Napoleon Hill summarized in his book Think and Grow Rich that there are 13 unique characteristics that every wealthy, successful and powerful man and woman has. He called these characteristics the Thirteen Steps to Riches.

Noone was born with any of these characteristics. All were born the same. These characteristics are learned and developed to be the second nature. What are these characteristics, the Thirteen Steps to Riches?

1. Burning desire. It’s the starting point of all achievement. You must have burning desire.
2. Faith. Visualization of, and belief in attainment of desire.
3. Auto-suggestion. The medium for influencing the subsconcious mind.
4. Specialized knowledge. Personal experiences or observation. You must focus in one area and concentrate there.
5. Imagination. Remember Law of Attraction?
6. Organized planning. The realization of desire into action.
7. Be decisive in nature. The mastery of procrastination.
8. Persistence. The sustained effort necessary to induce faith.
9. Surround yourself with master mind. It’s your driving force.
10. The mystery of sex transmutation.
11. The subsconcious mind.
12. The brain.
13. The sixth sense. The door to the temple of wisdom.

Before reading Think and Grow Rich, you must be aware that this book was not written to entertain. You can’t diggest its contents properly in a week or a month.

Think and Grow Rich is a textbook on individual achievement of the experiences of hundreds of America’s most successful men. It must be studied, digested, and meditated upon. You must underline the sentences that impress you the most, and later go back to these marked lines and read them again. You will absorb its contents and make them your own.

What do you want the most?

If all of those succesful men could achieve their dreams, so can you. Remember that noone was born with these successful characteristics. Everyone was born the same.

Build your succesful characteristic using Think and Grow Rich !

Opening your mind to new ideas and Creative Thought processes is a big leap of faith and can change core belief. I know having blind faith and believing in the unseen is a big pill to swallow for most. A great example of faith is your belief that the sun will rise tomorrow you don’t know how, but you do know it will.

When people are not totally able to see clearly or understand the Science of the Law of Attraction, they are quick to say it doesn’t work. Instead of desiring and allowing the process to work, people let doubt slip in and take over their thought process. Contrary to belief, there is no scientific evidence that the Law of Attraction actually works, it’s about having faith. Be decisive and establish that you want change in your life and that may mean leaving behind core beliefs such as: I’m not good enough, I’m not worthy, They won’t let me because, I’m to short/tall, my mother/father etc. told me that it was wrong, you don’t have enough experience, and of course, you have to wait your turn or time. Don’t let any of these excuses or old beliefs stop you, reprogram yourself start by getting a clear mental picture of where you are now. Then move forward by asking pertinent questions like the following:

• What stops me form having my desire?
• What additional resources might I need?
• Am I visualizing?
• Am I feeling the essence of what I want?
• Am I being truthful and honest with myself?

These questions will help you think clear, specific, focused thoughts and with willpower, bring your desire into material form.

Use a journal to record your thoughts, desires, and answers. Write down old childhood beliefs and compare them with your new ones are they still relevant now? Let the journal become your blueprint for success and place to document your progress during the day.

Ponder:

1. Act now.
2. What are you grateful for?
3. See yourself free of any mental limitations.
4. Are you aligned with your desire?
5. What makes you feel euphoric?

Affirmation:

There is no lack or limitations in my life.

And now, let’s review: The Law of Attraction

1. Decide what you want.
2. State what you desire in the positive with enough emotion to make it feel physically real.
3. Think repeatedly during the day about your desire and visualize it.
4. Realign your thinking, using your willpower to get started.
5. Mentally and physically sync with whatever you desire to the point of manifestation.
6. Understand all possibilities are only limited by the thoughts in your mind.
7. Start pretending, also known as “Acting as If”.
8. Be specific: include the size, shape, color, texture and when you want your desire.
9. Use affirmations and empowering songs to change old beliefs until the new, positive ones become a habit.
10. Do no give it your attention/point of focus to any situation or experience that you don’t want. Simply put, do not entertain the thought.
11. Post pictures of your dreams, desires, and goals everywhere and visualize being in possession of them.
12. Believe, have faith, be confident, speak in the positive, and take personal responsibility.
13. Keep a journal; write specific details about your desire.
14. Model someone who has the positive traits you desire.
15. Stay focused and on point. Read, review, reprogram.
16. Start small, gain confidence in creating and manifesting.
17. Become consciously aware of you and your surroundings.
18. Believe and know that you are entitled to wealth, health, success and abundance. Expect that it will yours.
19. Acknowledge that you are a mental magnet and will attract to you everything you are thinking and feeling.
20. Enjoy every minute of the process, in the now.

