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This week's show called "The 5 Essential Principles of Think & Grow Rich, a Passionate Recommendation." Tune in and hear Steve talk about the Napoleon Hill Foundation's newest, must-read book The 5 Essential Principles of Think & Grow Rich, the Practical Steps to Transforming Your Desires into Riches by Napoleon Hill. Steve is honored to present profound and essential truths about the power of the mind that Napoleon Hill presented over 80 years ago in his masterpiece Think and Grow Rich. This show will get you thinking and move you to positive steps to a better life.
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This week's show called "The 5 Essential Principles of Think & Grow Rich, a Passionate Recommendation." Tune in and hear Steve talk about the Napoleon Hill Foundation's newest, must-read book The 5 Essential Principles of Think & Grow Rich, the Practical Steps to Transforming Your Desires into Riches by Napoleon Hill. Steve is honored to present profound and essential truths about the power of the mind that Napoleon Hill presented over 80 years ago in his masterpiece Think and Grow Rich. This show will get you thinking and move you to positive steps to a better life.
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Good morning, Welcome to Right Thinking with Steve Copeland. I'm
your host, Steve Copeland, and thank you for tuning in.
Let's have a great day.
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Good morning everyone. I am glad to be with you today.
But you know, there's a whole lot of hardship going
on out there right now. And before I even started
the show, I'd like to just say that my heart
is out for everyone who's experiencing that the horror, the devastation, floods,
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Hurricane Florence. Last year, I wrote an article Next ten
magazine when we were experiencing those hurricanes in Texas and
Florida and Puerto Rico. Harvey, Arma, Maria, and I just
like to read. One of the last paragraphs about article
was in the October issue of Connect ten magazine. You
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can find that online. A paraphrase it just a little
bit for hurricane Fluns. The storms of life are unavoidable.
No one is exempt from experiencing it. It is my
prayer that, just as so many are suffering through one
of the worst hurricanes and floods that we've ever experienced,
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that we may all find strength in the Lord and community,
and that we as a people and be there for
one another throughout all of our storms in life each
and every day. I just pray for everyone that's going
through for this right now, and then we've got weeks
and weeks months ahead of us to where we should
all just pitch in and help one another with this
difficult you know, Right Thinking with Steve popam this show.
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I haven't said this in a long time, but the
purpose of this show is that it is a show
dedicated to helping anyone who's experiencing hardship and those that
want to be there for them. That's the whole idea
behind Right Thinking to Steve Popem and I hope that
that these shows give you some impertinents and inspiration and
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some tools to help you move forward and have a
better life. Well, last week, Don and my wife was
my guest on the show and we did a show
called why listening Skills were So Important. There was another
part of the series on the functional fame of the
positive model, and I just want to thank those people
that contacted us to let us know just how much
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they enjoyed that show and just how much they got
out of it, you know, listening skills. Like Donna said,
it's like the lost part, but it is one of
the single most important things that we can do and
our families to raise healthy, beautiful families. So let's let's
make sure that we're concentrating our listening skills. Well, you
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know that leads me right into what we're going to
do this week. I really feel good about the way
the show was progressing. There's a lot of really good
things going on with a lot of people that I'm
involved in. I'm getting further and further into the national
presence with like thinking to Steve Coplan, my frontancial Literacy Cricken,
and so I wanted to do another show that was
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powerful and important because I think we've got something going
good here now and every day, I told you before,
I get an email from the Poling Hill Foundation. It's
called the Thought for the Day. Well, I finally went
ahead and just got the book so that i'd have
all three hundred and sixty five of them in my hand.
And so I read through the grip and I picked
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out a couple. But the one that I got, the
one that I got on Let's see what I got
this one today. This is today's This is so beautiful.
This is a perfect follow up to what Ghana's message
is with the functional family. So I will transition into
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how I pick what we're going to do in today's show.
But let me read this because this is where my
search was. I wanted to figure out what can I
do to really connect with people, to encourage more people
to be part of my thinking foundations so that we
can work together. This is a thought for the day.
They're not in the same order, by the way, when
they come to my email as they are in the book,
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but this is what I got on something. This is
by Napoleon Will. The privilege of bringing children into the
world carries with it the responsibility of teaching them the
fundamentals of sound character. One of myfe's greatest joys is
the sense of wonder that it companies the arrival and
a tiny new human being into the world. But that
joy is a company by tremendous responsibility that perfectly encapsulates
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the need the personal initiative. You can provide children with
all the physical advantages of a good childhood, but unless
you strive to set a good example for them to follow,
you will know only dismit. As they reach adulthood and
blossom them the purposeless drifters. Your personal initiative, whether or
not you're raising a child, must always incorporate exemporary behavior.
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You cannot take ethical shortcuts, being or small without other
people observing them and assuming that this behavior is something
you won't mind having turned back on yourself. Certainly, you
will make mistakes, but if you have always driven for
the best course, others will remember it and treat you
or accordingly. Well. I've just been so fortunate that for
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the last forty five years or so of my life
I've been a very very royal artic supporter of Napoleon Hill.
And as I sit here right now broadcasting, I've got
about fourteen books spread out just to what be doing
the Poland Hill Day. I'll read you what the show
is in just a minute, maybe the title, but I've
got just a whole ton of materials right here in
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front of me, books by Napoleon Hill, thinking bir Rich.
I've got a nineteen thirty eight second edition copy right
here in front of me. I've got Outwitting the Devil,
I've got more success. I've got throughout the day, thoughts
for the day, don bringing the pauland Hill Foundation gave
me when he knew that I was gonna struct a
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radio show n Poland Hill on the air, which has
just been wonderful. I've got a series of new books
that are coming out the pauland Hill which are on
the topics of how to own your own Mind, which
is incredible, Wishes Won't Bring You Riches, which is another
thinks your Way to wealth. I've got one that Bond
Green gave you to give out to the Cheaper Dream
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Academy had fifty some copies to get to my last
there a couple of years ago on Positive Action Plan
three hundred and sixty five meditations for making each day
of success. I've visited Don Green about four years ago
when he was just getting more more involved with supporting
me with the prison work that I do, and he
gave me a copy of the book called My Shadow
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Ran Fast by a man named Bill Sines. You know,
I'm just bringing all this up to you to let
you know that the Upnhill Foundation has been just absolutely
wonderful in my life, starting when I was about twenty
twenty one years old when I got my first copy
present it to me if thinking grow rich, Bill the
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plant man is what I like to talk about. I
was working in my own accounting practice. I hung my
shingle for the first time, and I was I had
a new apartment and it was on Baker Court on
Baker Road, Virginia Beach, and I needed some houseplants for that,
just to decorate. Well, there's this Excellon gas station at
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the corner of Thomas Corner was called Thomas Corner Exon,
and this eighteen wheeler pulled up there and this man
and his name was Bill, I don't know his last name.
He opened up shop there. He had met for the truck,
put a tent up and haunting put his chair down,
and he sold house plants, yukas, big trees and whatever
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else you call. And so I took a lunch break
one day and I went down there, and I remember
there were twenty dollars apiece for anything me to want it.
So I started looking through the plants and I got
to talking to Bill. What this story was was that
he came up from Florida a couple of times up
the East coast, and his wife wasn't accounted, I remember that.
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And he stayed for three weeks up here in Virginia
Beach and he sold plants, and so we got to
talking and he invited me to go to dinner with him,
and so we met at a Chinese restaurant and he
presented me with a copy of Think and Grow Rich.
And he said to me, Steve, I've really enjoyed talking
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to you, but I want you to know that the
way you think, it's in Think and Grow Rich, it's
wonderful the way that you are thinking. And I just
want to validate your thinking and give you a copy
of this book. Well, what an incredible opportunity or prod
at this event that was in my life that Bill
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wanted to give me a copy of Thinking, Grow Rich
because of my basically positive survivor attitude. And so I
read the book, and then Bill and I continued to talk.
And what's so beautiful about this this is that I
caught on to Napoleon Hill. And over the last forty
five years or so, I have just I've just been
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been so so close to Napoleon Hill. And I decided
that what I thought I might want to do to
keep my show being something that people want to listen
to so that they can get some benefit out of it.
I thought that I would kind of reintroduce Napoleon Hill
this week and go back and share some of the
thoughts for the day. Well, I just get revenue, you know,
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the first thought for the day. And what I what
I want to do now is just continue and tell
you that something happened to me that happened to this
Saturday afternoon. I had been working for a couple of
days getting my thoughts together in this week's show, talking
to Don a lot about what I'm going to be presenting.
And what I came up with was, I said, you
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know what I'm gonna do. I'm going to read just
excerpts from Thought for the Day and then discuss these
ones because they are so right to the point and
each one is just so full the truth. Well, yesterday
I went into an office of a client, and I
called on before I got there, just to kind of
go a little bit more into my thoughts, and I
told her about a beautiful conversation I had had two
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days before. You know, when these when the hurricane was
coming up here in Norfolk, Virginia, we had really big
circlet Virginia Beach, and I went down there with my
son Josh, and he had a close friend his game
come down there, and Casey also came and so we
were down there just riding ways and doing boog and
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boarding stuff. Well Dan's a really, really good swimmer, and
I swim all the time myself. So we got to talking.
We were on the beach first, waiting for Josh to
go get the sandwiches, and so we were talking and
I got a real compliment for my son. He usually
doesn't talk too much about what his dad does, but
so Dan was asking me a little bit. I was
talking about the radio show and how I ride of
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prisons and how I went to Minneapolis to the American
Corrections Association conference a couple of weeks today. Well, Dan
took an interest. Well Josh got up to go leave,
you go get some sandwiches, and he goes, hey Dan,
he Dan, my dad's just getting started. And Dan says, hey,
I like it, and Josh says, no, but it's really
great stuff. Well I want to thank you Josh for
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saying that, because you know, we've talked for years, and
I like it that you endorse what I do. Thank you.
