Just Imagine! A Lesson I Learned From Napoleon Hill

Chapter 6 on imagination is so powerful if one truly understands what they're getting their hands on.

Just like the man who sold Asa Candley that Enchanted Kettle, too many do not see the value of what they have to offer to others, because their “kettle” is empty of imagination.

I think I have a great example of how imagination can yield exactly the results you ask for in your mind.

Back about a decade ago, my wife had the idea of looking for something different than the trailer we were renting in a ran down trailer court.

What she found and fell in love with was a pioneer log cabin built back in 1895.  This home had not been lived in for 15 years!

The chimney was falling apart.  There was dirt and trash all throughout the home, single pane windows, power lines ran along the floor, no running water, and the outhouse was still out back.

But in her imagination she saw this building becoming our home.  She approached me with the idea and to make a long story short, it was agreed that we would pursue purchasing the home.

We moved on to the property that summer, living in a small trailer we had moved onto the land, and began working on that house before actually inhabiting it as our home.

As we began digging in to an overwhelming amount of work to make this abandoned structure livable again, we had many neighbors and even our local church group come out and donate many hours of labor towards fixing up this home to make it livable without us even asking for help.

Family also donated an old late 1800’s or early 1900’s 6-burner, wood burning Majestic cook stove and found a nice set of cabinets someone was getting rid of in a remodel at their home to give us cupboards for our kitchen and bathroom areas.

I learned from a friend how to put a floor in the attic and turn it into an additional room, and many years prior I had learned about electrical wiring from my step-father, and re-wired the entire home.  We also had a friend with a backhoe offer to dig the trench from the road to our home when we discovered our meter connection was already paid for, and it just needed to be plumbed.  After the trench was complete, I plumbed the house as well.

There is still much to be done with it, though we‘ve lived here for several years, but my point is that we were able to move in before winter hit all because Denise, my wife, had an idea in her imagination and saw that idea formed into reality before we ever signed any papers or lifted a single tool.  We also paid the home off just last year, and more than an acre of land which it sits on.  The home is 100% ours now because of a simple imagination!

Denise now has a picture of a large “dream cabin” that she keeps in a notebook of hers.   …I'm looking forward to what that imagination yields!

Abundance & Prosperity in all good things,

Randy Enman