The Secret to Freedom and Success

Think and Grow Rich- Napoleon Hill

Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.

Even if it 70 years since the book Think and Grow Rich was written, it is still a highly respected and read books. This classic is a motivational Personal Development and Self-Help Books written by Napoleon Hill. Napoleon Hill, is now counted in the top ranks of the world's winner himself. Hill draws on stories of Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and other millionaires of his generation to illustrate principles. While the title implies that this book deals only with how to achieve monetary wealth, the author explains that the philosophy taught in the book can be used to help individuals succeed in all lines of work and to do or be almost anything they want in this world. The book was first published in 1937 during the Great Depression. It had sold over 30 million copies and it remains the biggest seller of Napoleon Hill's books-a perennial best-seller after 70 years (Business Week Magazine's Best-Seller List ranked Think and Grow Rich as the sixth best-selling paperback business book 70 years after it was first published). Think and Grow Rich is listed in John C. Maxwell's A Lifetime "Must Read" Books List. The essence of the book Napoleon Hill's famous statement:

Everything your mind can conceive, you can achieve.

The title says the same in different words. A compelling title might explain initial rushes to buy a book, but in the last 60 years, the world has bought over 30 million copies of Think and Grow Rich why?

Hill refused to accept that success was the domain of luck or background or the Gods; and wanted to provide a concrete plan for success that depended entirely on us. The book also sold because it was not simply Hill's dreamed-up ideas, but a distillation of success secrets of hundreds of America's most successful men, beginning with his parton, steel baron Andrew Carnegie.

What do you want most? Is it Money, Fame, Power, Contentment, Personality, Peace of Mind, Happiness.

The The Thirteen Steps to Riches described in this book offer the shortest dependable philosophy of individual achievement ever presented for the benefit of the man or woman who is searching for a definite goal in life. It is a textbook on individual achievement that come directly from the experience, of hundreds of America's most successful men. It should be studied, digested, and meditated upon.

The very best example of the soundness of this philosophy is Blair, son of Napoleon Hill author of this book, whose dramatic story he has outlined in the chapter on DESIRE. Who born without normal hearing capacity, not only avoided becoming a deaf mute, but actually converted his handicap into a priceless asset by applying the philosophy described his book. After reading you will realize that you are about to come into possession of a philosophy which can be transmitted into material wealth or serve as readily harmony, and in some instances, as in the case of Blair, it can help you master physical affliction.

If you follow this plan persistently you will be almost certain to uncover and appropriate the secret formula described in this book.

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How To Deal With of Your Own Stress Soup

“ACE” your life with this fun exercise.

“Remember, stress is information about what is going on in your life,” says Kathleen Hall, Ph.D., founder of both The Stress Institute and Mindful Living Network. “Before you create an action plan, it is great to have a general knowledge of your stress triggers.” 

Three components are the foundation for living an intentional life in balance, Hall says—awareness, choice and energy. (“Just remember the acronym, ACE your life,” she says.)

 Hall offers this exercise to help: 

Awareness: Reducing your stress begins with increasing your awareness (A) of daily experiences. Listen to what ignites your passion, energy and love, and what drains you, distracts you and irritates you. These are clues to becoming more aware of what you love and what stresses you.

 Action: Take a piece of paper and draw a line down the center, with a plus sign on the left for positives (happiness) and a minus on the right side for negatives (stress). 

Under the plus side of the paper ask yourself, What creates energy and happiness in my life? 

Write down five things such as your work, dog, spouse or playing golf. Think through your day and recall moments that made you happy. After listing your five positive experiences, rate them on a 1-to-3 basis. 1 = Least; 2 = Moderate; 3 = Extreme. 

Add the numbers. If your total is less than 10, please examine your life. “Never forget the five things you love most in your life,” Hall says. “If your life wanders from these, stop and do whatever it takes to move toward your treasure.” 

Under the minus side of the paper ask yourself, What creates chronic stress and unhappiness in my life? 

Write five things that sap your energy and make you worry. These might be finances, your job or a personal relationship. These are your stress triggers. After listing the five things, rate them on the same 1-to-3 basis as you did on the plus side. 