So anyway, Dan and I were talking and I just
gave Dan like a twenty minute overview of everything that
right thinking does and how my curriculum works, and how
I'm talking about Gourgon Canteen to save these tools for
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inmates of attorney citizens in prisons. And it led to
where I made the statement to Dan. You know, Dan,
I can teach anybody how to budget, how to control
their money, but if they don't know their purpose, they're
going to spend it on the wrong thing. I like
to say that to people. Well, that led to a
really beautiful conversation. Dan and I ended up going out
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in the water and we were in the deep water,
dread water way over our hands. It was just wonderful.
I mean, that's just the best thing there is. And
Dan told me that something I said really caught his attention.
Dan's thirty two, I think, and he said that he
and his wife have been talking lately about what he
really wants to do with his life, and he said
that he feels that he just doesn't put enough thought
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into what he really wants to do. And so that conversation,
there's a whole lot more to it that Dan and
I discussed, but I let him know I'm there for him,
and I'm the sending board and anytime you want to talk.
So I made a new friend. But the point is this,
I decided that I was going to go back in
and talk a whole lot more about Napaul and Hill
on this week's show. And if you go back into
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my archives, I've had Don Green, the executive director of
the Pauling Hill Foundation, on the show four times. Leverett Fate,
which is one of my who is one of my
closest friends. He's going through the n Paul and Hills
vacation this past year and he is so deep in
n paul and Hill. He's been on the show discussing
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the Paulton Hill with me a couple of times. And
so it was all leading to where I was going
to talk about Nacaulon Hill. But here's really so cool.
When I was talking to Dan, I gave Dan this
conversation one of the seminars that I do as a
part in it. It's called Pathway to Success, And I
told Dan, I said, well, you know, Dan, if you
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could do anything at all with your life, but you
could be anything you want to be, become the person
that you dream about doing, with no limitations, without anything
holding you back, where would that be? Picture yourself five
years from now, just living the dream, doing everything that
you ever thought about doing. And so I took him
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into this kind of a meditation about that. That's why
we talked about it more than we got into the
water a little while later, and I told him that,
you know, this is a merit. If you put your
mind to it, you can do anything that you want.
And so an example that I gave him was one
that I use all the time that went under in prisons,
and I get him to really really go there. I say, hey,
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if you want to be a drummer in a rock
and roll band, but you don't play the drums, that's okay.
You could still do it if you really want to
do it, and they're willing to put any effort to dream.
I want him to be a drummer. So, and you
don't always get to the level of you want to
get it. You want to be a professional NBA basketball
football player, you might not reach that, but most things
that you really try to put your mind to you
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can do. So the example that I give in prisons
that I love is that seems to work really well.
Let's okay, let's let's just imagine that five years from now.
You want to have your own nightclub, your own tlub,
And I say, picture yourself. Just let it go. Let
it almost be like the fantasy. Let it go. Picture
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yourself wearing a fur coat at the door, rings on
every finger, a feavot of women at the bar, hanging
all around, everyone coming in to shake your hand and
thank you for letting them come into your tlub. Well
make it read it, but then let's stop. What is
it that are some of the obstacles and limitations that
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you will have to overcome if you really want to
do that. So let's be honest. Now, Well, you know
you might need more money, you might need more training,
you might need more skills. And so the idea is,
let's design your own personal pathway to success where you
really decide what you want to do, and that means
something that would make you fulfilled, happy, that you would
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love doing, so that one day you could say, I'm
not working, understand what I want to do, and I
happen to get paid for So be thinking like that
and then break it down into what is it that
I need to do to get there? And here's the
secret that I'm going to tell you. When you decide
what you want to do. You want to become natural
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at that. You don't want it to be forced. You
want to grow into that. You want to mature into that,
you want to evolve into that. So what I'm saying
is the very best thing you can do with your
life is to grow natural into what it is you
want to be, so that it's you, that's who you are.
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You become the person you want to be. It's not
a put on, it's not an effort. It's a natural
evolution of natural growth. And some of the things that
you may need to do to become the person that
you want to be is you may need more education.
It could be schooling in college, university, get your high
school degree if you don't have it. It could be
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vocational school. It could be just self guided reading. It
could be just reading a lot of articles, taking a
lot of seminoles and workshops and things. It might be
that you need more experience than what you want to do,
and it might be the best way to do that
would be to go work for somebody that's already done it.
And then that's when I get into the concept to
become the world's greatest employee. Where you are and I'm
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sharing all this with Dan. Dan, thanks for the time
that you spent with me letting me talk to you
about this. But as I continue with Dan in this conversation,
what I got into was if you really want to
do something and you don't have much experience, go to
work for someone else that's doing it. But the concept
that I gave him that I give everyone become the
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world's greatest employee is this instead of just having a job.
When you go to work and paid paid to the
punchement's offul to be there on a salary, go there
is an entrepreneur in training. Go there is a future
owner of your own business, and training and observe everything
that takes place. Learn everything. If you're a waiter in
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a restaurant, don't just try to get big tips and
get good service. Always do that, but when you're in
the kitchen, study how the cooks will take the in
employ understand things, learn how the cash registers. The point
is learn where while you're at learn with someone else's nigga.
But the main reason that you might want to become
the world's greatest employee. If you intend to go into
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this type of business yourself and have your own employees,
you will not know how to manage those employees. If
you haven't been a great employee yourself, you will know
what to expect. So this is kind of conversation that
I was giving Dan, and it went further. And so
the bottom line is when I got to the part
about if you do this and you're working somewhere with
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this added of an owner mentality, not as an employee mentality,
and you're really gonna excel, You're gonna be offered promotions,
You're gonna be offered pay raises, more responsibility, things like
that because you're gonna be a great employee and they're
not gonna want to lose you at one point in time.
This is the best part that I like to share
with returning citizens in prisons. If you do this, you
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will rebuild your credit and have your savings because you're
gonna need working capital and savings when you go into
your own business. When you do that, though you will
be given a choice, you would have created a choice
for yourself. You might not have ever had of two
positive things. And then then I do the song by
the PLAYFF Should I Stay Here? Should I go? Bum
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bump bump bump, boom bump, bump bump. What that means
is if your employer that you're working soon so good
for there, really appreciate you, he's gonna want to keep you.
But have you gotten enough skills? Do you have your
your ideas together enough? Do you have your plan ready
to go to launch your ownusiness? Are you willing to
take the punch? So now you actually have two choices
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that you can analyze. Are there good benefits here if
I stay? Is there more advancement? Where are I being
five years and ten years if I stay here? Or
do I want to do? I want to go start
my own business? Now? Do I have everything that I need?
And then we get into all the other things that
write thinking foundation right thinking to see cooked with myself
is trying to help you with the other shows on
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how to start your own small business and justice the
stulton I guess these days on that topic and it
all leaves together, but it doesn't leave together any better
than Napoleon head. And so what I want to what
I want to read you is one last one here.
This is the one that came out yesterday. The greatest
secure known is what emotions are sometimes strange, volatile, and unprediculable.
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They do not always respond to logic and reason. They do, however,
respond to action. If you have occasional feelings of loneliness, distoragement,
for discontent, the best way to kill such negative emotions
is to work them to death. Almost nothing is as
bad as it first seems, and there's nothing like a
hard day's work to put everything in proper perspective. When
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you begin to feel negative emotions, dwelling on your misfortunes
only makes you feel worse. Do your best. Puttment out
of your mind and think about more positive, constructive things.
Physic labor can help choose a task doesn't require a
great deal of concentration, and then focus on accomplishing the
task in here. Well, I wanted to read that extra
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one in there, because that's just one more of a
Napoleon Hill Facts for the day that got me to
where I thought that's what the show was going to be.
But let me tell you now what the show really
is going to be. Here today's show is the five
essential principles of Think and grow rich a passionate recommendation.
Tune in, and here Steve talk about the Napoleon Hill
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foundations Lewis most read book, The Five Essential Principles of
Think and Grow Rich. The practical steps They're Transforming Your
desires into riches by napoleand Hill Steve Design were found
and essential truth about the power of your mind that
Napoleon Hill presented over eighty years ago in his masterpiece
Think and Grow Rich. This show will get you thinking
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and move you in through positive steps to a battle law.
You know. I started kind of getting started on the
show today, expressing my thoughts on where I was trying
to do a real show, another show that would help
people a lot. And then when I came back from
teaching Farida yesterday afternoon, there was a package in the
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mail and it was a copy of this book that
I'm going to review today, The Five Essential Principles of
Thinking Grow Rich by Napoland Hill. Well, what a wonderful
thing for me. I started telling a story about five
minutes ago where in the morning, before I went to
my clients, I was telling don about how I was
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putting my thoughts together of the show I was going
to do, and I told her that I was even
going to talk about the pathway to success. Well, when
I opened up this box with the book that Gon
sent me. It says the back of the book, the
starting point of all achievement is desire. That's a quoting work,
and then it says the path to success is easy
to find. What is holding you back from achieving success
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and wealth you've been working for? The answer likely lies
in your own thoughts and mental patterns. It's time to
move beyond the psychological barriers to prevent you from reaching
your full potential. Based on one of the best selling
personal development books of all time, The Five Essential Principles
of Think and Grow Rich gives you the tools to
turn your vision into reality. Using the five proven principles
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of this life changing program, will become the master of
your dreams. Through one Desire, the starting point of all achievement.
Two imagination, the workshop of the mind. Free persistence, the
sustained effort necessary to produce success. Full the power of
the mastermind, the driving force. Five outbitting the sixth ghosts
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of fear. The Pauling Hill Foundation has created this Essential
God which includes never before released training techniques to further
expand your knowledge and understanding. I've had a great free
of all barriers and achieve your goals will matter your
goals in life, the principles of the Pauling Hill will
help you achieve them. The sky is the limit and
it all begins with how you think. Well, it's pretty
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amazing to me that what I've done with my life
is coming so full circled so around now that I've
got I've got close friends out there that send me
books and thank me for supporting them. Well, I called
Don Green this morning after I read the book started
last night and I finished it this morning. It's a
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really nice book to read. It. It's one of the
most right now, it's being featured in the airport bookstores.
