Jun
18
Napoleon Hill Principles
I subscribe to SUCCESS magazine and their weekly e-zine. It’s my personal development refresher to help me keep success principles top of mind.
This week’s feature is on Napoleon Hill’s “17 Principles of Personal Achievement” (available at www.Success.com/Hill). Upon reflecting on these success principles, it pretty much summarizes what I did to achieve my success and this means that these principles are universal. Anyone can apply them and achieve similar results.
Interestingly, upon re-reading this list, I remember when they were just words before. Words with no meaning. I had no relationship with those words. Napoleon was writing about something I had limited experience in. I had experienced some success but mostly spectacular failure.
Fortunately, a mentor and counselor helped me reframe my failures. If I spent just a fraction of the energy I used in sabotaging myself, just imagine what could happen if I supported myself.
When you apply these principles after the fact, only then does it become evident. The energy of action begets the energy of knowing. In the knowing of a thing, you finally come to the understanding of the thing.
I used to wait for these principles to become apparent before I would put them into practice. But it is taking action in the face of fear, doubt and inconvenience that builds the muscles for success.
Nike’s tagline says it all: Just Do It.