Add the numbers from your list. “If your total is 10 to 15, you are very stressed,” she says, “and you should seek the help of stress-management training, a counselor or your physician.” 

Choice: Now that you identified your major stressors, choice (C) can decrease your stress levels and unhappiness. 

“Your current life is a result of the choices you have already made,” Hall says. “You may not control some of the circumstances in your life, but you can choose your attitude and perception in response to stressful circumstances.” 

Action: Choose one item that you rated a 3 from the negative side of your list. Create a plan that will guide you to resolve this situation either by leaving the situation or changing your perspective of it or the way you deal with it from a negative to a positive. When you know you will be in this situation, make a conscious effort to practice stress reduction. 

Take a look at the positive side of your list, too. Choose one or two things you enjoy most and commit to doing those things more often.

Energy: Developing your awareness and making choices creates new energy (E), health, productivity and happiness, and less stress in your life. Action: “When you decide to live a more mindful life, you will become more aware of the effects of what you are eating, who you are living with and where you go to work each day,” Hall says. “You will begin to notice an energy swelling within you as you become more aware.” 

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Thirty Major Causes Of Failures How Many Of These Are Holding You Back.

Life's greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail! The tragedy lies in the overwhelmingly large majority of people who fail, as compared to the few who succeed. Analyzing several thousand men and women, 98% of whom were classed as "failures."There is something radically wrong with a civilization, and a system of education, which permit 98% of the people to go through life as failures.

Analysis work proved that there are thirty major reasons for failure, and thirteen major principles through which people accumulate fortunes. As you go over the list, check yourself by it, point by point, for the purpose of discovering how many of these causes-of-failure stand between you and success.

UNFAVOURABLE HEREDITARY BACKGROUND. There is but little, if anything, which can be done for people who are born with a deficiency in brain power. This philosophy offers but one method of bridging this weakness-through the aid of the Master Mind. This is the only one of the thirty causes of failure which may not be easily corrected by any individual.

LACK OF A WELL-DEFINED PURPOSE IN LIFE. There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim. Ninety-eight out of every hundred of those, whom had no such aim. Perhaps this was the major cause of their failure.

LACK OF AMBITION TO AIM ABOVE MEDIOCRITY. We offer no hope for the person who is so indifferent as not to want to get ahead in life, and who is not willing to pay the price.

INSUFFICIENT EDUCATION. Experience has proven that the best-educated people are often those who are known as "self-made,"plied. or self-educate. It takes more than a college degree to make one a person of education. Any person who is educated is one who has learned to get whatever he wants in life without violating the rights of others. Education consists, not so much of knowledge, but of knowledge, but of knowledge effectively and persistently applied. Men are paid, not merely for what they know, but more particularly for what they do with that which they know.

LACK OF SELF-DISCIPLINE. Discipline comes through self-control. One must control all negative qualities. Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself. Self-mastery is the hardest job you will ever tackle. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. You may see at one and the same time both your best friend and your greatest enemy, by stepping in front of a mirror.

ILL HEALTH. No person may enjoy outstanding success without good health. Many of the causes of ill health are subject to mastery and control. These, in the main are:

a. Overeating of foods not conducive to health.

b. Wrong habits of thought; giving expression to negatives.

c. Wrong use of, and over indulgence in sex.

d. Lack of proper physical exercise.

e. An inadequate supply of fresh air, due to improper breathing.

UNFAVORABLE ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES DURING CHILDHOOD. "As the twig is bent, so shall the tree grow." Most people who have criminal tendencies acquires them as the result of bad environment, and improper associates during childhood.

PROCRASTINATION. This is one of the most common causes of failures. "Old Man Procrastination" stands within the shadow of every human being, waiting the opportunity to spoil one's chances of success. Most of us go through life as failures, because we are waiting for the "time to be right" to start doing something worthwhile. Do not wait. The time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

LACK OF PERSISTENCE. Most of us are good "starters" but poor "finishers" of everything we begin. Moreover, people are prone to give up at the first signs of defeat. There is no substitute for persistence. The person, who makes persistence his watch-word, discovers that "Old Man Failure" finally becomes tired, and makes his departure. Failure cannot cope with persistence.

