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Transcript: 20 Things Napoleon Hill Said That Changed Millions of Lives

“The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.” – Napoleon Hill

Without DESIRE there is no FIRE. The fire within can only come out when YOU really want it to…

That is why the START of anything GREAT is the moment YOU DECIDE you HAVE TO HAVE IT. That burning desire from within… that moment when YOU DECIDE: THIS IS IT!

That is the start of something great. Do whatever you can to find that spark, to get that FIRE WITHIN burning.

“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.” – Napoleon Hill

“Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.” – Napoleon Hill

NOTHING is over for the person who REFUSES to give up.

There is no failure to the person who DOES NOT QUIT… there is only DELAYED SUCCESS.

If it isn’t happening right away: DO NOT QUIT. Have patience for the fact that it hasn’t showed up yet, but impatience in working TOWARD IT.

Persist… and eventually it will be YOURS!

“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” – Napoleon Hill

“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill

“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” – Napoleon Hill

“Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.” – Napoleon Hill

Most people strive for a life of little or no struggle. No-one seeks pain or challenges and nor should they… but that is precisely where GROWTH lies. In the challenges and the struggle that come from PUSHING for what you really want in life.

Those who refuse to go after what they truly want in life have failed by default.

Sure, they might not have to suffer through setbacks… they won’t have to live with the embarrassment of failure… but they will have to live with something much worse… and that is REGRET.

If you’re really pushing to become the VERY BEST VERSION of yourself… there is going to be FAILURE… there is going to be HEARTACHE, EMBARRASSMENT and everything in between… but if you refuse to quit… if you persist… not only will you succeed in getting to your goal… but you will EARN something much more valuable: PRIDE and CHARACTER.

Pride and character only come from GROWTH. GROWTH only comes from pushing yourself. You can’t buy it, you have to EARN IT.

“Tell me how you use your spare time, and how you spend your money, and I will tell you where and what you will be in ten years from now.” – Napoleon Hill

How can you tell what your future will look like? Have a look at your daily habits.

If they are strong, your future will be strong.

If they are designed to move you TOWARD a life you want… you will move toward a life you want. If they are not… you won’t.

You have to be INTENTIONAL about how you spend your time and your money.

Create a plan of daily action that will, over time lead to strong habits…. Habits that will move you closer to your goals.

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.” – Napoleon Hill

Goals are great, but without deadlines they are WISHES, HOPES… DREAMS.

Dreams can only come true if you get serious about them… and the first step to getting serious about your GOALS is to set a DEADLINE for when you must achieve it.

It should be difficult enough to reach to get you MOVING immediately… but realistic enough to attain.

It should be a struggle to attain it… but not impossible.

Another way of saying it is: The person you are right NOW should not be able to achieve it. You will have to GROW into someone else entirely by pushing yourself, in a positive way to make sure it is achieved.

That is a GOAL!

“When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.” – Napoleon Hill

Defeat comes to all of us. Most of us give up.

Don’t be like most. When temporary defeat visits you – take responsibility. What can YOU DO BETTER?

How can you USE the failure as a lesson. How can your PLAN or PATH be clearer next time around?

DO NOT GIVE UP.

SHOCK everyone with your persistence and staying power. Then shock them with your results the second time around.

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill

“There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.” – Napoleon Hill

Napoleon hill believed there were NO LIMITS.
Most of the greatest people in history refused to entertain the limits of the majority. If they did… they’d never have been great and we’d perhaps never know they existed.

REFUSE to accept limits of your family, friends or society.

If it’s never been done before… believe you can be the FIRST.

If no one believes in you… BE THE ONE WHO STARTS.

It is very clear that MINDSET is the greatest asset you can have if you want to do great things with your life.

Develop that mindset, believe in yourself and become unstoppable.

“The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.” – Napoleon Hill

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top, because most people settle.

Most people settle before getting on the ladder. They settle in their job, they settle in relationships… they settle in their health.

They refuse to put in the effort at the start, and so their life… getting through the day becomes a giant effort.

Be one of the few who aren’t afraid to take the harder path EARLY ON so you can enjoy the easier path later in life. Keep climbing that ladder, and when you get to the top, see if you can inspire someone else to work their way up too.

“It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.” – Napoleon Hill

“If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.” – Napoleon Hill

This life of yours is exactly that… YOURS.

It’s YOURS to create whatever you want of it. If you want a great body: that’s YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. If you want a great MINDSET: YOUR RESPONSIBILITY.

The government can tax you to the hills… but no one can tax your mind… that is ALWAYS something YOU CONTROL. No one and no event can conquer you but YOURSELF.

Take care of your mind, there is nothing more important. Nurture it with positive thoughts, with teachings that help you to GROW, with anything and everything that makes you feel better, stronger as a human being.

There is nothing more important.

“The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.” – Napoleon Hill

“Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.” – Napoleon Hill

“Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.” – Napoleon Hill

No one ever got ahead by acting like they knew everything about everything.

Be humble enough to know you DON’T KNOW everything

Be curious enough to SEEK new knowledge EVERYWHERE you go. In books, in teachings and in EVERYONE you speak with.

There’s always something to learn, from everyone.

Surround yourself with mostly people that will either enhance your future, or make you feel good in the present.

“You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.” – Napoleon Hill

“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” – Napoleon Hill

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.” – Napoleon Hill

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We cannot call something a distraction unless we know what it is distracting us from.

Let me say that again. You can’t call something a distraction unless you know what it distracted you from.

If you don’t plan your day, somebody is going to plan it for you. The social media companies, the news, your boss, your kids, somebody is going to take up that time in your day unless you decide in advance how you want to spend your time.

We need to talk about the leading cause of distraction. The leading cause of distraction is not what is happening outside of us. Because what I discovered in my five years of research is that most distraction begins from within. We call these “internal triggers”.

What are internal triggers? Internal triggers are uncomfortable emotional sensations that we seek to escape from.

You see, in fact, all human behavior, all human behavior, everything you do, you do for only one reason: the desire to escape discomfort.

So calling yourself indistractable doesn’t mean you never get distracted. That’s impossible. The difference between an indistractable person and a distractable person is that an indistractable person understands why they got distracted, and has the tools to do something about it.

There’s a wonderful Paulo Coelho quote. He said, “A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.” If we keep getting distracted by the same stupid things day after day, week after week, month after month, we are choosing to be distractable.

An indistractable person looks at why they got distracted with this methodology I’ve developed and understands the source of the problem to make sure that they don’t keep getting distracted by doing something today to prevent getting distracted tomorrow.

To understand distraction, we really need to understand what that word even means. When people say they got distracted, what does that actually mean? I didn’t understand the real definition of the term “distraction” until I started along this line of research. The best way to understand what distraction is, is to understand what distraction is not. If you ask most people what is the opposite of distraction, they’ll tell you it’s focus, of course, right? Hmm, not exactly. You see, if you look at the origin of the word distraction, the opposite of distraction is not focus, the opposite of distraction is traction, that both words come from the same Latin root “trahere”, which means “to pull”. So traction, by definition, is any action that pulls you towards what you said you were going to do, things that you do with intent, things that help you live out your values and become the kind of person you want to become.

Now, the opposite of traction is distraction. Distraction, by definition, is any action that pulls you away from what you plan to do, anything that is not consistent with your values, anything that pulls you away from becoming the kind of person you want to become.

