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SUCCESS INFORMATION WITH A DEFINITE MAJOR AIM April 21, 2017 ISSUE 535

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“There is a silent, unseen witness to every act in which we indulge. It is called Conscience.”

 

 

As a youngster, to say that I was a hyperactive child would be nice. Mischief seemed to be attracted to me and I, no doubt, welcomed it. Often, this was encouraged by my “friends.”

My dear mother was a good judge of character and spoke to me about “birds of a feather flock together.” Mother’s advice almost always came from her daily reading of the Bible with such verses as, “do not be deceived: bad company ruins good morals”.

Today, we often hear speakers telling us that we will be the average of the 5 to 10 people we spend most of our time with.

The meaning of all the advice is with association. If we spend our time with winners, it will be more likely that we will be a winner too, or in another word, successful. Of course, the opposite is true. We are likely to become a loser if we spend most of our time with losers.

Napoleon Hill wrote articles he called Lessons on Applied Psychology that J.W. Wiley published as Napoleon Hill’s Golden Rules. The book has been translated into about forty languages and carries the name Golden Rules, which was the title of Hill’s magazine that he started in January 1919. Hill wrote about our social and physical environment. Both have a great effect on what we become in life.

We should learn from other people and if we ever find ourselves to be the smartest person in the room, we are in the wrong room.

I wish you the best at whatever you do!

 

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Executive Director

 

 

Is It Raining,
Little Flower?

by Anonymous

Is it raining, little flower?
Be glad of rain.
Too much sun would wither thee,
‘Twill shine again.
The sky is very black, ‘tis true,
But just behind it shines.
The blue.
Art thou weary, tender heart?
Be glad of pain;
In sorrow the sweetest thing will grow
As flowers in the rain.
God watches and thou wilt have sun
When clouds their perfect work
Have done.

 

 

 

 

“Any business whose management has the foresight to adopt a policy which consolidates management, employees and the public it serves in a spirit of team work, provides itself with an insurance policy against failure.” ~Napoleon Hill

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Vintage Essays By Judy Williamson, Director of the Napoleon Hill World Learning Center at Purdue University Calumnet

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
~John F. Kennedy

Dear Readers:

Action is what determines our level of leadership in the world today. Sitting back, noticing and not responding, waiting and hoping, and looking for a sure thing all contribute to a dormant attitude followed by non-action. If we wait for just the perfect moment to respond, we are not on the cusp of leadership, we are usually on the tail end.

Applied Faith and Leadership go hand in hand because you have to take a leap of faith when responding to an inner call to become a doer and not an observer. Doing takes initiative and persistence, while observing is a passive activity. Doers are written up in history books, while observers are the consumers of what has been accomplished.

Doing comes easily to those who harken to a call from within to make a difference in some way. Consider the books about the Holocaust. Night by Elie Wiesel and Man’s Search for Meaning and Man’s Search for Ultimate Meaning by Viktor Frankl. While being written, these acclaimed books stirred up horrendous memories for both authors, yet they felt compelled to write them. Just reading the material makes one wince from the guilt of having this type of occurrence happen in our world. Why so? Because we identify with the narrators of the non-fiction stories and ask ourselves how could evil of this type happen on our watch? Yet it does.

We are reminded that evil can spread if “good people fail to act.” The burden of guilt falls upon those individuals who are aware of what is happening but take a pass on acting because they do not want to be involved. The problem with this mindset is that no one is exempt since we are all citizens of the same world. What harms one of us, ultimately will harm all of us. In the end it may be too late to act. Then, who will own the regret?

Have faith in your vision of a better world for everyone. Take action on your dream, even if it is a series of baby steps. When your steps accumulate into miles, you will begin to see a clearer path ahead of you. We learn by doing. Doing creates leaders. Leaders create our future. Why not be on the threshold of leadership by jumpstarting your dream with action? Action, every single simple action, leads you into your future, one step at a time. Ultimately, those steps in the direction of your own choosing do matter because they design your future by the steps you take. Take a moment and consider the path you are on right now. Next, imagine your steps carrying you to your dream. See yourself as having arrived. Now, get up and walk those miles ahead beginning with the first deciding step. Before you know it, you will have out distanced any and all competition and will find yourself on lonesome road to leadership. Keep moving and the loneliness will be relieved by the many followers who decide to accompany you because of the significance of your mission. And, by journey’s end your path will become a circle that embraces everyone and leaves no one by the wayside.

Be Your Very Best Always,
Judy Williamson

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The Law of Success

 

Leadership
by Napoleon Hill

In one of the great cities a large factory building caught fire. Hundreds of girls working on the upper floors were in danger of death. The whole lower floor was in flames and the blazes were rolling up the fire escape, cutting off all avenue of escape.

