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“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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Dear Readers,
We probably all have heard the message about associating with people that we want to learn from and enjoy our time with. As a youngster, my mom often admonished me about the friends I was associated with, and made statements like “birds of a feather flock together” and “lie down with fleas and you’ll get fleas.”
For the past seventeen years I have been blessed to work with two remarkable young ladies, Judith Williamson, Director of the Napoleon Hill World Learning Center and Annedia Sturgill, Executive Assistant at the Napoleon Hill Foundation. In Annedia’s case, she worked with me while I was CEO and President of a bank for many years. When she came to work at the Napoleon Hill Foundation she knew what to expect.
Both of these ladies will be leaving the Foundation on June 30, 2017 after many years and will begin a new chapter in their life. They have excelled in carrying out the mission of the Napoleon Hill Foundation in “making the world a better place in which to live.”
Judith and Annedia will be greatly missed, but I know both have worked hard, accomplished much, and deserve some quality time to follow other paths on their journey through life.
I know the Napoleon Hill Foundation is so much better off in all ways as a result of the contributions of these two wonderful women. I also know that I am a better person as a result of working with Judy and Annedia, and I will cherish the memories I have of the time we have spent together.
I wish you the best at whatever you do!
Don Green
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Anyone Can Overcome Poverty
by Napoleon Hill
It’s no disgrace to be born in poverty. But it is most decidedly a disgrace for anyone to accept the condition permanently. Even physical handicaps can’t hold down the man or woman who is determined to win through to success. That’s been proved time and again by persons such as Helen Keller and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Poverty actually may offer potential benefits if it goads a person into action to fight his way up the economic ladder. And it certainly offers spiritual benefits in the way of humility and sympathy toward others. Both poverty and riches consist largely of a state of mind. In the course of decades of research into the causes of success or failure, I discovered what I call the “law of harmonious attraction” – the tendency of thoughts to transform themselves into their kindred material counterparts.
Thoughts of poverty attract circumstances that lead inevitably to more poverty. But concentration on positive thoughts of riches and a better life will lead you toward ways of reaching those goals. Look about you. We live in the wealthiest country on earth. You can name dozens of persons far wealthier than you although they aren’t as clever, no better educated, and had no more advantages at birth. As the old saying goes—“It’s not what you have but what you do with it.”
Poverty is like creeping paralysis. It destroys individuality and strips a person of ambition and initiative in addition to causing him to abandon hope and succumb to fear.
When I was a very young boy I heard a dramatic speech on poverty by my stepmother a few days after she married my father and discovered the conditions we lived under in our mountain cabin in Wise Country, Va. It made a lasting impression on me.
“This place we call a home,” she told my father, “is a disgrace to all of us and a handicap to our children. If we stay here and accept this poverty, our children will grow up and accept it too.”
“No matter how long it takes, or what sacrifices we have to make, I intend that our children shall have an education and better themselves. I don’t know for the moment just when or how we’ll make the break from this daily reminder of poverty. But I know we’re going to make it.”
And she did make it! Somehow she scraped up tuition to send my father to Louisville Dental College so that he ultimately because one of the best-known dentists in Southwest Virginia.
Then she moved up from our mountain home to the county seat of Wise, Va., into a tidy, comfortable home where her three children and my father’s two boys live while they got an education.
She bought a typewriter and taught me to use it when I was 13. Within a year she had me working as “mountain reporter” for a dozen small newspapers.
It was the inspirational guidance of this woman, refusing to accept poverty, that helped influence me to accept Andrew Carnegie’s assignment to begin organizing the Science of Success.
You can start lifting yourself from the depths of poverty today. Start by choosing a definite major goal and laying out a plan for achieving it in a specified period of time. Then begin putting your plan into action immediately, backing it with complete faith that anything is possible if you are determined to make it happen.
Source: Success Unlimited. January 1963. Vol. X, No.1. Pgs. 27-28.
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The Napoleon Hill Foundation is proud to announce that it has partnered with the world’s largest publisher, Random House/Penguin, to publish a four volume series of books taken from the MENTAL DYNAMITE series written by Napoleon Hill in 1941.
In 1941, Napoleon Hill wrote lengthy pamphlets on each of his seventeen principles of success. They contained many stories and lessons that had not been included in his famous work, Think and Grow Rich, published four years before. They were published shortly before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and, though well received, were understandably put aside by the reading public as America entered World War ll.
The Napoleon Hill Foundation recently retrieved these pamphlets from its archives and created four books, each containing three of the major principles. The first two books will be published this summer, and are available for pre-order on Amazon now.
The first book, the Path to Personal Power, discusses three of the most important success principles, Definiteness of Purpose, the Master Mind Alliance and Going the Extra Mile. The book shows how mastering these principles will give the reader the power needed to achieve success. It will be published on July 18.
