Engage With Exponential Effort

Continuous imagination is sufficient for all things, and all my reasonable plans and actions will never make up for my lack of continuous imagination…The Real Man is a Magnificent Imagination.
- Neville Goddard

Exponential effort is unlocked by learning to supercharge your imagination into a continuous and vivid stream of living in the wish fulfilled. Neville’s core teaching is that every person has both the astonishing ability as well as a basic responsibility to lay hold of their own continuous imaginative power in order to unlock the life they wish for.

But, how strong is your imagination to begin with? Unless you are in an explicitly creative field such as design or the arts, few of us claim to be especially imaginative. However, the reality is that every person operates from a stream of imagination, however feeble or ill formed.

It’s not that you lack imagination, but that you give up too easily when bringing your imaginings into being. Continuous imagination can be likened to St. Paul’s admonition to “pray without ceasing”. In more pragmatic terms, continuous imagination means beginning with the end clearly in mind, and then staying firmly and constantly centered with that end in mind. Neville writes -

Imagination must center itself in some state and view the world from that state. Thinking from the end is an intense perception of the world of fulfilled desire. Thinking from the state desired is creative living. Ignorance of this ability to think from the end is bondage...We must move mentally from thinking of the end to thinking from the end.

Why does Neville distinguish between thinking of something vs. thinking from something?

“Thinking of something” is like a passing thought, along the lines of “wouldn’t it be nice if we could visit Florence.”

“Thinking from something” operates on a totally different level of imagination and immersion where - in your mind’s eye - you and your happy traveling companion are already standing on the balcony of your hotel room in Florence, sipping expressos on a perfect Spring morning, looking out over the tiled city towards the magnificent Duomo where you have a scheduled private tour later in the day.

In this state, not only do you see the vivid scenery, but your inner voice confirms the vision as you hear yourself exclaim “What an incredible view! Let’s get some breakfast before heading out!” Later in the day, you check the computer and are pleased to see that your various income streams have already paid for the trip many times over. Next, you imagine returning home with many wonderful memories and realizing you are actually wealthier than when you left!

This combination of clear and continuous imagination, combined by your inner voice that describes and confirms the vision of your imagination accelerates your plans and goals in ways that go far beyond ceaseless effort.

Practice making real to yourself the feeling of the wish fulfilled. After you have assumed the feeling of the wish fulfilled, do not close the experience as you would a book, but carry it around like a fragrant odor. Instead of being completely forgotten, let it remain in the atmosphere communicating its influence automatically to your actions and reactions.

By generating continuous imagination from the place of your ROCKET Goal achieved - combined with continuous descriptions of those achievements throughout the day, you will quickly learn to unlock the Exponential Effort that speeds you towards success!