Success on Purpose

Recently, I have come across some writings by Napoleon Hill which made for great reading. His book "Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons" has had a profound affect on my business marketing and, overall, how I should be pursuing a successful business. As I surfed through the Internet to gain more information about his 16 lessons I have come across some good excerpts, presented below, by others who have considered his writings. I will present these in my next few blogs and welcome any comments concerning his principles.

Develop Definiteness of Purpose

• Success and progress towards achieving your goals in life begin with knowing where you are going.
• Any dominating idea, plan, or purpose held in your conscious mind through repeated effort and emotionalized by a burning desire for its realization is taken over by the subconscious and acted upon through whatever natural and logical means may be available.
• Your mental attitude gives power to everything you do. If your attitude is positive, your actions and thoughts further your ends? If your attitude is negative, you are constantly undermining your own efforts.
• The starting point of all human achievement is the development of a Definite Major Purpose.
• Without a definite major purpose, you are as helpless as a ship without a compass.
  

Mastermind Alliance

Establish a Mastermind Alliance

• A mastermind alliance consists of two or more minds working actively together in perfect harmony toward a common definite objective.
• Through a mastermind alliance you can appropriate and use the full strength of the experience, training, and knowledge of others just as if they were your own.
• No individual has ever achieved success without the help and cooperation of others.
• The value of "gathering together those of a like mind" is self-evident.
• A group of brains coordinated in a spirit of harmony will provide more thought energy than a single brain, just as a group of electric batteries will provide more energy than a single battery.

What is italicized above is what is discussed in the first 2 lessons. I believe that just these two are key to any successful endeavor but many fail to realize this.

The book goes into much more depth with specific examples. Hopefully you will have time to read it.