So this isn’t just wordplay. This is incredibly important, because I would argue, any action can be either traction or distraction. Let me give you a great example. For years, every time I would get into work, I would sit down at my desk and I would say, “Okay, I’m going to get started on that big project, I’ve got to focus, I have to concentrate, I’m not going to get distracted. I’m not going to procrastinate.” I’m going to get started on that big project that I’ve been putting off. Here I go, I’m going to do it right now. But first, let me check some email, let me scroll this Slack channel. let me do all these other tasks that feel work related.” But really, I didn’t realize that I was allowing distraction to trick me into prioritizing the easy and urgent stuff to trick me into prioritizing the easy and urgent stuff as opposed to doing the important work that I knew I had to do.

So even tasks that feel like they’re work related, if it’s not what you plan to do with your time, they are, in fact, distractions. And in fact, they’re the most pernicious form of distractions, because if we play a video game at our desk, well, we clearly know we’re off task. But when we think we’re working on one project, when we think we’re doing one task that seems to be the right thing to do because it’s work related, but really, we’re putting off doing more important work. That is a much more sinister form of distraction. Conversely, just as anything can be a distraction, anything can be traction. So don’t listen to these chicken-little tech critics that tell you the sky is falling and that technology is addicting us and hijacking our brains. It’s rubbish.

There’s nothing wrong with playing a video game or watching a movie on Netflix or enjoying social media, if it’s what you PLAN to do with your time. You see, the difference between traction and distraction is one word. And that one word is “forethought”. The time you PLAN to waste is not wasted time.

So if you want to take a walk, take a nap, scroll social media, pray, meditate, whatever it is you want to do with your time is totally fine as long as you do it with intent, as long as you have planned ahead as to how you want to spend your time. You can otherwise turn a distraction into traction by planning ahead, by using forethought.

So now that we understand the difference between traction and distraction, we need to ask what drives us towards traction or distraction.

We have two kinds of triggers. The first kind of trigger is called an “external trigger”, and it’s what people tend to blame, the usual suspects like the pings, the dings, the rings, anything in your outside environment that can lead you towards traction or distraction. We can get back to those in just a minute. But first, I want to focus on what’s even more important than the external triggers.

We need to talk about the leading cause of distraction. The leading cause of distraction is not what is happening outside of us, because what I discovered in my five years of research is that most distraction begins from within. We call these “internal triggers”. What are internal triggers? Internal triggers are uncomfortable emotional sensations that we seek to escape from. You see, in fact, all human behavior, all human behavior, everything you do, you do for only one reason: the desire to escape discomfort. In fact, even the desire to feel pleasure is, itself, psychologically destabilizing. This is called the “homeostatic response”.

If you think about it, if you go outside and it’s cold, well, the brain tells you, “Oh, this is uncomfortable, you should put on a coat.” When you walk back inside, the brain says, “Oh, it’s too hot in here, take it off.” If you feel hunger pangs, you eat. If you’re full because you ate too much, you stop eating. And so physiologically, everything we do is about a desire to escape discomfort. This is called the “homeostatic response”. It’s pretty common sense.

But what most people don’t realize is that the same phenomenon occurs with our psychological sensations. Think about it. Where do people go when they’re feeling lonely? Well, you check a social network like Facebook. And what about when you’re uncertain? Before you scan your brain to see if you know the answer, you’re Googling? And what about when you’re feeling bored? Oh my goodness, so many solutions to boredom, right? Check the news, check stock prices, sports scores, Pinterest, Reddit, all kinds of solutions to take care of this uncomfortable sensation of boredom, because we don’t like those internal triggers, they don’t feel good, and we look for escape from them.

So here’s the fact of the matter:

TIME management is PAIN management.

And if all human behavior is about a desire to escape discomfort, if you don’t understand what is that emotional itch, what is the uncomfortable sensation you are looking to escape, whether it’s with too much news, too much booze, too much football, too much Facebook, it doesn’t matter; we have to first start by mastering these internal triggers, so that we can gain control over them, as opposed to them controlling us.

So now that we understand the difference between traction and distraction, and we understand that we are driven towards traction or distraction by internal and external triggers, we can actually plot out the four points of how we become indistractable. It starts, first and foremost, by mastering the internal triggers, by understanding the deeper reasons why we look for escape from those uncomfortable sensations. The next step is to make time for traction.

Over the past five years research in my book, I’ve talked to thousands of people, and many of them have complained to me about how distracting the world is, how they can’t get anything done because social media this, and did you hear what happened in the news that, and their boss wants this and their kids want that, and they tell me how distracted they are. But when I asked them, “Okay, but what did you get distracted from exactly? Let me see your calendar. What was it that you plan to do?” They haven’t a clue. Sometimes they’ll show me their calendar.

And I’m guilty of this as well. I used to do this several years ago before I wrote this book. My calendar was blank. I’d have maybe an appointment here and there, but for the most of my day, I didn’t have anything planned. What I did have was a super long to-do list with all kinds of tasks I wanted to check off. What I’ve since discovered is that running your day with a to-do list as opposed to a calendar, is just about the worst thing you could possibly do for your productivity. Instead of keeping it to do list, which we tend to tick off the easy stuff and the fun stuff as opposed to the important stuff, when we keep a calendar, not just a calendar, a time box calendar, we utilize this fundamental truth that we cannot call something a distraction unless we know what it is distracting us from.

Let me say that again. You can’t call something a distraction unless you know what it distracted you from. And so if you don’t plan your day, somebody is going to plan it for you. The social media companies, the news, your boss, your kids, somebody is going to take up that time in your day unless you decide, in advance, how you want to spend your time. There’s a reason we call it spending time and paying attention. The same type of language that we use to describe spending money and paying with dollars and cents, because our time and attention has value. And so if you just give it away to whoever wants it, don’t complain when you haven’t gotten done what you wanted to do with your time, and frankly, with your life.

So, this comes down to turning our values into time. What does that mean? Fundamentally, we have to ask ourselves, what are our values? So what are values anyway?

Values are attributes of the person you want to become, meaning you have to ask yourself, how would the person I want to become spend their time?

Now we can ask ourselves within these three life domains of you, your relationships, and finally your work. How would the person I want to become spend their time starting with you? So whatever is important for you in terms of personal values, how much time would the person you want to become spend on reading, on yoga, on prayer, on meditation, whatever it is that’s important to you, heck, playing video games, if that’s important to you, that’s part of your values, and the way you want to take care of yourself, wonderful, but plan that time in your schedule.

Next, our relationships. We are going through a global loneliness crisis, because over the past several decades, and this didn’t start with social media, but since the 1990s, social scientists have told us that the time that people devote to planned activities with their friends has markedly decreased. And so we can bring that back. We can make sure that we spend time with our friends, loved ones, and family members by putting time for it in our schedule.

If part of your value system involves being a devoted spouse, or a loving parent, or an available sibling, do you have that time to connect with the important people in your life scheduled and held on your calendar? And then finally, when it comes to our values around our work.

You see, work is split up into two kinds of work. We have what we call “reactive work” and “reflective work”. Reactive work is how most people spend most of their time at work. It’s responding to emails, answering phone calls, messages, slack notifications, reacting to what other people want you to do with your time. Now, that time is clearly part of many people’s jobs, but what we neglect to do is to carve out and protect time for reflective work.

Listen, if you want a leg up on the competition, if you want to do your job better than anyone else can, let me give you a little secret. Make time to think. You know why? Because it’s such a rare skill; nobody’s doing it.

