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Think and Grow Rich – Autosuggestion

Posted on May 19, 2015

Autosuggestion, currently more commonly referred to as self-hypnosis, is the act of influencing your subconscious by changing your self-talk.

Napoleon Hill wrote, “There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.”

His theory is your subconscious thoughts influence your results. If your self-talk is negative (you’re so stupid, you’ll never get out of debt, you can’t land that client) then your results will be negative as well.

However, if you focus your subconscious mind on your “burning desire” you can achieve it. You may have also heard this referred to as “the Law of Attraction”.

Although what your subconscious mind says to you about your goals is for the most part, well … subconscious, you can consciously change the channel of your mind to a more positive one through autosuggestion.

In my previous post about Faith, I noted Hill’s suggestion of using an affirmation to convince yourself that you have faith in your ability to achieve your Burning Desire. Affirmations are part of the process of autosuggestion.

Affirmations alone will not help you achieve wealth or any other goal. You first need to have the burning desire I talked about earlier.

For example, I used to have a vision board where I placed images of things I wanted. At one point I had a computer and a car on the board. I very quickly got the new computer but not the new car. Read More→

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Think And Grow Rich – Faith

Posted on April 24, 2015

by Andrea J. Stenberg

A burning desire is not enough for achieving wealth, or any other major goal. You need to believe you can achieve this desire. Or as Napoleon Hill said, you must have faith.

Hill said:

Faith is the head chemist of the mind. When faith is blended with the vibration of thought, the subconscious mind instantly picks up the vibration, translates it into its spiritual equivalent and transmits it to Infinite Intelligence.

I interpret this a couple of ways. Faith or self confidence counteracts negative thoughts or blocks that might prevent you from achieving your goals. When you strongly believe you will achieve your goals two things happen. The Law of Attraction says when you couple a burning desire with focused thoughts, confidence that you can achieve your goal (faith), then the universe (or infinite intelligence) moves to help you achieve your goal.

A more grounded explanation is that by having faith in your ability to achieve your goals you look for and find opportunities that you might miss otherwise. You’re looking for ways to get results and you find them.

The good news is that a lack of faith or self confidence is not fatal to success. Hill believed that faith in yourself could be created by “autosuggestion”. He wrote, “The application of this principle may be made through a simple arrangement of positive thought impulses stated in writing, memorized, and repeated, until they become a part of the working equipment of the subconscious faculty of your mind.”

In other words, affirmations.

Here is a paraphrase of Hill’s Self-Confidence Formula to be written or spoken aloud daily:

I know I have the ability to achieve my goals. I commit to taking action every day – action that moves me towards my goals.
I realize that thoughts become reality. Therefore I will spend 30 minutes each day focusing on creating a clear mental picture of the type of person I must become in order to achieve my goals.
My thoughts and self confidence have a major role in achieving success. I will spend 10 minutes each day developing self confidence.
I have clearly written down my goal and will never stop until I have achieved it
No success can be lasting unless it is built on fairness and justice. Therefore I will behave with integrity, fairness and kindness. I will cause others to believe in me because I will believe in them and myself.

Share your thoughts. What do you do to maintain a belief in yourself? What do you do when your confidence wavers?

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Think and Grow Rich – Your Burning Desire

Posted on April 15, 2015

by Andrea J. Stenberg

The first time I read Think and Grow Rich it didn’t really speak to me. But as I get older, each time I read it (or listen to the audio book) I get something new from it. Therefore I thought I’d do a series of blog posts to share some thoughts on Napoleon Hill’s classic book.

A Burning Desire

This is probably why the book didn’t speak to me when I was younger … I hadn’t found my burning desire. But as I get older I’m more sure of myself and what I want … hence a burning desire.

And Hill wasn’t talking about just any burning desire; he was talking about the desire to generate wealth.

He wrote:

Every human being who reaches the age of understanding of the purpose of money, wishes for it. Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.

Certainly, it’s not money itself that most people actually desire; it’s what money can do. Pay for a child’s education, health care (increasingly important as we age), travel, retirement savings, leaving a legacy.

Once you have a burning desire there are six steps Hill wrote about for achieving wealth. Grab a sheet of paper and do them with me.

One: Be definite about the exact amount of money you want.

Two: Commit to what you are willing to do in exchange for the money you desire. (In other words what’s your product or service).

Three: What is the exact date you intend to possess the money you desire? (A goal without a deadline never arrives)

Four: Create a definite plan of action and begin it at once. A goal without a plan is simply a wish. A plan without action is a waste of time.

Five: Write a personal mission statement – a clear, concise statement of the amount of money you want to acquire, the time limit you have set, what you intend to give in exchange for the money and describe clearly the plan or action steps you will take to accumulate it.

Six: Read your mission statement twice daily – morning and night.

Are you with me?

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Think and Grow Rich for Women: Using Your Power to Create Success and Significance by Sharon Lechter

Think & Grow Rich for Women with Sharon Lechter

Posted on July 9, 2014

by Andrea J. Stenberg

In another episode of The Baby Boomer Entrepreneur t.v. I had the pleasure of interviewing best-selling author Sharon Lechter about her new book Think and Grow Rich for Women: Using Your Power to Create Success and Significance.

In this book Sharon includes the same chapters as Napoleon Hill did in his classic original. However, she interviewed over 300 contemporary women to use their stories, experiences and quotes to explain Hill’s principals to a modern female audience.

“While the steps to success may be the same for men and women,” Sharon said, “we tend to approach them very differently.”

In this video we talked about Sharon’s quote, “To worry is to pray for what you do not want” and how this applies to Hill’s principals of success.

Sharon also explained how important it is to brand yourself as a knowledge expert, similar to what Hill discussed about the importance of specialized knowledge.

Hill coined the term “mastermind” and we discussed how that is just as important today. Women often already use an informal mastermind of girlfriends but a formalized approach can yield even better results.

We also discussed how decision is the opposite of procrastination. I struggle with this vice and it was good to hear how to beat it.

Finally, Sharon spoke about her final chapter, one that was not included in Hill’s original. What I liked best about this is how Sharon said that the idea of a balanced life – and the guilt women put ourselves through trying to achieve it – is a false idea. Balance means standing still and we want to keep moving forward. Some days we’ll work too long in our business and neglect our families; some days we’ll play hooky and spend the day at the beach. “If you don’t like the decisions you made yesterday, make new ones today,” is Sharon’s prescription for dealing with the lack of balance.

If you liked Napoleon Hill’s original book, you will love Sharon Lechter’s version. It’s a definite must for any success library.

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Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich Summarized in 13 Steps

Think and Grow Rich in 13 Steps

Posted on September 26, 2013

by Andrea J. Stenberg

Think and Grow Rich is the classic by Napoleon Hill. I have the updated version in audio book format and I relisten frequently. If you haven’t read (or listened to) the book I highly recommend in.

If you have read the book, this summary is a great reminder.

I always took great comfort in Hill’s assertion that most people didn’t become successful until their 40s or 50s. It means I’m right on track.

Please leave a comment and share your thoughts on Hill’s classic work.

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