creating our best life. Well if it’s that easy then why is it so hard to make our dreams a reality?

Thoughts. That’s what gets in the way. Thinking the wrong thoughts actually. Thinking the thoughts of obstacles and not the thoughts of dreams. Thinking incorrect self-talk…constantly.

Mind is the tool we have all been given to navigate through our earthly existence and learn, create, grow and love however we choose. 

What is mind? It’s not the brain. It’s not the body. No one can open you up and see your mind. What is it? 

Mind is your free will. Your doorway to infinity or hell. You can leave behind a legacy of love, something that you created using your gifts or leave behind a legacy of destruction, one that you probably won’t want to revisit.

It’s your choice, your free will that creates this legacy. And your thoughts are where that choice begins.

So now, what are thoughts? Where do they come from? Thoughts are frequencies that convey a message. We are in charge of producing the frequency of our body and what we think about surrounds and penetrates our body with that frequency.

We also transmit that frequenecy like a radio signal out into the universe to connect and resonate with similar frequencies.

We can choose the frequency of happy or sad, grateful or angry, whatever we want.

The lower frequencies cost us little effort. They are like the default mode.

The higher frequencies cost us some energy. They need more input on our part to be employed and felt. It is easier to be mad than it is to be grateful. Grateful cost some energy.

Once we choose the thoughts we are going to think it’s like putting up an antenna above our body. This antenna attracts other frequencies in harmony with this particular frequency. This is called our reticular activating system (RAS).

This is our own personal radio station and we get to choose what is playing.

This is the same process that happens when we decide on a car to buy and then start to see that car everywhere. Our antennae  is up for that car. This is a process most of us have done and know that it is real. Now we need to transfer this knowing to building the life we want to live. 

We need to: picture our ideal life; attach strong positive emotion to our picture; set the antennae; decide on the first steps to take towards this life; firmly believe it is possible; and then take the first step on the  plan we formulated.

The Master Key System helps us to accomplish all of this in a step by step plan.

When we put up the frequency of being grateful, we attract more of this frequency into our lives. (Gratitude is a cause, not an effect.) We experience more events which permit us to feel gratitude.

When we put up the frequency of hate we experience more events that permit us to feel hatred. This is always in our control. This is how we bring forth a thousand joys or a thousand ills into our life. The choice is ours.

Our thoughts are also why our environment is our mirror. What we thought in the past created the environment we live in right now. If our environment is exactly what we want, our thoughts were good, keep thinking them. If our environment is not what we want, then that is our cue to change our thoughts right now, this instant really.

“Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes, 

And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes 

The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills, 

Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills: — 

He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: 

Environment is but his looking-glass.”   James Allen

Thoughts are the sole reason some people achieve their dream life and others do not. If you want to change your life and achieve your dream begin the study The Master Key System presented right here.

The Master Key System by Charles Haanel is a study on how to think effectively and efficiently that has passed the test of time. There are a total of 28 lessons. We will begin each lesson with thoughts about the lesson and then follow that with the actual lesson from Haanel’s program, The Master Key System.

There is no substitute for reading Haanel’s actual thoughts. His writing can be difficult to understand if you aren’t used to the old style of writing. This isn’t a fast read. You are meant to take your time, reread as much as you need to before moving on. You want to understand the early lessons so that the later lessons make more sense. 

This study is laborious and long but so worth the effort, especially now in our current times. 

Haanel writes, “This method is scientific, and it is the only method by which we shall be permitted to retain that degree of liberty and freedom that we have been accustomed to look upon as an inalienable right. Because a people is safe at home and in the world only if national preparedness mean such things as growing surplus of health, accumulated efficiency in public and private business of whatever sort, continuous advance in the science and art of acting together, development center and revolve about ascending life, single and collective, for which science, art and ethics furnish guidance and controlling motives.”

I think we all want ascending life for us individually, for our families and as a consequence, for all of society. To achieve this goal,  we need to raise our thinking, increase the ability to use our minds efficiently and effectively. We can start this right now.

Now is our future.

So let’s begin with Lesson 1.