It's a beautiful book to give a gift. It's glossy print,
it's big print and philossy pages. Rather, it's got beautiful photographs.
And like I told you, I've got about ten or
twelve fourteen Napouling Hill books right here in front of me.
That's not all that I've read in my life. And
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I believe, and I told Dan Bring this morning when
I called him to Thinking right after I finished it,
that this book is in my mind, probably the greatest
consolidation of all the Napolling Will thinking and one easy
to read place I've ever seen. It is absolutely fantastic.
If you've never read Napoling Hill before, Think and Grow Rich,
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Outward and the Devil, or the two that I recommend
first off, but this book here would get you started.
And what I'd like to do today is it's going
to make my life easy. I'm going to spend the
next twenty minutes or so just reading you some excerpts
out of this book so that you'll know more about it.
And you know, like I said, it's at airport bookstores
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right now. And if you got on an airplane for
two hours or so and you had this book, you
would get off of that plane just feeling like you are,
like you're going to do something really with your life.
It would It would just clean out the cop webs
in your head, get you focused, and make you know
that nothing's impossible. And let me say this before I
go any further. I've said it numerous times whenever I
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go into prisons, I say that the three most important
books of my life are number one the Bible, Number two, Thinking,
Grow Rich, and number three Outwitting the Devil. So now
I just want to I want to start just sharing
some of this book with you, and it's my it's
my hope that you are encouraged, stimulated and maybe go
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get a copy of this and and need it for yourself.
It is absolutely incredible. And don don you know what
a confirmation a validation for me that this book came
to the nail to me yesterday. Thank you for singing
it too well. The table of contents is really pretty
straightforward here. It's got a preface in the ford. I'll
read the preaface in a moment, but chapter one, actually,
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I've already read the back of it. It says chapter
one's desire. Chapter two is imagination, Chapter three is persistence.
Chapter four is part of the Mastermind. Chapter five has
had out with six good of fear. Let me read
the package to you there. You'll like this. In nineteen
thirty seven, journalist Napoleon Hill released The First Think He
Grow Rich, a life changing wook based on his and
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Andrew Carnegie's belief that a fortune is within reach for all.
To that end, he'll interviewed more than five hundred self
made millionaires with the goal of unlocking the formula to
their success. The Trustees of the Polling Hill Foundation will
please to present the special edition of excerpts from the
Polling Hills classic book Think and Grow Rich. With this
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special edition, we elected to focus on the first word
in the title Think. The book you're about to read
emphasizes the many fascinating powers of the month. Its ability
to desire and commit to a goal, to imagine means
to achieve the goal, assistent determination to attain the goal,
and to gain the support of the minds of others
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to achieve the goal. For over twenty five years, here
was trusted to document and collaborate with the wealthiest and
most successful businessmen of this time, resulting in Think and
Grow Rich. This edition and all additions of Think and
Grow Rich, convey the experience of these men who began
from scratch with nothing to give in return for riches,
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accept thoughts, ideas, and organized plans. Here you have the
essence of the philosophy of money making and other types
of personal achievement, just as it was organized from the
actual achievements of the most successful men of America during
our formative economic years. It describes what to do and
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also how to do it. So the special edition of
Think and Grow Rich when the Phone Hill Foundation is
focused on four important successful innciples, desire, imagination, resistance, and
the Master, as well as addressing the sixth ghost of fear.
In the completing chapter of the book, the emphasis is
on how the power of the mind can help you
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think and grow rich. Napoleon Hill wrote that desire is
the starting point of all achievement, and not just desire,
but a burning desire. Desire leads the development of one's major,
definite purpose, without which success and happiness can never be
atteemd As a young reporter, Napoleon witness Firse hand the
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Right brothers inaugural flood, surely the triumphal product of burning desire.
He knew Thomas Edison, whose desire for the advancement of
science and society was unmatched in his day and may
still be unmatched today. Napoleon's desire to help his son
born without the means of hearing produced the near miracle,
and after years of help from Napoleon, his son began
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to hear, to the shock of his doctors. All these
examples of a burning desire are set forth in this book.
Napoleon said that imagination is the workshop of the mind
we all imagine. Sometimes that takes the form of day dreams,
meditation or artistic creation. And Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon
emphasized how the imagination can be put to use to
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achieve financial success. Imagine in your mind's eye. In many
ways that imagination coupled with desire and need to riches,
this book can help you reach your goal. The mind
is amazing in its complexity. It has many facets and powers.
One is its capacity for persistence. Persistence permits one to
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deal with failure, to recognize that it is only a
temporary setback and can be overcome. Napoleon said that every
adversity carries with it the seed of an equivalent advantage.
That's a brilliant insight, but one that relies on persistence
for its fulfillment. And these excerpts from Think and Grow
Rich Napoleon sets forth how persistence can be developed and
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how the lack thereof can be recognized and overcome. Napoleon
hill recognize that two minds are better than one, and
indeed that two minds in sync are better than two
minds working independently. For when acting together in harmony toward
a common purpose, the minds become bigger than the sum
of their parts. This is yet another fascinating truth about
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the power of the mind that is explained in Faith
and Glow. Rich Henry Front and Mahatma Gandhi are two
men who recognized and use the mastermind principle to achieve
virtually unimaginable goals, and their stories appear in this book.
Napoleon also recognized the power of the mind to overcome
the dehabilitating effects of fear. His famous explanation of how
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to outlip the Six Ghosts of Fear concludes the special edition,
for it shows how the mind cannot only achieve monetary
success through the use of desire, imagination, persistance, and the
mastermind principle, but also produce lasting happiness and peace of
mind by overcoming the fears that can plague all of us.
And Paul Hill Foundation is proud to present these profound
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and essential truths about the power of the mind that
appear and think and grow rich. Many people tell us
that this is the most influential book they have ever read,
aside perhaps from their scriptures. We hope you will agree
and benefit from the timeless treasures and this magnificent book.
Dohn Ingrey, Executive Director the trustee the Napoleon Hill Foundation, Well,
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what I'm going to try to do now is just
hit a couple of chapters here and give you some
of the some of the points that are outlined here.
Let me tell you I'm not going to editorialize too
much or make German in comments, because I'm reading from
the greatest master of them all on personal success, Philossy
of Success. He invented it. But I do want to
clarify one thing that may or may not come out
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in some of the things I read. The title Think
and Grow Rich. A lot of people don't read this
book because they think it's about money. Well, when I
talked to Don Green this morning and thank Tim and
told howis us that I was met him and got
turned on the Paul and Hill at such an early age.
Thank you for the book. He told me that, you
know a lot of people don't understand. You know, being
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rich is not just about money. In fact, money's just
a small confronit of it. As you read Napoleon Hill,
you will start to understand what a richer, fuller life is.
And it follows right along with the principles of the
Bible or the riches and the abundance of the Lord.
So let me just do this now and reading in
the first chapter of Desire, and it's going to give you.
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The method by which desire for riches can be transmitted
into its financial equivalent consists of six definite practical scepts. First,
fix in your mind the exact amount of money you desire.
It is not sufficient merely to say I want plenty
of money. Be definite as to the amount. Second, determine
exactly what you intend to giving return for the money
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you desire. There is no such reality as something pop.
Establish a definite date when you intend possess the money
you desire. Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire,
and begin it once whether you are ready or not
to put this pain into action. Fifth, write out a
clear concise statement of the amount of money you intend
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to acquire, name the time limit for its acquisition, statement
you intend to give in return for the money, and
describe clearly the plan for which you intend to accumulate it.
Six lead your written statement allowed twice statement once just
before return at night and once after a rising in
the morning. Wow. Yeah, that's a pretty strong advice. So
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when you get down here, definitive purpose, the definition that
he's got in this chapter is definitive. Purpose is the
knowledge of what one wants and a burning desire to
possess it. That's pretty strong stuff. From the chapter of imagination.
Imagination goes into ideas. I'm going to just read an
alex up here that I find very interesting. Ideas are
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intangible forces, but they have more power than the physical
brains that gave birth to them. They had the power
to live on after the brain that greats then has
returned to dusk. For example, take the power of Christianity
that began with a simple idea born in the brain
of Christ. Its chief tenant was do unto others as
you would have others do unto you. Christ has gone
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back to the source from which he came, but his
idea is marching on. Someday it may grow up and
come into its own. Then it will have to filled
Christ's deepest desire. The idea has been developing home with
two thousand years give the time. I really like that
he's just said something really, really very briefly there that
you got to have patience. You know, along with all
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these other things that we're doing, you better have patience. Okay,
So let me continue here with the next part that
I want to give to you. This next part is
going to be one of my favorite parts that I
want to bring to you. It's chapter three, The sustained
effort necessary to produce success. It's about persistence and first
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averance is one of my strongest suits. I just sort
of hang in there and just keep knowing what everything
is going to move forward. I've learned not to kick
myself too hard, but I have faith and I know
that the Lord is going to take care of me.
So I'm going to read this a lot out of
this next chapter because I think it's critically important. Persistence
is an essential factor in the procedure of transmitting desire
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into its monetary equipment. The basis of persistence is the
power of will. 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 your goal. These
people are the first carnegies, rocketballs, and edisence. Persistence is
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a state of mind, Therefore it can be cultivated. Like
all states of mind, persistence is based upon definite causes.
Among them these one definiteness of purpose. Knowing what one
wants is the person perhaps the most important step for
the development of persistence. A strong motive forces one to
surmount many difficulties to desire. It is comparatively easy to
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acquire and to maintain persistence in pursuing the object of
intense desire. Three. Self reliance Belief in one's ability to
carry out a plan encourages one to follow the plan
through with persistence. Four. Definiteness of plans. Organized plans, even
though they may be weak and entirely impractical, encourage persistence. Five.
