After interviewing 500 rich people in the world - a step by step process to success is developed:
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97th of 2021. All Achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea! If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it, therefore, you will readily recognize the other half the moment it reaches your mind.
A person who cannot make decision quickly cannot be relied in making decisions.
Chapter 2 - Introduction (Thoughts are Things)
Thoughts are things, and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence and a burning desire for their translation into riches, or other material objects. Barnes wanted to be a partner with Edison. His determination and persistence brought him the opportunity he was seeking, in a different form and direction. It is the way of opportunity. One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. Every person is guilty of this mistake at one time or another. Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach. No does not necessarily mean no. Persistence.
One sound idea is all that one needs to achieve success. This books contains the ways and means of creating an useful idea. Riches begin with a state of mind, with definiteness of purpose, with little or no hardwork. Success if one step, after failure, failure comes just before success. Remove impossible from dictionary.
We ae the master of our fate, the captain of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.
Chapter 3 - Desire: Step 1
Starting point of all achievement. The first step towards riches. Intense and not just wish. Your sight will always be on it. Say a particular car you want, you will see that car everywhere around. But to get it, we need to work on other steps. Else we will be stuck in our desire. Some get stuck in the desire of money or success. But we should desire to become capable. Become a better version of our self. Improve product quality, marketing skills etc.
You stand behind your desire until it becomes the dominating obsession of your life and finally a fact.
Those with an intense and burning desire to achieve their goals are called driven. Are you driven enough?
The world we are living in is always demanding for new ideas, but we must have definite purpose and desire, behind all the changes happening. Be a dreamer and follow the great pioneers. A burning desire to be and do. Believe in it, go ahead and do it. Don't mind temporary defeats. Dreamers of today fair better. Dreamers of the past never knew.
Other self - The more you concentrate on your losses you attract them. Stop chasing them. Cultivate friendship with other you.
Ready- fire- aim: Money loves speed.
There is a difference in wishing for a thing and belief that you will get. You should believe.
Dreams - Failures - Lessons Learned - Success
Chapter 4 - Faith: Step 2
Visualization and believe in the attainment of your dreams, Faith translates thoughts in subconscious mind into infinite intelligence which will help you achieve your dreams.
Faith is having confidence, having trust at a sub conscious level and not anything religious.
Mind has two parts - Conscious mind and Sub Conscious minds.
Sub conscious do not filter and do not judge and influence your conscious attitude.
How to develop faith: It is a state of mind induced by affirmation by the principles of auto-suggestions.
Develop love and get rid of negative thoughts and actions. Become self reliant and successful person.
Two books recommended: In search of Excellence and Break through. - Importance of faith. Quitter never wins and winner never quits.
Chapter 5 - Auto-Suggestion- Step 3
Autosuggestion is the medium to influence the subconscious mind. No thought can enter without the aid of autosuggestion. It comes from repetition. It will help make desire a burning desire. Desire is like a seed, we need to be careful on what seed we saw.
Concentrate upon a given desire until that becomes burning obsession.
How can you make money?
Step 1: Fix the amount of money you want
Step 2:Determine exactly what you intend to give in return for the money you desire.
Step 3: Establish a definite date by when you want it.
Step 4: Create a definite plan and start working, there is nothing like perfect plan. Take action.
Step 5: Write down everything
Step 6: Read it daily. - It will sit in your subconscious mind. - twice daily, see and believe.
Make emotions, feelings with your words.
How to strengthen the powers of concentration? Close your eyes and hold your thoughts on the physical appearance. - Sub conscious mind take action . Be alert on plans, and when it appears as intuition, treat it with respect and act upon it as soon as you receive it.
Read this chapter again and again. Every adversity carries with it benefits.
Chapter 6 - Specialized Knowledge - Step4
Knowledge are of two types - General and Specialized. Education gives general knowledge. We need to have specialized knowledge. Example Henry Ford was offended when he was told he is ignorant. He said it was okay to remain ignorant as other people would handle it for him who will help him with a push button, but what it helps is being specialized in your niche and he had it. He had a master mind group and it was not essential that he had all the knowledge in his mind.
Knowledge is not power, it becomes power only when applied.
Organization and use of Knowledge will help accumulate money. Have practical plan.
How to organize and use knowledge after receiving is the key.
Education means Educe - means to draw up from within.
School only teach you how to acquire practical knowledge.
Thomas Edison had only 3 months education in whole life. Einstein had attention deficit disorder but it did not stop him from achieving great result.