Everything starts with belief. Faith is the essence of religion. Of life. Of truth and reality. “I wasn’t always the way I am now”, confesses Bob Proctor in his Science of Getting Rich. Do you know that he started off as a fireman, with debt and problems like everyone else? But an accidental exposure to the law of attraction made him the millionaire he is. Not only a millionaire but also famous. Somewhere along the line, he changed the way he thought. And with the changed thoughts his actions changed. You don’t have to go through the process he had to. We have to follow the principle of nature.

But everything begins with faith. One should be absolutely clear in our mind that the law of attraction is immutable. It is a law like gravity. Have you seen pigs fly? Or for that matter human beings. Why not? Because the law of gravity does not allow you to fly. It is the same with the law of attraction. It is immutable. It doesn’t change with situation. But we have to believe.

Did you know that the human brain is the biggest computer ever designed? Even after hundreds of years in the future we wouldn’t be able to come anywhere near designing a computer like the human brain. Did you know that the heart beats throughout our lives without any rest? When we see nature we marvel at its resilience. At is sheer capacity. If each part of the human body is capable of such marvelous fears, what about us?

We are after all a sum of all our parts. We are surely capable of much more than we think. In fact our capacity is immense. Nature has made us in its image. Imagine yourself to be a bud blooming into a flower, a seed and a tree. Look at nature. It is full of surprises. Take a cue from it and realize your full potential.

Now, this is a very profound thought. Human beings like us perceive things at different levels. Most of us take a cue from what we can see visually. We read that so and so has become rich by working hard and we think, the secret lies in working hard. Some book says one should buy shares to become rich. We go and buy shares and burn our fingers and feel bitter about it for the rest of our lives. What I want to tell these people is that if you do the same things again and again, you get the same results, again and again.

In Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill said, “An educated person is not necessarily a person with an abundance of general or specialized knowledge. An educated person is a person who has so developed the faculties of their mind, that they can develop anything or acquires anything that they want, or it’s equivalent, without violating the rights of others.” What we want to do is start to understand these faculties. Perception, the will, reason, imagination, intuition and memory. These are higher faculties. So, through imagination we want to build a picture of what we want.

Now, when you build a picture, make it really big. Nothing like you has ever seen before. Let your imagination fly. And leave the baggage of your past behind and focus on the future. What will happen if you only look in the rear view mirror when you drive? I am sure you would crash in no time. But we keep looking into the rear view mirror while driving through our lives! No doubt we crash out fast and furious.

Forget the past. Put it behind you. Create a truly big picture of your future life. Don’t hold yourself back. Use all your higher faculties. Imagination, intuition. Give them a free play. Give your thoughts a free rein. And then watch the fun.

The only way to restore the equilibrium of nature is to think our way into prosperity. There is a difference between thinking about prosperity as a distant dream and thinking and living in abundance in the present moment. Think you are already rich or in love or whatever you wish to be and it will turn into reality.

I can hear you say, “It is very easy to tell others to start living their dreams. Here I am up to my neck in debt and creditors breathing down my neck. How do you expect me to think, even for a moment, that I am rich and prosperous? More than anything, I only feel despair.” Let me tell you this. Frankly, I also felt the same. But this is where the law of attraction comes into force. Can’t you see that more you think of debt, more you are going to sink into it? The universe is neutral. If you send positive signals out into space, they get magnified and come back with renewed energy and force. When you are thinking about debt, the universe magnifies and reinforces debt. You are forcing nature to do your bidding.

In Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill says, “Decide what you want, write it on a card, carry the card with you, read it as often as possible every day, at least every morning when you get up and before you to go to bed at night.” This is as good an advice as any. You have to break out of the old mold. Just imagine your thoughts of debt and misery as old clothes and throw them away. Create a powerful mental image in your mind of throwing the old clothes far away and then don new clothes, nice and silky, full of positive energy. Carry this spanking new picture with you wherever you go. I promise that your life would be transformed magically.