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Napoleon Hill teaches a practical side in Think and Grow Rich. The big question is can you believe it? Can you believe that thoughts are things? Hill, and all of the classic success writers talk about thoughts being the seeds of all accomplishment.
In Hill’s own words, from chapter 1, desire, or a burning desire, as Hill likes to say can be transmuted into money:
The method by which DESIRE for riches can be transmuted into its financial equivalent, consists of six definite, practical steps, viz:
As you can read, Hill’s method is to plant the seed of an idea and let it gestate. Your job is to nurture it and bring it to term and birth it’s object into the world.
Manifesting can be viewed as a seed growing or something being birthed. Even before the result is seen it must be cared for and failing to do this will result in it’s premature termination.
Zig Ziglar tells the story of the Chinese Bamboo Tree:
It seems that this tree when planted, watered, and nurtured for an entire growing season doesn’t outwardly grow as much as an inch. Then, after the second growing season, a season in which the farmer takes extra care to water, fertilize and care for the bamboo tree, the tree still hasn’t sprouted. So it goes as the sun rises and sets for four solid years. The farmer and his wife have nothing tangible to show for all of their labor trying to grow the tree.
Then, along comes year five.
In the fifth year that Chinese bamboo tree seed finally sprouts and the bamboo tree grows up to ninety feet in just one growing season! Or so it seems….
Did the little tree lie dormant for four years only to grow exponentially in the fifth? Or, was the little tree growing underground, developing a root system strong enough to support its potential for outward growth in the fifth year and beyond? The answer is, of course, obvious. Had the tree not developed a strong unseen foundation it could not have sustained its life as it grew.
Had the farmer not watered and cared for the tree through the preceding years there would be no tree. And so it is with the thing that you are trying to birth.
Keep it real
