Personal Development and Your Inner Power Revealed

Napoleon Hill believed that people who cannot control themselves can never control others. A leader is placed under a microscope by your followers, his or her actions or inaction may be magnified to the extreme. Self-control along with unwavering courage could dictate whether someone believe in you as a leader or perceive you as a “fake”. The governing of one’s self and actions are indications of whether or not you have the ability to lead.  A follower will emulate a leader who stands by his conviction instead of the one who loses control of himself on a regular basis. For example, if you are an advocate against smoking cigarettes, but yet every chance you light up a cigarette.  This conflicting message will force many people to look at you in differently.

Most people are looking to succeed with as little amount of effort as possible to generate phenomenon results. We live in a world with many roadblocks and distraction opposing our ultimate goals and objectives. We live in a society of instant coffee, instant tea and instant gratification. When you live in the now with no concrete plans for the future, then you will have to suffer the consequences. The something for nothing mentality must be erased from your being and be replaced some of the attributes that Napoleon Hill wrote about.

The people who restrain themselves and put the necessary sweat equity into their endeavor are far more successful, than those who feel society owes them something. For example, Joachim de Posada, speaker and motivational coach, talks about an experiment where they took 4-5 year old kids, and left them in a room for 30 minutes. The kids were instructed that if you don’t eat the marshmallow that was in front of you, you would get another one when we return. Many of the kids did everything, but stand on their head to avoid eating the marshmallow.

The scientists then re-visited the kids 13-15 years later and found that the kids that ate the marshmallow before time was not as successful as the one who did not eat it. This experiment was about self control where you had a choice between instant gratifications or delayed gratification with a bonus. A true leader with self control may make the decisions that could impact the lives of many people and be trusted until the results come to fruition. The successful leader makes decision quickly, but changes slowly. Leaders must have unwavering courage and self control to build a network of followers who will trust them implicitly.

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Napoleon Hill’s” Think and Grow Rich” believed that a leader should possess a keen sense of justice. Any leader with this quality does the right thing even when no one is watching. A true leader follows his own set of codes that dictates his actions in any given situation.  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK Jr.) was such a leader in his fight to end racial segregation and racial discrimination.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. accomplished these changes through civil disobedience and non-violent means. He fought for justice and fairness in the face of danger staying true to his beliefs. People followed and respected MLK Jr. based on a number of factors, but his keen sense of justice was the overshadowing factor that made him a strong leader. A fish stinks from the head down, so naturally his followers will imitate.

If you are truly committed to your beliefs system, then you will do what is right always.  It is very difficult to keep this core trait out of every aspect of your life.  It could seep into your business life as well.  Most businesses with a good grasp of right and wrong tend to have a very strong foundation.  A company that recalls a defective product after finding a defect will be respected.  The company that only does the recall after a whistle blower reveals it is viewed by many in a negative light. The goodwill that is generated by doing the right thing for the sake of doing the right thing can not be measured on a monetary basis.

The desire to make more profit is overshadowed by the desire to do what is right. If your business model is based on lying, cheating and hoodwinking people into coming into your business, then eventually the house of cards will implode. Leaders must true to themselves and respond in a way that ethical and fair and it does not matter whether he or she is under the microscope or not.

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Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich” wrote about eleven attributes of leadership that are critical to be successful. The leadership attributes that I will discuss in this article is definiteness of decision.  Napoleon Hill believed that “people who waver in decisions show that they are not sure of themselves.  This author d id not list these attributes in any particular order of importance, but he felt that all or a combination of these attributes will make you a leader that your business partners will respect and appreciate.  Successful people make decision quickly and change them slowly, while unsuccessful people make decision slowly and change them rapidly.

We must be steadfast in the decisions that we make and not change them even when nothing is going right.  Steven Spielberg is an excellent example of this he made the decision to be movie director from a very early age.  Steven Spielberg kept focused on his endgame and he did whatever it took to make his dreams come true.  “Jaws”, his second film, released in 1975 broke box office and Steven Spielberg went on to phenomenal success. He did not give on his dreams and did something else when he was turned down.

