21.The habit of indiscriminate spending22.Lack of enthusiasm23.Intolerance24.Intemperance25.Inability to cooperate with others26.Possession of power that was not acquired through self-effort27.Intentional dishonesty28.Egotism and vanity29.Guessing instead of thinking30.Lack of Capital31.Other

31 major causes of failure(continue...)

<ol><li>Persist : To forge ahead despite opposition, misfortune, and criticism</li><li>Persistence is to character what carbon is to steel</li><li>Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage</li><li>Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.</li><li>A Silent irresistible power comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement</li></ol>

Step 17 : Be Persistent

<ol><li>You cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it any plan, desire, or purpose that you wish transformed into concrete form. The subconscious acts first on the dominating desires that have been mixed with emotional feeling, such as faith.</li><li>The subconscious mind is the connecting link between the finite mind and infinite intelligence.</li><li>Voluntary use of the subconscious mind calls for coordinat on and application of all 17 steps.</li><li>You are living in the midst of all manner of thought impulses that are reaching your subconscious mind without your knowledge.</li></ol>

Step 6 : Stamp Positive Impressions on your subconscious mind

The human brain is a broadcasting and receiving station for thought... Thought vibration, stepped up by emotion, can be broadcast and received by the brain.. Your intangible self is more powerful than the physical self you perceive..

<ol><li class="ql-align-justify">With auto-suggestion, you play a perfectly legitimate " trick" on your subconscious mind by making it believe, because you believe it, that you must have the amount of money you are visualizing, that this money is already awaiting your claim, that the subconscious mind must hand over to you practical plans for acquiring the money which is yours. Hand over the thought suggested to your imagination and see what your imagination can or will do to create practical plans for accumulating that money.....</li></ol>

Step 7 : (Continues...)

"The most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people." "You have absolute control over but one thing : your thoughts." "The mind can produce anything the mind can conceive and believe."

<ol><li>The idea is the main thing. Specialized knowledge may be found just around the corner -- any corner!</li><li>The person who stops seeking knowledge merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, regardless of his calling</li><li>The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge</li><li>Any person is educated who knows where to get knowledge when needed and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.</li><li>Doing a thing well is never wasted effort!!!</li></ol>

Step 15 : Put Specialized knowledge to work for you

Sex transmutation is the switching of the mind from thoughts of physical sexual expression to thoughts of some other nature... The transmutation of sexual desire drives the creative imagination... Sex transmutation will lift one to the status of a genius.

Before success comes to most people, they are sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps, some failure. When faced with defeat, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. Persistence is the key to succeeding in the face of adversity...

step 1 : Harness the power of thought(Part2)

<ol><li>Unwavering courage based upon knowledge of self, and of one's occupation.</li><li>Self-control</li><li>Keen sense of justice</li><li>Definiteness of decision</li><li>Definiteness of plans</li><li>Habit of doing more than one is paid for</li><li>Pleasing Personality</li><li>Sympathy and understanding</li><li>Mastery of details</li><li>Willingness to assume full responsibility</li><li>Co-operation</li></ol>

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The desire is crystallized into reality. Man can create anything he can imagine.
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

Step 9 : Engage Your Imagination

<ol><li>You may see your best friend and your greatest enemy by stepping in front of a mirror.</li><li>The most common cause of both success and failure is self.</li><li>Know yourself first and based on your strengths and weaknesses choose to lead or follow.</li><li>A leader is one who creates opportunities and induces followers to design, produce, market, and distribute products and services to the marketplace.11</li></ol>

Step 2 : Know and Improve Yourself

<ol><li>Inability to organize details.</li><li>Unwillingness to render humble service.</li><li>Expectation of pay for what they "know" instead of what they do with that which they know</li><li>Fear of competition from followers</li><li>Lack of imagination</li><li>Selfishness</li><li>Intemperance</li><li>Disloyalty</li><li>Emphasis of the "authority" of leadership</li><li>Emphasis of title.</li></ol>

10 Major causes of leadership failure

<ol><li>Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time. One or the other must dominate. It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind. Here the law of habit will come to your aid. Form the habit of applying and using the positive emotions! Eventually, they will dominate your mind so completely that the negatives cannot enter it</li><li>Seven major positive emotions:</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Desire</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Faith</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Love</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Sex {Passion}</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Enthusiasm</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Romance</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Hope</li><li>Seven major negative emotions(to be avoided)</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Fear</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Jeaulosy</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Hatred</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Revenge</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Greed</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Superstition</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Anger</li></ol>

Step 6 : (Continues...)

Auto-suggestion is the only means to transfer thoughts and beliefs to the subconscious mind. Your mind has no limitations except those you choose to acknowledge and accept. Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thoughts planted in the subconscious mind.

