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This week we delve into: 6 Practical Steps to Turning Desire into Wealth
By: Napoleon Hill, the author of Think and Grow Rich
Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.
The method by which desire for riches can be transmuted into its financial equivalent, consists of six definite, practical steps:
❶ Exact amount
Fix in your mind the exact amount of money you desire. It is not sufficient merely to say “I want plenty of money.” Be definite as to the amount. There is a psychological reason for definiteness.
❷ Your input
Determine exactly what you intend to give in return for the money you desire. (There is no such reality as “something for nothing.)
❸ Deadline
Establish a definite date when you intend to possess the money you desire.
❹ Plan
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into
❺ Summarizing
Write out a clear, concise statement of the amount of money you intend to acquire, name the time limit for its acquisition, state what you intend to give in return for the money, and describe clearly the plan through which you intend to accumulate it.
❻ Self-programming
Read your written statement aloud, twice daily, once just before retiring at night, and once after arising in the morning. AS YOU READ – SEE AND FEEL AND BELIEVE YOURSELF ALREADY IN POSSESSION OF THE MONEY.
It is important that you follow the instructions described in these six steps. It is especially important that you observe and follow the instructions in the sixth paragraph. You may complain that it is impossible for you to “see yourself in possession of money” before you actually have it. Here is where a BURNING DESIRE will come to your aid. If you truly DESIRE money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money, and to become so determined to have it that you CONVINCE yourself you will have it.
“The book you don’t read won’t help.” – Jim Rohn
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