Think and Grow Rich is a Bunch of BS?

Friday, December 18th, 2009 at 12:32 pm

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Napoleon Hill….. Loser?

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It never ceases to amaze me how pathetic we are. Have you ever noticed what sells magazines and news in general- Negative human behavior. We all love to watch celebrities and the wealthy fall on their face.

Why do we find such joy in it? Because we see ourselves as failures. We have actually grown accustomed to feeling that way. We have nothing to live up to so it’s a lot harder to dissapoint.

When we see others elevate above our comfort zone, we resent them. Little by little we start to despise them. They are exposing us by doing things we do not do. They pushed a little harder and found fortune. (this does not make them great people, but it does make them successful at something)

Recently I was on a forum and there was a discussion about Napoleon Hill (author of Think and Grow Rich). The topic was that he died broke. The topic is interesting because rumors have spread that he did indeed die poor. (which he did not)

Think and Grow Rich was not a story about Napoleon Hill as he was far from wealthy when he was hired. He was sent on a mission and connected to the wealthiest people on earth to write the book.

What I found interesting is that some people found joy he may have been a failure. The funny thing is that a lot of very wealthy people attribute their fortune to the concepts of that book. Who gives a shit who lost what. How many of us ever amass anything but debt?

Most of you will never have that day in the sun in your lifetime (me included), but we can if we burn the bridges behind us. Sometimes you need to give yourself no other way but straight at your dream.

I owned a window cleaning business that I started to hate. I fell in love with direct marketing and then copywriting and one day dumped the window cleaning business. I don’t mean I sold it or made a transition. I stopped all income from it.

I knew I had a knack for writing sales copy and my dream is to make a good living doing this. What did I do? … burned the bridges.

Everyone who is successful stopped looking back. Everyday I am closer and closer to my dream. For 7 years I was in a come and now I feel alive. I am not successful in a money sense yet, but I am on my way and I am finally happy. (whatever that is)

I leave you with this excerpt from Think and Grow Rich:

“A long while ago, a great warrior faced a situation which made it necessary for him to make a decision which insured his success on the battlefield. He was about to send his armies against a powerful foe, whose men outnumbered his own.

He loaded his soldiers into boats, sailed to the enemy’s country, unloaded soldiers and equipment, then gave the order to burn the ships that had carried them. Addressing the men before the first battle, he said, “You see the boats going up in smoke. That means that we cannot leave these shores unless we win! We now have no choice—we win—or we perish!”

They won.

go get some

Paul