[Amadeus]

THINK & Grow Rich. What a brilliant book. What a profound book. What a book of genious. Napoleon Hill mentions a secret in the book and stated that it is more beneficial to the reader when he discovers the secret on his own. I'll save you the trouble. The secret is THOUGHT. What we THINK about daily is what we become. For crying out loud, the secret is in the title of the book, THINK & Grow Rich. The secret is not desire, it is not being motivated, and it is not having a positive attitude all the time. The 13 principles listed in the great book are just organs of the organism, the organism of THOUGHT. The 13 principles are just states of THOUGHT. Hill states that a person can THINK himself or herself into any station in life.

"The only thing the creator gave us complete control over is the power to control our own minds and think of anything we desire about." I want to express something to this forum a view of the philosophy that maybe only .000001 percent of the human population has even only comprehended. Andrew Carnegie was one of the few who understood this secret. Hill was one of the few, however I don't think he applied it as much as Carnegie, Edison, or Ford. Thought is energy. Energy, like matter can neigher be created nor destroyed. When we think we are releasing a form of energy out into the World. Hill called it the ether. It is debated weather the ether exists. When we throw out the intangible energy of thought into the world, we get back the same energy almost like a boomerang. Is it telekenisis in some form? Maybe. I have seen it work for me time and time again. It is very important to know exactly what it is you want, have a white heat of desire for it, and go after it everyday and night until it has been obtained. As hill states, it can not be a hope or a wish.

To be honest, most people who have read the book do not get into this state of desire. Perhaps other things in life like a spouse, "the rat race", news, gossip, or televison get in the way. I know it did for me for a few years until I really got the secret. You know there is just no half-ass way to do it. Yes it is easy once you commit, but you must commit to your Defiinite Chief Aim and think about it night and day. Then the whole World will be at your fingertips. As Hill states in one of his audios, "I don't know why it is that when a man decides what he wants that the whole universe seems to come to his aid to see that he gets it. I don't know why it is, but I just know that it is." He also states that "the mind attracts the thing the mind dwells upon." I personally don't think that it is as simple as the person is attracted to the object of his or her major purpose. In some wierd undocumented form, the object seems to find the person as well. The major purpose, goal, or whatever you want to call it meets the person half way. Your brain becomes a magnet, literally. I also feel that telepathy also comes into play. I think you convey your goals in life to others without uttering a word about your goal. I have experienced this.

Every morning I read my Definite Chief Aim with emothion. I will jog on my treadmill for about an hour. As I am exercising I will THINK about my goal and to the detail what I want in life and from that day. I will THINK about in detail what my future house will look like, what my car will be like, and how much money will pour into my bank account everyday. I'll mix emotion with these thoughts and actually believe I will have them. That day when I go out on the roads to sell my product I feel I have a heads-up on every other salesman. My numbers show that! I get business pouring in that I don't even touch.

"Mighty is the human mind, it builds or destroys." - Napoleon Hill