The second book, titled How To Own Your Own Mind, deals with principles necessary for the reader to think and plan before acting. They show how to recognize opportunities and define one’s definite major purpose. The principles explained are Creative Vision, Organized thought and Controlled Attention. This book will be published on September 19.
The third book, Wishes Won’t Bring Riches, emphasizes the need for action after one’s plans have been formulated. The principles featured are Applied Faith, Enthusiasm and Organized Individual Endeavor.
The fourth book, Andrew Carnegie’s Gift, highlights important ways to achieve success and happiness. The featured principles are Self Discipline, Learning from Defeat and the Golden Rule Applied.
Each book can be enjoyed as a stand alone discussion of important success principles. Taken in order, they also show how to begin with controlling your own thinking, then planning, followed by action and applying the power of the mind to achieve maximum success in life.
We at the Foundation are extremely proud to bring these timeless teachings to Napoleon Hill’s followers after they gathered dust on our shelves for more than seventy five years. Andrew Carnegie told Napoleon that “the power with which we think is mental dynamite.” We hope you will find these lessons to be as explosive today as they were when first written by Napoleon Hill.
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Third Time’s a Charm
by Jim Stovall
As you read these words in a newspaper, magazine, or online publication somewhere around the world, I want you to know I owe you a great debt of gratitude. This weekly column began 20 years ago, and as we approach the 1,000th edition of Winners’ Wisdom, my publisher, in conjunction with The Napoleon Hill Foundation, is releasing a third compilation volume of these columns entitled Wisdom for Winners 3. www.JimStovallBooks.com.
All the proceeds from this new book and the two previous volumes are being donated to The Napoleon Hill Foundation to support their ongoing work to extend the legacy and impact of Napoleon Hill and the message of Think and Grow Rich. Napoleon Hill was born in the 19th century, changed the world in the 20th century, and now his timeless message is the basis for many exciting new books, movies, and success tools. I will be releasing a new book and movie project later this year entitled Top of the Hill which is a part of my Homecoming Historical Series that focuses on great people from the past who lived their lives in such a manner that we can use their example as a way to build our own future.
We become what we think about all day, and unfortunately, we are bombarded constantly with negative, distracting, and even destructive messages. Technology has opened the whole world to us, but it has also created the need for everyone to control the input that goes into our minds. If you simply let the media, the Internet, and program producers have free rein in your environment, your likelihood of success will be virtually eliminated.
Our minds are the greatest creation we have to change the world and shape our own lives, but like any other vehicle, your mind is subject to the fuel you put into it. If you put contaminated gasoline in your car, it will begin to run poorly and eventually will stop running at all. If you allow contaminated thoughts to enter your mind, it will cease to function as a vehicle to reach your goals.
These columns each week are designed to give you some positive thoughts. They are not necessarily my thoughts, but hopefully they will become your thoughts. As a columnist, I have discovered that it is not my job to give you answers, but instead, it is my job to frame the questions for which you already have innate answers that will get you from where you are to where you want to be. I am very proud that these columns are now not only available around the world each week but are as close as your bookshelf or eReader where you can access Wisdom for Winners 1, 2, and 3.
Your mind will take you anywhere you want to go if you just keep your tank filled with powerful, positive, and impactful fuel.
As you go through your day today, eliminate contamination and fill up with Wisdom for Winners.
Today’s the day!
Jim Stovall is the president of Narrative Television Network as well as a published author of many books including The Ultimate Gift. He is also a columnist and motivational speaker. He may be reached at 5840 South Memorial Drive, Suite 312, Tulsa, OK 74145-9082; by email at Jim@JimStovall.com; on Twitter at www.twitter.com/stovallauthor; or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/jimstovallauthor.
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The Greatest Woman in My Life
by Glen Ringersen
Let me share with you some of Napoleon Hills Principles and see if you can recognize them as you read this short story about the greatest woman in my life.
What if one day your whole world changed?
If everything you were able to do was no longer possible?
Well that is exactly what happen to me, my whole life changed in a New York minute. I was walking home when I was tragically run down. My body was crushed, so badly damaged I would never be the same again. My body was like a tin can loose on a highway and crushed by the tires of an oncoming SUV. Splat. . .
After many weeks in a coma, in intensive care and numerous operations, I was out of it and I was relying on somebody else to ensure that decisions for my health was the right ones for me. I was fortunate enough to have a team of Nurses and Doctors working together to nurturing me back to health. I was very fortunate to have a Pharmacist take special interest in my ongoing progress and she became my advocate for my health. Let me share what this courageous lady has done for me.
