Monday, February 28, 2011

Vintage Essays By Judy Williamson, Director of the Napoleon Hill World Learning Center at Purdue University Calumnet

Dear Readers,

You do not need a fortune teller, tarot cards, palm reading, or physics to predict your future if you are on Napoleon Hill's road to success. Personal self-analysis can be easily handled by reviewing the 17 success principles and noting the degree to which you use each one in your daily life. For each of the 17 principles, you might begin to condition your mind toward consciously using each steppingstone to success by reviewing a principle a day, and when finished with all 17 begin again. W. Clement Stone tells us that repetition is the key! Not only does it reinforce what we know, it seeps down into our subconscious minds and programs us for successful habits that are unconscious. The meaning here is that we do not have to consciously think about these habits because we know them so thoroughly that they are programmed into our brain's hardware and we no longer have to think about engaging them - they just occur. This is powerful programming.

Here are the simple questions in which you will supply the name of the daily principle that you are studying. For review, the 17 principles are: Definiteness of Purpose, Mastermind Alliance, Applied Faith, Going the Extra Mile, Pleasing Personality, Personal Initiative, Positive Mental Attitude, Enthusiasm, Self-Discipline, Accurate Thinking, Controlled Attention, Teamwork, Learning from Adversity and Defeat, Creative Vision, Maintenance of Sound Health, Budgeting Time and Money, and Cosmic Habitforce.

"You are where you are and what you are because of your established habits of thought and deed." Napoleon Hill

1. What does this principle of idea mean to you in your daily life?

2. How will you apply this key principle or idea?

3. When (note exact time and date) will you start applying this key principle or idea?

4. What will you consciously do now that you wouldn't have done had you not studied this principle? Keep a notebook on your written responses to the above questions. Note exact actions that you take daily to bring these principles into action in your daily life. The more you DO, the more you will HAVE.

Remember the formula for Success. Success = Thought + Emotionalized Action.

Be Your Very Best Always,

Judy Williamson

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