The turtle outran the hare in that famous nursery rhyme because he had made a decision to finish the race no matter what.  The hare on the other hand felt that it was an easy win so he took a rest and when he decided to finish the race the turtle had already won the race.  When you make decision slowly and change them quickly, then you are destined to be an unsuccessful person.

These unsuccessful people do not have the intestinal fortitude to hold fast to their dreams.   The beautiful thing about personal development is that if you identify the obstacles in your path to success you can figure out a way to overcome them.  If you are a starter but not a finisher in your decision making processes. One way to get around that is get a finisher in your mastermind group.  The synergy of you as the starter and having a finisher would help you achieve your goals.  Napoleon listed the eleven attributes of leadership and he knew with desire you can become this successful leader.  You can become successful by mimicking the habits of successful people. You can become a person who has definiteness in the decisions that you make to become the successful person that you want to be.

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The types of knowledge that you may acquire are General Knowledge and Specialized Knowledge. Napoleon Hill famous book “Think and Grow Rich” stated that Specialized Knowledge is the fourth step to riches. The key differences between these two types of knowledge are Specialized Knowledge will attract money with organized and intelligent plan of actions. The person with this specialized knowledge normally has the power.  General Knowledge is useless in the accumulation of money. Universities possess every type of general knowledge that is available, but they specialize in teaching knowledge. We go to these to institutions to learn new skills that give us power, but true power will never be gain there.

The saying goes that knowledge is power, but actually it is only potential power. The use of knowledge with definite plans of action and directed to a definite end is power. Henry Ford had little “schooling” but yet he was instrumental in developing his “Model T”. Henry Ford secret was that he hired people with the “schooling” to help him run his business. Henry Ford informal “schooling” led to riches beyond his imagination. Form Motor Company has been in business for over one hundred years. Henry Ford was an educated person in more way than his critics could ever understand.

A truly educated person is one who knows where to get knowledge when needed. He or she also knows how to organize this knowledge into definite plans of action. The personal with an education is normally the person who you expect to have an abundance of general and specialized knowledge. When you start your home internet business opportunity you are not expected to know everything. You would more than likely have a general idea about how you are supposed to run your home internet business opportunity. You will need specialized knowledge to succeed.

The lifeblood of most home businesses is lead generation. There are so many different ways to generate a lead. You must acquire specialized knowledge in mastering one method, then move on to the other. You want to master it till it produces results for you. When I went to school it was recommended that you become good in different subjects. You become a jack of all trade and a master of none.

This only leads to mediocrity because you become at expert at nothing, but have general knowledge about everything. It is better to determine the purpose for which you want to use the knowledge that you seek to gain more knowledge. You must then learn where you can obtain this knowledge. You would not go to someone who is not in your industry to learn about lead generation. You will go to the leaders in your industry to acquire that knowledge. Lead generation is a specialized art in itself.  It is a cycle of always getting specialized knowledge to help your home internet business opportunity grow.

Specialized knowledge with definite plans of action and definite purpose will help your home internet business opportunity become successful. They are a wealth of knowledge available that you may use to help your business grow. You must select the right source to gain this knowledge on an ongoing basis. Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich” outlined specialized knowledge as the fourth step to riches. Your riches are dependent on what you want to accomplish in your life, relationship and business.

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Faith is the second step on the road to riches. Napoleon Hill wrote in the book “Think and Grow Rich” that the first step to riches is desire. When people think about riches normally being wealthy comes to mind.  Riches are not only about how much money you have in the bank. Achieving riches in your life may be different from one person to the next. Riches might be a level of success in life, business or your relationships. When you are considering pursuing a home internet business opportunity, you must take a chance. The determining factor on this journey is that you must take a leap of faith.

