Give Yourself A Christmas Present

by Dr. Napoleon Hill

May I suggest that this Christmas you can give yourself a present which will bring you riches in abundance, peace of mind, and attract to you enduring friendships?

The present I have in mind is something which only you can give yourself, and it happens to be the only thing over which you have complete control.

It can change your entire life so completely that every circumstance you experience - every transaction you have with others - will bring you definite benefits.

It can help you transmute sorrow and adversity into powerful spiritual qualities which may add new strength to your religion, in times of emergency.

It can banish all forms of fear and substitute faith with which you can direct your activities to ends of your own choice.

This gift is so miraculous that it will extend to the lives of your loved ones and make them richer in the values which count for most in life.

It will attract to you new and unexpected opportunities for advancement in your occupation.

And it can rekindle the fires of love and friendship where they may have grown cold by neglect.

It can remove the causes of many physical ailments and help you enjoy a dynamic, healthful physical body.

It can give you the magic power to convert enemies into friends.

It can put something into your handshake which was not there before and give your spoken words forcefulness that will command respect and attention from others.

It can give you the alertness of mind with which to make definite and accurate decisions.

There is no substitute for this gift which only you can present to yourself.

It's name is a positive mental attitude.

It costs nothing except the will to appropriate it; however, the only way you can keep it is to give it first position through usage in the habits which control your daily living.

Source: Success Unlimited. December 1954, pp. 10-11.

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“The most costly words in the English Language are ‘I don't have time.’ You can budget your time correctly to have time for all your needs." Napoleon Hill

The Mind Game of Money Part II: The Money Blueprint By T. Harv Eker

In my last blog, I talked about how our thoughts and feelings impact our actions, producing results that reflect financial success and growth, or keep our bank accounts empty or unstable.
I also talked about how our thoughts about money are based on a Money Blueprint, a program or way of being in relation to money. Even if we’re not thinking about it consciously, we live our money lives based on this blueprint. Where did it come from? How did we draw it up in the first place?
Our financial blueprints consist mainly of the “programming” we received in the past, especially as children. We aren’t born knowing anything about money; we were “taught” primarily through our family upbringing, but also through multiple cultural influences. We take this conditioning and run on it for the rest of our lives, even though we may not be aware of it.
This conditioning comes from:
1. What we heard when we were young
2. What we saw
3. What we experienced ourselves
If a phrase like “Rich people can’t be spiritual” is engrained into you, that subconscious, negative connotation will override actions any day, even if being rich is what you really want. We’re primarily creatures who act on emotion more than we act on reason, even though we’d like to believe the opposite.

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Wealth Creates Wealth

by Dr. Napoleon Hill

Wealth creates wealth. A large sum of money in the hands of one man generally does not create as much wealth as does money which circulates, provided that those who handle its circulation are interested in creating wealth.

A man’s happiness and peace of mind depend on his sharing all kinds of wealth. Business relations cannot properly be described as a relationship of love between buyer and seller; yet when the idea of service to one’s fellow men comes into the relationship, much that is profitable to both parties also enters in. “A little bit of myself,” said Henry Ford, “goes into every automobile that rolls off our assembly lines, and I think of every automobile we sell, not in terms of the profit it yields us, but in terms of the useful service it may render the purchaser.” Thomas A. Edison said: “I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others.”

The idea that a business should give its customers more than a product for a price is not new, and history proves it creates both good businesses and good customers. Good relations between an industrial employer and his employees, however, are not very old as history goes. This is natural enough when we consider that enterprises which employ people by the thousand have not been with us more than a few generations. They are a great way for the owner of the business to make money, and unfortunately many a labor force has been badly treated in the process.

In past years we have our own era of those industrial pirates who never thought of sharing with their employees the wealth their employees helped to create. While they made a great show of their money in New York, Newport or Palm Beach those men would have sneered at the idea that a society needs a large number of well-paid people who are able to buy more goods and lead better lives.

Millionaires are far more numerous today. More than five thousand new millionaires have so declared themselves on their tax returns in the last decade. Also, as I have mentioned, today’s millionaires do not seem to want the notice that rich men used to require. Most of my readers will not recognize the names of some of the present-day millionaires and multimillionaires I have cited.

Nor do today’s moneyed men seem anxious to form a definite class to which the poor may not aspire. I quote Arthur Decio, who made so much money in building and selling mobile homes: “It’s easier to get ahead than it was fifteen or forty years ago. Look at the population growth and the tremendous rise in personal income . . . . This country is just loaded with opportunities.”

So it is, and many of the opportunities would not exist if wealth were not better distributed than it used to be. Employers have seen the value to themselves, to their people and to society of taking workers into partnership with industry. A capitalist society proves over and over that it is the best way to create maximum, widespread wealth.

Source: Grow Rich! With Peace of Mind. 1967. Fawcett Crest. Pgs. 80 & 81.

Why Create Enthusiasm?

by Dr. Napoleon Hill

Enthusiasm is literally the gateway of approach to your spiritual qualities. It not only gives deep conviction to the words you speak, but it projects its influence into the inner recesses of the soul of anyone whom it touches.

Enthusiasm is a builder of new ideas
It is not surprising, therefore, that Ralph Waldo Emerson said: "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." For he had felt the rebound of enthusiasm in his own soul, where it revealed to him the hidden forces of his being and made his name immortal.

And it was this same rebound of enthusiasm, deep within the soul of Helen Keller, which inspired her with the faith through which she mastered her afflictions of deafness, dumbness and blindness.

It carried Edison through ten thousand failures and revealed to him, at long last, the secret of the incandescent electric lamp. Psychologists who have studied Edison's achievements all agree that his astounding physical endurances was inspired by his enduring enthusiasm for his definite major purpose.