NEGATIVE PERSONALITY. There is no hope of success for the person who repels people through a negative personality. Success comes through the application of power, and power is attained through the cooperative efforts of other people. A negative personality will not induce cooperation.

LACK OF CONTROLLED SEXUAL URGE. Sex energy is the most powerful of all the stimuli which move people into action. Because it is the most powerful of the emotions, it must be controlled, through transmutation, and converted into other channels.

UNCONTROLLED DESIRE FOR "SOMETHING FOR NOTHING."The gambling instinct drives millions of people to failure. Evidence of this may be found in a study of the Wall Street crash of "29, during which millions of people tried to make money by gambling on stock margins.

LACK OF A WELL DEFINED POWER OF DECISION. Men who succeed reach decisions promptly, and change them, if at all, very slowly. Men who fail, reach decisions, if at all, very slowly, and change them frequently, and quickly. Indecision and procrastination are twin brothers. Where one is found, the other may usually be found also. Kill off this pair before they completely "hog-tie" to the treadmill of failure.

WRONG SELECTION OF A MATE IN MARRIAGE. This a most common cause of failure. The relationship of marriage brings people intimately into contact. Unless this relationship is harmonious, failure is likely to follow. Moreover, it will be a form of failure that is marked by misery and unhappiness, destroying all signs of ambition.

OVER CAUTION.Thon is as bad as under-caution. The person who takes no chances, generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing. Over-caution is as bad as under-caution. Both are extremes to be guarded against. Life itself is filled with the element of chance.

WRONG SELECTION OF ASSOCIATES IN BUSINESS. This is one of the most common causes of failure in business. In marketing personal services, one should use great care to select an employer who will be an inspiration, and who is, himself, intelligent and successful. We emulate those with whom we associate most closely. Pick an employer who is worth emulating.

SUPERSTITION AND PREJUDICE. Superstition is a form of fear. It is also a sign of ignorance. Men who succeed keep open minds and are afraid of nothing.

WRONG SELECTION OF VOCATION. No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like. The most essential step in the marketing of personal services is that of selecting an occupation into which you can throw yourself wholeheartedly.

LACK OF CONCENTRATION OF EFFORT. The "jack-of-all-trades" seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

THE HABIT OF INDISCRIMINATE SPENDING. The spendthrift cannot succeed, mainly because he stands eternally in fear of poverty. From the habit of systematic saving by putting aside a definite percentage of your income.

LACK OF ENTHUSIASM. Without enthusiasm one cannot be convincing. Moreover,, enthusiasm is contagious, and the person, who has it, under control, is generally welcome in any group of people.

INTOLERANCE. The person with a "closed" mind on any subject seldom gets ahead. Intolerance means that one has stopped acquiring knowledge. The most damaging forms of intolerance are those with religious, racial, and political differences of opinion.

INTEMPERANCE. The most damaging forms of intemperance are connected with eating, strong drink, and sexual activities. Overindulgence in any of these is fatal to success.

INABILITY TO COOPERATE WITH OTHERS. More people lose their positions and their big opportunities in life, because of this fault, than for all other reasons combined. It is a fault which no well-informed business man, or leader will tolerate.

POSSESSION OF POWER THAT WAS NOT ACQUIRED. (sons  and daughters of wealthy men, and others who inherit money which they did not earn). Power in the hands of one who did not acquire it gradually, is often fatal to success. Quick Riches are more dangerous than poverty.

INTENTIONAL DISHONESTY. There is no substitute for honesty. One may be temporarily dishonest by force of circumstances over which has no control, without permanent damage. But, there is no hope for the person who is dishonest by choice. Sooner or later, his deeds will catch up with him, and he will pay by loss of reputation, and perhaps even loss of liberty.

EGOTISM AND VANITY. These qualities serve as red lights which warn others to keep away. The are fatal to success.

GUESSING INSTEAD OF THINKING. Most people are too indifferent or lazy to acquire facts with which to think accurately. They prefer to act on "opinions" created by guesswork or snap-judgments.

LACK OF CAPITAL. This is a common cause of failure in business for the first time, without sufficient reserve of capital to absorb the shock of their mistakes, and to carry them over until they have established a reputation.