<ol><li class="ql-align-center">The 6th sense is the dorr to the Temple of Wisdom</li><li class="ql-align-center">People become what they are because of their dominating thoughts and desires</li><li class="ql-align-center">Infinite Intelligence may,through the principles of this philosophy,be induced to aid in transmutin desires into concrete or material form</li><li class="ql-align-center">Any emergency that arouses the emotions brings the 6th sense into action.</li></ol>﻿

Step 10 : Develop your 6th sense

<ol><li>Sexual desire is,by far,the most intense and powerful of all mind stimuli,far more potent than all of the others combined</li><li>The 6th sense is the faculty that marks the difference between a genius and an ordinary individual</li><li>A highly sexed nature is a blessing,not a curse</li><li>When combined,the emotions of sex,love and romance may lift one to an altitude of a genius</li><li>The main difference between love and sex is that love is spiritual, whereas sex is biological</li><li>Far from becoming geniuses bcoz of great sex desires,all too many people lower themselves,through misunderstanding and misuse of this great force</li></ol>

Step 11 : Crack the Mystery of Sex Transmutation

<ol><li>Auto-suggestion is the means by which thought mixed with emotion is impressed upon the subconscious mind</li><li>It is inconceivable that such a network of intricate machinery should exist for the sole purpose of carrying on the physical functions incidental to growth and maintenance of the physical body.</li><li>The simplest and most practical use of the master mind principle is to engage in a harmonious discussion of a definite subject among members of your Master Mind group.</li></ol>

Step 12 : Empower your Brain : Mental Telepathy and Clairvoyance

<ol><li>Power is organized and intelligently directed knowledge</li><li>Master Mind is coordination of knowledge and effort,in a spirit of harmony,among 2 or more people,for the attainment of a definitepurpose</li><li>Great power can be accumulated through no other principle than the Master Mind</li><li>People take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony</li><li>Power is required for the accumulation and retention of money</li></ol>

Step 13 : Tap the Power of the Master Mind

<ol><li>You cannot accumulate money without a practical, workable plan.</li><li>No Individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability, and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune without the cooperation of other people</li><li>A Quitter never wins and a winner never quits...</li><li>If you do not have property or ideas to transmute into riches, then all you can offer are your personal services</li><li>QQS Formula: Quality + Quantity + Spirit of Cooperation = Perfect marketing of service</li><li>If you want money, be worth more money!!!</li></ol>

Step 14 : Settle on a plan

<ol><li>Unfavorable hereditary background</li><li>Lack of a well-defined purpose in life</li><li>Lack of ambition to aim above mediocrity</li><li>Insufficient education</li><li>Lack Lof self-discipline</li><li>Ill Health</li><li>Unfavorable environmental influences during childhood</li><li>Procastination</li><li>Lack of Persistence</li><li>Negative Personality</li><li>Lack of controlled sexual urge</li><li>Uncontrolled desire for "something for nothing"</li><li>Lack of a well-defined power of decision</li><li>One or more of the six basic fears</li><li>Wrong selection of a mate in marriage</li><li>Over-Caution</li><li>Wrong selection of associates in business</li><li>Superstition and prejudice</li><li>Wrong selection of vocation</li><li> Lack of concentration of effort</li></ol>

Remove obstacles to success: 31 major causes of failure

You are the master of your own earthly destiny just as surely as you have the power to control your own thoughts.Take inventory of yourself and find out how many of the "ghosts" are standing in your way.Liberate yourself from the six ghosts of fear

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Imagination is the workshop wherein all plans are fashioned..... Your only limitation, within reason, lies in the development and use of your imagination.... Ideas can be transmuted into cash through the power of definite purpose, plus definite plans.... Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of hardwork!..

<ol><li class="ql-align-center">The 7th basic evil is susceptibility to negative influences. It is more deeply seated and more often fatal than all of the 6 fears.</li><li class="ql-align-center">The most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people.</li><li class="ql-align-center">What you have accomplished is the only measure of your success.</li><li class="ql-align-center">Excuses are no substitute for success.</li></ol>

Step4 : Eliminate Negative Thinking : The 7th basic evil

Every noteworthy achievement begins with a burning desire for what one wants. Desire backed by faith knows no such words as "impossible". Only those who become money conscious ever accumulate great riches. No more effort is required to demand abundance and prosperity than is required to accept misery and poverty. Nothing is impossible to the person who backs desire with enduring faith

The subconscious mind transmutes emotionally charged thought mixed with faith into it physical equivalent. The subconscious mind works day and night. The subconscious acts on the thoughts it is fed, whether they are positive or negative.

<ol><li>No thought, whether negative or positive, can enter the subconscious mind without the aid of the principle of auto-suggestion, with the exception of thoughts picked up from the ether.</li><li>People may gain control of themselves and their environment, because they have the power to influence their own subconscious mind and through their subconscious minds gain the cooperation of Infinite Intelligence.</li><li>The subconscious mind takes any orders given it in a spirit of absolute faith, and acts upon those orders, although the orders often have to be presented over and over again, through repetition, before t</li></ol>

Step 7 : Control your own thoughts with auto-suggestion

Faith is the visualization and belief in the attainment of desire................ To transmute desire for riches into money, you must first convince your subconscious mind that you will receive that money............... Auto-suggestion convinces the subconscious mind to believe whatever you tell it to believe. It is the only method to induce faith..............