A leap of faith is going from the known to the unknown without a security blanket. Ray Kroc, creator of fast food industry, was such a person.  Roy Kroc’s McDonald made him one of the richest men of his time.  Roy saw an opportunity and took a chance without guarantee of success. You have to let go of something before you grab something else.

There is always a chance that you will fall in the split second that you let go. The more life change, the more it stays the same. A leap from your actual life to what could be possible in a successful home internet business opportunity. If you are not willing to take a chance, then you are guaranteed one thing. If you always do what you have always done, then you will always get what you have always got.

When you start a home internet business opportunity you must truly have faith that you will succeed.  If you want to change your results, then you must take risk, the greater the risks the sweeter the rewards. Your possibilities may only be limited by your imagination. Your dream of time freedom, financial freedom, and appreciation may be realized in your home internet business opportunity. If you don’t take a leap of faith, then you will continue to get the same results in your life and business. Success is within your grasp, but you must reach out to access it.

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Napoleon Hill writes about the thirteen steps to riches in “Think and Grow Rich”. The third step to riches is autosuggestion which is also self-suggestion. It is the bridge between the conscious and subconscious mind.  “No Thought, whether it is negative or positive, can enter the subconscious mind without the aid of the principle of autosuggestion, with the exception of thoughts picked up from the ether”.  Your conscious mind serves as a faculty for the subconscious mind.  Thoughts might pass through your five senses but the way the conscious mind perceived them determines whether they are passed on to the subconscious mind or are rejected.  Mastering autosuggestion will help make your home internet business opportunity successful.

Your subconscious mind will only work at attaining a goal if it is realistic.  You have never played a round golf in your life, but your goal is to play like Tiger Woods.  Your conscious mind will reject that goal right away.   We have absolute control over the material that reaches our subconscious mind.  This may explain why so many people live in poverty.  If you let negative thought dictate your life then you can not be surprised by the outcome.  The sad fact is that many people do not exercise this control.

The saying goes that you reap what you sow.  If you plant positive seeds of great crops in your subconscious, then you will get a fertile and thriving garden.  If you allow weeds to grow in your garden, then all the alibis of failure will be a part of your life.   Autosuggestion is a strong strategy to use in your home business.  Thoughts become our Destiny and autosuggestion truly shows us that mastering it could either make us or break us.  Autosuggestion sound very similar to The Law of Attraction.  If you give attention, energy and focus to achieving a goal in your home business, then it will manifest itself.  Napoleon Hill started with desire as the first step to riches, then faith as the second step and now autosuggestion as the third step. Napoleon Hill show us in a systematically way how to achieve “riches” in our home internet business opportunity and he did many years of research so we should heed his words.

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I was spending quality time with my family the other day.  My sister stated that she noticed our farm’s layout on Farmville was indicative of our personalities.  Her statement was obvious even before she said it, but it did make me think.  The truth is that when we play games we tend to be our self.  Farmville is a game that you may be becoming very addictive to it.

Farmville is a game that allows you to design an actual farm.  You may plant, and harvest many different cash crops and flowers. You can also keep a variety of animals such as pigs, sheep, horses etc.  You may visit other farms to help out for bonuses. This game is very interactive and cooperative because to get a number of things done you need your friends to help you.  The more active friends who play the game the better chance that you will finish these tasks.

I have been playing Farmville for about a couple of months.  My farm is totally based on optimization of my land to make as much money as possible.  I visited some of my friends’ farms to see if I could match the farm to the person. I did witness that the people that I knew well farms was indicative of who they were as person. My college friend had a hot air balloon and her trees lined up in a row.  When I went to school with her she was always meticulous in her behavior and actions.  My cousin’s farm was beautiful with a balloon but with every different animals in a bunch. My cousin has always love animals.  The more farms I looked at the more that this theory came to life.  What games do you play that you can’t help but be you?