In these thirty major causes of failure is found a description of the tragedy of life, which obtains for particularly every person who tries and fails. It will be helpful if you can induce someone who knows you will to go over this list with you, and help to analyze you by the thirty causes of failure. It may be beneficial if you try this alone. Most people cannot see themselves as others see them. You  may be one who cannot.

The oldest of admonitions is "Mn, know thyself!" If you market merchandise successfully, you must know the merchandise. The same is true in marketing personal services. You Should know your strength in order that you may call attention to it when selling your services. You can yourself only through accurate analysis.

                                           Extract from Napoleon Hill  "THINK and GROW RICH"

Why some people always frustrated with reversals and crisis?

There are so many factors that can cause you to fail. But by working to overcome these factors, you can release the brakes that are holding back you success.

1.Unwillingness to take risk:  Success involves taking calculated risks. Risk-taking does not mean gambling foolishly and behaving irresponsible and rash behaviour as risk-taking. They end up with negative results and blame it on bad luck. The person who never attempts anything risky makes no mistakes. However, not making the attempt is often a bigger mistake than making the attempt and failing.

2. Lack of persistence: Most people fail not because they lack knowledge or talent but because they quit. Secret of success lies in two tracts. Persistence and Resistance.

3. Instant gratification: Remember that when going for instant gratification, are never thinks of consequences, only for momentary pleasures. When you think short term, not long term, it is limited vision. With limited vision you will never see any worthwhile goals.

4. Lack of priorities: Prioritization requires discipline to do what needs to be done rather than taking action based on our moods and fancies.

Success does not come by reading or memorizing the principles that lead to success, but by understanding them and setting your priorities to apply them.

5. Looking for shortcuts: You get what put in. If you don't put much into a project, you won't get much out of it. Many times we look for the easier way, which really ends up being the tougher way.

6. Selfishness and Greed: Individuals and organizations that have a selfish attitude have no right to expect growth. Their attitude is to keep passing the buck without regard for the welfare of others. Greed always wants more. Needs can be satisfied, but greed cannot. Greeds come of poor self-esteem, which manifests itself as false pride, pretence, or "keeping up with the Joneses." The way out of greed is to learn to live within your means and be satisfied. Being content does not mean lack of ambition.

7. Lack of conviction: People who lack conviction take the middle of the road. People without conviction do not take a stand. They go along to get along because they lack confidence and courage. They conform in order to get accepted even when they know that what they are doing is wrong.

8. Unwillingness to plan and prepare: Preparation is the necessary edge to succeed in any field.

9. Rationalizing: Winners may analyze but they never rationalize- losers always have a book full of excuses. Reasons don't count while results do.

10.Not learning from past mistakes: People who do not learn lessons from history are doomed. Some people learn from their mistakes-wiser people learn from other people's mistakes.

11.Inability to recognize opportunity: Opportunities, can come disguised as obstacles. That is why most people don't recognize them. The bigger the obstacles, the better is the opportunity.

12.Fear: Fear can be real or imaginary. Fear makes people do strange things. Fear results in insecurity, lack of confidence and procrastination. It destroys our potential and ability.

13.Inability to use talent: Human beings use only 10-12% of their potential. The saddest part of most people's lives is that they die with the music still in them.

They haven't lived life while alive. They rust out rather than wear out. than rust out. The saddest words in life are: "I should have."

14.Lack of discipline: Have you ever wondered why some people never reach their goals? Why they are always frustrated with reversals and crisis? Why do some people have continued success, while other have endless failures. Anyone who has accomplished anything worthwhile has never done so without disciplines, whether in sports, athletics, academia or business.

15.Poor self-esteem: Poor self-esteem is lack of self respect and self worth. It leads to abuse of one's self and others. People with low self esteem are constantly looking for identity. They are trying to find themselves.

16.Lack of knowledge:

17.Fatalistic attitude: A fatalistic attitude prevents people from accepting responsibility for their circumstances. People with fatalistic attitudes attribute success and failure to luck. They wait for things to happen rather than making them happen. Success is a matter of luck ask any failure, weak minded people fall easy prey to fortune-tellers, horoscopes and self proclaimed Godman who are sometimes conmen. If you want to fail, believe in luck. If you want to succeed, believe in the principles of cause and effect, and you will create your own "luck".

