By Napoleon
Hill | October 26, 2016
Lesson 1: Definiteness of Purpose
Definiteness of purpose is the starting
point of all achievement. Without a purpose and a plan, people drift aimlessly
through life.
Related: Answer 6 Questions to Reveal Your Life Purpose
Lesson 2: Mastermind Alliance
The Mastermind principle consists of an alliance of two or more minds working in perfect harmony for
the attainment of a common definite objective. Success does not come without
the cooperation of others.
Lesson 3: Applied Faith
Faith is a state of mind through which your aims, desires, plans
and purposes may be translated into their physical or financial equivalent.
Lesson 4: Going the Extra Mile
When you go the extra mile, the Law of
Compensation comes into play.
Going the extra mile is the action of
rendering more and better service than that for which you are presently paid.
When you go the extra mile, the Law of Compensation comes into play.
Lesson 5: Pleasing Personality
Personality is the sum total of one’s mental, spiritual and
physical traits and habits that distinguish one from all others. It is the factor that determines whether one is liked or
disliked by others.
Lesson 6: Personal Initiative
Personal initiative is the power that inspires the completion of
that which one begins. It is the power that starts all action. No
person is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to
act on his own.
Lesson 7: Positive Mental Attitude
Positive mental attitude is the right
mental attitude in all circumstances. Success attracts more success while
failure attracts more failure.
Related: Why Your Attitude Is Everything
Lesson 8: Enthusiasm
Enthusiasm is faith in action. It is the
intense emotion known as burning desire. It comes from within, although it
radiates outwardly in the expression of one’s voice and countenance.
Lesson 9: Self-Discipline
If you do not control your thoughts, you
cannot control your needs.
Self-discipline begins with the mastery of thought. If
you do not control your thoughts, you cannot control your needs.
Self-discipline calls for a balancing of the emotions of your heart with the
reasoning faculty of your head.
Lesson 10: Accurate Thinking
The power of thought is the most
dangerous or the most beneficial power available to man, depending on how it is
used.
Lesson 11: Controlled Attention
Controlled attention leads to mastery in
any type of human endeavor, because it enables one to focus the powers of his
mind upon the attainment of a definite objective and to keep it so directed at
will.
Lesson 12: Teamwork
Teamwork is harmonious cooperation that is willing, voluntary
and free. Whenever the spirit of teamwork is the dominating
influence in business or industry, success is inevitable. Harmonious
cooperation is a priceless asset that you can acquire in proportion to your
giving.
Lesson 13: Adversity & Defeat
Many so-called failures represent only a
temporary defeat that may prove to be a blessing in disguise.
Individual success usually is in exact proportion of the scope
of the defeat the individual has experienced and mastered. Many so-called failures represent only a temporary defeat that
may prove to be a blessing in disguise.
Lesson 14: Creative Vision
Creative vision is developed by the free
and fearless use of one’s imagination. It is not a miraculous quality with
which one is gifted or is not gifted at birth.
Lesson 15: Health
Sound health begins with a sound health
consciousness, just as financial success begins with a prosperity
consciousness.
Lesson 16: Budgeting Time & Money
Time and money are precious resources,
and few people striving for success ever believe they possess either one in
excess.
Lesson 17: Habits
Developing and establishing positive habits leads
to peace of mind, health and financial security. You are where you are because
of your established habits and thoughts and deeds.
Related: ‘What You Think, You Become’
Editor’s note: This post was originally published in October
2012 and has been updated for freshness, accuracy and comprehensiveness.
Napoleon
Hill was born in 1883 in a one-room cabin on the
Pound River in Wise County, Virginia. He is the author of the motivational
classics The Laws of Success and Think and Grow Rich.
Hill passed away in November 1970 after a long and successful career writing,
teaching, and lecturing about the principles of success. His lifework continues
under the direction of the Napoleon Hill Foundation. Articles
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