Nobody’s making time in their day to work without distraction, to allow you the time to reflect, to plan, to strategize. You have got to have that time held and secured on your calendar.

So the second step to becoming indistractable is to make time for traction by keeping a time box calendar and then doing what we call “doing a schedule sync with the important stakeholders in your life.” So this will not only change your work-life balance, it’ll also change your relationship with your life partner. For example, when you can sit down with your schedule once a week, takes maybe 10-15 minutes, and review that physical artifact of your schedule, this is how we make sure that we live up to our obligations to others and to ourselves. The third step to becoming indistractable is to hack back our external triggers. So external triggers, again, are these pings, dings, and rings, anything in our outside environment that can lead us off track towards distraction rather than traction. And so there’s all kinds of things that we can do. Many of these things are really common sense.

Two thirds of Americans never change their smartphone notification settings. What? Can we really complain that our smartphones are addicting us when we haven’t taken five minutes to turn those notifications that don’t serve us, off?

So the critical question is to ask ourselves, when it comes to all of these external triggers, all of these pings and dings, which external triggers serve me and which am I serving? And to critically evaluate in all the different external triggers in your life, not just on your phone, but on your computer, at home, at work, meetings, emails, all of these external triggers, which are serving you and which are you serving? And it turns out that there are, in fact, thousands of free tools that we can use to hack back technology. And I used that term very deliberately. “To hack” means “to gain unauthorized access”. Does anybody not know that the big tech companies and the big media companies are in the business of harvesting our attention?

This isn’t something new to social media. If you think about newspapers, cable TV shows, all of them sell your eyeballs to the highest bidder. They sell them to advertisers. And there’s nothing necessarily wrong with the news or television or social media as long as you know what you’re in for. And the good news is, as opposed to television and newspapers, you can actually hack back with interactive technologies.

So there are all kinds of tools that we can use. For example, when I scroll Facebook, I love Facebook, but I don’t need to see that newsfeed. There’s a free Chrome extension called Facebook Newsfeed Eradicator that does exactly what it says. It gets rid of that newsfeed so that you can check Facebook without looking at this wall of noise. Instead, you can go to specific friends and see what’s up on their specific pages. Another great tool is YouTube DF. I love YouTube videos. You’re probably watching me on YouTube right now. But do I really need to see all those ads, all those extra videos that are put there in order to keep me watching and watching? No, I can install a great Chrome extension called YouTube DF. DF stands for “distraction free”. And this free Chrome extension will scrub out all the superfluous stuff around the video, so that you can just see the video you’re watching without a lot of the tricks that they use to keep you hooked. But this is really the tip of the iceberg.

We can learn how to hack back these external triggers in all different facets of our life. How to hack back meetings, how to hack back email, how to even hack back working from home when so many of us are working at home and our kids might distract us from time to time, what do we do to make sure that we can hack back all the various distractions in our life, so that these external triggers lead us towards traction rather than distraction?

Finally, the fourth step to becoming indistractable is preventing distraction with pacts. Pacts implement this psychological technique of making a precommitment. Now, a precommitment is when we decide, in advance, what we want to do to prevent ourselves from doing something we don’t want to do. And there are three types of pacts. We have effort pacts, price pacts, and identity pacts. Effort packs are when we put some bit of friction in between us and something we don’t want to do.

So for example, in my household, for many years, I found that my wife and I were going to bed later and later every night. She was scrolling her iPad and I was on my computer. And so one night, we decided to use some of these techniques, and we decided to get ourselves a $10 outlet timer. Now, this outlet timer, you plug it into the wall outlet, and anything you plug into it will turn on or off at any time of designated day or night. So in my household, at every night at 10 pm, my internet router shuts off. In fact, today you can buy internet routers with this functionality built right in, so some devices can stay on while others turn off. And this is an incredibly effective technique to make a pact with yourself. Now, could I get back online somehow? Of course, I could find a way to cheat. But I’ve inserted a bit of mindfulness because of the extra effort required so that I can think for a minute and say to myself, “Wait a minute, is this really important, is this really consistent with my values, or is this leading me down the path of distraction rather than traction?” So that’s one example of an effort pact. A price pact is when we put some kind of monetary disincentive on the line. And then perhaps the most powerful of the three types of pacts is what we call an “identity pact”. And identity pact comes out of the psychology of religion.

Research has shown us that when we have some kind of name, some kind of moniker that we identify with, it becomes much more likely that we’ll reach our long-term goals.

So for example, when someone calls themselves a devout Muslim or an observant Christian or even, for that matter, a vegetarian. A vegetarian doesn’t wake up in the morning and say, “Hmm, I wonder if I’ll have a bacon sandwich for breakfast?” No, a vegetarian knows that they don’t eat that because they don’t eat meat. They are a vegetarian. Well, we can adopt a similar mindset and use this psychological hack ourselves by labeling ourselves as indistractable.

When you think of yourself as the kind of person who strives to do what they say they’re going to do, the kind of person who lives with personal integrity, you can call yourself indistractable. And that moniker has been shown to help us stay on track and achieve our long-term goals. One of the things I learned over the past five years of researching the psychology of distraction, is that distraction is not a new thing. Facebook and the internet and the iPhone didn’t invent distraction.

In fact, Plato, the Greek philosopher, talked about distraction over 2500 years ago. He called it ‘akrasia’ in the Greek; the tendency that we have to do things against our better interest. And Plato wondered why is it that despite knowing what to do, we don’t just do it. And if this was difficult in Plato’s day, it’s even more baffling today. In previous generations, people could say, “Well, I don’t know what to do. I don’t have access to the information to tell me some kind of secrets.” But there are no secrets. Who doesn’t basically know how to lose weight? You have to eat right and exercise. Who doesn’t basically know how to improve your work performance? You have to do the work, especially the hard stuff that other people don’t want to do. Who doesn’t know that to improve our relationships with our family and loved ones, we have to be fully present and invest in those relationships?

We already know this stuff. What we don’t know is how to stop getting in our own way. How do we stop getting distracted?

You see, there are typically two types of people when it comes to dealing with distraction. We have what we call the “blamers” and the “shamers”. The blamers blame things outside themselves. “It’s Facebook, it’s my boss, it’s the modern world these days that makes me so distracted and unable to accomplish my goals.” And then you have the shamers. The shamers, they don’t blame things outside themselves; they shame themselves. And here’s what it sounds like.

This is what I used to do all the time. “Oh, maybe there’s something wrong with me. I’m not very good at focusing. Maybe I have an addictive personality. Maybe I’m this, maybe I’m that. There I go again, doing this thing that I said I wasn’t going to do once again. There’s probably something broken in my brain.” And that’s almost never the case. Both techniques are not very effective. The blamer blames things outside of themselves that they have virtually no control to change.

We can go back into some time machine before these technologies existed. And even if we could, there was no magical time without distraction. The shamers really harm themselves with that mindset because the more shame we feel, the worst we feel. And ironically, when we feel shame, a very uncomfortable emotion, many people escape that sensation with guess what? More distraction to take their mind off of how crummy they feel about themselves. So we don’t want to be blamers. We don’t want to be shamers.