18.Lack of purpose: When people lack purpose and direction, they see no opportunity. If a person has the desire to accomplish something, knows the direction to move to achieve his objective, has the dedication to stay focused, and has the discipline required to put in the hard work, then success follows. But if you don't have purpose and direction, it doesn't matter what else you have, you won't succeed.

19.Lack of courage: Successful people do not look for miracles or easy tasks. They seek courage and strength to overcome obstacles.

20.Lack of understanding of nature's laws:  Success is a matter of laws of nature. Change is nature's law. We are either moving forward or we are going backward. A seed, if it is not planted in the earth to create disintegrates. Change is inevitable. It is going to happen whether you like it or not. All progress is change but all change is not progress. Success is not a matter of luck, but of laws. In order to succeed, we need to understand the law of cause and effect and the relationship between action and results. For every effect, there is a cause. The law of cause and effect is the same as the law of sowing and reaping.

Good or Bad Habits always deliver results

Your habits determine your outcomes. Successful people don't just drift to the top. Getting there requires focused action, personal discipline, and lots of energy every day to make things happen. The habits you develop from this day forward will ultimately determine how your future unfolds.

One of the problems for people with poor habits is that the results of their bad habits usually don't show up until much later in life. When you develop a chronic bad habits, life will eventually give you consequences. You may not like the consequences, but life will still deliver them. The fact is, if you keep on doing things a certain way you will always got a predictable results. Negative habits breed negative consequences. Positive habits create positive consequences.

You must have to take action for changing your habits. First you make a list of all the habits that keep you unproductive or that might negatively impact your future. Look for patterns. Also review the most common unsuccessful habits.

Develop just four new habits a year, 5 year from now you'll have 20 new success habits that could bring you all the money. you want, the wonderful loving relationships you desire, a healthier, more energized body, plus all sorts of new opportunities. Start by listing four new habits you would like to establish in the next year. Work on one new habit every quarter. If you work diligently on building one new habit every 13 weeks, you won't overwhelm yourself with an unrealistic list of New Year Resolutions..... and research shows that if you repeat a behaviour for 20 minutes a day, flossing your teeth, reviewing your goals..... it will be your for life. By systematically adding one behaviour at a time, you can dramatically improve your over all life style.

Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practising specific, simple habits that always lead to success.        Robert J. Ringer

Believe in yourself

If you are going to be successful in creating the life of your dreams, you have to believe that you are capable of making it happen. You have to believe you have the right stuff, that you are able to pull it off. You have to believe in yourself. But remember, the past is the past. There is no payoff for blaming them for your current level of self-confidence. It's now your responsibility to take charge of your own self-concept and your beliefs. You must choose to believe that you can do anything you set your mind to-anything at all-because, in fact, you can. It might help you to know that the latest brain research now indicates that with enough positive self-talk and positive visualization combined with the proper training, coaching, and practice, anyone can learn to do almost anything.

If a 20-year-old Texan can take up the luge and become an Olympic athlete, a college dropout can become a billionaire, and a dyslexic student who failed three grades can become a best-selling author and television producer, then you, too, can accomplish anything if you will simply believe it is possible.

If you assume in favor of yourself and act as if it is possible, then you will do the things that are necessary to bring about the result. If you believe it is impossible, you will not do what is necessary, and you will not produce the result. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

If you are going to be successful, you need to give up the phrase "I can't" and all of its cousins, such as "I wish I were able to." The words I can't actually dis empower you. They actually make you weaker when you say them.

Your brain is designed to solve any problem and reach any goal that you give it. The words you think and say actually affect your body. You must take responsibility for removing I can't from your vocabulary.

Don't waste your life believing you can't:

In 1977, in Tallahassee, Florida, Laura Shultz, who was 63 at the time, picked up the back end of a Buick to get it off her grandson'. Before that time, she had never lifted anything heavier than a 50-pound bag of pet food. 

Dr. Charles Garfield, aether of Peak Performance and Peak Performers, interviewed her after reading about her in the National Enquirer. When he got to her home, she kept resisting any attempts to talk about what she called "the event."

