What is success? [Archive] - SuccessVibe.com

Rick Gettle

05-29-2004, 01:11 PM

:rolleyes:
I`ve heard about N.Hill, and read some of his storys. (Jump into this site using his name.)
So, wath is succsess? Most of people think that "If I only get this or that, then I`ll have succsess". Can somebody please tell me what it is, so I know what to look after?

Napoleon Hill's definition of success was: "Success is the development of your powers to get whatever you want from life without vioilating the rights of others in any way." (Hi, my name is Rick Gettle - I have been teaching his course since 1970)

(Excerpt From)

“The Science of Success Achievement” course

Copyright 1970-2004
The Master Mind Alliance – Success Academy – Rick Gettle

In his all time best selling book, Think And Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill mentions in his first chapter that throughout the book he will be referring many times to “The Carnegie Secret.” He said he would not tell you what that secret is, but when you are ready, it will jump off the page and into your brain. He said, “When the Student is ready – the master will appear.” The doors will open - the lights will turn green – the ideas will come - the money will come – the people will be there to help you.

Since 1970 we have been teaching the principles of success that Andrew Carnegie commissioned Napoleon Hill to study and share with the world. Napoleon Hill spent his entire lifetime researching the most successful people of all times from around the world.

Many, many times in our classes, workshops, talks, rallies, and in our Master Mind Alliance Success Club meetings we have asked this question to those in our audience who had read the book Think and Grow Rich,

What is The Carnegie Secret that Napoleon Hill referred to in his book?
We got all kinds of guesses and some answers that were somewhat close.
Here is ------- The Carnegie Secret
HAVE A DEFINITE MAJOR PURPOSE.
What is the most important thing you would like to accomplish in your lifetime? Try to define it in one paragraph, even if you have to keep rewriting it a hundred times until it gets as clear as possible. It has to be the most important thing in your life. Mahatma Gandhi’s definite major purpose was to win independence for India from their British rulers. He succeeded. Dr. Martin Luther King’s was equality and the end of oppression for black people. Doctor Jonas Salk’s was to find the cure and end for polio. Thomas Edison’s was the incandescent light bulb. What is yours?

If you don’t currently have what you feel is a definite major purpose, then have a definite major purpose to find your definite major purpose.
It has to be something you want so bad that you think about it all of the time.

2. BE WILLING TO STAKE YOUR ENTIRE EXISTENCE ON ACHIEVING IT.

Don’t Quit. There Are Many Starters In Life, But Very Few Finishers – When The Going Gets Tough They Quit. A person with a definite major purpose never gives up – no matter how long and tough the road is; instead, they become more determined. Jack London was rejected over 600 times before he finally sold his first piece of writing. Thomas Edison actually failed over 9,999 times before he perfected the incandescent light bulb, and over 5,000 times before he perfected the world’s first phonograph record player. There will be times when everything in you will tell you to quit – to stop trying, but if you hang in there, eventually, you will – you must succeed. Quitters never win and winners never quit.
Persistence is the power to hold on in spite of everything - to endure. It’s the ability to face defeat repeatedly without giving up—to push on even in the face of great difficulty or danger. Persistence means taking pains to overcome every obstacle, to do all that is necessary to reach your goals. You win, because you refuse to become discouraged by your defeats. Those who conquer are those who endure.

3. KEEP INTENSIFYING YOUR DESIRE.

There are many “firemen” in life that will come along and try to put your fire of desire out. They will give you all kinds of reasons why your idea or goal won’t work and tell you to give it up, forget it, or tell you “You can’t do it.” You have to become an Arsonist. An arsonist sets fires. Every morning when you wake up you have to re-light and re-build the intensity of your fire of desire. You have to eat it, sleep it, walk it, talk it, and concentrate on it until it becomes a red-hot flaming, burning, obsessional desire that will eventually mow down all of the opposition you will face throughout each day. If you don’t, your Sizzle of desire will fizzle down to nothing. I’m not suggesting that you stop talking to or seeing your family and friends – what I’m saying is to keep focused day and night, seven days a week. This will bring into play: THE LAW OF HARMONIOUS ATTRACTION. Your burning desire becomes a magnet. You will attract that which you need; the ideas and plans, the money you need, and the people you need to help you. They will eventually gravitate toward your desire.

4. HAVE BULLDOG DETERMINATION AND PERSEVERANCE

THAT WILL EVENTUALLY MOW DOWN ALL OPPOSITION.
Expect lots of problems, adversities, and discouragement along the way. Go around it – go over it – go under it – or dig a hole through it – but don’t ever turn back. Make your Definite Major Purpose the dominating thought in your mind. It is a known fact that people who have had great achievement – formed the habit of making an “obsession” of their Definite Major Purpose. Andrew Carnegie said to put all of your eggs in one basket and then watch the basket. Andrew Carnegie’s definite major purpose, which he wrote down at an early age and kept in his desk, was to earn as much money as he can in life and then, in the end, to set up the Carnegie Foundation to give it all away to worthy causes. Even after his death long ago, the Carnegie Foundation is still giving away millions every year to help mankind.

On page 36 of “Think And Grow Rich,” Napoleon Hill listed Six Steps that Turn Desires Into Gold

The 4th and most important step: Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and BEGIN AT ONCE, WHETHER YOU ARE READY OR NOT, TO PUT THIS PLAN INTO ACTION.

Most people spend half of their life trying to get ready. Do it now!
The time may never be just right. Start with the plan you have now and better plans will be uncovered as you go along.