I first read this book about 10 years ago. At the time I thought it was positive fluff. No substance, just waffle about thoughts. Over the years I have had some success and plenty of failures. The failures stopped me in my tracks, then after the sting lessened I would wonder to a different vehicle of wealth, with the same results. I remembered a passage from the book “A quitter never wins – and – a winner never quits”. Thinking about it, in all the stories of really successful people, they had this in common. They had infact failed more than me! It was time to re-read it.
Now it makes more sense, perhaps I wasn’t old enough or experienced enough to accept the message. Thought, and how you mold it is everything. Without the foundations of burning desire mixed with a game plan and faith in your abilities, your just another smart talented person not meeting your potential. Napoleon arms you with these, gives you the weapons of autosuggestion, and loads you with stories of real people, legends in the business world, demonstrating the techniques actions and effects.
Now I have a plan written down, my chosen vehicle is property investing. I meet with a group of like-minded people on Monday nights, a master mind group. I have started visualizing my definite desires. This book is a must, a quote from it comes to mind “A real student will not merely read this book, he will absorb it’s contents and make them his own”.
I’m not a religious man, and have great difficulty with both the sixth sense chapter and anything talking about the infinite intelligence. With this aside, I can’t see how you can smash though the inevitable hurtles life throws you, without arming yourself to the teeth with your desires using the concepts listed in this book.
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