Finally he got her to talk about "the event." She said she didn't like to thin about it because it challenged her beliefs about what she could and couldn't do, about what was possible. She said,"If I was able to do this when I didn't think I could, what does that say about the rest of my life? Have I wasted it?"

Charlie convinced her that her life was not yet over and that she could still do whatever she wanted to do. He asked her what she wanted to do, what her passion was. She said she had always loved rocks. She had wanted to study geology. At 63, with a little coaching with Charlie, she decided to go back to school to study geology. She eventually got her degree and went on to teach at a local community college.

Don't wait until you are 63 to decide that you can do anything you want. Don't waste years of your life. Decide that you are capable of doing anything you want and start working toward it now.

Here's another statistic showing that belief in yourself is more important than knowledge, training or schooling: 20% of America's millionaires never set foot in college, and 21 of the 222 Americans listed as billionaires in 2003 never got their college diplomas; 2 never even finished high school! So although education and a commitment to lifelong learning are essential to success, a formal degree isn't a requirement. Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, dropped out of the university of Illinois and at the time of this writing was worth $18 billion. And Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard and later founded Microsoft. Today he is considered one of the richest men in the world, with a net worth of over $ 46 billion.

Even Vice President Dick Cheney dropped out of college. When you realize that the vice president, the richest man in America, and many of our greatest musicians and athletes , are all college dropouts, you see that you can start from any where and create a successful life for yourself.

What others think about you is none of your business.

"You have to believe in yourself when no one else

does. That's what makes you a winner."

                                      - Venus Williams

If having others believing in you and your dream was a requirement for success, most of us would never accomplish anything. You need to base your decisions about what you want to do on your goals and desires- not the goals, desires, opinions, and judgments of your parents, friends, spouse, children, and coworkers. Quit worrying what other people think about you and follow your heart. 

Dr. Daniel Amen's 18/40/60 Rules: When you're 18, you worry about what everybody is thinking of you; when you're 40, you don't give a darn what anybody thinks of you; when you're 60, you realize nobody's been thinking about you at all.

Surprise! Most of the time, nobody's thinking about you at all! They are too busy worrying about their own lives, and if they are thinking about them. People think about themselves, not you. Think about it- all the time you are wasting worrying about what other people think about your ideas, your goals, your clothes, your hair, and your home could all be better spent on thinking about doing the things that will achieve your goals.

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Be clear why you're here

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose.

                 -Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D.

Each of us is born with a life purpose. Identifying acknowledging, and honoring this purpose is perhaps the most important action successful people take. They take the time to understand what they're here to do and then they pursue that with passion and enthusiasm.

Without a purpose in life, it's easy to get sidetracked on your life's journey. It's easy to wander and drift, accomplishing little.

But with a purpose, everything in life seems to fall into place. To be "on purpose" means you're doing what you love to do, doing what you're good at and accomplishing what's important to you. When you truly are on purpose, the people, resources, and opportunities you need naturally gravitate toward you.

Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.

Once you know what your life purpose is, you can organize all of your activities around it. Everything you do should be an expression of your purpose. If an activity doesn't fit that formula, you wouldn't work on it.

Without purpose as the compass to guide you, your goals and action plans may not ultimately fulfill you. You don't want to get to the top of the ladder only to find out you had it leaning up against the wrong wall.

You were born with an inner guidance system that tells you when you are on or off purpose by the amount of joy you are experiencing. The things that bring you the greatest joy are in alignment with your purpose. To begin to home in on your purpose, make a list of the times you have felt most joyful and alive.

Figure out what you love to do as young as you can, and then organize your life around figuring out how to make a living at it. Once you are clear about what brings you the greatest joy, you will have a major insight into your purpose. The second exercise is a simple but powerful way to create a compelling statement of your life purpose to guide and direct your behaviour.

Staying on purpose

Once you have determined and written down your life purpose, read it every day, preferably in the morning, if you're artistic or strongly visual by nature, you may want to draw or paint a symbol or picture that represents your life purpose and then hang it somewhere where you will see it every day. This will keep you focused on your purpose.

