Napoleon Hill is quoted as saying "Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action."
According to Merriam-Webster, a plan is defined as a detailed formulation of a program of action. I’ve discovered that if you apply Napoleon Hill’s 17 Principles of Personal Achievement to your daily action steps, you will manifest results beyond your wildest dreams. In order to make the leap from good to great, a shift in thought is required. Try it! Do something different!
The starting point of all achievement, knowing what you want.
2. Master Mind Principle
The coordination of effort between two or more people in a spirit of perfect harmony in order to attain a specific objective.
3. Applied Faith
A state of mind through which your aims, desires, plans and purposes are translated into physical or financial equivalents.
4. Pleasing Personality
A pleasing personality helps you master the major cause of failure-the inability to get along with people harmoniously.
5. Going the Extra Mile
Rendering more and better service than you are paid to render, doing it all the time and doing it with a pleasing, positive attitude.
6. Personal Initiative
The inner power that starts all action; the power that inspires the completion of all that one begins.
7. Self-Discipline
The ability to control our thoughts and emotions, self-discipline is the only thing in life over which you have complete, unchallenged, and unchallengeable control.
8. Controlled Attention
The highest form of self-discipline, the act of coordinating all your mind’s faculties and directing their combined power to a given end.
9. Enthusiasm
A contagious state of mind that not only helps you gain the cooperation of others but, more importantly, inspires you to draw upon and use the power of your imagination.
10. Imagination
Your mind’s exercise, challenge and adventure. It uses old ideas and established facts to reassemble them into new combinations and to put them to new uses.
11. Learning from Adversity and Defeat
Hardship and adversity are a common language of nature in which she speaks to all living creatures and teaches them many things they would not learn in any other way.
12. Budgeting Time and Money
Successful people know themselves, not as they think they are, but as their habits have made them: the use of time and money are the most vital of these
habits.
13. Positive Mental Attitude
To govern your life, you must be able to govern your mind, and that is the starting point of all riches.
14. Accurate Thinking
The accurate thinker recognizes all the facts of life, both good and bad, and assumes the responsibility of separating and organizing the two, choosing those which serve his/her needs and rejecting others.
15. Sound Physical Health
The key that coordinates all other principles and sets all ideas into motion, sound health provides the "flavor" to the good things in life.
16. Cooperation
Harmony based on definitive motive, cooperation is the medium through which great personal power may be attained; the willing cooperation and coordination of effort to achieve a specific objective.
17. Cosmic Habitforce
The cosmic habitforce is the universe’s law of equilibrium, the one natural law into which all other natural laws resolve themselves.
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I hear about Napoleon Hill all the time, but have never read any of his work. Thanks for this summary.
Charlie, Thank you for taking the time to comment. My favorite lesson from Mr Hill is “Imagination is more powerful than rational thought”. That sounds so simple but if you consider how much time is spent thinking about what he calls the “6 ghosts of fear” you will truly see the inherent wisdom. By the way, the 6 ghosts of fear are poverty, criticism, ill health, loss of love of someone, old age and death. I recommend reading “Think and Grow Rich” a minimum of 4 times because the lessons are subtle yet powerful. Happy Blogging