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Accurate knowledge, knowing that one's plans are sound based upon
experience or observation, encourages persistence. Guessing instead of knowing destroyers persistence. Six. Cooperation, Sympathy, understanding,
and harmonious cooperation with others tend to develop resistance. Seven
will power. The habit of concentrating one's thoughts upon the
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building of plans for the attainment of the definite purpose
leads to persistence. Eight habit. Persistence is the direct result
of habit. The mind absorbs and becomes a part of
the daily experiences upon which it feeds. Fear, the worst
of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition
of acts of courage. Everyone who has seen active service
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in the war knows this. I'm going to immediately follow
up to the next section book, which describes symptoms of
lack of persistence. One failure to recognize and to clearly
define exactly what one wants. Two procrastination with or without cause,
usually backed up with the formidable array of alibis and excuses.
Three lack of interest in acquiring specialized knowledge. Four indecision,
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the habit of passing the book on all occasions instead
of facing issues squarely, also backed by alibis. Five the
habit of relying upon alibis instead of creating definite plans
for the solution of problems. Six self satisfaction. There is
but little remedy for this affliction and no hope for
those who suffer from the Seven Indifference, usually reflected in
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one's readiness to compromise on all occasions rather than meet
opposition and fight it. Eight the habit of blaming others
for one's mistakes and accepting unfavorable circumstances as being unavoidable. Nine.
Weakness of desire due to the bleck and the choice
of motives that impel action. Ten willingness, even eagerness to
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quit at the first sign of defeat. Eleven lack of
organized plans placed in writing where they may be analyzed.
Twelve the habit of the bleking to move on ideas
or to grasp opportunity when it presents itself. Thirteen the
habit of compromising of poverty instead of aiming at riches.
General absence of ambition to be, to do, and to
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own fourteen, wishing instead of willing fifteen searching for all
the shortcuts to riches, trying to get without giving a
fair equivalent, usually reflected in the habit of gambling endeavoring
to sharp markets. Sixteen fear of criticism. Failed to create
plans and to put them into action because of what
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other people will think, do, or say. This enemy belongs
at the head of the list because it generally exists
in one's subconscious mind. I'm going to continue reading this
next part because I want each of you to think,
does this apply to you? Is this your life? Let
us examine some of the symptoms of the fear of criticism.
The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public
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at large to so influence them that they cannot live
their own lives because they fear criticism. Huge numbers of
people make mistakes and merits, stand by the bargain, and
go through life miserable and unhappy because they fear criticism
which may follow if they correct the mistake. Anyone who
has submitted this woman fear knows the irreparable damage it
does by destroying ambition, self reliance, and the desire to achieve.
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Millions of people neglect to acquire related education after having
left school because they fear criticism. Countless numbers of men women,
both young and order to permit relatives direct their lives
in the name of duty because they fear criticism. Duty
does not require any person to submit the destruction of
his personal ambitions and the right to live his own
life in his own way. People refuse to take chances
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in business because they fear the criticism which may follow
that they fail. The fear of criticism in such cases
is stronger than the desire for success. Too many people
refuse to set high goals for themselves or even the
bleact the selective career, because they fear the criticism of
relatives and friends, who they say, don't aim so high.
People think you're crazy. The only break through anyone can
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afford to rely upon is a self made break These
come through the application of persistence. The starting point was
definiteness of purpose toy. I really wanted to concentrate on
this sexual persistence, which is possbarics. How to develop persistence?
There are four simple ways which lead to the habit
of persistence. They call for no great amount of intelligence,
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no particular amount of education, but little time effort. The
necessary steps are one a definite purpose back by burning
desire for us fulfillment. Two a definite plan expressed an
continuous action. Three a mind closed tightly against all negative
and discouraging influences, including negative suggestions of relatives, friends, and acquaintances.
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Four a friendly alliance with one or more persons who
will encourage one to follow through with both plan and purpose.
There's a quote sitting right here that I want to
read to you. Most people have achieved their greatest success
just one step beyond their greatest failure. That's an appalling
he'll quote. And if you go back and read things
and grow rich in its entirety, you'll learn how one
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of the main things that he mun when he did
his twenty year interviews of five hundred the most important
people in America at the time, that almost everyone, without exception,
experienced the greatest setback and lowest point in their life
immediately proceeding the rise to the ultimate success that the
world knows. That's a very important point. So if you're down,
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don't worry about it. Everybody else has been down too,
but they had the will, the perseverance, the desire to
overcome their obstacles and come out of it. Remember that
you can come out of anything. Here's a very profound
and truism that I want to read too. This is
in the chapter on let's see what chapter this is here,
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the power of the Mastermind. It's anyone can wish for riches,
and most people do, but only if you know that
a definite plan plus a burning desire for wealth are
the only dependable means of accumulating wealth. I'm going to
move to chapter five now on how to outlook the
six ghosts of fear. The six basic fears that Napoleon
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Hill details are the fear of poverty, the fear of criticism,
the fear of ill health, the fear of loss of
love of someone, the fear of old age, and the
fear of death. Well, the fear of poverty is considered
to be the worst one of them all. And let
me read some of that, the fear of poverty. There
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can be no compromise between poverty and riches. The two
roads that lead to poverty and riches travel in opposite directions.
If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any
circumstance that leads toward poverty. There's a parenthesis here. That's
why I'm reading this part. The word riches is here
used in its broadest sense, meaning financial, spiritual, mental, and material.
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The states the starting point of the path that leads
to riches is desired. I want to share some more
in the fear of criticism. Just how man or richly
came by this fear no one can state definitely, but
one thing is certain. He has it in a highly
developed form. Some believe that this fear made its appearance
about the time that politics became a profession. The fear
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of criticism rob's man of his initiative, destroys his power
of imagination, limits his individuality, takes away his self reliance.
It does m damage in a hundred other ways. Parents
often do their children hear a reupable injury by criticizing them.
The mother of one of my boyhood chums used to
punish him with a switch almost daily, always completing the
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job with the statement, you'll land in the penitentiary before
you are twenty. He was sent to a formatory school
at the age of seventeen. Criticism is the one form
of service of which everyone has too much. Everyone has
a stock of it which is handed out gratus, whether
called for or not. Once nearest relatives often are the
worst offenders. It should be recognized as a crime. In reality,
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it is a crime of the worst nature for any
parent to build inferiority complexes in the mind of a
child through unnecessary criticism. Employers who understand human nature get
the best there is in men, not by criticism, but
by constructive suggestion. Parents may accomplish the same results with
their children. Criticism will plant fear, and the human heart
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will resent it, but it will not build love for affection.
As I said earlier, Napoleon Hill is the master of
this kind of thinking. Think and Grow Rich. I think
Think and Grow Rich has sold well over one hundred
and forty million copies, and it's little over eighty years
that it's been out. Every single motivational speaker that talks
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about success and positive thinking pretty much is just paraphrasing
Napoleon Hill. He's the granddaddy of it all here, And
so let me just finish today. There's so much more
I want to share, but let me just give you
a little bit here to end it, and then I'll
encourage you after I read these last two septions to
how to get in the book how to Protect Yourself
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Against Negative Influences. To protect yourself against negative influences, whether
if you're making a result of the activities of negative
people around you, recognize that you have will power, put
it into constant use until it fills a wall of
immunity against negative influences in your own mind. I just
wanted to serve here that my mother had the most
incredible willpower when she was on the positive side. When
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I say the positive, she got very depressed sometimes, and
she gained a lot of weight from when she got
herself together. Boy did she had the strongest willpower I've
ever seen in my life. And my father was a
very positive minded person as well, so I guess I inherited.
But so let me tell you what what Nicaul and
Will says about how to protect yourself with this negative influences.
Recognize the fact that you and every other human being
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is by nature lazy, indifferent, and susceptible to all suggestions
which harmonize with the weaknesses. Recognize that you are by
nature susceptible to all the six basic fears. It set
up habits for the purpose of counteracting all these fears.
Recognize that negative influences often work on you through your
subconscious mind. Therefore they are difficult to detect. And keep
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your mind closed against all people who depress or dispirit
you in any way. Deliberately seek the company of people
who influence you to think and act for yourself. Do
not accept troubles, as they have a tendency to disappoint. Well,
remember this. You have absolute control over but one thing,
and that is your thoughts. This is the most significant
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and inspiring of all facts known to man. It reflects
man's divine nature. This divine prerogative is the soul means
by which you may control your own destiny. If you
fail to control your own mind, you may be sure
you will control nothing else. Well, I'm going to end
it with this because I think this is almost funny.
It's so true, it's funny. It's kind of sad too them.
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This is a section on famous alibis. Let me just
read you all these ifs that people come up with.
If I had money, if I had a good education,
if I could get a job, if I had good help,
if I only had time, if times were better, if
other people understood me, if I could meet the right people.
If I had the talent that some people had. If
I were only free, if I had the personality of
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some people, if I were attractive, if people weren't so dumb,
if I had the courage to see myself as I
really am. The only alibi that truly matters is the
last one. If we could all have courage and believe
in ourselves, we could create the life we are dreaming of.
To take this thought to its natural conclusion, if I
had the courage to see myself as I really am,
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I would find out what is wrong with me and
correct it. Then I might have a chance to profit
by my mistakes and learn something from the experience of others.
For I know that there is something wrong with me,
or I would none, or I would now be where
I would have been if I had spent more time
analyzing my weaknesses and less time building alibis to cover them.
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I just want to end it today with this, Don Green,
God bless you and thank you for being there in
my life with Bolling Hill Foundation. I want to just
thank everyone again for listening to today's show and remember
this Right Thinking Foundation, myself and many others are here
for you. If you want a friend, if you want
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someone to talk to and help get your direction and
your purpose, just join Right Thinking Foundation. Give me a call.
Right Think dot org. Now you can get a copy
of these five essential Principles of Thinking Grow Rich by
Napoleon Hill like probably through Amazon, It's at Airport bookstores,
or you can get in touch with the Napoleon Hill Foundation,
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which is nap hi l l dot org nap Hill
dot org. With that said, thanks again Don for making
my life easy for the show. I just wanted to
stimulate people to know what this book's all about and
to get turned on to the principles of Napoleon Hill.