Know the purpose or goal of your, get accurate information about the dependable source of knowledge.
There is no fixed price for sound ideas, but it is specialized knowledge. Capability means imagination. Idea is the main thing. Specialized knowledge can be found in any corner.
Happiness is found in doing.
Chapter 7 - Imagination - Step 5
We can create anything that we can imagine. Two forms of imagination are Synthetic or creative. Today synthetic is considered negative, but it is not. Synthetic is using others with modifications. It do not create anything new and Creative is a new one created by finite human mind with imagination, where new ideas are handed to others.
Both kind of imagination are equally valuable. It's difficult to know where one ends and the other starts.
Imagination is a workshop where desire is given shape. Today's realities were imaginations one day. (Mungerilal khe haseen sapne)
SIX Basic FEARS:
Whether we are informed or not, But there are three biggest enemies in our lives. Who always fights with us. They just don’t want us to complete or achieve our goals and dreams. who are these Three Enemies? Amongst all three, the First and the biggest one is Fear, second is Indecision and the third one is doubt.
All three Enemies are very dangerous for us because of two reasons. The first reason is they are very much connected to each other.Because of which they help each other to grow more and trap the person under a Downward Spiral and is unable to grow.
1) Fear Of Poverty:
2) Fear Of Criticism:
3) The Fear Of ill Health:
4) Fear Of Loss Of Love:
5) Fear Of Old Age:
6) Fear Of Death:
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Final Words :
Determination, definiteness of purpose and the burning desire to attain the goal and the persistence effort to bring your imagination into light, will help you succeed.
Cox, nurse and give guidance to your idea, they have the power to leave on, after the brain creates them. Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it.
Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.
Chapter 8 - Organized Planning - Step 6
Desire takes imagination from abstract to concrete. Before forming master mind alliance, think of adequate compensation which might not be money. Meet master mind group at least twice a week, it will work only when harmony prevails.
If your first plan fail, replace it with another, be persistent to create new plans in the place where first fail. Temporary defeat is not permanent failure. You are never whipped until you quit in your mind.
Through new plans convert failure to victory. Look at people before arriving and how they got through.
A quitter never win and winners never quit. Choose members who do not take defeat seriously. Intelligent planning is necessary for success. Ideas and personal services needs to be created. Broadly speaking there are two types of people - Leaders and followers. It is no disgrace or take credit to remain a follower. A leader who follows the leader become a leader. Attributes of leadership:
- Unwavering courage
- Self Control
- Keen sense of justice & Fairness
- Definiteness of decision
- Definiteness of plan - Plan their work and work their plan.
- Habit of doing more than paid for.
- Pleasing personality - Leadership calls for respect
- Sympathy and understanding
- Mastery of details
- Willingness to assume full responsibility - for followers incompetency
- Cooperation - Induce followers to do the same - Leadership calls for power and power needs cooperation.
There are two types of leadership - 1) Forced leadership - Napoleon, Hitler. 2) Consented Leadership - They are more accepted.
What not to do or why leaders fail?
- Inability to organize details
- Unwillingness to give humble service - be servant of all
- Expectation of pay for what they know and not what they do or induce others to do
- Fear of competition from followers.
- Lack of imagination - create plan and meet emergencies
- Selfishness
- Intemperance - lack of moderation or restrain, excessive indulgence.
- Disloyalty - to both above and below them, it will bring contempt.
- Emphasis of authority - should not install fear.
- Emphasis of title - competent leader don't need titles.
Leaders does the right things. Managers does the things right.
Provide right resume and never exaggerate - experience and references. You are providing information which will follow you for the rest of your life. You can give a good professional photograph.
Never apply for just a job, but specialized position and say how and why you are qualified.
Select occupation in which you can throw yourself wholeheartedly. Finding the work you love is the key to success.
QQS Rating: Quality, Quantity and Spirit.
Causes of failure:
- Unfavorable hereditary background
- Lack of well-defined purpose in life
- Lack of ambition to aim above mediocrity
- Insufficient education
- Lack of self discipline
- Ill health
- Unfavorable environmental influences during childhood
- Procrastination
- Lack of persistence
- Negative personality
- Lack of controlled sexual urge
- Uncontrolled desire for something for nothing
- Lack of well defined power of decision
- One or more of the six basic fears described in the previous chapter.
- Wrong selection of a mate in marriage
- Over-caution
- Wrong selection of associates in business
- Superstition and prejudice
- Wrong selection of a vocation.