Another approach to clarifying your purpose is to set aside some time for quite reflection-time for a period of meditation. After you become relaxed and enter into a state of deep self-love and peacefulness, ask yourself, what is my purpose for living? or what is my unique role in the universe? Allow the answer to simply come to you.Let it be as expensive as you can imagine. The words that come need not be flowery or poetic, what is important is how inspired the words make you feel.

Believe it is possible

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Napoleon Hill once said, "Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve." In fact, the mind is such a powerful instrument, it can deliver to you literally everything you want. But you have to believe that what you want is possible.

Scientist used to believe that humans responded to information flowing into the brain from the outside world.But today, they're learning instead that we respond to what the brain, on the basis of previous experience expects to happen next.

Doctors in Texas, for example-studying the effect of arthoscopic knee surgery-assigned patients with sore, worn-out knees to one of three surgical procedures: scraping out the knee joints, washing out the joint, or doing nothi pretend surgery reported the same amount of relief from pain and smelling as those who had received the actual treatments. The brain expected the "surgery" to improve the knee, and it did.
Why does the brain work this way? Nero-psychologist who study expectancy theory say it's because we spend our whole lives becoming conditioned. Through a lifetime's worth of events, our brain actually learns what to expect next-whether it eventually happens that way or not. And because our brain expects something will happen a certain way, we often achieve exactly what we anticipate.

This is why it's so important to hold positive expectations in your mind. When you replace your old negative expectations with more positive ones-when you begin to believe that what you want is possible-your brain will actually take over the job of accomplishing that possibility for you. Better than, your brain will actually expect to achieve that outcome.

Believe in yourself and go for it

Sooner or letter, those who win, are those who think they can.    -Richard Bach

Tim Ferriss believed in himself. In fact, he believed so strongly in his abilities that he won the national San Shou Kickboxing title just 6 months after being introduced to the sport. As a prior all-American and Judo team captain at Princeton, Tim had always dreamed of winning a national title. He had worked hard. He was good at his sport. But repeated injuries over multiple seasons had continually denied him his dream.

So when a friend called one day to invite Tim to watch him in the national Chinese kickboxing championships 6 weeks away. Tim instantly decided to join him at the competition. He traveled to a tough neighborhood in Trenton, New Jersey, to learn from boxing coaches who had trained gold medalists. And after 4 grueling hours a day in the ring, he put in more time conditioning in the weight room. To make up for his lack of time in the sport, Tim's trainers focused on exploiting his strengths instead of making up for his weaknesses.

Tim didn't want to merely complete. He wanted to win. When the competition day at last arrived. Tim defeated three highly acclaimed opponents before making it to the final.

Later, Tim told that most people fail not because they lack the skills or aptitude to reach their goal but because they simply don't believe they can reach it. Tim believed. And won.

It's amazing what happens to your self-confidence, when you get eyeball to eyeball with yourself and you forcefully tell yourself what you're going to do. Whatever your dream is, look at yourself in the mirror and declare that you are indeed going to achieve it-no matter what the price.

Decide what you want

Once you have decide what you want to do, be, and have. What do you want to accomplish? What do you want to experience? And what possessions do you want to acquire? You have to decide where you want to be and what does look like to you?

One of the main reasons why most people don't get what they want is they haven't decide what they want. They haven't defined their desires in clear and compelling detail.

Don't live someone Else's dreams. If you are going to re own your power and get what you really want out of life, you will have to stop saying, "I don't know. I don't care; it doesn't matter to me". When you are confronting with a choice, no matter how small or insignificant act as if you have a preference. Ask yourself, if I did know, what would it be? If I did care, which would I prefer? If it did matter, what would I rather do? One of the easiest ways to begin clarifying what you truly want is to make a list of 30 things you want to do, 30 things you want to have, and 30 things you want to be before you die. This is a great way to get the ball rolling.

Make a list of 20 things you love to do, and then think of ways you can make a living doing some of these things. If you love sports, you could play sports, be a sports writer or photographer, or work in sports managements as an agent or in the front office of a professional team, you could be a couch, a manager, or scout. You could be a broadcaster, a camera operator or team publicist. There are myriad ways to make money in any field that you love. For now just decide what you would like to do.

Clarify your vision of your ideal life.