My first encounter with the Pharmacist was when the G-Tube (feeding tube) was being considered for removal, and see if it would stay out or be put back in me forever. Here I was faced with a choice which I could not answer, in fact I was not really coherent at all, I was in a traumatized state. So if I could eat on my own accord, the tube stays out and if I can’t, it goes back in with a more permanent apparatus affixed to my abdomen. A woman Pharmacist stepped in and said that she could get me to eat and that the feeding tube would no longer be needed. She stated that I believe that this patient will regain his strength and I will be by his side until he does.
She stated she would arrive when breakfast will be served in the morning before work to feed me and be there on her lunch break to feed me and arrive after work so she can feed me dinner. I was totally out of making any decisions, in fact I didn’t even have the ability to speak or understand what was going on. But the Pharmacist did, and she went out of her way to be there for me at every turn of my struggle to re-gain my life.
The Pharmacist’s name was Rehana, and she arrived first thing in the morning and began to place food in my mouth and she said “chew, chew this food now chew!”
Nothing was happening from me, I didn’t chew or even move my mouth, I was out of it. But Rehana took my chin in her hand and placed her other hand on top of my head and pressed with the hand on my chin upward and then downward all along telling me to chew and she worked my mouth like a ventriloquist would do.
At first I was only chewing because of her forceful ways of making me chew and over time I naturally took over chewing on my own, this woman went above and beyond her call of duty and was always there for me throughout my thirteen years of recovery.
Soon I was using every principle of Napoleon Hills Laws of Success to help in aiding my health. These principles were used either by me or in conjunction with others and soon my life was coming back to me. This was possible because someone had taken the initiative to believe in me and have a Definiteness of Purpose, along with Applied Faith, by Going the Extra Mile, working as a team (teamwork) and let’s not forget Rehana’s Controlled Attention. Her laser focus on getting me to eat when all of the obstacles were standing in her way, a patient who couldn’t react verbally or physically. The Pharmacist made it happen. She believed in me, when I did not believe in myself. Until I was able to believe in myself.
The Men and Women who aided me in my recovery were awesome, some of the ones that stand out were the professional women who made a difference in my health. Who took the initiative to seek what was best for me and the wellbeing of health.
But to the greatest woman in my life unequivocally was that Pharmacist Rehana who helped me come back to life. She stepped in to ensure that I would one day stand on my own. I owe it all to you Rehana, you believed in me when others did not. You believed in me when I could not believe in myself. You made it possible for me to believe in my abilities.
Thank you so very much for your love and your great concern for my wellbeing. I can never forget you or even begin to repay you for everything you did for me. I could never give back to you, what you gave to me…my Life.
Glen Ringersen DTM
(Distinguished Toast Master)
Glen can be reached at themindmovers@yahoo.com
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The Path to Personal Power
by Napoleon Hill
This true lost manuscript from the “grandfather of self-help,” Napoleon Hill provides timeless wisdom on how to attain a more successful and wealthy life using simple principles.
Napoleon Hill first wrote The Path to Personal Power in 1941, intending it as a handbook for people lifting themselves out of the Great Depression. But upon the bombing of Pearl Harbor and America’s entrance into World War II, these lessons were put aside and largely forgotten–until today.
Discovered in the archives of the Napoleon Hill Foundation, this never-before-published work is made up of three easily digested lessons, each its own chapter: Definiteness of Purpose; the Master Mind; and Going the Extra Mile.
This concise book is a powerful road map that leads to a single discovery–you already have the power to attain whatever wealth, success, and prosperity you desire in life. All you need to do is walk the path without straying, and the rest will follow.
Using these lessons, you have principles to live by that will help you stay on your own personal path to power, and achieve success that you never thought possible.
Will be released on July 18, 2017 on Amazon.com
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How to Own Your Own Mind
by Napoleon Hill
Locked in a vault since 1941, here is Napoleon Hill’s definitive lesson on how to organize your thinking to attain success!
In How to Own Your Mind, you receive a one-of-a-kind master class in how to think for success from motivational pioneer and author of Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill. In three compelling chapters, Hill demonstrates how to organize, prioritize, and act on information so that it translates into opportunity.
Knowledge is not power. Only applied knowledge is power. This book teaches you how to use what you know, and how to know what’s worth knowing.
“The name Napoleon Hill is synonymous with practical advice on how to get ahead.”—Mitch Horowitz, CNBC.com
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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
Available on Amazon.com
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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.
The time for real-world leadership is NOW. This is a leadership book that transcends theory and philosophy, and gets right down to brass tacks and brass tactics, and adds a few brass balls.It’s full of practical, pragmatic, actionable ideas and strategies that when implemented assure respect and loyalty – and ensure long-term success and legacy.
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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July 7, 2017 
