“Ideas are the beginning point of all creation of wealth.” –Napoleon Hill

An electronic copy of Think and Grow Rich along with four other success classics are available at no cost here.

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• Hypnotic Thoughts.: Book Review: “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon … – “Be prepared… when you expose yourself to the influence of this philosophy, to experience a CHANGED LIFE which may help you not only to negotiate your way through life with harmony and understanding, but also to prepare you for wealth.
• Book Review: Think And Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (Blogcritics.org) – The Grandfather of All Motivational Literature Reveals The Secrets To Real Wealth and Lasting Success. Originally posted here: Book Review: Think And Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (Blogcritics.org)
• Book review: Think and grow rich by Napoleon Hill – Background to Think and grow rich Think and Grow Rich is based on Napoleon Hill’s earlier work The Law of Success, the result of more than twenty years of research based on Hill’s close association of more than 500 men of great wealth.
• Book Review – Think and Grow Rich – This book has sold millions of copies and is a ‘Bible’ for people who search for financial freedom. It was twenty years in the making, and though it’s over 70 years since the book was first published, it is as relevant today as it was when Hill wrote it.
• Out of the Mouf! Book Review: Think and Grow Rich – I thought I’d start this series out by reviewing an old classic that I happen to be re-reading at the moment, Think and Grow Rich by Dale Carnegie. I’m not sure if I like Think and Grow Rich more for it’s early-twentieth century charm.

The Thirteen Steps to Riches, Napoleon Hill – A Brief Look at Each

By Kathy Munslow

In his book “Think and Grow Rich”, Napoleon Hill talks of the Thirteen Steps to Riches. This information is still as relevant today as it was at the time of publication. This article looks at each of the steps briefly.

Step 1: Desire

You need to have a burning desire to achieve success. If you are tentative and timid, then it is not true desire. Have a definite and specific goal for what you want to achieve, and stick to it. Have a plan for how you are going to achieve that goal.

Step 2: Faith

Have faith that you really can achieve what you desire. If you have truly believe it, then it is more likely to manifest itself.

Step 3: Autosuggestion

Have a mental picture in your mind that you have already achieved what you desire. By replaying this consistently in your mind, you will gain the faith that you need to achieve it.

Step 4: Specialized Knowledge

Knowledge is not power, it is potential power. It becomes power if that knowledge is used, and put into definite plans of action. Take the time to learn what you need in order to become an expert in your field of expertise. Associate with others who are already experts and learn from them.

Step 5: Imagination

Albert Einstein said “Imagination is everything. It is the preview to life’s coming attractions”. This sums it up beautifully. If you can visualise what you want in life, and then focus on it, it should become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Step 6: Organized Planning

Once you know what your goal is, you need to have a definite and practical plan for how you are going to achieve it. Put the pieces in place that will help you achieve your success.

Step 7: Decision

Come up with a firm decision and stick to it. Don’t let others make your decision for you, and don’t delay your decision or procrastinate.

Step 8: Persistence

Lack of persistence keeps many people from great accomplishment. Keep working towards your goal, no matter what obstacles get in your way. Many people give up the minute they reach the slightest obstacle. You have to keep rising above the challenges thrown at you, and keep focusing on your end goal.

Step 9: Power of the Master Mind

Often those that are close to us will send us off course with their opinions and ridicule. Surround yourself with like minded people, who are all working towards a common goal. By doing this you create synergy, which is an unstoppable force.

Step 10: the Mystery of Sex Transmutation

There are a number of different stimulants that increase the intensity of our thought way beyond the realms of ordinary thought. For example love, a burning desire for fame or financial gain, music, fear. The most powerful of these stimulants is that of sex.

Step 11: the Subconscious Mind

The thoughts you have determine what you get in your life. Focus on your plan, and imagine that you have already achieved it.

Step 12: the Brain

It has been said that we only use somewhere between 5 and 10 percent of our brain. The rest of our brain power forms the subconscious mind, which is what we need to tap into in order to achieve the successes we desire.

Step 13: the Sixth Sense

The ability to use the sixth sense is gained when you apply and master all the previous steps. It takes time to develop it, and it is not something that can be switched on and off at will.

Kathy Munslow is an internet marketer and mentor, who loves helping others achieve greater levels of success in their lives. To find out more about Kathy and what she does, visit http://www.onlinesaleswiz.biz

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If you have a longer time here is a YouTube playlist of video’s about Napoleon Hill and his principals.  It includes a section about W. Clement Stone.

Reading Think and Grow Rich Is A Great Place To Start If You Want To Get Your Financial Freedom Card Punched.

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All of us need some introspection from time to time, we need to look at the things that are influencing us, the things that are stirring the currents around us, and we need to decide if we really want to go that way.

Enter the life coach. A good life coach will draw you out and help you understand where you are, where you want to go, and help you realize a plan to get there. It all comes from questions.

Here are four simple questions that are at the heart of all life coaching, if you look at an answer them several times a year, you will lay the foundations of success:

1. Where are you now?
2. Where do you want to be?
3. What are your roadblocks?
4 What are you going to do about them?

These simple questions will help you gain perspective and direction in your life, your business.  Put the questions/answers in your journal and check back on them later.

Remember, your life coach doesn’t answer these questions, you do – so you can begin now with just the questions.  Your coach helps you come to these questions and helps you look at them.  When you draw out the things within yourself then you’ll have a good perspective on how to get there.

Life coaching has been around for ages.  I believe that ancient divination methods, despite whatever else they might have been, were also at some level life coaching.  Take the I Ching – of The Book of Changes.   A person comes to it and asks what the next year may bring.  He casts coins or yarrow sticks and the Oracle speaks.

