Mitch Horowitz - Cosmic Habit Force

ALSO BY MITCH HOROWITZ

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The Power of the Master Mind

Magician of the Beautiful

Mind As Builder

The Seekers Guide to the Secret Teachings of All Ages

The Miracle Month

Daydream Believer

Uncertain Places

COSMIC

HABIT

FORCE

How to Discover and

Use Natures Superpower

MITCH

HOROWITZ

author of The Miracle Club

Published 2022 by Gildan Media LLC

aka G8D Media

www.GandDmedia.com

Copyright 2022 Mitch Horowitz

No part of this book may be used, reproduced or transmitted in any manner whatsoever, by any means (electronic, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. No liability is assumed with respect to the use of the information contained within. Although every precaution has been taken, the author and publisher assume no liability for errors or omissions. Neither is any liability assumed for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.

First Edition: 2022

Front cover design by Tom McKeveny

Interior design by Meghan Day Healey of Story Horse, LLC.

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

eISBN: 978-1-7225-2673-3

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This book is inspired by the teachings of pioneering success author Napoleon Hill (18831970). It centers on Hills late-career teaching of Cosmic Habit Force, which I consider one of his most complete, powerful, and practical ideas. Cosmic Habit Force is the teaching of Hills by which I am most personally inspired, and I build upon and explore his outlook throughout this book. I believe that this exploration not only provides a unique key to Hills system, but also functions as a blueprint to living with effectiveness, ability, and maximal self-expression.

Hills work and inspiration underscore this book. Its ideas are my own as a dedicated and lifelong student.

Seen in a certain sense, Cosmic Habit Force is the secret that Hill said he concealed no less than one hundred times in Think and Grow Rich. To state the secret flat out, Hill wrote, would deprive the reader of the fruitful effort involved in finding and learning to apply it. At the same time, Hill did not intend to play coy with his readers. With that in mind, I believe we can embark on a transparent and applicable exploration of his secret, which is, in a sense, the secret to fulfillment itself.

I reference this secret not to sound mysterious but to describe a facet of life that is frequently overlooked and even undiscovered yet is also vividly clear. Hill references his secret in the chapter on Imagination in Think and Grow Rich:

Strange and paradoxical as it may seem, the secret is NOT A SECRET. Nature, herself, advertises it in the earth on which we live, the stars, the planets suspended within our view, in the elements above and around us, in every blade of grass, and every form of life within our vision.

Nature advertises this secret in the terms of biology, in the conversion of a tiny cell, so small that it may be lost on the point of a pin, into the HUMAN BEING now reading this line. The conversion of desire into its physical equivalent is, certainly, no more miraculous!

I have written about Hills secret before, and there are different ways of stating it. But all of them refer back to one basic truth: you experience innate and inevitable power when you enter into natural alignment with laws that enable the growth and maintenance of all life. This is not dissimilar to concepts found within Taoism and Transcendentalism. Once you function within this cosmic flow, cycles of growth appear in your life. You become like the seedling that eventually bursts through the soil. All of nature aids your progress. This is not because you are somehow elevated or advanced but simply because you are operating within innate cycles of growth and production.

With the cultivation of right habits and choiceswhich means sustained, generative conduct and activityyou merge with reproductive, cyclical, and natural laws. As will be seen, these laws also possess a metaphysical or extra-material dimension. Barring some equally powerful intervention, these laws deliver you to the destination you intently seek.

This book helps you select among and live within those transcendentally and physically harmonious habits and choices. The 23 cosmic habits in this book are not direct echoes of what appears within the work of Napoleon Hill.* You do not need a new book to retread old ground. Rather, these habits are freshbut also faithfulsoundings of themes and imperatives found in Hills work and that members of my Master Mind group, as well as devotees of Hills writing from all stations of life, have committedly worked with.** Each habit is presented in a manner that I hope addresses your most urgently felt needs, as well as broader demands that characterize our present era. Taken together, these 23 steps are an applied program in Cosmic Habit Force. They ultimately synchronize you with cycles, inevitabilities, and forces that bring growth to our world and to you as an individual. In that sense, Cosmic Habit Force can feel like a causative energy at the back of your effortswhich, in fact, it is.

The approach that I have describedcultivation of generative habits and actionsis not only a formula for accomplishment, but it is the best lifestyle I personally know of for individual happiness. We are conditioned to think in terms of elusive or inflated concepts when we consider self-development and its horizons. People of a spiritual orientation might employ terms like realized, enlightened, or illumined. I personally find such language overused and, based on observation, excessive. People of a psychological bent may use terms like well-adjusted, actualized, or fulfilled. Those concepts are perhaps more graspable; but, like the recent vocabulary of cognitive-behavioral therapy, psychological terminology can proscribe the individual to a life of diagnostic contentment rather than encourage and support a more expansive sense of attainment.

For my part, I contend, and I believe that Hills work affirms, that the true aim of life is maximum self-expression.

Individualized expression occurs often, though not always, through livelihood or personal aim. These are sometimes the same and sometimes different. It is important to note that Hills program is not strictly about careerism or money-making; it is about the concretization of ideas. Yet in his landmark Think and Grow Rich, Hill also acknowledged, with an admirable absence of sentimentality, that money and material things are essential for freedom of body and mind. Anyone who doubts that has probably never known lack. Voluntarily or periodically eschewing money is not the same as suffering its true absence. If you grew up in the shadow of need, as I did, you probably have no doubts about the reality of what I have just stated.