- Lack of concentration of effort
- The habit of indiscriminate spending
- Lack of enthusiasm
- Intolerance
- Intemperance
- Inability to cooperate with others
- Possession of power that was not acquired through self effort
- Intentional dishonesty
- Egotism and Vanity
- Guessing instead of thinking
- Lack of capital
- Any other reason that has caused you failure before.
Man, know thyself!
Take inventory of yourself : 28 questions you should answer:
Year on year, you should have decrease in faults and increase in virtues. Self-analysis questionnaire for personal inventory:
- Have I attained the goal which I established as my objective for this year? (You should work with a definite yearly objective to be attained as a part of your major life objective)
- Have I delivered services of the best possible quality of which I was capable, or could I have improved any part of this service?
- Have I delivered services in the greatest possible quantity of which I was capable?
- Has the spirit of my conduct been harmonious, and cooperative at all times?
- Have I permitted the habit of Procrastination to decrease my efficiency?
- Have I improved my personality?
- Have I been persistent to follow my plans?
- Have I reached decisions promptly and definitely on all occasions?
- Have I permitted six basic fears to decrease my efficiency?
- Have I been either "Over-cautious" or "under-cautious"?
- Has my relationship with my associates in work been pleasant? If not who is at fault?
- Lack of concentration of effort?
- Open minded and tolerant?
- Improved my ability to render service?
- Intemperate in any of my habits?
- Have I expressed Egotism?
- Conduct towards associates, induced them to respect me?
- Opinions and decisions based on guesswork, or accuracy of analysis and thoughts?
- Budget time, expenses, income and is conservative?
- Time devoted to unprofitable effort that could have been used to better advantage?
- Re-budget time and change habit?
- Guilty of any conduct not approved by my conscience?
- In what ways have I rendered more service and better service than I was paid to render?
- Have I been unfair to anyone, and if so, in what way?
- If I had been the purchaser of my own services, would I be satisfied?
- Am I in the right vocation? If not why?
- Has the purchaser of my service been satisfied with my service, if not why?
- What is my present rating on the fundamental principles of success?
Where can I find opportunity to apply this opportunity?
- Freedom of thought and deed,
- Food, clothing and shelter,
Capital consists not alone of money but people, Money without brains is dangerous.
Riches can be acquired by providing services.
Chapter 9 - Decision - Step 7
The mastery of Procrastination
Lack of decision is the major cause of failure and why do we not make decisions? Because of Fear. People mostly fail, because they keep thinking and never do, and the time fleets.
Reach decisions quickly and change slowly.
Make your own decision, opinions are the cheapest commodity on earth, don't be too influenced by others opinions. Keep your own council.
Use your brain and mind, acquiring facts.
Keep a closed mouth and open ears and eyes.
TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.
Deeds and words are what counts most. Use your power. Decisions with faith and courage has irresistible power.
Indecision is a habit which usually begins in youth. The habit takes on permanency as the youth goes through graded school, high school and even through college, without definiteness of purpose. The major weakness of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of definite decision.
It required great courage. Lacking it is why people choose wrong job, or get into job, when they could have done something of their own.
Have the DEFINITENESS OF DECISION TO PLAN A DEFINITE POSTION.
Expect, plan and demand. Be ready to make personal sacrifices.
Chapter 10 - Persistence
Edison, Be persistent till your goals are fulfilled. The basis of persistence is the power of will. Will power and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair. Lack of persistence, is the major cause of failure. It can be overcome by efforts. Starting point of all achievement is desire. A will. Master mind will help develop this.
Chapter 3, has 6 steps to accumulate money, is an example. As water gravitate to ocean, fortune gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them. Your subconscious mind works continuously. With persistence will come success.
Persistence is based upon definite causes, among them these:
- Definiteness of purpose
- Desire
- Self-Reliance
- Definiteness of plans
- Accurate knowledge
- co-operation
- Will-power
- Habit
Weaknesses to be mastered:
- Failure to recognize and to clearly define exactly what one wants
- Procrastination, with or without cause.
- Lack of interest in acquiring specialized knowledge
- Indecision, the habit of "passing the buck" on all occasions
- Relying upon alibis instead of creating definite plans for the solution of problems.
- Self-satisfaction. there is but little remedy for this affliction.
- Indifference,
- Blaming others for ones mistakes, and accepting unfavorable circumstances as being unavoidable.
- Weakness of desire,
- Willingness, even eagerness to quit at the first sign of defeat.
