“Consider whether the objects you own service you or enslave you. Over the years, collections accumulate and the joy in acquiring can quickly turn into the task of care giving. Somewhere in the transition the freedom of body and mind are abdicated for a choice freely made.” Powerful words from a powerful source of motivation, Judy Williamson, a writer for The Napoleon Hill Foundation.
Freeing yourself to be successful is a huge part of Napoleon Hill’s philosophy of success. Williamson’s views on revenge and hate mirror those of the highly respected Napoleon Hill. She points out that the spirit can be transformed from its lowest to our highest selves simply by realigning our thought. Hill, famously quoted, dictates that “The only people you should get even with are those who have helped you.”
In Napoleon Hill’s “The Commandments of Success”, he primarily emphasizes ways of bettering yourself and your life, as opposed to concentrating on the modern “advertise here, invest there” strategies that we are so often bombarded with. The “Commandments” are more of his “Philosophy of Personal Achievement”, which should not only help you to become a success on paper, but a success in your own mind; perhaps the most difficult task in life to achieve.
Take your time as you read the following “The Commandments of Success” and think about how they relate to you and your own personal endeavors. “If followed, in a spirit of sincerity, these ten rules will help you to occupy all the space in the world which your talents, education and experience entitle you to enjoy, and they will bring you that sort of peace of mind which surpasseth understanding.” -Napoleon Hill
1. Set your head and heart upon a DEFINITE MAJOR PURPOSE and go to work, right where you stand, to attain it; and begin NOW.
2. Adopt and follow the habit of GOING THE EXTRA MILE by rendering more service and better service than you are paid for, thus enlarging the space you may occupy in the world.
3. Control your MENTAL ATTITUDE and keep it always positive and free from the spirit of defeatism.
4. Apply the GOLDEN RULE in all your human-relationships, no matter what others may do.
5. Learn all that others have discovered in connection with your occupation, job or business, and profit by their experience, thus saving yourself both grief and loss of time.
6. Eat sparingly, of the right combination of foods, and make sure that your "system" is always free from toxic poisoning.
7. Keep your dominating thoughts upon the things you desire and demand of life, and off the things you do not desire.
8. Learn to transmute your sex emotion into the attainment of your DEFINITE MAJOR PURPOSE, at will, remembering that this is a creative force of unknown, unlimited possibilities.
9. If you work for another person, do your work HIS WAY, not yours, and do it in a gracious, pleasing manner.
10. Instead of criticizing others (no matter how much they may deserve it) devote your time to the discovery of traits of your own which should be corrected lest they provide the basis of just criticism against you.
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About the Author: Nelson R. Cabrera is the Business Development Manager of Lilly & Associates International, a transportation and logistics company specializing in ocean freight and ocean shipping services. For more information, please visit http://www.shiplilly.com/.
