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The Master Key to Riches by Napoleon Hill.
“The great master key to riches,” wrote Hill, “is nothing more
or less than the self-discipline necessary to help you take full and complete possession of your own mind.
Remember, it is profoundly significant that the only thing over which you have complete control i...
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used to point out to his colleagues that there wasn’t any job that couldn’t be handled if they were willing to break it down into little pieces.
It isn’t important how fast you are doing it. What’s important is that you are doing it.
going to do your task in a slow and lazy way, there is no anxiety or dread
Start slow, there wont be ay anxiety about the work then. Be calm,cool
But the paradox is that the slower you start something, the faster you will be finished.
Take your time. Start out lazy. Soon, your tasks will be keeping the slow but persistent rhythm of that
The dynamite is living inside you. You don’t have to be frenzied about setting it off. It lights just as well with a slowly struck match.
This is amazing.
The people you spend time with will change your life in one way or another. If you associate with cynics, they’ll pull you down with them. If you associate with people who support you in being happy and successful, you will have a head start on being happy and successful.
“Make a list of friends and acquaintances in whose company you feel more alive, happier, more optimistic. Pick one whom you will spend some time with this week.”
Pleasure disappoints, possibility never.”
Be with millionaires. You will be the next one.
Many of us can spend whole days reacting without being aware of it.
your life is either a creation or a reaction,
DO not react. Only create.
person who does not make a choice makes a choice.”
True dat.
Life is now.
Life is not later on. And the more we hypnotize ourselves into thinking we have all the time in the world to do what we want to do, the more we sleepwalk past life’s finest opportunities. Self-motivation flows from the importance we attach to today.
Life is in the present.
“Today I was at my best.”
Do something important each day. A satisfactory day is a day fulfilled.
The key to personal transformation is in your willingness to do very tiny things—but to do them today.
Today is a microcosm of your entire life.
Replacement is powerful because it works, and where bad habits are concerned it’s the only thing that works. I’ve known people who quit smoking without
intending to. They took up running, or some form of regular aerobic exercise, and soon the breathing and relaxation they were getting from the exercise made the smoking feel bad to their bodies.
To get rid of bad habits, REPLACE it with something good. This is very sound advice.
there’s no one else who can do more for you than yourself.
“Every day in every way I’m getting better and better,”
Motivation is something you talk yourself into.
“You cannot live a perfect day,” he said, “without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.”
Always be kind to others. Always do something good to someone else. Family or friend.
luck can be a welcome addition to your life. You
can create luck for yourself by creating it for someone else. If you know about someone who is hurting financially,
By making someone lucky, something will then happen in your own life that also feels like pure luck.
(I can’t explain why this happens, and I
have no scientific basis for it, so all I can say is try it a few times and see if you aren’t as startled as I have been at the results… it doesn’t have to be money, either....
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See what happens to you when you make other people get lucky.
What you look at and what you face grows in your life. What you ignore falls behind you.
