Good morning:
I keep a diary, a real big one on my desk. Often I don’t write
much into it. But it’s there. Part of my life! When I open it I
find that the inner cover is marked with a page of A4 paper
that I stuck in there some months ago. It has two headlines.
One says 6 STEPS THAT TURN DESIRE INTO GOLD
and the other one says MY DEFINITE MAJOR PURPOSE.
And of course I can change these at any time. After all they
are mine. In my bedroom I have another page of these goals,
one that I read aloud in front of the mirror every night and
every morning. Just as important to me as having breakfast
and dinner. An essential part of my success strategies.
The difference between myself and others is I have goals.
If you have goals, or if you think you have goals, where
are they written down, and how often do you read them?
These are the two most important questions you will be
asked today. Pause a moment give yourself some
preliminary answers.
I have been asking email customers and phone customers
that I talk to what their goals are, and sadly I get an awful lot
of silence and an awful lot of unspecific goals. Way more
than half of the people I talk to have no specific goals at all.
And to the people who write in and say: “I read Think and
Grow Rich years ago, please send me another copy as I’d
like to read it again…” I say YOU’VE GOT IT WRONG.
It’s not a read it for enjoyment book. And put it back on the
shelf book. It’s a living philosophy and you are the person
who should be living it. You have a right to do this. It’s a
book that contains the best plan of action ever invented
but you have to make it your plan of action and you have
to start working on that Definite Major Purpose all by yourself,
using your own initiative, and create your own plans. And I’ll
go into this shortly.
Hey….. maybe this will be a three part morning letter as I
am getting carried away with my enthusiasm for the subject
of “living philosophy”.
Do you know how I was going to start this letter
last night but didn’t?, then I got up with the intention of
writing something like this; “ If I ever got to appear on my
favourite TV Programme THE EINSTEIN FACTOR,
I would pick as my special subjects either the Stock Exchange
or The Works of Napoleon Hill” That’s how much of an expert
I have become in these subjects which are both passions of mine.
OK back to that diary. On the very first page I have the
principles of Napoleon Hill.
Maybe not word perfect but they are and I refresh my
mind with these occasionally..
Thoughts are Things
Faith
Auto Suggestion
Specialised Knowledge
Imagination
Organised Planning – Definite Major Purpose
Decision
Persistence
Master Mind
Subconscious Mind
Brain
Sixth Sense
Ghosts of fear
PMA
Focussing
Daring to be different
Actually these last 3 may not be pure NH they are more me.
TO be successful you need to have an enduring
PMA Positive Mental Attitude
You need to be able to focus on your goals intensely
And you have to dare to be different.
I have a look at these words occasionally and I will go over
these things bit by bit in the coming weeks. Let me give you
one brief example, Faith. What is faith? Ask 100 people and
you’ll get 100 answers including many who have no idea.
But I can tell you now that when you do the 6 Steps That Turn
Desire Into Gold you will discover faith as it will hit you in
the face with the force of a hurricane and suddenly you will
find that you believe in yourself in a way that you never
thought possible before. And it all boils down to the
Definite Major Purpose and the 6 Steps.
First here’s what to do with your copy of Think and Grow Rich.
Read it for fun, for exercise. Enjoy it. Read it again with a
highlighter and mark “words” or “phrases” that you feel have
meaning for you “right now.” As years go by you can mark
other places as each reading will give you new insights into
your own personal success philosophy.
Then, go to the section on Definite Major Purpose and
6 Steps That Turn Desire Into Gold and write down your
plan of action, your desires, what you want to do,
what you want to be, and how you intend to achieve this.
Now if you are not a believer that you have all the attributes to
become exactly the person you wish to be, or even if you do
not believe a word of this philosophy, you must write down
goals that are so big you do not believe them at this stage.
In fact you don’t have to believe them. All you have to do is
have them. You’ve read the book a couple of times and
you have a burning desire to be something more, something
better, a more successful person and you are establishing
personal goals just for you. Look at the words you write
at the top of the page. Definite Major Purpose.
My Six Steps to Turn Desire Into Gold.
Does that not inspire you? It doesn’t matter how impractical
this seems when you first write them down. The is actually
the most practical philosophy of success you will ever come
across.
I’ll take a break now and do part 3 later today or tomorrow morning.
Have a wonderful day
And remember always
Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger or faster man
But sooner or later they always go
To the man who thinks he can
Michael S Johnson
http://www.superformula.com/currentindex.html