It was this same undying enthusiasm for the cause of American Independence which inspired George Washington to keep on fighting in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles until freedom and liberty had been secured for the United States of America.

And it was the power of enthusiasm which inspired the people of the United States to awaken, prepare and take action to meet another great emergency which threatened their freedom and safety at the outbreak of World War II - an achievement which astounded the world because of the efficiency and dispatch with which it was carried out.

Enthusiasm was the power which sustained Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and enabled him to carry on until he had saved the nation from self-destruction.

"How," you may ask, "can power be attained?"

The procedure is simple and within the control of everyone, as the Creator intended it should be:

You start with hope -- hope for the achievement of some definite purpose.,

Hope is the forerunner of faith.

And the smoldering embers of hope are fanned into the white flame of faith by feeding them on controlled enthusiasm backed by definiteness of purpose. The fanning process should be continued until ordinary desire becomes burning desire.

Hope, enthusiasm, and faith are the key words because of their close relationship. When they are combined with definiteness of purpose, they give one access to unlimited mind-power. These are the four factors which lead to a burning desire.

Hope alone is of little value. It is but little more than a wish, and everyone has wishes in abundance., Nothing comes of wishes until they are organized and associated with their companions: definiteness of purpose, enthusiasm and faith.

The process of organization takes place through self-discipline. This is the principle through which enthusiasm may be organized, controlled and directed to a definite end. Other principles of this philosophy which are related to enthusiasm and which may be needed for its organization and control are:

Definiteness of Purpose
The Master Mind
Pleasing Personality
Personal Initiative
The Habit of Learning from Defeat

The Habit of Going the Extra Mile
Applied Faith
Creative Vision
Concentration
The Habit of Health
Accurate Thinking

Mastery and application of these twelve principles will place you within easy reach of controlled enthusiasm. This has been the experience of every person who has mastered this philosophy, and it will be yours!

Men of great achievement are men of great desires. You will have such desires, and achieve them, if you will follow the instructions you have been given. Remember: Anything in life worth having is worth working for. And there is a price to be paid. The price for reaping the benefits of this philosophy consists mainly in eternal vigilance and everlasting persistence in applying such a philosophy as a daily habit. Mere knowledge is not enough. It must be applied.

Enthusiasm is a combination of mental and physical energy which is seldom found in an ailing body. It thrives best where sound physical health abounds. Sound health begins with the development and maintenance of health consciousness, just as economic success begins with prosperity consciousness.

Source: PMA Science of Success Course: Pgs. 261-263. 

Autosuggestion and Controlled Attention

by Napoleon Hill

You are influenced by, and you are a part of, the dominating circumstances of your daily environment. The medium by which this takes place is known as autosuggestions (suggestions you make to yourself, either consciously or unconsciously).

Autosuggestion records in your memory every thought you express, and makes it a part of your character, whether the thought is positive or negative. It records every word which is spoken within your hearing, and gives it a positive or a negative meaning, according to your reaction to it.

Autosuggestion records your thought reactions to everything you see or recognize through any of the five physical senses, and it records the “feel” which you pick up from your physical surroundings.

The objects on which you deliberately concentrate your attention become the dominating influences in your environment. If your thoughts are fixed upon poverty, or the physical signs of poverty, these influences are transferred to your subconscious mind through autosuggestion.

If the habit of concentrating on poverty is continued, it will result in conditioning your mind to accept poverty as an unavoidable circumstance, and you will eventually become poverty-conscious. This is how millions of people condemn themselves to a life of poverty. Remember this, you who would have opulence.

The principle of autosuggestion works in precisely the same manner when your dominating thoughts are fixed, through controlled attention upon opulence and economic security. This habit leads to the development of a prosperity consciousness without which no one may hope for economic security.

It is obvious, therefore, that when you voluntarily fix your attention upon a definite major purpose of a positive nature, and force your mind, through daily habits of thought, to dwell on that subject, you condition your subconscious mind to act on that purpose. As we have stated repeatedly, the subconscious mind acts first on the dominating thoughts placed before it daily, whether they are positive or negative, and proceeds to carry out those thoughts by translating them into their material equivalent.

Source: PMA Science of Success. Pgs. 345-346.

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In this age of rapid economic expansion, it’s currently easier than ever to start your own successful business. People from different backgrounds, with varying degrees of limitations, have all started and built thriving businesses. And they’ve enjoyed varying levels of success by focusing on three key components.
First, you must find the right business for you. Next, you need to be passionate about the business you choose. And lastly, you must be willing to dedicate time and effort to the business before realizing any fruits from your labor. Follow these basic principles, and you, too, can be an entrepreneurial success story.

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Alicia Keys: Hitting All the Right Notes for Success in Business and Giving Back | 2009-11-30 | SUCCESS Magazine | What Achievers Read

A couple of years ago, a woman approached Alicia Keys before she went onstage for a show and asked if she would be playing her 2005 hit “Unbreakable” that night. “I really don’t know,” Keys replied with a shrug. Her setlist wasn’t final yet. Then the woman said, “Well, when I was going through chemotherapy I played ‘Unbreakable’ every day and now I’m two years cancer-free.”

Keys, of course, froze up. How do you respond to that? Well, you play “Unbreakable,” for one. But that moment brought a life-altering revelation: The literal business you’re in isn’t necessarily the real business you’re in. Keys, for example, was literally in the music business, but she was truly in the inspiration business. “That moment sends chills up and down my body every time I talk about it. It makes me feel amazing. I figured, if there’s a way for me to do business that can inspire people to that level, that’s the business I want to be in.

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Alicia Keys: Hitting All the Right Notes for Success in Business and Giving Back | 2009-11-30 | SUCCESS Magazine | What Achievers Read