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SUCCESS INFORMATION WITH A DEFINITE MAJOR AIM August 25, 2017 ISSUE 553

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

Story Telling

For thousands of years, storytelling has been a way to pass history on to the next generation. Even today, many great speakers choose to tell a story in order to get their message across. Using a story to convey a particular message is an excellent tool for doing so.

Great stories are easy to remember, and though little details of the story may be forgotten over time, the message of the story has a tendency to remain.

Often, names of characters are left out of a story, but this does not diminish the true meaning of the story. In the Bible, the prodigal son is not identified by name, but a young man asks his father for his inheritance, right now, while the father is living. After squandering his inheritance, the young man returns home, and his father welcomes him with open arms. This story teaches us about the deep love between a father and his son.

Recently, I read the Storyteller’s Secret by Carmine Gallo, which is the best book on storytelling I have ever read. One of the stories in the book was about boy named Bobby and his brother who were returning on a school bus from a basketball game, when the bus stopped for lunch. All of the boys on the bus went into the restaurant, except the two brothers. The brothers didn’t have the money to eat at the restaurant. However, a man learned why Bobby and his brother didn’t get off the bus, and informed them to go in and eat, and he would take care of the bill. The man also told the brothers he would not tell anybody, but asked them to pay the kindness forward in the future. Many years later, this same boy, Bobby Herrera, became founder and CEO of the Populus Group, a company with about 200 million dollars in annual income. The same act of kindness that was shown to Bobby and his brother, remained ever-present in his life. As a result, Bobby chose to live a life where he could help kids in need. Today, his company helps about 1500 students obtain the necessary materials and supplies for school.

This a great story, or message, about the benefits of kindness. Stories don’t have to be lengthy, as long as they serve the purpose of getting a message across.

 

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Don Green
Executive Director Napoleon HIll Foundation

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The Law of Success

 

Enthusiasm Changes Lives
by Napoleon Hill

Another person’s enthusiasm was what set me moving toward the success I have attained. That person was my stepmother.

I was nine years old when she entered our home. We lived in poverty in rural Virginia,
but she had come from better circumstances, and she would not accept our circumstances
without protest.

My father introduced me to her with these words: “I would like you to meet the fellow who is distinguished for being the worst boy in this county and will probably start throwing rocks at you no later than tomorrow morning.”

My stepmother walked over to me, titled my head upward, and looked me right in the eye. Then she looked at my father and replied, “You are wrong. This is not the worst boy in the county, but the smartest one who hasn’t yet found an outlet for his enthusiasm.”

That statement began a friendship between us which was destined to produce these Seventeen Principles of Success and to carry their influence around the world. No one had ever called me smart. My family and neighbors had built me up in my own mind as being a bad boy, and I had done nothing to disappoint them. My stepmother, in one brief statement, changed all that.

She changed many things. She persuaded my father to go to dental school, from which he was graduated with honors. She moved our family into the country seat, where my father’s practice could flourish and my brothers and I could be better educated. My father resisted these efforts at first, but her enthusiasm always won him over.

When I turned fourteen, she bought me a secondhand typewriter and told me that she believed that I could become a writer. I knew her enthusiasm, I relished it, and I saw how it had already improved our lives. I accepted her belief and began to write for local newspapers. I was doing the same kind of writing that fateful day I went to interview Andrew Carnegie and received the charge that became my life’s work. My stepmother’s enthusiasm had not just put me in a position to grasp such an opportunity but given me the self-confidence and enthusiasm of my own to succeed at it.

I wasn’t the only benefactor. My father became the most prosperous man in town. My
brothers and stepbrothers became a physician, a dentist, a lawyer, and a college president.

What power enthusiasm has! When that power is released to support definiteness of purpose and is constantly renewed by faith, it becomes an irresistible force for which poverty and temporary defeat are no match.

You can communicate that power to anyone who needs it. This is probably the greatest work you can do with your enthusiasm. Excite the imaginations of others; inspire their creative vision; help them connect with Infinite Intelligence.

Building, demonstrating, and sharing enthusiasm are a perfect manifestation of the moral principles behind the science of success. When you deliver your work with enthusiasm, you are already going the extra mile. You create a success consciousness around you that inevitably affects others for the better. The more enthusiasm you direct into the world, the better you are preparing yourself to attain exactly what you want.

Source: Napoleon Hill’s Keys to Success

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Notes from Napoleon
by Jim Stovall

Among other genres, I enjoy reading biographies and history books. It’s easy to learn from true stories because you know the ending as the narrative is unfolding.

Napoleon Bonaparte is one of the most complex historical figures of all time. You can find much to admire and to lament about Napoleon. I am fond of his words as he was preparing to cross the English Channel in his attempt to conquer England. He said, “The world belongs to those who know how to seize it.”

Seizing the opportunity is often easier said than done because opportunities do not come giftwrapped and labeled as opportunities. A great opportunity for one person may not be an opportunity for another. For this reason, the most valuable preparation and planning you can do in your personal or professional life is to define the parameters of opportunities you are seeking. Success breeds success and attracts more success if you can only recognize it.

When I started out as a young, broke, struggling, aspiring entrepreneur several decades ago, I probably only reviewed one opportunity per month. Today, I am presented with several opportunities per hour when you consider all of the phone calls, emails, meetings, and direct mail. This can only be managed if
I pre-identify and define what I seek.

I’m a firm believer in a concept I call “Accelerating your point of failure.” If I can spend a few moments with a potential opportunity or venture and determine it is not appropriate for me, I consider this a success as opposed to launching an ill-advised project only to find out a year from now that it wasn’t a
good fit.

Sometimes, it’s easier to define what we don’t want rather than what we do want. This is a good initial weeding-out step. Here are a few criteria I use to quickly evaluate and eliminate many proposals from my consideration.

• I do not get involved with projects that are illegal, immoral, unethical, or those my team and I cannot be proud of.

• I do not get involved in projects that I do not understand or are not in my area of expertise or experience.

• I do not get involved with projects involving people I cannot trust or those who have an unsuccessful track record.

• I do not get involved in projects in which my unique talents and abilities are not required and highly valued.

With these four simple criteria, I can eliminate the majority of clutter, noise, and distraction in my business day and focus on the opportunities that earn and deserve my attention.

As you go through your day today, accelerate your point of failure, and you will speed toward success.

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 Path to Personal Power

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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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