If You Can Conceive It, You Can Achieve It

After several days of reading Think and Grow Rich, I have finally completed it from cover-to-cover. Not that it's difficult book to read, but a bit more challenging than the plain written Rich Dad Poor Dad and Total Money Makeover. I think of Napoleon Hill's book as a guidebook toward self achievement and the role our mind plays in our pursuit of success.

The book is broken down into 12 keypoints or steps as Hill refers to them toward a life of riches:

Step #1: Desire is the starting point of all achievement. It creates a mentality that sees no pursuit as impossible or unattainable and accepts not failure.

Step #2: Faith (visualization and belief) that you will be successful. "Faith removes limitations!"

Step #3: Influencing the subconscious mind by way of autosuggestion. Autosuggestion refers to all forms of stimuli that are absorbed mentally with the use of the five senses.

Step #4: Specialized knowledge to creates opportunities for success. Knowledge is not power, however, it creates an opportunity to attain it.

Step #5: Imagination gives shape, form and action to our desires. "It has been said that man can create anything which he can imagine."

Step #6: Develop a plan of success. Use a Master Mind alliance to develop a plan that will work. If it doesn't work at first, devise another plan.

Step #7: Grab procrastination by the gills. The ability to make timely decisions is crucial. Procrastination and doubt will only deter progress.

Step #8: By combining your desire for success with will-power, you insure attainment your goal. Persistance "is to the character of man what carbon is to steel."

Step #9: Use your Master Mind alliance to 'attract' power. Whatever knowledge you lack, your core group should be used, as a tool, where you lack to attain power.

Step #10: Harness the power of sex and transform it as a driving force toward your goal(s). "Far from being geniuses because of great sex desires, the majority of men lower themselves, through misunderstanding and misuse of this great force, to the status of the lower animals."

Step #11: Feed your subconscious mind with plans and desires that you want to take physical form.

Step #12: Step up the receptive process of your brain through positive emotions. When the braing functions at higher rates, it attracts more ideas and thoughts.

Step #13: Using your sixth sense by developing your mind from within through meditation.

"The ladder of success is never crowded at the top."