We want to be what we call “claimers”. Claimers claim responsibility not for how they feel. This is a really important point. Most people don’t realize you cannot control your feelings, you can only control how you respond to those feelings, that the reason we get distracted, the reason we procrastinate, it’s not a character flaw, there’s nothing wrong with you; it’s simply that you don’t have the tools to deal with those uncomfortable feelings in a healthy manner to lead you towards traction rather than distraction.

You see, many things in the world these days are not your fault. You didn’t invent Facebook, you didn’t invent social media, you didn’t create what’s happening in the news today; these things aren’t your fault. But managing your response to the discomfort that you feel every day that can lead you towards distraction is your responsibility. Many people will classify distraction as certain behaviors. Playing a video game, that’s bad, that’s distracting, but doing your work is somehow good. But that can’t be right. I would argue that any action can be either traction or distraction, whether it’s something we do with intent, with forethought.

So for example, if you sit down at your desk, and guide your work life based on what’s on your to-do list, you’re going to have attention for doing the things that are urgent, easy, or fun, as opposed to doing the stuff that’s actually important. You see, distraction tricks us by us thinking that what we’re working on is what we think we should be doing: checking emails. slack notifications, whatever it is that seems like a work related task.

What we’re doing is allowing distraction to trick us into doing what I call “pseudo work”: these things that we feel like we’re being productive by doing these work-related tasks, but if it’s not what we plan to do with our time, working on that big report, finishing that proposal, whatever the case might be, not doing the work we’re avoiding, that is, in fact, a more dangerous, insipid form of distraction because we don’t even realize we’re getting distracted.

So being indistractable is really the skill of the century. Look, if you think that the world is distracting today, just wait a few years. All trends point to the fact that the world will become an increasingly distracting place.

As technology improves and becomes more ubiquitous, there will be more potentially distracting things in the world. Whether it’s virtual reality or augmented reality or who knows what other kinds of reality, the temptation to get distracted will only increase if you are looking for distraction and you are not armed to deal with it. Which is why becoming indistractable really will be the skill of the century.

Look, I think, in the future, there will be two kinds of people in the world. There will be the kind of people who allow their time and attention and their lives to be manipulated and controlled by others. And there will be the kind of people who stand up and say, “No, I will decide how I spend my time, how I spend my attention, how I live my life. I am indistractable.”

So you hear a lot of people these days saying that technology is addicting us, that it’s hijacking our brains, and there’s basically nothing that we can do about it. And I want to tell you right now that you are much more powerful than you think. Look, I wrote the book on how companies get us hooked. The book is called Hooked: How to Build Habit Forming Products. And I know every which way that these companies are designed to manipulate your time and attention. And I will tell you, these techniques that the tech companies use are good; they’re not that good. Meaning if we use a few simple techniques to regain control over our time and attention, we are much more powerful than the tech companies.

One of the worst things that you can do is to believe that you are somehow addicted. Now, some people are in fact addicted. If you think about alcohol, for example, alcohol is highly addictive, but is everyone who has a glass of wine or a beer with dinner an alcoholic? Of course not. Very few people are actually addicted to alcohol, and very few people are actually addicted to social media. Now, short of people with the pathology of addiction, the rest of us have to understand that there are things that we can do right now that are very simple to do to make sure that we can control these technologies, as opposed to these technologies controlling us.

The study of what people will do when they feel bored is fascinating. In fact, a study by Timothy Wilson at Harvard found that a significant proportion of people would rather shock themselves with an electrical shock they were told would be painful, than to sit alone in a room and feel boredom. Now, this study reveals to us that there are steps that we will take to try and avoid this uncomfortable sensation, that we would rather have some kind of stimulus than to be stuck alone feeling this uncomfortable emotional itch.

So what this tells us is that we have to find ways to cope with discomfort in a healthier manner. Because many of us, when we feel bored, lonesome, indecisive, fatigued, uncertainty, we reflexively look for some kind of escape. whether that escape is by turning on the television or checking our phones or doing something to take our mind off of that discomfort. Instead, what we can do is we can use those internal triggers, those uncomfortable emotional sensations as rocket fuel to move us forward towards traction, as opposed to trying to escape them with distraction. How can we do that? Well, we have to start with understanding that feeling bad is not bad.

I think that there’s a very popular myth in the self-help communities these days, that somehow if we feel any kind of emotional discomfort, we have to escape it as quickly as possible; that if we feel lonesome or bored or indecisive or anxious or fatigued or stressed, God forbid, we should have to feel those sensations. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth.

The default human condition is not to be perpetually happy, to be always contented; quite the opposite. Our default state is perpetual disquietude, is always wanting more. And if you think about it, what drives entrepreneurs, artists, politicians, what drives people to change the world is this uncomfortable desire for more, to do something better. That’s what has always driven our species forward. And if you can harness that discomfort and use it to your advantage, this is how we get ahead, this is how we make the world a better place, by understanding that discomfort and dealing with it in a healthy way, as opposed to trying to escape it with distraction in an unhealthy manner.

So there’s a technique called “progressive extremism” that can really be a useful tactic if you’re trying to change your life in a positive manner. And this acknowledges the fact that temporary fixes are pointless. What’s the point of getting in shape by going on some kind of fad diet so you can fit in your wedding dress for just one day, if you’re not maintaining a healthy lifestyle forever? The point of getting in shape is to have the benefits for the rest of your life. So instead of having some kind of crash diet, which we know people tend to bounce back from and with a vengeance, instead, what we want to do is to train ourselves with this technique called progressive extremism.

What does progressive extremism mean? Progressive extremism means that we are going to remove some kind of unhealthy behavior in our life for the rest of our lives, nut we’re going to do it in a very small way.

Here’s how it works: So for me, when I decided I wanted to eat less processed sugar, I didn’t say, “That’s it, I’m never touching processed sugar ever again.” Instead, what I said was, “I am going to cut out one food that’s refined sugar for the rest of my life.” But it has to be easy. So the first food I started with was candy corn. Now, I don’t know if you like candy corn, I don’t really like candy corn all that much. I would eat it kind of on Halloween when my daughter would bring it back from trick-or-treating. It’s kind of the dregs of the Halloween haul. And so I decided one year, “You know what? I’m eating these things not because I like them, but because they’re just here. Well, they’re never going to be here ever again.” And so I pledged myself, “I’m never going to eat another candy corn for the rest of my life.” No big deal, I didn’t really like him to begin with. And then I was ready to do a bit more, to progress. So the next thing I said I’m not going to eat ever again, was I excised sodas, sugary sodas in the house. Now, I told myself I could drink sugary sodas outside the house, just not in the house. That was the first tiny baby step that I was going to take along this path of progressive extremism. When I was ready, about a month later, I decided to excise more and more and more. And so today, after years of doing this, there’s all kinds of things that I just don’t eat. And what we’re doing is leveraging an identity that we know that people who say that “they don’t” versus those who say “I can’t”, are much more likely to stick with their long-term goals.

Because when you say “I don’t do something,” for example, “I don’t eat meat, I am a vegetarian,” versus “Oh, no, thanks, I can’t because I’m on a diet,” you’re much more likely to stick over the long term. So when you regularly review this list of “Wow, look at all the things that I don’t have in my life anymore, starting with candy corn, sugary drinks,” whatever the case might be these small, simple things that you’ve removed from your life over years, and this takes time and commitment, what you’ll find is that you’ll be very proud to have this entire list of things that you don’t really miss anymore, because you took this path of progressive extremism. So if there’s one mantra that summarizes my five years of research into the psychology of distraction, it’s this: that the antidote to impulsiveness is forethought.