- Lack of Organized plan
- Neglecting to move on ideas, or to grasp opportunity when it presents itself
- Wishing instead of willing
- Compromising with poverty instead of aiming at riches.
- Searching for shortcuts to riches.
- Fear of criticism,
Most ideas are still born, and need the breath of life injected into them through definite plans of immediate action.
"Wake up and Live" by Dorothea Brande- 'Act as if it was impossible to fail.' Provide service and product that are useful. Persist. Persistence is another word for faith. Habit will form. Don’t worry. Worry brings fear, and it is crippling. Be calm and cheerful. Don’t let petty things annoy you. Don’t be a failure or mediocre. Inspiration is important. - The Strangest Secret, Earl Nightingale.
7:22 rise of Islam. - Place of learning - The university.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Chapter 11 - Power of the Master Mind - 9th Step towards riches, the driving force.
Power - organized and intelligently directed effort. Coordination of two or more people. Plans are inert and useless, without sufficient Power to translate them into action. The sources of knowledge are infinite intelligence, accumulated experience, experiment and research.
Our life will depend on the five people around us. Unsuccessful people are surrounded with negative people, while successful people are surrounded by positive people. Habits too are derived from the five people around us.
Coordination of Knowledge and effort, for achievement of greater result. It is not team work. It is just cooperation without concern of the objective. Master mind have commitment for same goal, with same mission, with each contributing their best.
Before forming master mind alliance, think of adequate compensation which might not be money. Meet master mind group at least twice a week, it will work only when harmony prevails.
Two kinds of power are economic power and psychic power. Psychic means pertaining to the human mind. Feeling you get working with other people. When you are in tune with other people.
Riches have to be extracted
Chapter 12 - The Mystery of Sex Transmutation (Sexuality) Charisma and creativity. 10th Step.
It means switching of the mind from thoughts of physical expression, to thoughts of some other nature.
Sexuality, passion or Charisma is what is meant here. People are influenced by feelings and emotions more than reasons. Stimuli to which minds responds are sex, love, fame/power/financial gain, music, mutual suffering, auto suggestion, fear, alcohol and drugs and master minds.
Courage, creativity, increases with this. People normally succeed after forty. The handshake, the tone of voice, posture and carriage of the body, the vibrations of thoughts, body adornment all help know this. Through cultivation this can be improved.
No man is happy or complete without the modifying influence of the right woman. Control comes from persistence and habit. Voluntary self effort is important. Love is spiritual will bring you in touch with infinite intelligence.
Success requires no explanation, failure needs no alibis.
Chapter 13 - The Subconscious Mind The connecting Link, 11th Step.
You cannot completely control, but can handover the plans. Formulate and write out desire, positive affirmation, visualization, act as though goal is already yours.
Finite mind and infinite intelligences are connected by Subconscious mind. The power of connecting is stupendous. Prayer, desire is converted using this medium. Everything man creates begin as thoughts. Two concepts - storehouse of information and gateway to infinite intelligence. Make positive emotions work for you.
- Accept the existence of subconscious mind and what it can do to you. Desire, persistence. 13 principles are the stimuli to reach subconscious mind. It can be directed only through habit. Be patient and persistent. Master Faith.
- Plant idea strongly - it will influence other ideas. With creative intelligence you can come with more ideas. It comes through faith and plan.
- Attitude and with help from others, you can achieve your goals.
- Plant desires - or it will feed on your neglect.
Where does it come from? Four sources:
- Consciously from other people
- Your subconscious
- Subconsciously from other people
- Infinite Intelligence
Th seven major positive emotions are: Desire, faith, love, sex, enthusiasm, romance, hope.
7 negative emotions to avoid are: fear, jealousy, hatred, revenge, greed, superstition and anger.
One emotion will dominate other. Through faith and habit - affirm , visualize everyday.
Faith and fear make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist.
Subconscious mind is the intermediary, that translates prayers and desires, answers come back by way of plan, with the help of intelligence. Do not accept trouble, as they have a tendency not to disappoint.
Chapter 14 - The Brain A broadcasting and receiving station for thought- 12th step.
Every human brain has the ability to attract vibration, by way of intuition. Creative imagination is what helps to get information from:
- Consciously from other people
- Your subconscious
- Subconsciously from other people
- Infinite Intelligence
With positive or negative emotions. Auto suggestion is used.
- Brain is the broadcaster and receiver.
- When you send thoughts you send to subconscious by auto suggestion
- You receive from subconscious by creative imagination
- Subconscious is your connection to infinite imagination.
