The Napoleon Hill Foundation

February 21, 2025 / ISSUE 946
The Napoleon Hill Foundation
Making the world a better place in which to live.

Dear Readers,

I have daily habits to keep me in the frame of mind I desire. I get up early every morning and always have breakfast. I have oatmeal almost every day to keep my mind fresh. I write things down on index cards, which I keep with me. Daily habits like these provide structure to keep you in the right frame of mind during your day.

I do a little reading in the morning to make me feel good. Guideposts magazine has a verse for the day, and it’s amazing to read it and feel that it was written for you. I also read some works of a spiritual nature before I go to bed. When I get off work, the first thing I do is change my clothes and walk for at least four miles. I probably don’t miss one day a month; I always find a way to get it in.

We learned it a thousand times in our reading Napoleon Hill: simply keep your mind on the things you want and away from things that you do not want. We do have a choice. We can sit down and do some planning; we can work on goals for which we have a passion. We can’t be working on something with a passion and worrying at the same time. We get to choose. Do I spend my time concentrating on what I want to happen, or do I sit and think about something bad that I most likely can’t do anything about?

Creating good habits is an important key to your success. Cosmic Habitforce can work for you or against you. Choose to walk in those good habits that will bring you one step closer to your Definite Major Purpose.

I wish you the best,

Don Green
Executive Director
Napoleon Hill Foundation

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You are where you are and what you are because of your established habits.

The aim of this book has been to force you to examine those habits and to teach you ways to change them. To do this, you need to understand and apply a universal principle I call cosmic habitforce.

Cosmic Habitforce is the law which makes every living creature, every particle of matter subject to the influence of its environment. It can work for you or against you. The choice is yours.

Using Natural Forces

The grandest example of cosmic habitforce is the operation of the heavens. Stars and planets move with clocklike precision. They don’t collide; they don’t suddenly veer off course (at least, not without some major change in the forces at work, like a supernova or a black hole, which are themselves just another example of matter behaving according to established patterns). A complex system of gravity and inertia, attraction and repulsion keeps things moving so precisely that for millennia human beings have been able to predict the position of the stars and planets, the timing of eclipses, and the regularity of meteor showers.

Sunflowers don’t grow from turnip seeds; giraffes don’t give birth to tadpoles; clouds don’t release milk. Everything does that which is its nature to do.

All this is a reflection of universal order, which makes so much of the physical operation of the world understandable. Certainly we are still working to understand more than we already do, but science is based on the faith that there is universal order. All actions and reactions are fixed on the basis of this order.

In the science of personal achievement you seek to take control of this order by taking control of your habits. You recognize that your thoughts and actions will become as much a part of your nature as Pluto’s orbit is a part of its nature. If your habits are positive, the seeds that they plant will be, too.

But you have to realize that cosmic habitforce always operates. If your habits are negative, their results will also be negative. This is why you must take control of your habits through self-discipline.

Habits become a part of your nature by repetition. If you create thought habits by repeating certain ideas in your mind, cosmic habitforce will take over those patterns of thought, make them more or less permanent (depending on
your intensity of repetition and practice), and put them to work. The same thing will happen with physical habits.

If you follow the same route to and from work every day, you make that route a habit. You probably aren’t even aware that it is a habit until you need to alter your route to go to a store or visit a friend. If you aren’t paying attention when you start your trip, you will probably find yourself missing the turn or forgetting your task altogether. This is an example of why you need to be aware of and in control of all your habits.

If your dominating mental habits are thoughts of poverty, then cosmic habitforce will bring about poverty in your life. If your dominating mental habits are of prosperity and peace, cosmic habitforce will bring them about.

There is an endless cycle here. Repetition of a habit intensifies it until it becomes an obsession. You can become obsessed with poverty or with achievement. This is why I have repeatedly stressed that your thoughts are the only thing you can completely control if you decide to do so. You must control your thoughts to control your habits.

Cosmic habitforce doesn’t leave you any room to complain that opportunity never came your way. You will know that as long as you have the power to form and express your thoughts, you have the power to change the circumstances of your life into whatever you want them to be.

If your life isn’t already what you want it to be, it is because you have drifted into your present circumstances by virtue of cosmic habitforce. You can change that. Definiteness of purpose, backed by the power of cosmic habitforce and enforced by self-discipline and personal initiative, can bring you to the circumstances you want.

Source: Keys to Success by Napoleon Hill

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Tree of Life
a fable

The kids were lost. A group of children from a small village at the edge of the Orinoco River had stolen a canoe to have some fun, but the currents carried them far out into the delta. They shouted for help, but deep in the jungle there was no one to come to their rescue. As night fell the children were afraid they would never be found and end up being eaten by a jaguar.

Tired and hungry, they were on the verge of tears when they heard a gentle whisper. They looked up to see a Moriche palm tree, waving in the wind. The palm offered the children its fruit. With food in their stomach, the children gained strength to look around. The Moriche palm introduced them to other members of the forest and soon the children had many friends. They learnt to use wood to build houses and leaves for roofs. They found places to find food and water, herbs for medicine and even ways to dress up and decorate themselves.

Many years later, a group of adventures canoeing down the river were surprised to see a small settlement on a forested island deep in the jungles. The children had learnt the ways of the forest and were now living comfortably amidst the labyrinth of waterways. The Moriche palm came to be known as the ‘tree of life’ and the children grew up to be the Warao Indians also known as ‘canoe people’.

Amazing Fact: Orinoco Delta is a vast fan shaped delta located in eastern Venezuela, where the Orinoco River meets the sea.

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The Napoleon Hill Foundation
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