And I just hope that more people can catch on
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in Napoleon Hill like I was so blessed to do
forty five or so years ago. With that said, again,
our prayers are out to all of those in North
Carolina and South Carolina and the other areas where Hurricane
Florence is hit with the flooding, and I just play
that everyone can be safe and that we can all
get together to help everyone as much as we possibly can.
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Everyone have a blessed week. God bless you and see
you next week.
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Thanks for listening to right thinking with Steve Coper. I'll
look forward to being with you again next week, and
remember don't quit plan ahead. It will get better. God
bless you and have a great week.
There must be lies burning rider somewhere.
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God to be birds him.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Good morning, Welcome to Right Thinking with Steve Copeland. I'm
your host, Steve Copeland, and thank you for tuning in.
Let's have a great day.
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Good morning everyone. I am glad to be with you today.
But you know, there's a whole lot of hardship going
on out there right now. And before I even started
the show, I'd like to just say that my heart
is out for everyone who's experiencing that the horror, the devastation, floods,
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Hurricane Florence. Last year, I wrote an article Next ten
magazine when we were experiencing those hurricanes in Texas and
Florida and Puerto Rico. Harvey, Arma, Maria, and I just
like to read. One of the last paragraphs about article
was in the October issue of Connect ten magazine. You
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can find that online. A paraphrase it just a little
bit for hurricane Fluns. The storms of life are unavoidable.
No one is exempt from experiencing it. It is my
prayer that, just as so many are suffering through one
of the worst hurricanes and floods that we've ever experienced,
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that we may all find strength in the Lord and community,
and that we as a people and be there for
one another throughout all of our storms in life each
and every day. I just pray for everyone that's going
through for this right now, and then we've got weeks
and weeks months ahead of us to where we should
all just pitch in and help one another with this
difficult you know, Right Thinking with Steve popam this show.
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I haven't said this in a long time, but the
purpose of this show is that it is a show
dedicated to helping anyone who's experiencing hardship and those that
want to be there for them. That's the whole idea
behind Right Thinking to Steve Popem and I hope that
that these shows give you some impertinents and inspiration and
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some tools to help you move forward and have a
better life. Well, last week, Don and my wife was
my guest on the show and we did a show
called why listening Skills were So Important. There was another
part of the series on the functional fame of the
positive model, and I just want to thank those people
that contacted us to let us know just how much
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they enjoyed that show and just how much they got
out of it, you know, listening skills. Like Donna said,
it's like the lost part, but it is one of
the single most important things that we can do and
our families to raise healthy, beautiful families. So let's let's
make sure that we're concentrating our listening skills. Well, you
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know that leads me right into what we're going to
do this week. I really feel good about the way
the show was progressing. There's a lot of really good
things going on with a lot of people that I'm
involved in. I'm getting further and further into the national
presence with like thinking to Steve Coplan, my frontancial Literacy Cricken,
and so I wanted to do another show that was
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powerful and important because I think we've got something going
good here now and every day, I told you before,
I get an email from the Poling Hill Foundation. It's
called the Thought for the Day. Well, I finally went
ahead and just got the book so that i'd have
all three hundred and sixty five of them in my hand.
And so I read through the grip and I picked
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out a couple. But the one that I got, the
one that I got on Let's see what I got
this one today. This is today's This is so beautiful.
This is a perfect follow up to what Ghana's message
is with the functional family. So I will transition into
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how I pick what we're going to do in today's show.
But let me read this because this is where my
search was. I wanted to figure out what can I
do to really connect with people, to encourage more people
to be part of my thinking foundations so that we
can work together. This is a thought for the day.
They're not in the same order, by the way, when
they come to my email as they are in the book,
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but this is what I got on something. This is
by Napoleon Will. The privilege of bringing children into the
world carries with it the responsibility of teaching them the
fundamentals of sound character. One of myfe's greatest joys is
the sense of wonder that it companies the arrival and
a tiny new human being into the world. But that
joy is a company by tremendous responsibility that perfectly encapsulates
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the need the personal initiative. You can provide children with
all the physical advantages of a good childhood, but unless
you strive to set a good example for them to follow,
you will know only dismit. As they reach adulthood and
blossom them the purposeless drifters. Your personal initiative, whether or
not you're raising a child, must always incorporate exemporary behavior.
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You cannot take ethical shortcuts, being or small without other
people observing them and assuming that this behavior is something
you won't mind having turned back on yourself. Certainly, you
will make mistakes, but if you have always driven for
the best course, others will remember it and treat you
or accordingly. Well. I've just been so fortunate that for
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the last forty five years or so of my life
I've been a very very royal artic supporter of Napoleon Hill.
And as I sit here right now broadcasting, I've got
about fourteen books spread out just to what be doing
the Poland Hill Day. I'll read you what the show
is in just a minute, maybe the title, but I've
got just a whole ton of materials right here in
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front of me, books by Napoleon Hill, thinking bir Rich.
I've got a nineteen thirty eight second edition copy right
here in front of me. I've got Outwitting the Devil,
I've got more success. I've got throughout the day, thoughts
for the day, don bringing the pauland Hill Foundation gave
me when he knew that I was gonna struct a
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radio show n Poland Hill on the air, which has
just been wonderful. I've got a series of new books
that are coming out the pauland Hill which are on
the topics of how to own your own Mind, which
is incredible, Wishes Won't Bring You Riches, which is another
thinks your Way to wealth. I've got one that Bond
Green gave you to give out to the Cheaper Dream
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Academy had fifty some copies to get to my last
there a couple of years ago on Positive Action Plan
three hundred and sixty five meditations for making each day
of success. I've visited Don Green about four years ago
when he was just getting more more involved with supporting
me with the prison work that I do, and he
gave me a copy of the book called My Shadow
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Ran Fast by a man named Bill Sines. You know,
I'm just bringing all this up to you to let
you know that the Upnhill Foundation has been just absolutely
wonderful in my life, starting when I was about twenty
twenty one years old when I got my first copy
present it to me if thinking grow rich, Bill the
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plant man is what I like to talk about. I
was working in my own accounting practice. I hung my
shingle for the first time, and I was I had
a new apartment and it was on Baker Court on
Baker Road, Virginia Beach, and I needed some houseplants for that,
just to decorate. Well, there's this Excellon gas station at
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the corner of Thomas Corner was called Thomas Corner Exon,
and this eighteen wheeler pulled up there and this man
and his name was Bill, I don't know his last name.
He opened up shop there. He had met for the truck,
put a tent up and haunting put his chair down,
and he sold house plants, yukas, big trees and whatever
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else you call. And so I took a lunch break
one day and I went down there, and I remember
there were twenty dollars apiece for anything me to want it.
So I started looking through the plants and I got
to talking to Bill. What this story was was that
he came up from Florida a couple of times up
the East coast, and his wife wasn't accounted, I remember that.
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And he stayed for three weeks up here in Virginia
Beach and he sold plants, and so we got to
talking and he invited me to go to dinner with him,
and so we met at a Chinese restaurant and he
presented me with a copy of Think and Grow Rich.
And he said to me, Steve, I've really enjoyed talking
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to you, but I want you to know that the
way you think, it's in Think and Grow Rich, it's
wonderful the way that you are thinking. And I just
want to validate your thinking and give you a copy
of this book. Well, what an incredible opportunity or prod
at this event that was in my life that Bill
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wanted to give me a copy of Thinking, Grow Rich
because of my basically positive survivor attitude. And so I
read the book, and then Bill and I continued to talk.
And what's so beautiful about this this is that I
caught on to Napoleon Hill. And over the last forty
five years or so, I have just I've just been
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been so so close to Napoleon Hill. And I decided
that what I thought I might want to do to
keep my show being something that people want to listen
to so that they can get some benefit out of it.
I thought that I would kind of reintroduce Napoleon Hill
this week and go back and share some of the
thoughts for the day. Well, I just get revenue, you know,
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the first thought for the day. And what I what
I want to do now is just continue and tell
you that something happened to me that happened to this
Saturday afternoon. I had been working for a couple of
days getting my thoughts together in this week's show, talking
to Don a lot about what I'm going to be presenting.
And what I came up with was, I said, you
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know what I'm gonna do. I'm going to read just
excerpts from Thought for the Day and then discuss these
ones because they are so right to the point and
each one is just so full the truth. Well, yesterday
I went into an office of a client, and I
called on before I got there, just to kind of
go a little bit more into my thoughts, and I
told her about a beautiful conversation I had had two
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days before. You know, when these when the hurricane was
coming up here in Norfolk, Virginia, we had really big
circlet Virginia Beach, and I went down there with my
son Josh, and he had a close friend his game
come down there, and Casey also came and so we
were down there just riding ways and doing boog and
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boarding stuff. Well Dan's a really, really good swimmer, and
I swim all the time myself. So we got to talking.
We were on the beach first, waiting for Josh to
go get the sandwiches, and so we were talking and
I got a real compliment for my son. He usually
doesn't talk too much about what his dad does, but
so Dan was asking me a little bit. I was
talking about the radio show and how I ride of
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prisons and how I went to Minneapolis to the American
Corrections Association conference a couple of weeks today. Well, Dan
took an interest. Well Josh got up to go leave,
you go get some sandwiches, and he goes, hey Dan,
he Dan, my dad's just getting started. And Dan says, hey,
I like it, and Josh says, no, but it's really
great stuff. Well I want to thank you Josh for
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saying that, because you know, we've talked for years, and
I like it that you endorse what I do. Thank you.
So anyway, Dan and I were talking and I just
gave Dan like a twenty minute overview of everything that
right thinking does and how my curriculum works, and how
I'm talking about Gourgon Canteen to save these tools for
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inmates of attorney citizens in prisons. And it led to
where I made the statement to Dan. You know, Dan,
I can teach anybody how to budget, how to control
their money, but if they don't know their purpose, they're
going to spend it on the wrong thing. I like
to say that to people. Well, that led to a
really beautiful conversation. Dan and I ended up going out
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in the water and we were in the deep water,
dread water way over our hands. It was just wonderful.
I mean, that's just the best thing there is. And
Dan told me that something I said really caught his attention.