You see, our species has an amazing gift that no other animal on the face of the earth has, which is that we can see into the future. We can predict what is going to happen with greater fidelity than any other animal that roams the earth. And so we should use that capability because if you wait till the last minute, you will lose. If you wait until the cigarette is lit in your hand, you’re going to smoke it. If you wait till the chocolate cake is on a fork on the way to your mouth, you’re going to eat it.

If you sleep next to your cell phone every night, of course, it’s going to be the first thing you pick up in the morning before you say hello to your loved one. So don’t wait to the last minute. What I discovered in my five years of research, is that people who are indistractable, they don’t have a lot of willpower, they don’t have a lot of self-control; what they have is a system. They plan today to make sure they don’t get distracted tomorrow. By mastering the internal triggers, making time for traction, hacking back the external triggers, and preventing distraction with pacts, this is how anyone can become indistractable.

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The most successful people in the world all advocate reading as a major contributing factor towards their success.

Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Mark Zuckerberg & Jeff Bezos are all voracious readers. They’re also all in the 10 richest people in the world with a combined net worth of over $350 Billion!

As correct nutrition and proper exercise can maintain physical health, reading books can strengthen the muscles of the mind.

After extensive personal research on self-growth, personal development and improvement of mental health. I have compiled a list of my personal favourites (and highly rated by thousands of readers) that can help you get to the next level of your life.

‘Obstacle Is The Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph.‘ | 5 Books that can change your life. 

by Ryan Holiday

An inspiring philosophy book focused on revealing the misconception of Stoicism in the modern world. Showcasing the power of premediating failures, or as also referred to in the book, negative thinking.

Packed with stories of how different famous leaders and entrepreneurs attained success by practical action, it will provoke thought. Giving you the motivational boost you need to pursue your dreams no matter the difficulties you may face.

In fact, this book will seem like a guide of practical business advice with a distinctive hint of philosophical tone that you can apply to any troubles you may have in life.

‘The One Thing‘ | 5 Books that can change your life.

by Garry Keller with Jay Papasan

The One Thing details the success habits you need to adopt in order to overcome the six major lies (as referred to in the book) that may block you from reaching your true potential.

Filled with different rules and laws that can identify your true purpose. This book will help you figure out the one thing you need to devote yourself to, in order to become the master of your own destiny.

‘How To Win Friends and Influence People‘ | 5 Books that can change your life. 

by Dale Carnegie

One of the best-selling self-help books of all time that has been translated into many languages.

This book that will help you improve your ability to make a good first impression. It reveals ways of understanding and explaining behaviours, tricks on how to be a better conversationalist, and many other tactics on how to positively affect people.

The format of the book is wide opening in the sense that it will help you relate yourself to many of the arguments made. You will get the chance to read quality tips that can change your life. This book looks into an abundance of examples where specific behaviour patterns have worked well in the real world.

‘Meditations‘ | 5 Books that can change your life. 

by Marcus Aurelius

Meditations is a series of personal writings (each no longer than a small paragraph) by Marcus Aurelius, known as one of the last great emperors of Rome from 161 to 180 AD.

Recording his private notes which were not intended for publishing purposes, Marcus Aurelius write about his personal experiences.

Covering ideas on personal progress, life purpose, human judgement and even the universe, this is a book for everyone that wishes to win the fight against their inner battles and deliver a feeling of calmness and appreciation for the things we are given in life, either good or bad.

‘The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living‘ | 5 Books that can change your life. 

by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman

As the title implies this book offers 365 (for every day of the year) sayings on wisdom, perseverance and the enjoyment of life.

Every famous quote is complemented with either the author’s or a renowned success leaders’ personal stories. These stories will stimulate new thought helping you evaluate life and self-reflect on past experiences and behaviours.

An ideal companion to a productive life free of stress and a pathway to communicating with your inner self and potential.

What are you favourite self-development books? Suggest your personal best and share your thoughts on how they helped you further progress in life in the comments below.

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Napoleon Hill is the original “self-help” author. His book ‘Think and Grow Rich‘ was published in 1937 and sold over 20 million copies within 50 years. Think and grow rich is considered to be responsible for more millionaires than any other book in history. Several self-help gurus of our era including Tony Robbins, Les Brown, Brian Tracy and others swear by this book and have used it for achieving breakthroughs in their own lives.

Think and Grow Rich contains an abundance of wisdom on how to access the power of your mind and use it to succeed in life. It explains that our thoughts, beliefs, emotions hold the power to shape our destiny and if we learn to use these tools to our advantage, we can manifest our dreams into reality.

Without any further ado, here are the top quotes from Think and Grow Rich.

1. Mind control is the result of self-discipline and habit. You either control your mind or it controls you. There is no hall-way compromise.

There is no bigger misery in this world than having a mind that is untamed. A tamed mind will let you take positive action and live the way you want. An untamed mind will create instability, compulsive behaviors, and self-destructive tendencies which will become the reason for your own demise.

2. If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.

The imagination is more powerful than any tool you have ever used. It can access the infinite potential of the source and with its creativity one can bring huge shifts in their life. This was how airplanes were built, this was how Edison invented the lightbulb, and this was how the hyperloop will be built.

3.You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.

You are the creator of your life and every time you don’t believe in your abilities and blame the circumstances, you give your power away.

4. Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

In the darkness lies the seed of light. Only when there are problems do we take the actions to rise above them. Without challenges, problems, obstacles, and darkness, the joy of life loses its charm. It won’t be worth it if it were all easy. We appreciate success so much because it is hard to come by.

5. All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea!

Everything bears its seed from your imagination, from a single idea. An idea mixed with enough human creativity and force can transform our physical reality.

6. The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

The more you learn, the more you can earn. It’s strange how millions of people will never taste greatness because they are not hungry for knowledge. Keep learning, keep growing.

7. More gold had been mined from the mind of men than the earth itself.

The earth itself is mined because the human mind was able to perceive that there could be treasure hidden underneath it. Tap into the infinite power of the mind and you will be able to create results you never imagined.

8. To win the big stakes in this changed world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose dreams have given to civilization all that it has of value, the spirit that serves as the life-blood of our own country – your opportunity and mine, to develop and market our talents.

The pioneers, the explorers of the world, have given everything it has retained today. Because of explorers from Europe, America could become the powerful nation it is today. And because of explorers in technology, we have the internet, the smartphone, the beautiful typography, and the ability to use technology for a better lifestyle.

9. Neglecting to broaden their view has kept some people doing one thing all their lives.

If you have fixed beliefs, you will never see the unlimited potential that lies inside you. You need to have an open mind to welcome new ideas and fuel them with your creativity. This is one of the greatest quotes from Think and Grow Rich.

10. If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it,therefore, you will readily recognize the other half the moment it reaches your mind.

As Will Smith says, when you are ready, you don’t need to get ready. When you are always learning, working hard, and driven for success, new ideas will come your way as if it were all meant to be. Powerful momentum towards success attracts more success.

11. There is no substitute for persistence. The person who makes persistence his watch-word, discovers that “Old Man Failure” finally becomes tired, and makes his departure. Failure cannot cope with persistence.

Fear can only survive when you identify with it and accept your defeat. But if you keep pushing and focus on the light that shines inside of you, it will expose fear for what it is – a lie. This is a great quote to overcome fear from Think and Grow Rich.

12. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.

If you can see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand.

13. If you fill your mind with FEAR, doubt and unbelief in your ability to connect with, and use the forces of Infinite Intelligence, the law of auto-suggestion will take this spirit of unbelief and use it as a pattern by which your subconscious mind will translate it into its physical equivalent.

The more you feed the fear wolf, the more you will lose, the less you will believe in yourself. Fears become real because we keep feeding them with our thoughts. A belief is just a thought which is true for you. This is a great quote from Think and Grow Rich.

14. Every man is what he is, because of the dominating thoughts which he permits to occupy his mind.

What you think, you will act on, and become your reality. So choose your thoughts wisely, they will translate to actions, actions will translate to habits, habits will translate to your character, and your character will translate to your destiny.

15. Your subconscious mind recognizes and acts only upon thoughts which have been well-mixed with emotion or feeling.

Thoughts mixed with emotion create energy, momentum and influence our actions. The subconscious mind picks on our emotions and reflects back the messages in our reality.

16. Remember that your real wealth can be measured not by what you have, but by what you are.

We don’t feel great because of what we get, but because of what we become in the process of overcoming a challenge. This is an amazing quote from Think and Grow Rich as it shows us wealth is not equal to self-worth.

17. When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

If you fail, understand that you have an opportunity to learn and succeed. Never give up.

18. Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.

Where focus goes, energy flows. People who live for a mission, a purpose, are the most successful in life. Their drive burns every obstacle that comes their way.

19. Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage.

According to life and success coach, Brian Tracy, the law of reversibility can be used to master fear. The Law of Reversibility states that “If you feel a certain way, you will act in a manner consistent with that feeling.” But if you act in a way that is consistent with that feeling, the law will create that feeling for you even if you weren’t originally feeling that way.

In other words, when you take courageous action, the law of reversibility will instill courage in you even if you were feeling afraid earlier.

20. Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.

You must be willing to give up the safe zone to fully access greatness. Suppose you earn $60,000 per year from a job that you really don’t like doing. Will you ever quit that job to work on your passion that brings only $10,000 per year? No.

You need to burn the ships first. Make sure there is nothing to fall back to. As Steve Pavlina says, the 7s in our lives are often the real obstacles in the path of the 10s. This is a brilliant quote from Think and Grow Rich.

21. Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

People believe that successful and great people are selfish and ego-driven. However, if you ever talk to any of the greats, you’ll realize that money was never their goal. Their goal was greatness and a dream they had seen at some point in their lives. And it took tremendous sacrifice to reach where they are today.

Michael Phelps practiced for five years non-stop, without taking even a single day off, until he was called the greatest swimmer ever. According to him, for one day off, it takes two days to get back to the same skill level and so he kept going with no break.

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Throughout his life, Tony Robbins has taught people how to succeed in life. He has coached the most influential people we know – Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton, Oprah, Serena Williams, Princess Diana and Mother Teresa.

He has trained Olympic athletes, CEOs and heads of States to perform at peak levels and he has saved people from committing suicide. Behind his great feats lie a deep understanding of what makes people tick.

He is truly a force of nature.

In Unlimited Power, he shows us how to succeed in life and career by mastering our own mind.

Here are the most important lessons from the book on how to succeed in life:

1. Communication is Power

Robbins says that communication is power. It determines how we experience the world and how the world experiences us. With great communication skills comes the power to influence others.

All great people including Martin Luther King, John. F. Kennedy, Franklin Roosevelt, and Mahatma Gandhi used their words to influence millions of people.

According to Robbins, communication is of two forms – external and internal.

External Communication

How we communicate with others determines our success in society. Think about it. From cracking job interviews to negotiating business deals, communication is an integral part of achieving success in life. Mutual trust and respect is the foundation of growth in all kinds of work.

Internal Communication

This one is generally overlooked. According to Robbins, how you feel – happy or sad, is because of how you communicate with yourself. If you master internal communication, you can change how you feel, act and live.

2. Ultimate Success Formula

Everyone wants to know how to succeed in life. The formula consists of four simple steps:

1. Define exactly what you want to achieve.
2. Create a strategy and take action.
3. Measure how successful your strategy was.
4. Tweak your strategy until you achieve your goal.

Life is like a river. It’s moving, and you can be at the mercy of the river if you don’t take deliberate, conscious action to steer yourself in a direction you have predetermined.”

3. Use Modelling to Succeed at Anything

Robbins gives us a smart answer to how to succeed in life. According to him, we don’t have to reinvent the wheel, we just need to model the behaviors and strategy of those who have already succeeded.

But how?

Use this to achieve anything

If you want to achieve any goal, there’s a simple process you can use to achieve the results they did.

The five-step modeling process that shows how to succeed in life:

1. Find a top performer and study their strategy and actions
2. Implement the same strategy and actions
3. Visualize the top performer at their peak performance producing outstanding work
4. Visualize again, making yourself as the top performer, doing the same things
5. Go get it. Take action.

To meet your needs on every level, first identify your values. Make a list of everything that matters to you, such as love, honesty, freedom, beauty and creativity.

4. Rule Your Mind To Nuke Negativity

To succeed in life, you need to rule your mind. If your mind rules you, you can never commit to action and achieve your goals.

Here’s where you learn how to master internal communication.

There are many ways you can do this:

A. Reframe Negative Events And Feel Positive Instantly

Did you ever fail at a game and felt really bad, I-want-to-die bad? It happens with everyone. But the truth is that any situation is as bad as you make it. If you lose a game, you can tell yourself, “Doesn’t matter. I had fun.”

The point is:

“You can choose what an event means to you, instead of accepting by default that it’s bad for you .”

So when you face a negative situation, reframe it as a positive one. Ask yourself, “What’s great about it?” or “If I go through this, I will become stronger.” Always remember, reality is what you perceive it is.

You will learn how to succeed in life only when you start seeing things positively.

B. Use Anchoring to Feel Happy and Get Things Done

Anchoring refers to creating a desirable response by using a particular stimulus. We always feel sad while listening to a sad song. And we always feel happy when we meet a beloved friend. In these examples, friend and song are stimuli, and how we feel is our response.  

Meaning?

When we experience a certain stimulus, we create a certain response in our mind. And we can use this simple anchoring mechanism to our advantage.

How to use this:

Suppose you love working out and it makes you feel strong and unstoppable. So, whenever you feel low, or too tired to do important work, you can do a quick ten-minute workout to make yourself feel strong and unstoppable.

C. Use Swish Pattern to Break Bad Habits

You can use the same anchoring mechanism to quit a bad habit. A swish pattern helps you build positive habits by changing the mental image you hold of your bad habits.  

To use a swish pattern:

1. First, visualize the habit you want to change. Make an internal representation. If it is smoking, visualize yourself smoking.
2. Now imagine how you will look and feel once you make that change. In the case of smoking, you may feel yourself feeling more energetic, your face glowing, etc.
3. Swish the two images, swapping the images mentally, making a “whoosh” sound loudly with excitement
4. Repeat the process many times.

We know this is crazy.

Here’s EXACTLY how to do the swish, as explained by Tony Robbins:

“Start by making a big bright picture of the behavior you want to change. Then, in the bottom right-hand corner of that picture, make a small dark picture of the way you want to be. Now take that small picture, and in less than one second, have it grow in size and brightness and literally burst through the picture of the behavior you no longer desire. As you do this process, say the sound “whoosh” with all the excitement and enthusiasm you can.”