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The sayings goes that the more you give the more you receive, but how does this truly relate to your home business job opportunity.  The amazing part is that you do not have to do anything other than continue to give to reap the rewards of this behavior. The Law of Value states that your true worth is determined by how much you give, than take in payment.  If the rewards are on autopilot, then why are most people setting up their home business job opportunity in the opposite way?

These marketers are trying to receive substantial more that they are giving in value.  The Law of Value may be applied in many different aspect of your life but I will discuss how it relates to your home business internet opportunity.  I have taken part of many webinar that promised secrets to no avail only to find that I have wasted a valuable hour of my time.

I have subscribed to many marketing list that promised value in the form of knowledge only to be bombarded with a sales pitch with every email I received, I automatically unsubscribed.  Where is the true value of acquired knowledge and skills being on these lists and webinar?  This concept of bait and switch has been around for many years. This tactic gives a business an influx of sales, but is it a good business practice?

The bait and switch might get a potential customer in the front door, but does not build relationships.  The fact that you came to the business meant that you were in the market for a product or service.  The sad fact the product or service came for is either not available or replaced with an inferior product.  The word of mouth advertising that you give this business might be very negative.  Word of mouth can make or break a business so therefore approach your subscriber from a place getting as much value that you can give them.

When marketing for your home internet business opportunity is truly geared towards developing relationships in the form of providing value, then your target market will stay on your list until they are ready to buy.  The sales cycle dictate that people are in the market at different interval.  .  The Law of Value will work in your favor every time for your home business job opportunity. The more value given the more trust develops and the better chance that a subscriber will purchase product(s) from you.  If you truly focus on giving value then your profits will truly be on autopilot.

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Scrabble for most seems like you are just spelling words for points to outscore your opponent(s).  I did just that when I started playing many years ago. A strong vocabulary at face value would seem like the best way to win at this game.  If I got a “q” without a “u” I sweated something fierce. The thought of getting stuck with a 10 point “q” in your hand could be the difference between winning and losing a game.  Scrabble for those of you who have never played before the board has “double letter score”, “triple letter score”, “double word score” and “triple word score” to boost your score significantly.  These premium squares along with mastering two and three letter words are keys to getting a higher score in Scrabble.  When I went from just spelling words to using the strategies mentioned below my score and games I won increased significantly.

This reminds me of when I first started in my home business job opportunity I was like a sponge soaking up as much information that I could get my hands on.  I was on as many webinar as possible gaining knowledge from many different people.  I developed my business like if the more knowledge I learn the better it would be for my home business job opportunity, very similar to the initial way I started to play Scrabble.  I only found myself investing in concepts that never got my business off the ground.

An example of this was purchasing leads from different lead sources. I also brought into following the “experts” until I realized that most “experts” were just trying to sell inferior products.  I now follow and purchased from people who give me tremendous value in their teachings and products, amazingly most of the knowledge gained is free. I learned from my mistakes and like Scrabble I developed different strategies. I am at a point in Scrabble that I have no problem having a “q” without a “u”.  I now maximize the points that I may receive from the tiles I have in my hand at all times.

I reversed what I was doing in my home business job opportunity instead of just blanket marketing I focused on my target market.  Like Scrabble, I have gained so much experience after playing several games that I am now an expert at the game.  I started using different marketing strategies that allowed me to attract the ideal person who would join my home business job opportunity.  My income generating activities are based on a 1 degree adjustment on a daily basis to generate the necessary traffic I need.  My long term strategy in Scrabble is to continuously increase my vocabulary and look even harder for the most effective use of my premium tiles.  The best way to get even better is to play as often as possible just like in my home business job opportunity.

The keys to making your home business job opportunity successful is continuously and never ending commitment to improving your income generating activities and following the right mentors. The correlation between the strategies of Scrabble and that of a home business are very similar in nature.  These strategies may be applied to make you an expert at Scrabble and your home business job opportunity.

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