Confined Minds: Break Free from Imprisoned Thoughts

By Raychelle Meyers

Confined Minds: Break Free from Imprisoned Thoughts is a comprehensive guide book for teens and young adults on becoming a C.E.O. in life and breaking free of turmoil. This book discusses how to differentiate between one's own vision and that of others. It helps readers identify their weaknesses and how they can go about correcting them.

Just like she managed to overcome her circumstances, Meyers is confident readers can reacquire any dreams they thought they had lost and make them a reality. She hopes that by the end of their read through Confined Minds, readers will have unlocked their true potential and found their true selves.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Archway Publishing
• Release date: Dec 29, 2014
• ISBN: 9781480813915

Raychelle Meyers

Raychelle Meyers was born and raised in an impoverished Fort Worth, TX neighborhood. She and her family lived in a rundown home built by her great-grandfather. Her family's home was later demolished due to tax issues after her father's death. Raychelle's father died from lung cancer. Before his battle with cancer, he started several businesses that failed. When business was slow, Raychelle's family went without lights and water. He finally launched a successful carpentry business, but when he died, his business did too. These struggles led to Raychelle accumulating over 20 years of experience in business as she set forth to break the chain of poverty in her family. Raychelle now oversees an operating budget of $9 million while managing over 75 poverty-fighting programs in Texas. Besides overseeing Apples & Oranges Corp, she owns and manages 7 different companies. To learn more, visit: https://www.eatmylyrics.com

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ISBN: 978-1-4808-1390-8 (sc)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2014922414

Archway Publishing rev. date: 12/29/2014

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One - No Negativity Allowed

Chapter 1 - Admit Your Weakness

Chapter 2 - Escape the Entrapment

Chapter 3 - Disarm the Negativity

Part Two - Destroy What Hinders You

Chapter 4 - Stop Whining and Take a Stand

Chapter 5 - Eliminate the Bloodsuckers

Chapter 6 - The Challenge Mind

Part Three - Belief Becomes Action

Chapter 7 - Transform Your Thinking

Chapter 8 - Empower Your Core

Chapter 9 - Transition into your Mission

Your Journey

Dedications

To Ulysses, my husband and best friend:

With the utmost gratitude I want to acknowledge my husband for supporting and preparing me during this journey. Thank you for making me laugh everyday and for inspiring me to go out and live my dream. I love and cherish you as my husband, my friend, and my business partner. I am very blessed and honored to share my life with you.

To our children, Rashad, and Resey:

It’s been a great joy to experience motherhood. Raising both of you has taught me the true definition of unconditional love.

To our grandchildren, Julian and Legend:

You are my heart and the reason why I am committed to being successful and leaving a legacy for future generations.

Acknowledgments

I am grateful to God for blessing me with the inspiration and persistence to write this book for the express purpose of transforming young lives and making a positive difference in their world.

This book is in loving memory of my late father, Frankie Von Parker. Thank you for your love and discipline that led me to be the person I am today. The love of a dad like you is the best gift a daughter can have.

I want to thank my mother, Mary Parker for being supportive and believing in my dreams. Thank you for all your prayers, loves, and humor. I love you, lady.

Introduction

The mind is a terrible thing to waste.

That’s the old saying, isn’t it? However, I’d just like to adapt it ever so slightly. I want to say that I believe the mind is a beautiful thing to waste. That’s because we regularly scatter our beautiful minds on things that hold us back and drag us down. Being physically confined against your will is one thing—you may have no say in the matter—but appointing your own thoughts as prison warden? Well, that’s something else altogether.

I want to make you think about whether this is happening to you and, if so, how together we can get you to change your thought patterns into something more positive. As of today, I want you to put an end to any self-imposed limitations that exist on your development.

So, are you with me?

It all begins with how we think, how we choose to use our thoughts in a typical day. Reverting to my opening statement, I want to look at the origins of negative thoughts and the damage they can cause.

Did you know the average person generates 25,000 to 50,000 thoughts per day? In order to positively transform a significant portion of these thoughts, we will need to teach you how to train your mind on a moment-by-moment basis. This potent skill will empower you with the ability to transform your life back to a solid positive level.

One of the misconceptions that I’m going to dispel is the idea that you need to make others feel bad in order to make yourself feel good. Bringing others down is all about negativity. Boosting your self-esteem and confidence is entirely about being positive, that’s what should interest us.

The good news is that making this change in the way you think is not a complex matter, but it will take some dedication and discipline. I’m here to hold your hand and guide you through your transformation into becoming that positive person.

Confined Minds delivers authoritative insights into how to eliminate negative thinking and shows you the best way to shake off the negative people in your life. It’s a life-changing guide with plenty of powerful advice about improving your mindset, fortifying your weakness, and breaking free of the manipulations of others.

Confined Minds also delivers compelling true stories of individuals who have escaped controlling and manipulative predators. Here you’ll read the inside scoop on smartening up, using your brain for gain and not for pain, and retaining a positive lifestyle in a negative world.

I hope you’re ready, because this book is a true life-changer!

Part One

No Negativity Allowed

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Admit Your

Weakness

Be honest now. Are you fed up with being controlled by people who don’t give a damn about you? If so, understand this simple statement:

This control stops right here, right now!

Unless you’re a convicted and imprisoned criminal, you have not put aside your entitlement to be free, to utilize your talents, to captivate new opportunities, and to boldly go wherever your mind and heart transport you. Unless the law decrees otherwise, never surrender this basic human tenet to someone who would treat you as a prisoner. You were born free, so live free.

Today Is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life

Look around you. How much of what you are comes down to what other people expect you to be? How much is about you fulfilling their expectations, meeting their dreams, and complying with their preconceptions? These people have told you—explicitly or by implication—that you have no value unless you consistently comply with their idea of you.

You are not a puppet, and you are not a doormat; rather, you are uniquely you. You dance to your own tune, and you need no strings to hold you down.

So, where do you begin?

Throw away this third-party specification, and deafen your ears to the self-criticism that you’ve been programmed to play in your head when your unwelcome thoughts of independence have threatened the status quo. You are what you choose to be. You are the master of your own universe and in charge of your own destiny. Start by redefining yourself and appreciate, above all else, your beautiful mind.

Where is your Achilles’ heel?

Even the great Achilles had a weak spot. In his case, it was the ankle that Thetis, his mother, had held as she dipped him in the River Styx. That was the only part of his body that was not made immune to harm. So, I ask again—where is yours? Note that having a weak spot does not make you a weak person. Going back to the great Achilles, I wonder how many Trojans learned that lesson the hard way!

Overcoming weaknesses is a multi-stage process that begins with the admission that you actually have at least one weakness. This admission takes strength and is not a weak thing to do in any way. Not only that, but the implications of self-deceit are multiple, and even a simple deception can result in virus-like complications. In more graphic terms, happiness that comes from ignoring a weakness is as genuine as the smile on