Dan's thirty two, I think, and he said that he
and his wife have been talking lately about what he
really wants to do with his life, and he said
that he feels that he just doesn't put enough thought
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into what he really wants to do. And so that conversation,
there's a whole lot more to it that Dan and
I discussed, but I let him know I'm there for him,
and I'm the sending board and anytime you want to talk.
So I made a new friend. But the point is this,
I decided that I was going to go back in
and talk a whole lot more about Napaul and Hill
on this week's show. And if you go back into
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my archives, I've had Don Green, the executive director of
the Pauling Hill Foundation, on the show four times. Leverett Fate,
which is one of my who is one of my
closest friends. He's going through the n Paul and Hills
vacation this past year and he is so deep in
n paul and Hill. He's been on the show discussing
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the Paulton Hill with me a couple of times. And
so it was all leading to where I was going
to talk about Nacaulon Hill. But here's really so cool.
When I was talking to Dan, I gave Dan this
conversation one of the seminars that I do as a
part in it. It's called Pathway to Success, And I
told Dan, I said, well, you know, Dan, if you
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could do anything at all with your life, but you
could be anything you want to be, become the person
that you dream about doing, with no limitations, without anything
holding you back, where would that be? Picture yourself five
years from now, just living the dream, doing everything that
you ever thought about doing. And so I took him
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into this kind of a meditation about that. That's why
we talked about it more than we got into the
water a little while later, and I told him that,
you know, this is a merit. If you put your
mind to it, you can do anything that you want.
And so an example that I gave him was one
that I use all the time that went under in prisons,
and I get him to really really go there. I say, hey,
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if you want to be a drummer in a rock
and roll band, but you don't play the drums, that's okay.
You could still do it if you really want to
do it, and they're willing to put any effort to dream.
I want him to be a drummer. So, and you
don't always get to the level of you want to
get it. You want to be a professional NBA basketball
football player, you might not reach that, but most things
that you really try to put your mind to you
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can do. So the example that I give in prisons
that I love is that seems to work really well.
Let's okay, let's let's just imagine that five years from now.
You want to have your own nightclub, your own tlub,
And I say, picture yourself. Just let it go. Let
it almost be like the fantasy. Let it go. Picture
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yourself wearing a fur coat at the door, rings on
every finger, a feavot of women at the bar, hanging
all around, everyone coming in to shake your hand and
thank you for letting them come into your tlub. Well
make it read it, but then let's stop. What is
it that are some of the obstacles and limitations that
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you will have to overcome if you really want to
do that. So let's be honest. Now, Well, you know
you might need more money, you might need more training,
you might need more skills. And so the idea is,
let's design your own personal pathway to success where you
really decide what you want to do, and that means
something that would make you fulfilled, happy, that you would
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love doing, so that one day you could say, I'm
not working, understand what I want to do, and I
happen to get paid for So be thinking like that
and then break it down into what is it that
I need to do to get there? And here's the
secret that I'm going to tell you. When you decide
what you want to do. You want to become natural
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at that. You don't want it to be forced. You
want to grow into that. You want to mature into that,
you want to evolve into that. So what I'm saying
is the very best thing you can do with your
life is to grow natural into what it is you
want to be, so that it's you, that's who you are.
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You become the person you want to be. It's not
a put on, it's not an effort. It's a natural
evolution of natural growth. And some of the things that
you may need to do to become the person that
you want to be is you may need more education.
It could be schooling in college, university, get your high
school degree if you don't have it. It could be
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vocational school. It could be just self guided reading. It
could be just reading a lot of articles, taking a
lot of seminoles and workshops and things. It might be
that you need more experience than what you want to do,
and it might be the best way to do that
would be to go work for somebody that's already done it.
And then that's when I get into the concept to
become the world's greatest employee. Where you are and I'm
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sharing all this with Dan. Dan, thanks for the time
that you spent with me letting me talk to you
about this. But as I continue with Dan in this conversation,
what I got into was if you really want to
do something and you don't have much experience, go to
work for someone else that's doing it. But the concept
that I gave him that I give everyone become the
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world's greatest employee is this instead of just having a job.
When you go to work and paid paid to the
punchement's offul to be there on a salary, go there
is an entrepreneur in training. Go there is a future
owner of your own business, and training and observe everything
that takes place. Learn everything. If you're a waiter in
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a restaurant, don't just try to get big tips and
get good service. Always do that, but when you're in
the kitchen, study how the cooks will take the in
employ understand things, learn how the cash registers. The point
is learn where while you're at learn with someone else's nigga.
But the main reason that you might want to become
the world's greatest employee. If you intend to go into
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this type of business yourself and have your own employees,
you will not know how to manage those employees. If
you haven't been a great employee yourself, you will know
what to expect. So this is kind of conversation that
I was giving Dan, and it went further. And so
the bottom line is when I got to the part
about if you do this and you're working somewhere with
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this added of an owner mentality, not as an employee mentality,
and you're really gonna excel, You're gonna be offered promotions,
You're gonna be offered pay raises, more responsibility, things like
that because you're gonna be a great employee and they're
not gonna want to lose you at one point in time.
This is the best part that I like to share
with returning citizens in prisons. If you do this, you
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will rebuild your credit and have your savings because you're
gonna need working capital and savings when you go into
your own business. When you do that, though you will
be given a choice, you would have created a choice
for yourself. You might not have ever had of two
positive things. And then then I do the song by
the PLAYFF Should I Stay Here? Should I go? Bum
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bump bump bump, boom bump, bump bump. What that means
is if your employer that you're working soon so good
for there, really appreciate you, he's gonna want to keep you.
But have you gotten enough skills? Do you have your
your ideas together enough? Do you have your plan ready
to go to launch your ownusiness? Are you willing to
take the punch? So now you actually have two choices
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that you can analyze. Are there good benefits here if
I stay? Is there more advancement? Where are I being
five years and ten years if I stay here? Or
do I want to do? I want to go start
my own business? Now? Do I have everything that I need?
And then we get into all the other things that
write thinking foundation right thinking to see cooked with myself
is trying to help you with the other shows on
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how to start your own small business and justice the
stulton I guess these days on that topic and it
all leaves together, but it doesn't leave together any better
than Napoleon head. And so what I want to what
I want to read you is one last one here.
This is the one that came out yesterday. The greatest
secure known is what emotions are sometimes strange, volatile, and unprediculable.
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They do not always respond to logic and reason. They do, however,
respond to action. If you have occasional feelings of loneliness, distoragement,
for discontent, the best way to kill such negative emotions
is to work them to death. Almost nothing is as
bad as it first seems, and there's nothing like a
hard day's work to put everything in proper perspective. When
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you begin to feel negative emotions, dwelling on your misfortunes
only makes you feel worse. Do your best. Puttment out
of your mind and think about more positive, constructive things.
Physic labor can help choose a task doesn't require a
great deal of concentration, and then focus on accomplishing the
task in here. Well, I wanted to read that extra
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one in there, because that's just one more of a
Napoleon Hill Facts for the day that got me to
where I thought that's what the show was going to be.
But let me tell you now what the show really
is going to be. Here today's show is the five
essential principles of Think and grow rich a passionate recommendation.
Tune in, and here Steve talk about the Napoleon Hill
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foundations Lewis most read book, The Five Essential Principles of
Think and Grow Rich. The practical steps They're Transforming Your
desires into riches by napoleand Hill Steve Design were found
and essential truth about the power of your mind that
Napoleon Hill presented over eighty years ago in his masterpiece
Think and Grow Rich. This show will get you thinking
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and move you in through positive steps to a battle law.
You know. I started kind of getting started on the
show today, expressing my thoughts on where I was trying
to do a real show, another show that would help
people a lot. And then when I came back from
teaching Farida yesterday afternoon, there was a package in the
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mail and it was a copy of this book that
I'm going to review today, The Five Essential Principles of
Thinking Grow Rich by Napoland Hill. Well, what a wonderful
thing for me. I started telling a story about five
minutes ago where in the morning, before I went to
my clients, I was telling don about how I was
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putting my thoughts together of the show I was going
to do, and I told her that I was even
going to talk about the pathway to success. Well, when
I opened up this box with the book that Gon
sent me. It says the back of the book, the
starting point of all achievement is desire. That's a quoting work,
and then it says the path to success is easy
to find. What is holding you back from achieving success
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and wealth you've been working for? The answer likely lies
in your own thoughts and mental patterns. It's time to
move beyond the psychological barriers to prevent you from reaching
your full potential. Based on one of the best selling
personal development books of all time, The Five Essential Principles
of Think and Grow Rich gives you the tools to
turn your vision into reality. Using the five proven principles
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of this life changing program, will become the master of
your dreams. Through one Desire, the starting point of all achievement.
Two imagination, the workshop of the mind. Free persistence, the
sustained effort necessary to produce success. Full the power of
the mastermind, the driving force. Five outbitting the sixth ghosts
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of fear. The Pauling Hill Foundation has created this Essential
God which includes never before released training techniques to further
expand your knowledge and understanding. I've had a great free
of all barriers and achieve your goals will matter your
goals in life, the principles of the Pauling Hill will
help you achieve them. The sky is the limit and
it all begins with how you think. Well, it's pretty
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amazing to me that what I've done with my life
is coming so full circled so around now that I've
got I've got close friends out there that send me
books and thank me for supporting them. Well, I called
Don Green this morning after I read the book started
last night and I finished it this morning. It's a
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really nice book to read. It. It's one of the
most right now, it's being featured in the airport bookstores.
It's a beautiful book to give a gift. It's glossy print,
it's big print and philossy pages. Rather, it's got beautiful photographs.
And like I told you, I've got about ten or
twelve fourteen Napouling Hill books right here in front of me.
That's not all that I've read in my life. And
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I believe, and I told Dan Bring this morning when
I called him to Thinking right after I finished it,
that this book is in my mind, probably the greatest
consolidation of all the Napolling Will thinking and one easy
to read place I've ever seen. It is absolutely fantastic.