The crowd stood on the outside waiting for the firemen to arrive!

In that crowd was a young man who was different from all the others. He took in the situation, hurriedly measured the distance with his eyes from the burning building to another building just across the alley, then, just as if he were in full charge he began to give orders to the bystanders and in a few moments he had rustled a crew of six strong men.

He led the way and they followed him to the top of the adjoining building. On his way up he picked up a rope and his six followers had torn down a bill board and carried the planks to the top of the other building.

The self-appointed leader threw one end of the rope to a woman in the window of the burning building and instructed her to fasten it. He sealed the rope, carrying one end of a plank with him. His six helpers pushed out the boards they had carried up and soon they had completed a very substantial bridge from one building to the other.

When the firemen arrived nearly one-third of the occupants of the burning building were out of danger!

No one invited this young man to become a leader!

Leadership is something which seldom comes by invitation. It is something which you must invite yourself into. In every business there is a fine opening for a first class leader. But, he must be a man who is willing to do the thing that ought to be done without someone telling him to do it.

One of the men who stood in that little crowd of people and watched the flames as they threatened the women in the building, in speaking of the incident afterward, said “Aw, that was nothing anybody could a done that if he’d a tried!”

And he was right! Anybody could have had that glorious job as lead, merely by stepping up and taking it, but the fact remains that ONLY ONE man out of the whole crowd saw the opportunity and was willing to take the risk that went with it.

Leadership means responsibilities, it is true, but the most profitable work usually is that which shoulders the greatest responsibility on a man.

Wherever there is work to be done you can find a chance to become a leader. It may be humble leadership at first, but leadership becomes habit and soon the most humble leader becomes a powerful man of action and he is then sought for greater leadership.

Look back down the ages and history will tell you that leadership was the quality which thrust greatness upon the men of the past.

Washington, Lincoln, Patrick Henry, Roosevelt, Dewey, Foch, Haig and Woodrow Wilson – leaders, all!

None of these were invited to become leaders. They stepped into leadership by their own aggressiveness. None of them started at the top. Most of them began in the most lowly capacity, but, they formed the habit of doing that which needed to be done. Whether It was their job to do it or not; whether they were paid for it or no!

If you are one of the great majority who have made up their minds not to do anything which is not their job, and for which they are not paid, there is no hope of leadership crowning your efforts.

Frank A. Vanderlip was a stenographer not so many years ago. We do not know for sure, but we suspect that he did not confine his efforts to the work which his stenographic position required, for if he had he would never have been the leader of finance which he is today.

James J. Hill was a telegraph operator, but had he insisted on working union hours only, and had he delivered no more service than was required to hold the job of telegrapher he doubtless never would have been the great railroad builder that he was.

Leadership! What a wonderful privilege it is to be a leader! What a wonderful opportunity there is in every shop, factory, crossroads grocery store and business establishment, to become a leader by merely doing the thing that ought to be done whether you are told to do it or not.

Source: Corpus Christi Caller. Saturday, Feb. 7, 1920.

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APPLIED FAITH
by Frank Kirk

I have associated with the Napoleon Foundation since 2003 and this has been best thing I have ever done for my life both physically and spiritually. I began attending the free – community classes that were offered at the Napoleon Hill World Learning Center located at Purdue University Northwest where Judith Williamson and Uriel Martinez taught the seventeen principles of success. I was so intrigued by the information that I decided to return as often as it was offered, so I returned 7 more times. If it was still being offered I would still be going to the class today! Having Judith and Uriel as mentors through the Napoleon Hill Foundation is priceless.

Even though I have been going to church all of my life I knew there was something missing and by learning the philosophy that is found in Think and Grow Rich and The Seventeen Principles of Success, I became aware of that missing piece. This was a great “aha” moment for me and I have never been the same since!

It was the way Napoleon Hill defined the principle of applied faith that I finally got to understand what faith was all about, WOW!

If you don’t learn anything else in the program study Applied Faith and you will never live the same again. Through applying the principle of faith I have been able to help my company go from holding meetings in a storage room located in a basement, to owning a five story building within the time span of five years. I read the inspiring story of Edward C. Barnes over and over again and I was able to understand more fully the law of increasing returns.

I have learned to appreciate the valleys I encountered because it was there that I began to understand who I was. There in the dark valley I found a treasure of gemstones that you cannot find anywhere else. The beautiful thing about treasure is that you can share it with others. I enjoy sharing with others because I know others are searching just like I am. I also learned to be more grateful for everything in every situation. Being positive makes me more aware of my intuition. What a man soweth so shall he also reap.

