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SUCCESS INFORMATION WITH A DEFINITE MAJOR AIM February 16, 2018 ISSUE 578

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

Dear Readers,

Napoleon Hill’s philosophy strongly emphasizes optimism and faith in yourself as key ingredients for achieving long-lasting success. Applied Faith is one of the most important principles and it is listed as one of Napoleon Hill’s “Big Four,” along with Definiteness of Purpose, Going the Extra Mile, and the Mastermind.

Napoleon Hill defined faith as the head chemist of the mind. Hill said that when faith was blended with the vibration of thought, the subconscious mind picks up the vibration and translates it into its spiritual and physical equivalent. Additionally, he said that faith could be strengthened by repeated instructions to the subconscious mind, through autosuggestion.

Recently, I was reading an article published in the Wall Street Journal about enlightenment and how the world is a much better place now than in previous years, despite all of the negative statements we hear. The article listed numerous ways that we are better off now than ever before, and below are some of those items:

  • The US homicide rate is less than half of what it was thirty years ago
  • Three percent of the US population lives below the poverty level, compared to eleven percent a few years ago. 
  • A newborn is expected to live past age 70, whereas the life expectancy in the 19th Century was only about 30 years.
  • Two hundred years ago, only 12% of the US population could read. Today, over 85% of the population is literate.

As you can easily see, it is obvious that we are living in a terrific time period. We each can choose to be an optimist and see the glass as half full, or we can choose to be a pessimist, and see the glass as half empty. The choice is entirely up to us. As for myself, I want to be like my late friend Zig Ziglar and “go after a whale with a fork and tartar sauce.

 

I wish you the best,
Don Green
Executive Director Napoleon Hill Foundation

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The Law of Success

 

The Choice of Two Envelopes
by Napoleon Hill

At birth, you arrive figuratively clutching two sealed envelopes. One is labeled “Rewards,” and the other “Penalties.” The first envelope contains a list of all benefits you will enjoy from taking possession of your own mind and using it to get what you want. The second carries a list of the consequences that will befall you if you neglect controlling your mind and directing it toward a worthwhile goal.

Read that paragraph again. Now read it once more. Its message is that important.

This chapter will open those envelopes for you and reveal their specific contents. You will see that these envelopes are real, that the rewards and penalties they contain are real.

Nature abhors two things: a vacuum and idleness. If you do not use a muscle, it will wither and become useless. If you do not use the powers of your mind, they will do the same thing. Your brain and your life will become subject to every passing influence, unable to resist them or to act positively–unless you fix your mind on the object of your desire and create and act upon a plan for attaining it.

You’ve probably heard something like that old saying “Success attracts success while failure attracts more failure.” Nothing could be truer. Striving for success makes you better able to attain it. Doing nothing and accepting failure only bring more failure your way.

If you put your mind to work with a positive mental attitude and believe that success is your right, your belief will guide you unerringly toward whatever your definition of success might be. If you adopt a negative mental attitude and fill your mind with thoughts of fear and frustration, your mind will only draw those same things to you.

That is the power of mental attitude. Why not make yours positive?

The Rewards of a Positive Mental Attitude

If you take possession of your mind and direct it toward desirable goals, you will enjoy:

1. Success consciousness, which attracts only the circumstances which make for success
2. Sound health, both physical and mental
3. Financial independence
4. A labor of love in which to express yourself
5. Peace of mind
6. Applied faith, which makes fear impossible
7. Enduring friendships
8. Longevity and a well-balanced life
9. Immunity from self-limitation
10. The wisdom to understand yourself and others

The Penalties of a Negative Mental Attitude

If you neglect taking possession of your mind and directing it toward a worthwhile goal, you are doomed to:

1. Poverty and misery your entire life
2. Mental and physical ailments of all kinds
3. Self-limitations which trap you in mediocrity
4. Fear and all its destructive consequences
5. Hatred of the means by which you support yourself
6. Many enemies and few friends
7. Every brand of worry known to humanity
8. Being a victim of every negative influence you encounter
9. Subjection to the will of others
10. A wasted life which does nothing to better the human condition

Which choice will you make? If you do not make the first one and embrace it wholeheartedly, the second will be forced on you. There is no halfway point, no compromise. Which choice will you make?

Source: Napoleon Hill’s Keys to Success, The Principles of Personal Achievement pages 58-60

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Going to the Well
by Jim Stovall

It’s been said that leaders are readers, and readers are leaders. This is true as the most common characteristic among top executives and millionaire entrepreneurs is the fact that they consistently read instructional, inspirational, or motivational books.

Throughout the years, there have been many great success-oriented authors. Many of them will quote successful people they have known or read about from the past. If you read enough of these books, you will experience an author quoting a previous author, who is also quoting a previous author, who is also referring to something he read, that was originally said by a historical or successful individual. While it’s good to read what other people think about someone else’s feelings regarding another person’s perspective, I believe if you want the pure water, you’ve got to go to the well.

I believe the greatest success writer of the last century would probably be Napoleon Hill, and the greatest orator may well have been Winston Churchill. While I enjoy reading other people quoting these giants, I always try to get back to the well periodically and read Napoleon Hill and listen to Winston Churchill. Somehow, when others are trying to use these legends as an example or something to build upon, they often inadvertently dilute the meaning or power.

These original thinkers along with many others broke new ground in what they wrote and said. Others may have built upon their work, including myself, but I hope whenever you read these luminaries referred to, it will prompt you to pick up a book or recording and go back to the original source.

Napoleon Hill wrote: “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” It is significant to understand that Hill developed and wrote these thoughts during the Great Depression. There was little to be optimistic about, but his words caused people then and now to begin looking for a brighter day and a new beginning in the midst of every problem.

Winston Churchill said, “Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense.” These thoughts were formed in the great leader’s mind during the depths of World War II at a time when it looked like the British Empire could be wiped from the face of the earth, and the only reasonable course of action might be to surrender.

One of my favorite authors, Louis L’Amour, often said, “A man can only be judged against the backdrop of the time and place in which he lived.”

I hope this will prompt you to go back and review a bit of Napoleon Hill, Winston Churchill, and even Louis L’Amour.

As you go through your day today, enjoy the commentators and educators, but always go back to the well. Today’s the day!

Jim Stovall

Source: Wisdom for Winner Volume Three

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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In Think and Grow Rich, Hill draws on stories of Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and other millionaires of his generation to illustrate his principles. This book will teach you the secrets that could bring you a fortune. It will show you not only what to do but how to do it. Once you learn and apply the simple, basic techniques revealed here, you will have mastered the secret of true and lasting success.

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How to Own Your Own Mind

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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.

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The Path to Personal Power

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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.

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