<ol><li class="ql-align-center">Faith is the visualization and belief in the attainment of desire. It is the eternal elixir that gives life power and gives action to the impulse of thought....</li><li class="ql-align-center">Perfection comes through practice. It cannot come by merely reading instructions...</li><li class="ql-align-center">Repetition of affirmation to your subconscious mind is the only known method to induce faith....</li><li class="ql-align-center">Your greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence...</li><li class="ql-align-center">Thoughts mixed with emotions constitute a "magnetic" force which attracts, from the vibrations of the ether, other similar, or related thoughts...</li><li class="ql-align-center">Riches begin in the form of thought!..</li></ol>

Step 8 : Believe It

<ol><li>Successful people decide and then pursue their goals with a singularity of purpose</li><li>The value of decisions depends upon the courage required to render them</li><li>Procastination is symptomatic of indecisiveness</li><li>Let one of your first decisions be to keep a closed mouth and open ears and eyes</li><li>The value of decisions depends upon the courage required to render them</li></ol>﻿

Step 16 : Be Decisive

An idea combined with a plan and the specialized knowledge to execute the plan yields riches... Knowledge is power only when organized into a definite plan of action for achieving a definite goal.. Specialized knowledge does not have to be in the possession of the person who accumulates the fortune

<ol><li class="ql-align-justify">Thought is a definite idea that combined with purpose, persistence, burning desire, and faith is transmuted into the acquisition of wealth...</li><li class="ql-align-justify">The ability to control our thoughts is what enables us to fashion our own reality</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Riches begin with a state of mind, with definiteness of purpose, with little or no hardwork</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Thought is energy that drives the action necessary to overcome obstacles between you and that which you desire.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">You are the master of your fate, the caption of your soul.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">When one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appeareance.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Thought without persistence often leads to failure.</li></ol>

Step 1 : Harness the Power of Thought(Part1)

SIX basic fears:<ol><li class="ql-align-center">Fear of Poverty</li><li class="ql-align-center">Fear of Criticism</li><li class="ql-align-center">Fear of ill Health</li><li class="ql-align-center">Fear of Lost Love</li><li class="ql-align-center">Fear of Old Age</li><li class="ql-align-center">Fear of Death</li></ol>Thought impulses begin immediately to translate themselves into their physical equivalent, whether those thoughts are voluntary or involuntary.	A Person whose mind is filled with fear not only destroys his or her own chances of intelligent action, but also transmits these destructiv vibrations to the minds of other people, destroying their chances.

Step 3 : Outwit the Six Ghosts of fear

<ol><li class="ql-align-center">You must know what you want and have a burning desire to possess it.</li><li class="ql-align-center">Success requires no apologies, failure permits no alibis.</li><li class="ql-align-center">Imagine yourself successful, reflect on past successes, set definite goals, and respond positively to life.</li><li class="ql-align-center">When you have a burning desire, no obstacle is too big to overcome.</li><li class="ql-align-center">The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at the moment of some crisis, through which they are introduced to their "other selves".</li><li class="ql-align-center">Desire backed by faith knows no such word as "impossible".</li><li class="ql-align-center">Every adversity brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage.</li></ol>

Step 5 : Develop a Burning Desire

This book is very useful for everyone irrespective of age,gender and qualification who wants to earn more money and succeed in life and to achieve their definite goals with ease.

Think and Grow Rich has been called the "Granddaddy of All Motivational Literature." It was the first book to boldly ask, "What makes a winner?" The man who asked and listened for the answer, Napoleon Hill, is now counted in the top ranks of the world's winners himself.The most famous of all teachers of success spent "a fortune and the better part of a lifetime of effort" to produce the "Law of Success" philosophy that forms the basis of his books and that is so powerfully summarized in this one. In the original Think and Grow Rich, published in 1937, Hill draws on stories of Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and other millionaires of his generation to illustrate his principles. In the updated version, Arthur R. Pell, Ph.D., a nationally known author, lecturer, and consultant in human resources management and an expert in applying Hill's thought, deftly interweaves anecdotes of how contemporary millionaires and billionaires, such as Bill Gates, Mary Kay Ash, Dave Thomas, and Sir John Templeton, achieved their wealth. Outmoded or arcane terminology and examples are faithfully refreshed to preclude any stumbling blocks to a new generation of readers.

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Ever wondered how life would be if we could condition our minds to Think and Grow Rich? Author Napoleon Hill claims to have based this book on twenty years of rigorous research on the lives of those who had amassed great wealth and made a fortune. Observing their habits, their ways of working and the principles they followed, Hill put together laws and philosophies that can be practiced in everyday life to achieve all-round success. The narrative is rich with stories and anecdotes, which not only inspire, but also show a way forward to take action. After all, riches are not just material, but also pertaining to the mind, body and spirit.  Having sold more than fifteen million copies across the world, this book remains the most read self-improvement book of all times!

Oliver Napoleon Hill was an American self-help author. He is best known for his book Think and Grow Rich, which is among the best-selling self-help books of all time. Hill's works insisted that fervid expectations are essential to improving one's life.

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