If you've never read Napoling Hill before, Think and Grow Rich,
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Outward and the Devil, or the two that I recommend
first off, but this book here would get you started.
And what I'd like to do today is it's going
to make my life easy. I'm going to spend the
next twenty minutes or so just reading you some excerpts
out of this book so that you'll know more about it.
And you know, like I said, it's at airport bookstores
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right now. And if you got on an airplane for
two hours or so and you had this book, you
would get off of that plane just feeling like you are,
like you're going to do something really with your life.
It would It would just clean out the cop webs
in your head, get you focused, and make you know
that nothing's impossible. And let me say this before I
go any further. I've said it numerous times whenever I
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go into prisons, I say that the three most important
books of my life are number one the Bible, Number two, Thinking,
Grow Rich, and number three Outwitting the Devil. So now
I just want to I want to start just sharing
some of this book with you, and it's my it's
my hope that you are encouraged, stimulated and maybe go
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get a copy of this and and need it for yourself.
It is absolutely incredible. And don don you know what
a confirmation a validation for me that this book came
to the nail to me yesterday. Thank you for singing
it too well. The table of contents is really pretty
straightforward here. It's got a preface in the ford. I'll
read the preaface in a moment, but chapter one, actually,
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I've already read the back of it. It says chapter
one's desire. Chapter two is imagination, Chapter three is persistence.
Chapter four is part of the Mastermind. Chapter five has
had out with six good of fear. Let me read
the package to you there. You'll like this. In nineteen
thirty seven, journalist Napoleon Hill released The First Think He
Grow Rich, a life changing wook based on his and
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Andrew Carnegie's belief that a fortune is within reach for all.
To that end, he'll interviewed more than five hundred self
made millionaires with the goal of unlocking the formula to
their success. The Trustees of the Polling Hill Foundation will
please to present the special edition of excerpts from the
Polling Hills classic book Think and Grow Rich. With this
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special edition, we elected to focus on the first word
in the title Think. The book you're about to read
emphasizes the many fascinating powers of the month. Its ability
to desire and commit to a goal, to imagine means
to achieve the goal, assistent determination to attain the goal,
and to gain the support of the minds of others
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to achieve the goal. For over twenty five years, here
was trusted to document and collaborate with the wealthiest and
most successful businessmen of this time, resulting in Think and
Grow Rich. This edition and all additions of Think and
Grow Rich, convey the experience of these men who began
from scratch with nothing to give in return for riches,
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accept thoughts, ideas, and organized plans. Here you have the
essence of the philosophy of money making and other types
of personal achievement, just as it was organized from the
actual achievements of the most successful men of America during
our formative economic years. It describes what to do and
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also how to do it. So the special edition of
Think and Grow Rich when the Phone Hill Foundation is
focused on four important successful innciples, desire, imagination, resistance, and
the Master, as well as addressing the sixth ghost of fear.
In the completing chapter of the book, the emphasis is
on how the power of the mind can help you
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think and grow rich. Napoleon Hill wrote that desire is
the starting point of all achievement, and not just desire,
but a burning desire. Desire leads the development of one's major,
definite purpose, without which success and happiness can never be
atteemd As a young reporter, Napoleon witness Firse hand the
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Right brothers inaugural flood, surely the triumphal product of burning desire.
He knew Thomas Edison, whose desire for the advancement of
science and society was unmatched in his day and may
still be unmatched today. Napoleon's desire to help his son
born without the means of hearing produced the near miracle,
and after years of help from Napoleon, his son began
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to hear, to the shock of his doctors. All these
examples of a burning desire are set forth in this book.
Napoleon said that imagination is the workshop of the mind
we all imagine. Sometimes that takes the form of day dreams,
meditation or artistic creation. And Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon
emphasized how the imagination can be put to use to
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achieve financial success. Imagine in your mind's eye. In many
ways that imagination coupled with desire and need to riches,
this book can help you reach your goal. The mind
is amazing in its complexity. It has many facets and powers.
One is its capacity for persistence. Persistence permits one to
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deal with failure, to recognize that it is only a
temporary setback and can be overcome. Napoleon said that every
adversity carries with it the seed of an equivalent advantage.
That's a brilliant insight, but one that relies on persistence
for its fulfillment. And these excerpts from Think and Grow
Rich Napoleon sets forth how persistence can be developed and
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how the lack thereof can be recognized and overcome. Napoleon
hill recognize that two minds are better than one, and
indeed that two minds in sync are better than two
minds working independently. For when acting together in harmony toward
a common purpose, the minds become bigger than the sum
of their parts. This is yet another fascinating truth about
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the power of the mind that is explained in Faith
and Glow. Rich Henry Front and Mahatma Gandhi are two
men who recognized and use the mastermind principle to achieve
virtually unimaginable goals, and their stories appear in this book.
Napoleon also recognized the power of the mind to overcome
the dehabilitating effects of fear. His famous explanation of how
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to outlip the Six Ghosts of Fear concludes the special edition,
for it shows how the mind cannot only achieve monetary
success through the use of desire, imagination, persistance, and the
mastermind principle, but also produce lasting happiness and peace of
mind by overcoming the fears that can plague all of us.
And Paul Hill Foundation is proud to present these profound
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and essential truths about the power of the mind that
appear and think and grow rich. Many people tell us
that this is the most influential book they have ever read,
aside perhaps from their scriptures. We hope you will agree
and benefit from the timeless treasures and this magnificent book.
Dohn Ingrey, Executive Director the trustee the Napoleon Hill Foundation, Well,
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what I'm going to try to do now is just
hit a couple of chapters here and give you some
of the some of the points that are outlined here.
Let me tell you I'm not going to editorialize too
much or make German in comments, because I'm reading from
the greatest master of them all on personal success, Philossy
of Success. He invented it. But I do want to
clarify one thing that may or may not come out
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in some of the things I read. The title Think
and Grow Rich. A lot of people don't read this
book because they think it's about money. Well, when I
talked to Don Green this morning and thank Tim and
told howis us that I was met him and got
turned on the Paul and Hill at such an early age.
Thank you for the book. He told me that, you
know a lot of people don't understand. You know, being
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rich is not just about money. In fact, money's just
a small confronit of it. As you read Napoleon Hill,
you will start to understand what a richer, fuller life is.
And it follows right along with the principles of the
Bible or the riches and the abundance of the Lord.
So let me just do this now and reading in
the first chapter of Desire, and it's going to give you.
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The method by which desire for riches can be transmitted
into its financial equivalent consists of six definite practical scepts. First,
fix in your mind the exact amount of money you desire.
It is not sufficient merely to say I want plenty
of money. Be definite as to the amount. Second, determine
exactly what you intend to giving return for the money
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you desire. There is no such reality as something pop.
Establish a definite date when you intend possess the money
you desire. Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire,
and begin it once whether you are ready or not
to put this pain into action. Fifth, write out a
clear concise statement of the amount of money you intend
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to acquire, name the time limit for its acquisition, statement
you intend to give in return for the money, and
describe clearly the plan for which you intend to accumulate it.
Six lead your written statement allowed twice statement once just
before return at night and once after a rising in
the morning. Wow. Yeah, that's a pretty strong advice. So
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when you get down here, definitive purpose, the definition that
he's got in this chapter is definitive. Purpose is the
knowledge of what one wants and a burning desire to
possess it. That's pretty strong stuff. From the chapter of imagination.
Imagination goes into ideas. I'm going to just read an
alex up here that I find very interesting. Ideas are
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intangible forces, but they have more power than the physical
brains that gave birth to them. They had the power
to live on after the brain that greats then has
returned to dusk. For example, take the power of Christianity
that began with a simple idea born in the brain
of Christ. Its chief tenant was do unto others as
you would have others do unto you. Christ has gone
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back to the source from which he came, but his
idea is marching on. Someday it may grow up and
come into its own. Then it will have to filled
Christ's deepest desire. The idea has been developing home with
two thousand years give the time. I really like that
he's just said something really, really very briefly there that
you got to have patience. You know, along with all
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these other things that we're doing, you better have patience. Okay,
So let me continue here with the next part that
I want to give to you. This next part is
going to be one of my favorite parts that I
want to bring to you. It's chapter three, The sustained
effort necessary to produce success. It's about persistence and first
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averance is one of my strongest suits. I just sort
of hang in there and just keep knowing what everything
is going to move forward. I've learned not to kick
myself too hard, but I have faith and I know
that the Lord is going to take care of me.
So I'm going to read this a lot out of
this next chapter because I think it's critically important. Persistence
is an essential factor in the procedure of transmitting desire
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into its monetary equipment. The basis of persistence is the
power of will. 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 your goal. These
people are the first carnegies, rocketballs, and edisence. Persistence is
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a state of mind, Therefore it can be cultivated. Like
all states of mind, persistence is based upon definite causes.
Among them these one definiteness of purpose. Knowing what one
wants is the person perhaps the most important step for
the development of persistence. A strong motive forces one to
surmount many difficulties to desire. It is comparatively easy to
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acquire and to maintain persistence in pursuing the object of
intense desire. Three. Self reliance Belief in one's ability to
carry out a plan encourages one to follow the plan
through with persistence. Four. Definiteness of plans. Organized plans, even
though they may be weak and entirely impractical, encourage persistence. Five.
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Accurate knowledge, knowing that one's plans are sound based upon
experience or observation, encourages persistence. Guessing instead of knowing destroyers persistence. Six. Cooperation, Sympathy, understanding,
and harmonious cooperation with others tend to develop resistance. Seven
will power. The habit of concentrating one's thoughts upon the
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building of plans for the attainment of the definite purpose
leads to persistence. Eight habit. Persistence is the direct result
of habit. The mind absorbs and becomes a part of
the daily experiences upon which it feeds. Fear, the worst
of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition
of acts of courage. Everyone who has seen active service
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in the war knows this. I'm going to immediately follow
up to the next section book, which describes symptoms of
lack of persistence. One failure to recognize and to clearly
define exactly what one wants. Two procrastination with or without cause,
usually backed up with the formidable array of alibis and excuses.
