Laws of Success in 13 Steps
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011Laws of success written by Napoleon Hill identifies 13 steps to Riches in his book Think and Grow Rich. Andrew Carnegie and Henry Ford were master of the laws of success secret that Napoleon Hill mentions in each chapter as well as the introduction. Napoleon Hill thought that if he just spoke the secret, that we the reader wouldn’t value it as much as we would if we had to decipher it. You can only decipher the laws of success if you have the unabridged copy because the originals editors of Think and Grow Rich chose to edit out over a hundred pages of material. They thought the everyday person would not accept the book unless it was edited. The laws of success resound through those missing passages.
Jerry Hicks found the laws of success written about by Napoleon Hill to be very significant. He spent years teaching people Hill’s work. Later he coauthored “Ask and It Is Given, “Money and the Law of Attraction” and other works. The Laws of Success and the Law of Attraction utilize the same principles.
Wallace Wattles wrote The Science of Getting Rich in 1910. He utilizes the same concepts of vibration, visualization, ethers, and state of mind, as do Laws of Success and the law of Attraction. He practiced the science of visualization by forming a mental or visual picture of what he wanted and then working toward it. He was using the laws of success and the law of attraction.
The power of the laws of success is stated clearly in the 13 steps to riches that Napoleon Hill identifies. His opening paragraph in Chapter 1 says “Truly, “thoughts are things,” and powerful things at that when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a BURNING DESIRE for their translation into riches, or other material objects.” Knowing how important thoughts are is a significant part of the laws of success. Having a burning desire is a part of the laws of success. Having the ability to dream, and to imagine are part of the laws of success.
Here are the 13 steps to riches listed in Think and Grow Rich. Each chapter lists portions of what are the laws of success.
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Desire (The first step to Riches)
Faith (The second Step to Riches)
Auto-Suggestion (The Third Step to Riches)
Specialized Knowledge (The Fourth Step to Riches)
Imagination (The Fifth Step to Riches). This is critical to laws of success.
Organized Planning (The Sixth Step to Riches)
Decision (The Seventh Step to Riches
Persistence (The Eighth Step to Riches)
Power of the Master Mind (The Ninth Step to Riches)
The Mystery of Sex Transmutation (The tenth step to Riches)
The Subconscious Mind (The Eleventh step to Riches)
The Brain (The Twelfth Step to Riches)
The Sixth Sense (The Thirteen Six Ghosts of Fear (Clearing the Brain for Riches)
Napoleon Hill was trying to describe as clearly as he could what the laws of success were. He wrote in 1937 trying to help us understand the power of thought, mind, visualization, and state of mind so that we too could access the laws of success. Listen to his first words in the Second Step to Riches. “Faith is the head chemist of the mind. When FAITH is blended with the vibration of thought, the subconscious mind instantly picks up the vibration, translates it into its spiritual equivalent, and transmits it to Infinite Intelligence, as in the case of prayer.” Clarity of vision and vibration are essential to laws of success.
“ALL THOUGHTS WHICH HAVE BEEN EMOTIONALIZED (given feeling) AND MIXED WITH FAITH, begin immediately to translate themselves into their physical equivalent or counterpart.” Wallace and Hill are saying the same thing here. Thoughts can turn into physical things. Both try to explain in their books the how of the laws of success.
Have a burning desire; hold that image long enough with clarity, and right-mindedness, and what you desire will be drawn to you is the essence of part of the laws of success, manifested out of the ethers as it were. But it is not a magic. It is a process and a way of being. I think it would be helpful for me to review these 13 steps to riches, and I thought we could review these laws of success together. If you have not already purchased your own unabridged version of Think and Grow Rich, then here is a place where you can obtain your own copy. I highly recommend reading and rereading this text. You will miss the laws of success unless you read the unabridged version available by clicking here. (No I don’t make money on the referral).
You can read the following articles to see what has already been said here regarding the laws of success. Vibration and the Law of Success. Faith and the Law of Success. Subconscious and the Law of Success. State of Mind and the Law of Success.