- Infinite imagination - Time, space, energy and matter
- Thoughts from other brains come to you because infinite intelligence connect your brain to others
The greatest forces are "Intangible". Telepathy. Thought. Parapsychology.
Method of mind stimulation, through harmonious discussion of definite subjects, between three people, illustrates the simplest and most practical use of the Master Mind. - Join people with team work. Places each person with unknown sources of knowledge, tapping to the power of mastermind group. The more you use it, the more it will come to play.
Great results are born of great sacrifice.
Chapter 15 - The Sixth Sense - The door to the temple of wisdom. 13th Step.
Apex, of the philosophy of success. Creative imagination or the receiving sense. As you develop 6th sense, a guardian angel will help open door to wisdom. Nature don't deviate from it's law. There is a power, or first cause, infinite intelligence each maintaining a proper relationship in nature - day and night, river flowing downwards.
Let great people shape your life, but do not hero worship. Have 'invisible councilors'. Sit in between them. Napoleon Hills were Emerson, Paline, Edison, Darwin, Lincon, Burban, Napoleon, Ford and Carnegie. He would speak to them. Building characters through Auto-suggestion.
The sixth sense is not something that one can take off and put on at will. It comes through application.
Chapter 16 - The Sixth Ghosts of Fear - How many are standing on your way?
Indecision, doubt and Fear - You have to clear your mind of these three.
Indecision is the seedling of fear, it crystalizes into doubt and becomes fear. They germinate and grow without a reminder of it's presence. Get rid of indecisions, doubt and fear.
Cause and cure of six basic fears. Before you master your enemy, you should know them. The Six basic fears, not all suffer from all:
- Poverty - State of mind. Most destructive. Difficult to master. It brings humiliation. Signs - Indifference, Indecision, Doubt, Worry, Over caution, Procrastination, .
- Criticism - Highly developed form, robs people of initiative, Symptoms: Self-Consciousness, Lack of poise, Personality Weaknesses, Inferiority complex, Extravagance, Lack of Initiative, Lack of ambition. Constructive suggestion will help.
- Ill-health - Physical and social heredity. Begins with negative thought impulse. New climate will help. 75% hypochondria(imaginary illness). Symptoms: Hypochondria, Exercise, Susceptibility, Self-Coddling, Intemperance.
- Loss of Love - Most painful. Symptoms: Jealousy, Fault Finding, Gambling,
- Old age - Thought of Poverty and ill health. Loss of freedom and independence. Symptoms: slow down, inferiority complex, speak apologetically, killing of initiative.
- Death - Its mere change or transition. It's internal sleep and sleep is nothing to be feared. Symptoms: Habit of thinking of dying, instead of life. Have burning desire for achievement and be busy. Fear of poverty, illness, lack of appropriate occupation, disappointment over ove, insanity, religious fanaticism.
All other fears are variation of these. Thought impulses translate into physical forms. Worry because of indecision. State of Mind, based on fear. Nothing is worth worrying. Vibration of fear passes from one mind to other. Destructive thoughts convert a person into an antagonist.
Business in life is to achieve success. For this you need peace of mind and happiness. Influence, direct and Control your mind and environment feed it with positive thought impulses.
We have control over only one thing - Thought. With thought fear can be mastered. We can think, so we humans are superior to other living beings.
State of mind has to be created.
The seventh basic evil is Susceptibility to negative influences. Don't give up your right to be positive.
It strikes when you are not aware of its presence and is intangible. It comes in different forms. Both within and outside. It is deadly as poison.
Your will power is your defense. We are all susceptible to the basic fears.
Keep mind away from those who put negative things. People who do not succeed have one distinguishing trait in common - no control of mind and alibis by old man 'If'. A man's alibi is the child of his own imagination. It is human nature to defend one's own brain-child. Building alibis is a deeply rooted habit. Habits are difficult to break, especially when they provide justification for something we do. "The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and vile. "
Take Inventory of yourself, As your read this closing chapter, and Find out How many of the "Ghosts" are standing in your way.
In his earlier book, 'The Law of Success', Hill identified freedom, democracy, capitalism, and harmony as being among the foundations to his "Philosophy of Achievement". He asserted that without these foundations, great personal achievements would not be possible.
"Patience, Persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."
Develop your will power - and what you can do will be more than money, you will leave a legacy behind.
Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is TIME. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by TIME. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate INDECISION.
The Master Key is Burning Desire.
Real wealth is measured not by what you have, but what you are.