How does this work?

Your brain forms a new neural pattern: See the old -> Whoosh -> Do the new

And as a result, you associate pleasure with the new habit instead of the old habit. You become stronger, smarter, and happier. As you build positive habits, you learn how to succeed in life and achieve your goals with full confidence.

5. Use Physiology to Feel Happy and Strong

Physiology is another way to get into a great mental state. Physiology here refers to your posture, your facial expressions, and how you use your physical body.

For example, in a depressed state, a person would be looking down, shoulders dropped, breathing shallow and voice weak.

The best part:

You can create ecstasy at will by changing your physiology.

To create ecstasy, simply laugh, sing, or dance. You need to act as if you were ecstatic and you will be ecstatic.

We’ve actually shown how Tony Robbins uses this tactic to overcome negativity.

Physiology is very important because it leads to a strong or weak mental state which further leads to strong or weak results. Your task is to make your physiology work for you, not against you. Go for a run, workout, take a cold shower – and quickly change your state from sad to happy and energetic.

So now that you know how to succeed in life, implement the lessons and see your life change – one goal at a time.

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The 30 Best Napoleon Hill Quotes On Success & Thinking & Growing Rich

1. Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting. – Napoleon Hill

Only those who push through failure and refuse to accept defeat can truly understand how far one can go in life. The fact is the majority quit, give in when it gets hard. The successful keep fighting, they find a way to win.

2. It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.- Napoleon Hill

Helping others is it’s own reward. The benefits you get from kindness & compassion towards others are far more valuable than any financial reward.

3. Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.- Napoleon Hill

No one can beat the one who is prepared to do whatever it takes to win. Persist when you fail. Have patience & never give up when it is taking longer than expected and always, always give your all in everything you do, then you can almost guarantee success.

4. Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.- Napoleon Hill

Once you have a CLEAR goal, a dream with PURPOSE and a burning DESIRE to make that dream a reality, the universe tends to align perfectly all the circumstances you need to become successful. When you BELIEVE you can ACHIEVE.

5. Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.- Napoleon Hill

Most people don’t like the struggle. Most people quit at the first sign of struggle. Successful people know, although unpleasant in the moment, the struggle is what makes us stronger, it is what builds our character the most. Learn the lessons from your struggles and use the strength & wisdom to do better next time.

6. The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.- Napoleon Hill

Successful people are obsessed with learning and growing. It’s no secret. Commit to be a lifetime learner and you will have no problem finding massive success.

7. When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. – Napoleon Hill

There’s something special about a human with a clear goal and a strong DESIRE to achieve that goal. Let nothing stand in the way of your goals and dreams. You can do it!

8. A GOAL is a dream with a deadline. – Napoleon Hill

It’s OK to dream. You should dream big and be ambitious, but a dream is nothing without a PLAN and ACTION. Set clear GOALS to ensure your dreams become a reality.

9. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. – Napoleon Hill

Most of the great battle to gain success, for any human, is the battle within our own minds. When you conquer your own mind and become mentally strong, you can then conquer anything in life.

10. Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak, carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. – Napoleon Hill

Trust the timing of your life. Trust that setbacks and roadblocks come to all humans – ESPECIALLY those who dare to take risks searching for a better life. Be grateful for the challenges that build your character and sometimes you might even be thankful for the slight detours that put you on a better path.

More Napoleon Hill Quotes:

11. Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50. – Napoleon Hill Quotes On Success

12. Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing. – Napoleon Hill Quotes On Success

13. Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought. – Napoleon Hill Quotes On Success

14. Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. – Napoleon Hill Quotes On Success

15. More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth. – Napoleon Hill Quotes On Success

16. The ladder of success is never crowded at the top. – Napoleon Hill Quotes

17. Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. – Napoleon Hill Quotes

18. Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality. – Napoleon Hill Quotes

19. More gold had been mined from the mind of men than the earth it self – Napoleon Hill Quotes

20. There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. – Napoleon Hill Quotes

21. Your big opportunity may be right where you are now. – Quotes by Napoleon Hill

22. Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.  – Quotes by Napoleon Hill

23. Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. – Quotes by Napoleon Hill

24. My life has a purpose, and my work is a labor of love. – Quotes by Napoleon Hill

25. No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him. – Quotes by Napoleon Hill

26. No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like. – Quotes by Napoleon Hill

27. It is always your next move. – Quotes by Napoleon Hill

28. Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes. – Quotes by Napoleon Hill

29.We refuse to believe that which we don’t understand. – Quotes by Napoleon Hill

30. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win. – Quotes by Napoleon Hill

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10 Great Books on Self Development to Add to Your “Read List”

“The joy of life consists in the exercise of one’s energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.” – Aleister Crowley

Check out our list of top self-development books which need to find their way onto your bookshelf.

1. Own Your Success: The Power to Choose Greatness and Make Every Day Victorious by Ben Newman

What’s interesting about this book is that it’s written like a work of fiction, or a business fable if you will. It tells a story about a businessman named Pierce, and his ups and down. Throughout the story, he meets 4 different mentors, and each one teaches him a different lesson about life, which you, as a reader, need to apply to your own life.

2. The 5 Personality Patterns: Your Guide to Understanding Yourself and Others and Developing Emotional Maturity by Steven Kessler

This book is written under the assumption that most conflicts and suffering we experience in our lifetime is due to our inability to understand and communicate with each other effectively due to the patterns of feeling and acting we have learned since childhood. With this book, you will learn how to discard those patterns, and discover your true self.

3. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

Through a series of anecdotes and insightful observations, this book acts as a step-by-step guide through the principles we need to apply in our lives if we want to grow, evolve, and become better human beings. These principles apply to your personal and professional life, and will help you seize the opportunities that you come across constantly, but which you fail to see.

4. Habit Stacking: 97 Small Life Changes That Take Five Minutes or Less by S.J. Scott

We all know that adding even a single good habit into our lives can be difficult, let alone dozens of new ones. But, this book provides you with a clear guide on how to integrate multiple positive habits into a single routine which you will perform on a daily basis. Using a simple checklist, you will avoid the stress of implementing all those individual habits.

5. 177 Mental Toughness Secrets of the World Class by Steve Siebold

The author of this book argues that, no matter how you are and where you come from, you can become a brilliant performer and achieve success. By showing the thought processes, habits, and approaches adopted by the world’s best, you will be able to learn by example and do the same yourself.

6. The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss

While the title may seem a bit exaggerated, the author of this book was successful in cutting down his working hours by a significant percentage by outsourcing a bunch of menial, but necessary tasks to virtual assistants, and by checking his email only once a day. That alone will save you a ton of time in your everyday life.

7. Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny! by Tony Robbins

Here you will find a series of instructions and step-by-step guides on how to take control of your thoughts, emotions, body, relationships, and just about every other aspect of your life. By teaching yourself self-mastery, you will be able to shape your life into something that you’ve always dreamed of.

8. Eat That Frog!: Twenty-One Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracy

Instead of helping us save time, modern technology has provided us with the means to waste it. We all enjoy procrastinating, which is a poor habit, and this helpful read will enable you to get rid of it once and for all. By offering 21 effective methods, you will be able to resist the negative temptations of modern living.

9. The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential by John C. Maxwell

This book demonstrates that there are indeed laws you can follow in order to grow as a human being. The author has laid out these laws in a manner that is clear and easy to follow, and you will have no trouble fulfilling your full potential. In fact, it will just keep on growing.