Your vision is a detailed description of where you want to get to. It describes in detail what your destination looks like and feels like. To create a balanced and successful life, your vision needs to include the following seven areas: work and career, finances, recreation and free time, health and fitness, relationships, personal goals, and contribution to the larger community.

At this stage in the journey, it is not necessary to know exactly how you are going to get there. As that is important is that you figure out there is. If you get clear on the what the how will be taken care of.

The process of getting from where you are to where you want to be is like using the navigational system with GPS technology. For the system to work, it simply needs to know where you are and where you want to go. The navigation system figures out where you are by the use of an on board. Computer that receives signals from three satellites and calculates your exact position. When you type in your destination, the navigational system plots a perfect cause for you. All you have to do is follow the instruction.

Success in life works the same way. All you have to do is decide where you want to go by clarifying your vision, lock in the destination through goal-setting affirmations and visualization, and start moving in the right direction. You continue to move forward. In other words, once you clarify and stay focused on your vision, the exact steps will keep appearing along the way.

High achievers have bigger visions

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.    - Michelangelo

Always dream big dreams. Big dreams attract big people. It is a very few differences between the super- achievers and the rest of the world is that the super achievers simply dream bigger. John Kennedy dreamed of putting a man on the moon. Martin Luther King jr. dreamed of a country free of prejudice and injustice. Bill Gates dreams of a world in which every home has a computer that is connected to the internet. Buck-minister Fuller dreamed of a world where everybody had access to electrical power.

These high achievers see the world from a whole different perspective-as a place where amazing things can happen, where billions of lives can be improved, where new technology can change the way we live, and where the world's resources can be leveraged for the greatest possible mutual gain. They believe anything is possible, and they believe they have an integral part in creating it.

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.   - Robert Fritz

Create your future from your future, not your past.  -Warner Erhard

Take 100% responsibility for your life

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons or the wind, but you can change yourself.

One of the most pervasive myths in the American culture today is that we are entitled to a great life that somehow, somewhere, someone is responsible for filling our lives with continual happiness, exciting career options, nurturing family time, and blissful personal relationships similarly because we exist.

But the real truth- and the one lesson is that there is only one person responsible for the quality of the life you live.

  
That person is you.

If you want to be successful, you have to take 100% responsibility for everything that you experience in your life. This includes the level of your achievements, the results you produce. the quality of your relationships, the state of your health and physical fitness, your income, your debts, your feelings-everything!

In fact, most of us have been conditioned to blame something outside of ourselves for the parts of our life we don't like. We blame our parents, our bosses, our friends, the media, our coworkers, our clients, our spouse, the weather, the economy, our astrological chart, our lack of money-anyone or anything we can pin the blame on. We never want to look at where the real problem is- ourselves.

There is wonderful story told about a man who is out walking one night and comes upon another man down on his knees looking for something under a street lamp. The passerby inquires as to what the other man is looking for. He answers that he is looking for his lost key. The passerby offers to help and gets down on his knees and helps him search for the key. After an hour of fruitless searching, he says, "we've looked everywhere for it and we haven't found it. Are you sure that you lost it here?"

The other man replies," NO, I lost it in my house, but there is more light out here under the street lamp."

It is time to stop looking yourself for the answers to why you haven't created the life and results you want it, for it is you who creates the quality of the life you lead and the results you produce.

         

          You- no one else!

To achieve major success in life-to achieve those things that one most important to you-you must assume 100% responsibility for your life. Nothing less will do.

100% responsibility for everything.

Have you ever blamed anyone for any circumstances in your life? Have you ever complained about anything?

          Don't guess think. 

That means you don't take 100% responsibility for your life. Taking 100% responsibility means you acknowledge that you create everything that happens to you. It means you understand that you are the cause of all of your experience. If you want to be really successful. Then you will have to give up blaming and complaining and take total responsibility for your life- that means all your results, both your successs and your failure. That is the prerequisite for creating a life of success. It is only by acknowledging that you have created everything up until now that you can take charge of creating the future you want.

If you realize that you have created your current conditions, then you can uncreate them and recreate them at will. Do you understand that?

          Are you willing to take 100% responsibility for your life? 

99% of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.- George Washington Carver