Taking ACTION is the secret of receiving more instruction from Infinite Intelligence. Whatever you do, do not say “I don’t know how,” but rather ask “How can I?” and then pay attention within yourself to see what instructions you will receive. Listen closely to Infinite Intelligence. And take action.

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Frank Kirk
Executive Vice President
Business Development
Laughing Right Productions
Certified Instructor, Napoleon Hill Foundation

Frank can be reached at
Fdkirk@lrpnetwork.tv or Kirkfdkirkjobsplus@aol.com

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Foundations for Success

 

Think and Grow Rich:
The 1937 Edition
by Napoleon Hill

This edition of Napoleon Hill’s Classic Think and Grow Rich is a reproduction of Napoleon Hill’s personal copy of the first edition, the ONLY original version recommended by The Napoleon Hill Foundation, originally printed in March of 1937.

The most famous of all teachers of success spent a fortune and the better part of a lifetime of effort to produce the Law of Success philosophy that forms the basis of his books and that is so powerfully summarized and explained for the general public in this book.

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Napoleon Hill Is on the Air!: The Five Foundations for Success

by Napoleon Hill

In 1953, at the pinnacle of his career, beloved motivational speaker Napoleon Hill—whose classic Think and Grow Rich continues to inspire millions—distilled his lifetime work into a series of live radio broadcasts. In each one, Hill walked his listeners through one of the Five Foundations for Success—what he described as absolute musts connected to “practically all achievement that’s worth mentioning.”

Napoleon Hill Is on the Air! comprises those never-before-published transcripts in an engaging Q&A format. Together they provide deep analysis of the “Big Five” principles and how to apply them for maximum benefit in business and relationships. The transcripts also offer rich, off-the-cuff insights and inspirational stories derived from Hill’s years spent studying American icons, including Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Charles M. Schwab, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt. This remarkable book offers a unique perspective on Napoleon Hill’s groundbreaking principles of success—as practical and powerful today as when he first discovered them.

The Foundation has partnered with the Grand Harbor Press Division of Amazon to publish a number of previously unpublished radio and television broadcasts by Napoleon Hill. Called the “Napoleon Hill is On The Air” series, the first of the books is “The Five Foundations for Success.” It will be published on Tuesday and can be ordered now on Amazon. It consists of radio broadcasts made by Dr. Hill in Jackson, Mississippi in 1953. In these broadcasts, he concentrated on what he considered to be the “Big 5” of his seventeen success principles. This powerful book also contains an introduction by Dr. Charles Johnson, Dr. Hill’s nephew, which is the only public pronouncement about his uncle that Dr. Johnson has ever made.

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Napoleon Hill’s Daily Journal for Everyday Women

by Napoleon Hill & Judith Williamson

Napoleon Hill’s Daily Journal for Everyday Women is an intensive year long planning tool for a woman’s strategic life-plan development based upon Dr. Napoleon Hill’s 17 Success Principles. This journal is designed to coordinate with Dr. Hill’s teachings in such a way as to succinctly yet comprehensively cover all 17 success principles in the period of twelve months. Beginning at any time in the calendar year, this tool will coordinate a woman’s personal and professional goals in a systematic way so as to heighten personal success through daily planning and monthly reinforcement.

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Think and Grow Rich

by Napoleon Hill

As Executive Director of the Napoleon Hill Foundation, I receive many requests from people wanting the original 1937 copy of Think and Grow Rich. To satisfy those of you who desire to have a 1937 unedited copy, we have reproduced Napoleon Hill’s personal copy of the first edition, printed in March of 1937. The book has the notation, “not to be loaned,” and signed: Annie Lou Hill (the wife of Dr. Hill). This personal copy of Dr. Hill’s was given to me by Dr. Charles W. Johnson, Chairman of the Napoleon Hill Foundation and a nephew of Napoleon Hill. It was Napoleon Hill who sent Dr. Johnson to medical school, and today he is a practicing cardiologist. Charlie refers to Napoleon Hill as “Uncle Nap” and will often makes the statement, “Uncle Nap would be proud of the Foundation today.” The original 1937 manuscript was written and edited with the assistance of Napoleon’s wife. In later years, the existing document was again edited by Dr. Hill. For example, the Foundation owns a 1958 edition that Hill edited personally. This did not lessen the book’s value in Hill’s judgment. Hill made the editing remarks in his own handwriting and the resulting 1960 edited edition has sold over 100 million copies making it the most read self-help book of all time

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The Little Book of Leadership

By: Jeffrey Gitomer

This comprehensive book will help you understand your situation, identify your opportunities, create your objectives, execute by action and delegation, and establish a leadership position through enthusiasm, brilliance, action, collaboration, resilience, and achievement.

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The 12.5 Leadership Strengths revealed in this book will challenge you, admonish you, guide you, and create new success opportunities for you.

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