10. No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline by Brian Tracy

Through 21 chapters, this book will teach you that the key to success is not being lucky, or being born rich, but being disciplined. You will learn how to adopt a new mindset where there is no more room for excuses, for being lazy, or for instant gratification. You will learn how to achieve your personal and professional goals.

Conclusion

These books should be an essential read for anyone, and especially for those among you who are always on the quest for more. Check them out today and make the best of your life!

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Eric Thomas Quotes & Top 10 Rules For Success

5 of the most powerful Eric Thomas Quotes

1-“When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.” Eric Thomas Quotes

2-“Pain is temporary. It may last for a minute, or an hour or a day, or even a year. But eventually, it will subside. And something else takes its place. If I quit, however, it will last forever.” Eric Thomas Quotes

3-“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” Eric Thomas Quotes

4-“The only way to get out of mediocrity is to keep shooting for excellence.” Eric Thomas Quotes

5-“Success, meaningful success, begins when we take ownership and actively take responsibility for our part in the shortcomings of our life.” Eric Thomas Quotes

Eric Thomas’ Top 10 Rules For Success

1- Know what you want.

If you don’t know what you want, how will you know what to say yes to in your life? Stop taking every body else’s leftovers and step up and take what you deserve!

2- Work on your gift.

We all have our own individual talents, gifts and strengths. But those natural gifts will only become truly great by refining and nourishing them. Natural ability will get you started, but commitment and determination to achieve greatness is what will get you to where you want to be.

3- No excuses.

Stop using your circumstances, finances or current position in life as an excuse to justify why you aren’t working towards your goals. You are in charge. If you aren’t where you want to be, take a look in the mirror and ask yourself honestly- WHY? Take responsibility for you life once and for all.

4- Upgrade your values.

Your values dictate your behaviours. And your behaviours create your results. If you want to a different result, you need to change your behaviour.

5- You reap what you sow.

Nothing in life is free. It is up to you to determine the course of your life. If you want success, you need to do what it takes, daily, to get there. Don’t focus so much on being successful. Focus on solving problems, helping others, and adding value to people’s lives, and success will come.

6- Education is the great equaliser.

If you are at the bottom, you need to learn. If you are at the top, you still need to learn. Never, ever, ever stop growing and educating yourself.

7- What is your WHY?

Why do you wake up in the morning and hustle? Why do you do what you do? Knowing the answer to this question is the single most important thing to know about yourself if you want to become successful. When you know WHY you are doing what you do, you won’t ever quit, even on a bad day.

8- Have boundaries.

If you want to be a huge success, you have to be strict on yourself with how you spend your energy. Distractions will come in many forms, family, friends, TV, but you have to make sure that your time is being spent wisely.

9- Speak from the heart.

Transparency is attractive. Don’t be afraid to open up to the world and let yourself be seen.

10- Succeed as bad as you want to breathe.

Everybody wants to be successful. But not everybody is willing to do the work that it takes to become successful. When you are willing to get so uncomfortable, so out of your depth, so blind that you have no other choice but to be successful, THEN you will become successful. The only question you need to ask yourself is this. Am I willing?

What are your favourite Eric Thomas Quotes? Share them below.

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Norman Vincent Peale was an American minister and author, made famous by his powerful and inspirational church sermons and later by his book ‘The Power of Positive Thinking’. His teachings empowered people to create their own happiness and peace of mind, and that our lives can be full of joy and satisfaction. Here are 9 Thought Provoking Norman Vincent Peale Quotes.

1- Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

Words become actions. Setting your day up with a positive intention empowers you and puts you in the right mindset to go after your goals.

2- Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

How is anyone going to believe in you if you don’t? Trust in yourself and your capabilities.

3- There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

Enthusiasm creates enthusiasm. Enthusiastic people still have bad days, but they don’t let challenges bring them down.

4- The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised. Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

Happiness is not as complicated as we make it. At the end of the day, happiness comes from being in service to others and knowing that you have done your best to achieve your personal goals.

5- Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

Even if you have no money, you can still have a whole lot of heart. Your financial position doesn’t define you, your character does.

6- Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses. Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

Visualise yourself achieving success. Know deeply in your mind and soul that it will happen. You are capable of great things.

7- Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result but also the cause of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all. Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

Don’t let your fear of inadequacy paralyse you. Just start!

8- The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

Having a vision for your life that is greater than yourself is, without a doubt, the best motivator on the planet.

9- If you put off everything till you’re sure of it, you’ll never get anything done. Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

Life is too short to sit around waiting until you’re “ready”. Ready never happens. Ready comes as a result of the work you do while you’re learning to be ready. Make a start today and bring your dreams to life.

What are your favourite Norman Vincent Peale Quotes? Share them in the comments!

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Here are 5 Powerful Napoleon Hill Quotes & Top 10 Rules For Success.

5 Powerful Napoleon Hill Quotes.

1- “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” Napoleon Hill Quotes.

2- “It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” Napoleon Hill Quotes.

3- “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” Napoleon Hill Quotes.

4- “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” Napoleon Hill Quotes.

5- “Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.”  Napoleon Hill Quotes.

Napoleon Hill’s Top 10 Rules For Success.

1- Have a definite purpose.

In order to create success you have to know EXACTLY what it is that you want. This purpose needs to be your sole and primary focus. Once you know what that is, you need a plan that you can take action on immediately. The plan does not need to be perfect, but it does need to be actionable.

2- Get along peacefully with others.

Your energy is precious. Do not waste it fighting over trivial things. Do your upmost to remain civilised and calm in your relationship to others and spend your time and energy creating what it is you want.

3- Believe.

Believe in yourself. Believe in your plan. If you don’t, no one else will. I guarantee you that! Set your focus clearly and visualise it DAILY.

4- Your only limit is yourself.

Let me repeat that. Your only limit is yourself. Ouch. That kind of accountability can sting. But I’d rather feel the sting of personal responsibility any day over the burn of regret that comes from blaming others for your failures.

Napoleon Hill’s Top 10 Rules For Success (By Evan Carmichael on Youtube)

5- Take action.

Having an idea is not enough. Having faith is not enough. Action towards your goals is how you will bring about success. And that action is necessary not one day per week, or one day per month, it must be a consistent, daily habit.

6- Improve your personality.

Nobody wants to be around an asshole. If you are an asshole, fix it. Read books on how to win friends. Practice empathy. How do you expect people to listen to your ideas if they do not like you?

7- Create, recognize, and act upon opportunities.

Don’t waste time. Stop watching television. If you used your time truly effectively, without procrastination, chances are you would already have what you want. Instead of spending time in front of Facebook, read a book, or go to a networking event. That’s how you become open to seeing opportunity. And if opportunities aren’t coming your way, make them!

8- Success must be planned.

Plan for your success in life. Do not leave it to chance.

9- Move with courage and determination.

Once you know what you want, back yourself. All of the fears you have will disappear when you do this. A laser focus mind cannot hold negativity.

10- Conceive, believe, achieve.

Education cannot guarantee success. Nor does social status, financial position, religion or race. Thomas Edison became one of the worlds greatest inventors with only 3 months of traditional education. He did this by conceiving the idea of becoming a great inventor, believing he could, and the he set about doing it.

No more excuses. Success can be yours. Share your favourite Napoleon Hill Quotes in the comments section.

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