Mitch Horowitz - Think Your Way to Wealth Action Plan (Master Class Series)

Think Your Way to Wealth Action Plan

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Think Your Way to Weath Action Plan

A MASTER CLASS COURSE WITH

Mitch Horowitz

Published 2019 by Gildan Media LLC

aka G&D Media

www.GandDmedia.com

THINK YOUR WAY TO WEALTH ACTION PLAN. Copyright 2019 by Mitch Horowitz. All rights reserved.

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FIRST EDITION 2019

Interior design by Meghan Day Healey of Story Horse, LLC

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request

ISBN: 978-1-7225-0224-9

eISBN: 978-1-7225-2319-0

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Contents

Introduction

A Meeting of Giants

As Napoleon Hill described it, this program began as a dialogue he had as a young journalist with steel magnate Andrew Carnegie in 1908. Hill said that he planned to interview Carnegie but instead received a tutorial in the principles behind achieving successand something more. The industrialist urged his visitor to make an intensive study of the lives of high achievers and notable figures in both history and early twentieth-century life to determine whether they possessed a set of common habits, ideals, and practices.

Hill said he spent twenty years making such a study, which resulted in his 1928 classic The Law of Success, his landmark Think and Grow Rich in 1937, and finally the book that forms the basis of this program, Think Your Way to Wealth, in 1948. The principles that Hill discovered laid the foundation for the field of business motivation as it exists today.

I have never been able to historically verify whether the Hill-Carnegie meeting took place. No contemporaneous article or published interview by Hill exists, and Carnegie made no mention of the fetching young journalist in his autobiography, which appeared in 1920, the year after his death. Hill did not begin referring to the fateful meeting until nearly a decade after Carnegie died.

But nor is such a meeting implausible. In 1908, Hill was writing for Bob Taylors Magazine, a general interest and inspirational journal published by Taylor, the former governor of Tennessee. Hills author photo and byline appear in a 1908 issue, and the magazine, like many periodicals of the day, featured profiles of business movers-and-shakers, and stories of how they attained their success. An interview with Carnegie would have been the ultimate get.

Whatever transpired, I have no doubt as a historian, seeker, and longtime reader of Hills material that he dedicated the twenty years described to his study of the principles of success. Like many of Hills admirers, I am repeatedly struck by the breadth, richness, and practicality of his material. More so, I can attest from personal experience that it works. I often mark 2013 as a turning point in my life: it was the year that I determined to read Think and Grow Rich in a more than casual way: I was done with skimming and cherry-picking among his chapters; I vowed to approach every single technique as though my life depended upon it. And, in a sense, it did. Maybe yours does, too. Things began to happen: my career as a writer, speaker, narrator, lecturer, and television presenter flourished.

The program Hill presents in Think Your Way to Wealth (which he also published under the title How to Raise Your Own Salary ) is structured as a dialogue between him and Carnegie. I narrated the program as my first full-length audio book in 2011yet, in all honesty, I found the original work verbose and artificial-seeming in its dialogue. For Hill, it reflected a rare departure from his usual crisp and to-the-point writing style. This may have reflected deadline pressures. Yet the ideas within the book are absolutely gleaming explorations of hard-won and effective insights in how to actualize your aims in the world. For that reason, this Action Plan distills and emphasizes the most vital and applicable elements of Think Your Way to Wealth. Each of these ten lessons captures, updates, and shows how to apply Hills ideas.

This Action Plan explores some of Hills most basic ideas, such as the unparalleled importance of possessing a Definite Chief Aim, and carefully considers some of the teachers more controversial or neglectedbut nonetheless vitalinsights, such as the question of sex transmutation and the existence of cosmic habit force.

I hope you will find this program a deeply useful introduction or refresher to Hills success philosophy. It gives me great personal joy to explore with you both Hills core concepts and those that are too easily bypassed or overlooked, and in a manner that you can begin applying today.

Lesson

ONE

A Definite Chief Aim

I often tell people that if you take only a single idea from the work of Napoleon Hill, make it the cultivation and possession of a Definite Chief Aim. Hill found the concept so important that he capitalized it, as I continue to do here.

This idea opens and informs every chapter of Think Your Way to Wealth. There is literally no greater step toward power, success, and achievement than possessing one finely honed, passionately felt, singular aim in life. It can appear difficult to select one overriding aim. Life places many demands on us, from parenting and caregiving to recovery and breadwinning. But it is a law of nature that concentration brings force, just as rays of light focused into a single beam bring searing power. Indeed, it is a tough but transcendent law of life that if you can focus with brilliant clarity on one obsessively felt, emotionally charged aim, you are almost certain to receive what you want or something close to it.

It is also true that a deeply felt aim might require you to downplay certain things in life. This should not include personal health, as will be explored in lesson eight. But it should be kept in mind that a well-selected aim can cover many bases, perhaps allowing you to help loved ones or serve your own needs in ways that you might not have previously imagined. Lets say your aim is wealth. Although money is certainly not the answer to all things in life, it can solve problems, make up for shortages in time, and help bridge distances. Financial resources have their limits but they can answer urgent needs.

An aim must be specific. Merely wanting money is not enough. Everyone, to some greater or lesser degree, wants money. You must have a plain, realistic, and definite way of getting there. Napoleon Hill records Andrew Carnegie telling him:

My own major purpose is that of making and marketing steel. I conceived that purpose while working as a laborer. It became an obsession with me. I took it to bed with me at night, I took it to work with me in the morning. My Definite Purpose became more than a mere wish; it became my burning desire. That is the only sort of definite purpose that brings results