Three lack of interest in acquiring specialized knowledge. Four indecision,
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the habit of passing the book on all occasions instead
of facing issues squarely, also backed by alibis. Five the
habit of relying upon alibis instead of creating definite plans
for the solution of problems. Six self satisfaction. There is
but little remedy for this affliction and no hope for
those who suffer from the Seven Indifference, usually reflected in
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one's readiness to compromise on all occasions rather than meet
opposition and fight it. Eight the habit of blaming others
for one's mistakes and accepting unfavorable circumstances as being unavoidable. Nine.
Weakness of desire due to the bleck and the choice
of motives that impel action. Ten willingness, even eagerness to
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quit at the first sign of defeat. Eleven lack of
organized plans placed in writing where they may be analyzed.
Twelve the habit of the bleking to move on ideas
or to grasp opportunity when it presents itself. Thirteen the
habit of compromising of poverty instead of aiming at riches.
General absence of ambition to be, to do, and to
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own fourteen, wishing instead of willing fifteen searching for all
the shortcuts to riches, trying to get without giving a
fair equivalent, usually reflected in the habit of gambling endeavoring
to sharp markets. Sixteen fear of criticism. Failed to create
plans and to put them into action because of what
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other people will think, do, or say. This enemy belongs
at the head of the list because it generally exists
in one's subconscious mind. I'm going to continue reading this
next part because I want each of you to think,
does this apply to you? Is this your life? Let
us examine some of the symptoms of the fear of criticism.
The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public
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at large to so influence them that they cannot live
their own lives because they fear criticism. Huge numbers of
people make mistakes and merits, stand by the bargain, and
go through life miserable and unhappy because they fear criticism
which may follow if they correct the mistake. Anyone who
has submitted this woman fear knows the irreparable damage it
does by destroying ambition, self reliance, and the desire to achieve.
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Millions of people neglect to acquire related education after having
left school because they fear criticism. Countless numbers of men women,
both young and order to permit relatives direct their lives
in the name of duty because they fear criticism. Duty
does not require any person to submit the destruction of
his personal ambitions and the right to live his own
life in his own way. People refuse to take chances
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in business because they fear the criticism which may follow
that they fail. The fear of criticism in such cases
is stronger than the desire for success. Too many people
refuse to set high goals for themselves or even the
bleact the selective career, because they fear the criticism of
relatives and friends, who they say, don't aim so high.
People think you're crazy. The only break through anyone can
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afford to rely upon is a self made break These
come through the application of persistence. The starting point was
definiteness of purpose toy. I really wanted to concentrate on
this sexual persistence, which is possbarics. How to develop persistence?
There are four simple ways which lead to the habit
of persistence. They call for no great amount of intelligence,
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no particular amount of education, but little time effort. The
necessary steps are one a definite purpose back by burning
desire for us fulfillment. Two a definite plan expressed an
continuous action. Three a mind closed tightly against all negative
and discouraging influences, including negative suggestions of relatives, friends, and acquaintances.
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Four a friendly alliance with one or more persons who
will encourage one to follow through with both plan and purpose.
There's a quote sitting right here that I want to
read to you. Most people have achieved their greatest success
just one step beyond their greatest failure. That's an appalling
he'll quote. And if you go back and read things
and grow rich in its entirety, you'll learn how one
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of the main things that he mun when he did
his twenty year interviews of five hundred the most important
people in America at the time, that almost everyone, without exception,
experienced the greatest setback and lowest point in their life
immediately proceeding the rise to the ultimate success that the
world knows. That's a very important point. So if you're down,
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don't worry about it. Everybody else has been down too,
but they had the will, the perseverance, the desire to
overcome their obstacles and come out of it. Remember that
you can come out of anything. Here's a very profound
and truism that I want to read too. This is
in the chapter on let's see what chapter this is here,
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the power of the Mastermind. It's anyone can wish for riches,
and most people do, but only if you know that
a definite plan plus a burning desire for wealth are
the only dependable means of accumulating wealth. I'm going to
move to chapter five now on how to outlook the
six ghosts of fear. The six basic fears that Napoleon
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Hill details are the fear of poverty, the fear of criticism,
the fear of ill health, the fear of loss of
love of someone, the fear of old age, and the
fear of death. Well, the fear of poverty is considered
to be the worst one of them all. And let
me read some of that, the fear of poverty. There
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can be no compromise between poverty and riches. The two
roads that lead to poverty and riches travel in opposite directions.
If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any
circumstance that leads toward poverty. There's a parenthesis here. That's
why I'm reading this part. The word riches is here
used in its broadest sense, meaning financial, spiritual, mental, and material.
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The states the starting point of the path that leads
to riches is desired. I want to share some more
in the fear of criticism. Just how man or richly
came by this fear no one can state definitely, but
one thing is certain. He has it in a highly
developed form. Some believe that this fear made its appearance
about the time that politics became a profession. The fear
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of criticism rob's man of his initiative, destroys his power
of imagination, limits his individuality, takes away his self reliance.
It does m damage in a hundred other ways. Parents
often do their children hear a reupable injury by criticizing them.
The mother of one of my boyhood chums used to
punish him with a switch almost daily, always completing the
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job with the statement, you'll land in the penitentiary before
you are twenty. He was sent to a formatory school
at the age of seventeen. Criticism is the one form
of service of which everyone has too much. Everyone has
a stock of it which is handed out gratus, whether
called for or not. Once nearest relatives often are the
worst offenders. It should be recognized as a crime. In reality,
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it is a crime of the worst nature for any
parent to build inferiority complexes in the mind of a
child through unnecessary criticism. Employers who understand human nature get
the best there is in men, not by criticism, but
by constructive suggestion. Parents may accomplish the same results with
their children. Criticism will plant fear, and the human heart
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will resent it, but it will not build love for affection.
As I said earlier, Napoleon Hill is the master of
this kind of thinking. Think and Grow Rich. I think
Think and Grow Rich has sold well over one hundred
and forty million copies, and it's little over eighty years
that it's been out. Every single motivational speaker that talks
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about success and positive thinking pretty much is just paraphrasing
Napoleon Hill. He's the granddaddy of it all here, And
so let me just finish today. There's so much more
I want to share, but let me just give you
a little bit here to end it, and then I'll
encourage you after I read these last two septions to
how to get in the book how to Protect Yourself
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Against Negative Influences. To protect yourself against negative influences, whether
if you're making a result of the activities of negative
people around you, recognize that you have will power, put
it into constant use until it fills a wall of
immunity against negative influences in your own mind. I just
wanted to serve here that my mother had the most
incredible willpower when she was on the positive side. When
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I say the positive, she got very depressed sometimes, and
she gained a lot of weight from when she got
herself together. Boy did she had the strongest willpower I've
ever seen in my life. And my father was a
very positive minded person as well, so I guess I inherited.
But so let me tell you what what Nicaul and
Will says about how to protect yourself with this negative influences.
Recognize the fact that you and every other human being
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is by nature lazy, indifferent, and susceptible to all suggestions
which harmonize with the weaknesses. Recognize that you are by
nature susceptible to all the six basic fears. It set
up habits for the purpose of counteracting all these fears.
Recognize that negative influences often work on you through your
subconscious mind. Therefore they are difficult to detect. And keep
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your mind closed against all people who depress or dispirit
you in any way. Deliberately seek the company of people
who influence you to think and act for yourself. Do
not accept troubles, as they have a tendency to disappoint. Well,
remember this. You have absolute control over but one thing,
and that is your thoughts. This is the most significant
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and inspiring of all facts known to man. It reflects
man's divine nature. This divine prerogative is the soul means
by which you may control your own destiny. If you
fail to control your own mind, you may be sure
you will control nothing else. Well, I'm going to end
it with this because I think this is almost funny.
It's so true, it's funny. It's kind of sad too them.
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This is a section on famous alibis. Let me just
read you all these ifs that people come up with.
If I had money, if I had a good education,
if I could get a job, if I had good help,
if I only had time, if times were better, if
other people understood me, if I could meet the right people.
If I had the talent that some people had. If
I were only free, if I had the personality of
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some people, if I were attractive, if people weren't so dumb,
if I had the courage to see myself as I
really am. The only alibi that truly matters is the
last one. If we could all have courage and believe
in ourselves, we could create the life we are dreaming of.
To take this thought to its natural conclusion, if I
had the courage to see myself as I really am,
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I would find out what is wrong with me and
correct it. Then I might have a chance to profit
by my mistakes and learn something from the experience of others.
For I know that there is something wrong with me,
or I would none, or I would now be where
I would have been if I had spent more time
analyzing my weaknesses and less time building alibis to cover them.
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I just want to end it today with this, Don Green,
God bless you and thank you for being there in
my life with Bolling Hill Foundation. I want to just
thank everyone again for listening to today's show and remember
this Right Thinking Foundation, myself and many others are here
for you. If you want a friend, if you want
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someone to talk to and help get your direction and
your purpose, just join Right Thinking Foundation. Give me a call.
Right Think dot org. Now you can get a copy
of these five essential Principles of Thinking Grow Rich by
Napoleon Hill like probably through Amazon, It's at Airport bookstores,
or you can get in touch with the Napoleon Hill Foundation,
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which is nap hi l l dot org nap Hill
dot org. With that said, thanks again Don for making
my life easy for the show. I just wanted to
stimulate people to know what this book's all about and
to get turned on to the principles of Napoleon Hill.
And I just hope that more people can catch on
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in Napoleon Hill like I was so blessed to do
forty five or so years ago. With that said, again,
our prayers are out to all of those in North
Carolina and South Carolina and the other areas where Hurricane
Florence is hit with the flooding, and I just play
that everyone can be safe and that we can all
get together to help everyone as much as we possibly can.
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Everyone have a blessed week. God bless you and see
you next week.
Speaker 1 (51:12):
Thanks for listening to right thinking with Steve Coper. I'll
look forward to being with you again next week, and
remember don't quit plan ahead. It will get better. God
bless you and have a great week.
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