It has always been interesting to me that the advice of the I Ching comes in two parts.  Some information followed by the admonition: “The Superior Man, in accordance with this…” and some more information.

Like a good life coach, the I Ching leads you into looking at yourself and your situation but lets you as the superior man/woman be responsible for the decision reached.

And so it is with a life coach.  A life coach is in a sense a modern oracle who can have a profound impact on those who approach.

If you’d like a list of 50 power questions to ask yourself or someone you are trying to help get on to a better life or improve their business, or if you are interested in life coach training go here: Become a Life Coach.

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And yet others take the book, regardless of their experience in the business, and take it to heart and are able to put it’s principals to work and achieve something fine, even great.  Years before Think And Grow Rich Hill had his beginnings writing for magazines, and eventually his own magazine: “Hill’s Golden Rule Magazine”  and “Napoleon Hill’s Magazine.”

Napoleon Hill on Concentrated Action

Some of Hill’s earliest writing in these magazines dealt with the lack of concentrated action, moving from one idea or job to the next without ever fully fleshing out the first.  Thus there is no concentrated effort, little action and no success.  Hill is a big proponent of finishing what you start.  Take your idea and stick with it – don’t jump from one thing to the next simply because the first does not pour out dollars when you first take it up.

“Nearly every man has intellegence enough to create ideas in his mind, but the trouble with most is that those ideas never find expression in action.  The finest locomotive on earth is not worth a shilling nor will it pull a single pound of weight, utill the stored up energy in the steam dome is released by the throttle.

You have energy in that head of yours — every human being does — but you are not releasing it at the throttle of action!  You are not applying it through the principal of concentration to the tasks which if completed, would place you on the list of those who are regarded as successes.”  –Napoleon Hill from  Napoleon Hill’s First Editions

This idea of concentrated action is why Hill and so many success authors talk about writing not only goals, but a short list of what you should do the next day.  It keeps you focused, it keeps you in a state of concentration on the ideas, on the goals, it also facilitates visualization which Napoleon Hill covers in detail in Chapters 3 and 4 of Think and Grow Rich.

Napoleon Hill on Persistence

From Chapter 9 of Think and Grow Rich:

PERSISTENCE is an essential factor in the procedure of transmuting DESIRE into its monetary equivalent. The basis of persistence is the POWER OF WILL.

Will-power and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair. Men who accumulate great fortunes are generally known as cold-blooded, and sometimes ruthless. Often they are misunderstood. What they have is will-power, which they mix with persistence, and place back of their desires to insure the attainment of their objectives.

Henry Ford has been generally misunderstood to be ruthless and cold-blooded. This misconception grew out of Ford’s habit of following through in all of his plans with PERSISTENCE.

The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons.

Napoleon Hill and Others on Procrastination

This brings us to procrastination.  Procrastination is a form of fear.  Procrastination often results when there is anxiety over something you want to do or need to do.  Wikipedia has this to say:

The psychological causes of procrastination vary greatly, but generally surround issues of anxiety, low sense of self-worth, and a self-defeating mentality^[4]. Procrastinators are also thought to have a lower-than-normal level of conscientiousness, more based on the “dreams and wishes” of perfection or achievement in contrast to a realistic appreciation of their obligations and potential.

Napoleon Hill had this to say about procrastination:

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Persistent action carried out now.  These ideas are two of  the primary keys to success.  W. Clement Stone had a saying:

“Do it now.”

And why not, why not now?  Do we have genuine reasons or are they procrastination and hidden fear?

Napoleon Hill was writing about periodic self examination when he wrote the first quote above.  That if you are jumping around from one thing to the next then you will never put forth the concentrated effort that you need to really put the thing over.  And if you have a good idea and are not going forward with it – with persistence and with belief in it – then perhaps there is some hidden fear that you need to understand that is causing you to procrastinate.

Napoleon Hill’s writings are timeless and remain some of the foremost success liturature that we have.  That the unscrupulous would use it to manipulate those seeking to better their lives is unfortunate but that should not stop us from taking and using Hills literary works for our betterment.

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Jan 5th 2009 Podcast

As A Man Thinketh is a great little book published in 1902 by James Allen. Allen arrived at the philosophy of the book through observation and meditation. Allen was profoundly impacted by Proverbs 23:7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he… Allen argues that a man who works on himself inside first will soon see the changes reflected in his outer world.

As A Man Thinketh is a powerful philosophy that will help you achieve by changing and purifying your thoughts. The book will show you how to transform your thoughts into concrete actions that will result in the achievement of anything that you deeply desire in your heart.

As a Man Thinketh by James Allen argues that a man is his dream: that what a man thinks about is what he becomes. In the book, readers are introduced to effect of thought on circumstances; effect of thought on health and body; thought and purpose; thought factor in achievement; vision and ideals and serenity. It is another statement of the law of attraction.

In this post you’ll find the complete audio book and links to the text also on this site. We’ll be providing a download with the complete audio and also will include the chapters in the podcast. Likewise we will be providing a download of the EBook. Keep watch in the resources section for these items.

Throughout this week we’ll have posts about this book and will resume our regular podcast.

Download audio “As A Man Thinketh.”

Publishers Note and copyright

Foreword

Thought and Character

Effect of Thought on Circumstances

Effect of Thought on Health and the Body

Thought and Purpose

The Thought-Factor in Achievement

Visions and Ideals

Serenity

This Book Is Sometimes Called “As You Think” by James Allen

As A Man Thinketh or As You Think, both titles refer to the same great book by James Allen.

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